Beautiful Louisa Antoinette Petri was Murdered in youth.
Murder - "Houston Tragedy - Murder and Suicide on Main Street Last Night - Young Lady Shot Dead - W. A. King, Her Butler and Slayer, Then Sent Two Bullets Crashing Through His Own Head" - Houston, July 1st - A tragedy occurred last night about 11:15 pm in a hallway of the lodging house at 6081/2 Main street. Miss Louisa Antoinette Petri, the proprietress of the house, was shot andinstantly killed by W. A. King, who has roomed at the place for the past 18-months. The man was insanely jealous and being enraged by some action or remark of the young woman, drew a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver and fired point blank at Miss Petri, the bullet entering the neck just below the left jaw and causing instant death. As the woman fell dead, the murderer took a step backward and placing the revolver to his own head, fired 2-shots in quick succession. Both bullets entered the head just above the right ear, ranged upward and passed out near the top of the head. Miss Petri was a handsome blonde, age 24, and was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Petri live at Rutledge, Texas, near Austin. Her mother is postmistress at Rutledge. She came to Houston from Fort Worth about 2-years ago. King, about age 32, was the former employee of Williams, Desel & Gardner, in the capacity of purchasing agent or salesman, has for a longtime been desperately in love with his landlady and she received his advances with indifference. She tolerated him and they were apparently fast friends. King was taken to St. Joseph's infirmary where his skull will be trepanned to removed clotted blood
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief,
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief. ,
If my parting has left a void ,
Then fill it with remembered joy. ,
Be not burdened with times of sorrow ,
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.,
Gone yet not forgotten, ,
Although we are apart,,
Your spirit lives within me,,
Forever in my heart. ,
Murder - "Houston Tragedy - Murder and Suicide on Main Street Last Night - Young Lady Shot Dead - W. A. King, Her Butler and Slayer, Then Sent Two Bullets Crashing Through His Own Head" - Houston, July 1st - A tragedy occurred last night about 11:15 pm in a hallway of the lodging house at 6081/2 Main street. Miss Louisa Antoinette Petri, the proprietress of the house, was shot andinstantly killed by W. A. King, who has roomed at the place for the past 18-months. The man was insanely jealous and being enraged by some action or remark of the young woman, drew a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver and fired point blank at Miss Petri, the bullet entering the neck just below the left jaw and causing instant death. As the woman fell dead, the murderer took a step backward and placing the revolver to his own head, fired 2-shots in quick succession. Both bullets entered the head just above the right ear, ranged upward and passed out near the top of the head. Miss Petri was a handsome blonde, age 24, and was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Petri live at Rutledge, Texas, near Austin. Her mother is postmistress at Rutledge. She came to Houston from Fort Worth about 2-years ago. King, about age 32, was the former employee of Williams, Desel & Gardner, in the capacity of purchasing agent or salesman, has for a longtime been desperately in love with his landlady and she received his advances with indifference. She tolerated him and they were apparently fast friends. King was taken to St. Joseph's infirmary where his skull will be trepanned to removed clotted blood
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief,
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief. ,
If my parting has left a void ,
Then fill it with remembered joy. ,
Be not burdened with times of sorrow ,
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.,
Gone yet not forgotten, ,
Although we are apart,,
Your spirit lives within me,,
Forever in my heart. ,
Beautiful Louisa Antoinette Petri was Murdered in youth.
Murder - "Houston Tragedy - Murder and Suicide on Main Street Last Night - Young Lady Shot Dead - W. A. King, Her Butler and Slayer, Then Sent Two Bullets Crashing Through His Own Head" - Houston, July 1st - A tragedy occurred last night about 11:15 pm in a hallway of the lodging house at 6081/2 Main street. Miss Louisa Antoinette Petri, the proprietress of the house, was shot andinstantly killed by W. A. King, who has roomed at the place for the past 18-months. The man was insanely jealous and being enraged by some action or remark of the young woman, drew a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver and fired point blank at Miss Petri, the bullet entering the neck just below the left jaw and causing instant death. As the woman fell dead, the murderer took a step backward and placing the revolver to his own head, fired 2-shots in quick succession. Both bullets entered the head just above the right ear, ranged upward and passed out near the top of the head. Miss Petri was a handsome blonde, age 24, and was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Petri live at Rutledge, Texas, near Austin. Her mother is postmistress at Rutledge. She came to Houston from Fort Worth about 2-years ago. King, about age 32, was the former employee of Williams, Desel & Gardner, in the capacity of purchasing agent or salesman, has for a longtime been desperately in love with his landlady and she received his advances with indifference. She tolerated him and they were apparently fast friends. King was taken to St. Joseph's infirmary where his skull will be trepanned to removed clotted blood
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief,
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief. ,
If my parting has left a void ,
Then fill it with remembered joy. ,
Be not burdened with times of sorrow ,
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.,
Gone yet not forgotten, ,
Although we are apart,,
Your spirit lives within me,,
Forever in my heart. ,
Murder - "Houston Tragedy - Murder and Suicide on Main Street Last Night - Young Lady Shot Dead - W. A. King, Her Butler and Slayer, Then Sent Two Bullets Crashing Through His Own Head" - Houston, July 1st - A tragedy occurred last night about 11:15 pm in a hallway of the lodging house at 6081/2 Main street. Miss Louisa Antoinette Petri, the proprietress of the house, was shot andinstantly killed by W. A. King, who has roomed at the place for the past 18-months. The man was insanely jealous and being enraged by some action or remark of the young woman, drew a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver and fired point blank at Miss Petri, the bullet entering the neck just below the left jaw and causing instant death. As the woman fell dead, the murderer took a step backward and placing the revolver to his own head, fired 2-shots in quick succession. Both bullets entered the head just above the right ear, ranged upward and passed out near the top of the head. Miss Petri was a handsome blonde, age 24, and was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Petri live at Rutledge, Texas, near Austin. Her mother is postmistress at Rutledge. She came to Houston from Fort Worth about 2-years ago. King, about age 32, was the former employee of Williams, Desel & Gardner, in the capacity of purchasing agent or salesman, has for a longtime been desperately in love with his landlady and she received his advances with indifference. She tolerated him and they were apparently fast friends. King was taken to St. Joseph's infirmary where his skull will be trepanned to removed clotted blood
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief,
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief. ,
If my parting has left a void ,
Then fill it with remembered joy. ,
Be not burdened with times of sorrow ,
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.,
Gone yet not forgotten, ,
Although we are apart,,
Your spirit lives within me,,
Forever in my heart. ,
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