Navarro Co., TX - William A. Vallie Kills Wife & Self ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Don Brownlee USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ***************************************************** 10 November 1890 New York Times, p. 1 CORSICANA, Texas, Nov. 9 - William A. Vallie killed his wife and committed suicide at the Mallory Hotel in this city last night. Vallie was a railray conductor. The couple had just retired for the night, when three shots in rapid succession were heard. The night clerk rushed to the room and found the wife lying across the bed in a dying condition and the husband dead with a smoking British "bulldog" in his hand. He first shot his wife through the head and then through the neck. He then shot himself through the head, dying instantly. There is no cause known for the act, as nothing is known of their history. The wife is from Kopperl, Texas, and before her marriage to Vallie, which occurred one year ago, was Miss Laura Lewis.