Unknown County WA Archives Obituaries.....Storey, Marie December 6, 1892
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Oregonian December 7,1892
A Second Tragedy
Seattle Has Another Sensation
This Time It Is The Man Who Is Rejected,Kills A Woman and Ends His Life
Seattle,Wash.,Dec.6,-The second awful tragdy of the week,growing out of 
unrequited love,occurred at 11 o'clock tonight at 416 Marion street.Mrs.Marie 
S.Storey,a beautiful and accomplished woman in music circles,was shot and 
instantly killed by her disarded lover,Charles Roger Moulton,who lay in ambush 
in her boudoir when she returned from the opera.Mrs.Storey had a large number 
of admirers,and although still received in good society,she had been the 
subject of considerable gossip since about three years ago.She was divorceed 
from her husband and immediately after her house became th eresort of manymen 
of fashion,although she was very circumspect.About a year ago,Moulton,who had 
just come here and who had all the appearance of a man of means,paid her 
assidiuos court and was frequently seen in her company.About three months 
ago,it was noticed he was no longer seen with her.Intimate friends knew he had 
fallen from her good graces and that he wou dnot take no for an answer.
This afternoon she went to the opera,and,upon her return,found him in the 
house.A scene followed,and he became so violent that she pacified him by 
promising to consider his case more favorably tomorrow.Mrs.Storey went to the 
opera,accompanied by a lady who lived across the street.When she came home she 
went direct to her room,stopping at the door of a lodger,Colonel Hilder,of 
Washington,to tell him she had returned home.She then passed through the room 
where her two little boys,aged 7 and 9 years,were sleeping in cots,and woke 
one in kissing him.A moment later two shots were heard,and Colonel Hilder 
rushed into the room to find her dead,with Moulton a few feet away,also 
dead.About twenty minutes before Mrs.Storey came home the servant girl heard 
someone enter the house and go into Mrs.Storey's room.She says she was too 
frightened to get across the hall and call Colonel Hilder.It is evident that 
Moulton entered the room and hid.
When Mrs.Storey entered the room,she threw her opera wraps on the be and 
walked across to the bureua in the corner directly opposite and within ten 
feet of the loset.She was looking in the glass and there was a smile on her 
face when Moulton slipped out and fired.The bullett tore through her brin at 
the right temple and she fll to the floor with the smile forzen on her face.He 
walked less than five feet to the bedside and blew out his own brains,falling 
so close the her that the two pools of blood flowed into one.It was a horrible 
sight that met Colonel Hilder when he entered the room.Both were dead,and the 
floors and walls were reeking with blood.Neighbors and friends were hastily 
summoned and both bodies were removed to the morgue.Mrs.Storey's little boys 
were both awakened by the noise and entered the room to find their mother dead 
in a great pool of blood.At the morgue a note was found in Moulton's 
pockets,directing that if anything occurred to him certain friends should have 
charge of his perosnal effects.It was evident the deed was premeditaed

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