'A sensation has been created in the fashionable Park Avenue district by a tragedy involving the unrelated families of Mr. R, G. Ingersoll, the famous agnostic, and Mr. RH. Ingersoll, the watch manufacturer.
The latter's estranged wife was to-day found shot dead in bed at her flat, clad in a dressing gown and adorned with jewels worth $35,000, while Mr. Wallace Probasco, " the sexagenarian son-in-law of Mr. R. G, Ingersoll was seriously wounded. He had been shot twice in the chest and once in the arm and was near a telephone with which he had managed to phone his wife. The woman was clutching a revolver.
Mr, Probasco is now in hospital. He is technically charged wit homicide, but he and his wife claim that Mrs, Ingersoll shot him (Pro-pasco) and then killed herself owing to jealousy because he wanted to break off their long friendship—Reuter.
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