People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — TRAGEDY AT MADISON, WIS. [ARTICLE]

TRAGEDY AT MADISON, WIS.

*• W. PktUnM, Former! j of I||;mh bv», KUla Hl* Wife tad fftonW Madison, Wis., Feb. 26—A terrible tragedy, resulting in the fatal shooting of Mrs. A. W. Patterson by her husband and his death by his own hand immediately afterward, occurred at midnight Monday in one of the most quiet quarters in this usually quiet city. They left a letter to the children in which they say they had premeditated suicide for some time and resolved to die together. This theory, however, is opposed by the fact that when found the wife, who had retired and was in her nightrobe, had one arm thrown across her face as if to shield it, and a bullet in the arm, while the husband was fully dressed. The family came here last July from Algona, lowa, where Patterson was a merchant retiring on account of poor health. They came her to educate their children at the state university, which the father and husband had formerly attended. No other motive than insanity on the part of the husband or intended suicide on the part of both can be assigned for the deed.