Killed Girl and Self
Item
- Title
- Killed Girl and Self
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 23-May-00
- page
- 9
- Identifier
- Image 9 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), May 23, 1900, (Evening Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Shot, suicide
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged murderer
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female and male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Length of story
- 652 words
- Description
- Wilfred H. Landrgan, the man who shot his sweetheart, Lydia Parson, last night at Fairlawn, the country seat Max Nathan, on North Broadway, Yonkers, was an elevator man at 40 West Fifty-ninth street, ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed lives. This morning the girl's most intimate friends, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beongtson, on West One Hundred and Forty-second street, went to Yonkers to attend ..inquest, which was held at noon, and claim the remains. The tragedy was no surprise to the dead girl's friends. They feared it for some time. To a reporter Mrs. Beongtson said: "Lydia had been acquainted with Wilfred since last Winter. She liked him very well until recently, but grew to fear him. On Saturday last Lydia came to visit me. She told me that Wilfred had called at the residence of Mr. Marcus Stein, her employer, at 34 West Seventy-second street, Friday night. She said he seemed crazy and showed her a revolver with which he said he would kill her if she refused to marry him. The girl told him that the Stein family was going to Yonkers on Saturday to live for the Summer months at Fairlawn and that she would have Sunday and Monday to herself and would be glad to see him on those days. After that she told him she would reside in Yonkers. I advised her on Saturday to shun Landrigan and told her I feared he would kill her. She said she believed it herself. He called at the Stein residence on Saturday and Sunday but the girl was at my house and he did not know it. She left me yesterday morning about 9 o'clock to visit some friends, one of whom lived at 299 West One Hundred and Thirty-eight street. Landrigan called at the house after she had left. He told a cook in the house that he intended to kill both the girl and himself. Landrigan was born in Sweden, but came to this country when young. He had been all over the world and served in the United States Navy and in the British Army. Lydia was twenty-two years old. She came from Sweden to this country five years ago. She has one sister named Segriete Parson, living as a domestic at Mamoroneck. The story of the murder and suicide as told by Mrs. Mollie Motsen, one of the servants in the Nathan home, is as follows: "I saw Lydia as soon as she reached the house. She told me all about her trouble with Wilfred and said that she had seen him abroad the same train that had just brought her from New York. "While she was speaking the butler came upstairs and told her that a young man wished to see her at the servants' door in the rear of the house. I know Wilfred and I asked him what he wanted. He said he wished to see Lydia--that she had rejected him, and that he intended to settle the matter. I tried to persuade him to go away and see her later, as the house was filled with people, but he refused to do so. I went up and told the girl, who shook with fear. She went downstairs, and they talked together for about five minutes. Then the laundress, who was in a room nearby, heard a shot. "Two shots followed this. Lydia rushed through the house and fell in the middle of the driveway on the south westerly side of the house. "The man the put a bullet in his right temple and fell dead. Lydia died in a few minutes." In the man's clothing were found letters and portraits of the dead girl and himself. Mr. Nathan, who employed the dead girl, is a manufacturer of steam injectors at 92 Liberty street. Fairlawn, his country seat, is situated a short distance north of Greystone, the home of the late Samuel J. Tilden.
