JEALOUSY*
Caused Lawrence Waughtel to
Take His Own Life.

Lawrence Waughtel, of Scipio, shot and killed himself in Indianapolis, Sunday morning at the home of his intended bride, because of intense jealously. The following account of the affair is from the News of Monday.

A party at the home of Mrs. Minnie Schultz, twenty-three years old, 623 South Pennsylvania Street, terminated in a tragedy which many police investigated early yesterday morning.

Lawrence Waughtel, twenty-four years old, a private in Company H, Tenth Regiment of Infantry at Fort Benjamin Harrison and whose home was in Scipio, Ind., killed himself with a revolver, and for a time the police and Coroner Blackwell were unable to decide whether he had committed suicide or had been murdered. However, the authorities, after investigating, were satisfied that Waughtel was insane with jealously and that he carried out a threat to make away with himself.

Mrs. Schultz, who was divorced from her husband about two years ago, and Waughtel were engaged to marry, and their wedding date was set for June 16. A "party" was arranged for Saturday night and a crowd was invited. The party broke up early in the morning and Waughtel had missed the last car for the army post, he was allowed to remain at the house the remainder of the night.

A revolver shot and the screaming of a woman caused the neighbors to telephone the police, and when they arrived they found Waughtel dead in bed with a bullet hole above the heart. The course of the bullet puzzled the police it entered the body just above the heart and came out of the back about four inches lower. At first they were of the opinion that Waughtel could not have held the weapon in such a manner as to have caused the bullet to take the course it did. Mrs. Schultz, her grandmother Mrs. Hampton, and several other occupants of the house were closely questioned for hours, and until the police were satisfied the shooting was a suicide. It was said that Waughtel was intensely jealous and that he had threatened to kill both himself and Mrs. Schultz. Waughtel had been in the army about three years and would have been honorably discharged on the day set for his wedding. The body of the young man was taken to Renf(ban) & Blackwell's morgue and word was sent to his father in Scipio. The father sent word he would come for the body today.

*The title was spelled JEALOUSLY in the original article.