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Mount Airy, N. C.
Phone 31 The Rexali Store
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CUTS Off WIFE'S IKAP
rim Hnilin B•Ay 11
mmd HMn it ia Vaadt
Milwaukee, Dm. I^X. Kay Temp
Um, real eeUte Mnr of Whitefiah
Bay. ml former member of the Mil
waukee Normal school faculty, is in
the county jail formally charged with
the avdtr of hi* wife, whoec nudt
and ktad#>i bodv was found today
naar Dougs* bay, 11 mil** tram Mil
Tom pk in* confessed that ha stran
|M his wife until she hinai un
conscious, placed her body in a bath
tub and levered bar head under a tap
of running water, a -cording to Dis
trict Attorney George A. Shaiigh
neeay.
Mrs. Tompkins dieappearsd from
her home last Thursday. About 9
o'clock that morning she sent her two
to school and told them she would aat
be home in the morning bat would
return in time to pnpu) hr>ch for
The girl said her father met her
aad her brother that aoon and «»k
them to lunch, sending them back to
school aad took them to dinner away
from home that evening. When her
mother did not return beam that night
she refused to go to school Friday,
she said and called her uacle. William
C. Conrad. <gid told him her mother
was missing. Conrad notified tha po
lice.
Another woman brought shoot the
conditions at the Tompkins heeae
which resulted in the attack oa his
wue, ponce saia. iomp*in», tney
■aid, was found by detectivea, hind
by his wife at an a parti—t with •
woman aaid to have been a student
at the normal school where he taught
for 12 years.
As a result, police said, a divorce
waa to have been obtained and lira.
Tompkins waa to have received a pre
divorce settlement the day aha disap
peared. Tompkins waa arrested and
questioned regarding the wbereabaoto
of his wife bat ha denied any know
ledge of why or where aha had gone.
The police, in their search for Mrs.
Tompkins, learned from I. F. Dougas,
owner of an estate on which the body
was found, that Tompkins had talked
with him regarding the caretaker's
Home and that later aa aatomobfle
of the same' make owned by Tompkina
had been driven to Lion's Dan, a
wooded glen near Dongas hay. Aa im
print of the tire tread was the same
aa the tread of Tompkin's ear. An
investigation of the tonneau of the
car revealed btoodatoiaa, aa did a
pair of overalls identified as Tomp
IdaV.
County officials took Tompkina to
the Lion's Den this marahg and ha
aided them in the search for Ms wtfe.
The body was cavered by mack, lama
and stones in a well-hidden spot.
Taanpktos toned to Sheriff Phil Waat
phal and In a c he king velae cried:
"Who could have done this thiagT
Find the fnOty ona."
Three hoars later according to
cured • Iwp batcher kaife, wHI
which ha wni< her head. Ha car
placed it in tha tmn.
"Later in tha day ha placed tht
body in • trunk, uiihd tha tnak aad
loaded H into hia mad>hw!'aad at hil
convenience drove ta tha ^at whan
ha hid tha svldance of hia act."
Dataila laadtac op ta tha ih|fc|
tinx!. beginning a boat three years age
whan an apartment hoaaa. which
Tompkiaa ovnad and made hia hamm,
waa under construction. Ha suffer
ed a breakdown aad waa taken by hia
wife ta hia home hi 1tln«h^«in, DL,
and later viaitad Ma wife'a parrnts al
Clintoa. lad. While than ha ahawad
indication* of amitai diaot^er aad. re
turning here waa plarad under tha ob
servation of Dr. F. C. Bladlaj, wha
declared him a paranoiac, aad Uahla
to caaaa injury ta Ua wtfa or athai
persons. Later in NortaWr 1922,
Dr. B. B. Rowley alao aa alienist, at
tempted to have Tompkiaa placid ta
an inatitatioa for obaervation. declar
ing he thought him a potential killer.
Neither physiciana expreeaed surprise
when advised Tompkins had confeas
ed ta killing hia wife.
Tompkiaa gave hy ace as 39 aad
that of hia wife aa 42.
Having qualified aa
of tho aatate of J. M. Harrell, t
mrttftad to I
U an poraooa harin*c
' ita art hatofcy notified
. file aaaaa wits tha ad
withta one yaw of thie
nettoe or aame will bo plaoded ta bar
mi twtmy.
TMa tha 14th day of Nor. IMS. lS-Me
WaHar W. Carter,
SAND
J. D. Minick
First National Bank
Mount Airy. N C.
Has given satisfactory service
to its customers for more than
twenty-five years.
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