Guyette, Pearl died 1904

GUYETTE, GARFIELD

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 9/15/2013 at 00:52:14

Elgin Echo, Thursday, 21 April 1904.

FORMER NASHUA GIRL MURDERED IN SENSATIONAL MANNER.

A recent issue of Hearst's Sunday American contains a sensational account of the murder of Pearl Guyette by her husband. Pearl Guyette will be remembered as residing in Nashua a number of years ago. The murder was committed at Minneapolis several weeks ago and the American gives the following account of it:

The body of pretty Pearl Guyette, the victim of one of the most remarkable tragedies ever recorded - that of a murder while a dozen blocks away a man, standing at a telephone, listened to the screams of a helpless woman and the shots which ended her life - has been claimed by her brothers. That of her husband, the man who killed her and then ended his own life, is still unclaimed. He was known as Howard Garfield. Charles Guyette has taken the body of his sister, a former vaudeville favorite, to Cresco, Iowa, to be buried in the family lot there. Money was the cause of the murder. The husband and wife had quarreled over a purse which he had taken from her, and in his anger conceived the plan for his fiendish murder - the telephone tragedy. He called up a friend at a saloon on the avenue, and said, "Hello, is that you, George ? Listen, hold the wire, I am going to kill her." Then came sounds as if someone had struck a tin pan four times. Hartsock realized that these were the reports of a revolver and that murder was being done. The friend at once notified the police, but they arrived too late, the tragedy having been enacted. On the floor lay the body of the woman, her head in a pool of blood that was trickling from her temple. She was dead. A few feet away was the body of the man. He had placed the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and aimed upward. The bullet lodged in his brain.

Pearl Guyette, the victim of the murder, was a vaudeville artist, a singer and dancer, and had been touring the towns of the Northwest for several years. While playing at Hurley, Wis., a year ago she met her slayer. He was a bar tender, a young man quiet in demeanor and always neatly dressed. He was married, but deserted his wife and child, and later on married Pearl Guyette.

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NOTE: Performers, though married later, sometimes keep the name they are known by professionally. She may be found in official records by either Guyette or Garfield.

Submitter is not related.

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