A Landlady Shot From the Shadows at Elk’s Montgomery Hotel

Mrs. North, landlady at the Montgomery hotel at Elk, was probably fatally shot on last Friday night as she was passing from one portion of the hotel building to another. The bullet entered her temple. She was taken to Spokane and placed in a hospital, but her life is despaired of.

No trace of the would-be murderer has been found, although suspicion points strongly to one party.

The body was discovered immediately after the shot was fired, and a thorough search made for the party who fired the shot, but all of the persons about the premises could give a good account of their whereabouts at the time of the firing of the shot.

The assassin was evidently located on the roof of a building in the rear of the hotel; the direction the bullet took after entering the head indicates as much.

Mr. Montgomery, the owner of the hotel, is ill in a hospital in Minneapolis.

Mrs. North has resided in Camden and Elk for the past five or six years. She has been living apart from her husband for about ten years, and his whereabouts have been unknown to the family for several years, so that no suspicion attaches to him. She is the mother of one son and a daughter. The son, who is known as “Mickey,” is well known in Newport, where he has worked at various times. He was in this city last Thursday. The daughter, Esther, is about 15 years old, and has been residing with her mother at Elk.

In case Mrs. North dies it is reported that a suspect will be arrested.