MOSCOW WOMAN IN SERIOUS AFFAIR
MRS. O. P. CHRISTENSEN SHOOTS WOMAN WHO IS IN A CRITICAL CONDITION
Jealousy Given as the Cause—Former Well-Known Resident Now Languishes in Jail
Reports from Lewistown, Mont., tell of a shooting affair involving a former Moscow woman, Mrs. O. P. Christensen, better known locally as Mrs. Thomas Jolly. Press reports state that Mrs. Christensen, actuated by jealousy, emptied the contents of a revolver at Mrs. Alice Kirkpatrick, the latter being mortally wounded. Mrs. Christensen was placed under arrest.
Mrs. Christensen was a resident of Moscow many years and since her marriage to Christensen has been operating a big stock ranch in Montana. While here recently she stated that her husband had left her place, but the news report was the first heard of a divorce action having been started. Mrs. Christensen is the owner of real estate in Moscow. The press reports following the bringing of a divorce suit by O. P. Christensen against Lenie Christensen here this morning. Mrs. Christensen this afternoon, at Lehigh, a coal mining town near Loccasin, shot Mrs. Alice Kirkpatrick four times, one bullet striking her in the wrist and the others in the body. 