The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from an article that appeared in the Fesno (CA) Bee, July 7, 1941, p 3. On July 5, 1941, Mrs. Caroline (consider Carolyn a spelling variant) Payne, age 43, fatally shot her lover of eighteen years, Charles O. Mattingly, age 41, after he jilted her to marry his secretary. Payne, the ex-wife of a former Indiana senator, was the business manager of the Bloomington Daily Telephone. Mattingly was employed as the chief legal advisor for the Indiana Public Service commissioner. Payne allegedly shot Mattingly five times in the back as he sat with young bride at the home of his friend, Bloomington, Indiana, resident Gus Nickas. Before he died, Mattingly identified his assailant as Payne saying to Police Chief John Rawlins, "I didn't see her but Carolyn Payne did it. I know because she has threatened me before.