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Paul, Ml nil.MEN.the Brain This Morning.She Leaves Horae During the Nightand He Hunts Her Down.0The Murderer Arrested and He Co:pletely Breaks Down In Jail.A WIFE MURDERER.V daps of thec Belt with r the speedy t Debility, loss Ired troubles, plete restora-ihlearanteed.et In sealed•shall, Mick.Jealousy Prompts Youne: George Bishop to Kill His Eighteen Year Old Wife.From Saturday’s Second EdiionOpposite the county jail on Ohiostreet on a high hill overlooking theriver, the house number being No. 11Ohio street, stands a little one-story,two room frame house. It is the homeof Emma Morey, a young woman whohas figured more or less in police circleswithin the past few years, at one timebeing arrested on the damaging chargeof knowing something about a murderwhich was, however, totally unfoundedas far as she was concerned. Righteast of this house is another framehouse exactly like it which is occupiedby the parents of Emma Morey, Mr.and Mrs. John Beley. Emma Moreylived in the St. Clair House Flats whenthat big building was in full operationand she had the distinction a little whilelater on of being the sister of the wifeof Frank Harmon, the crank who wentto the insane asylum for killing hisfriend Wesley Carpenter, with a loadfrom a shot gun. It will thus be seenthat intimate association withhomicides is a characteristic,no doubt an unwilling one,with the Morey and Beley families. It was in Emma Morey’s front room this morning between five and six o’clock that George W. Bishop,a smoothfaced, boyish looking fellow of 25, killed his young 18 year old wife Jennie instantly with a No. 32 bullet, sped from an old rusty reviver. The immediate cause of the murder was jealousy on the part of the husband and it appears from the facts in the case that lie had good grounds for his jealousy. Jealousy and murder, however, are two things. Yet unfaithfulness often plays an Important part in determining the punishment to be given the accused.THE VICTIM.In order to get the thread of the storyit will be necessary first to go back and get something about the history of thetwo parties immediately concerned so that the motive and the crime can be better understood. Jennie E. Phipps and George W. Bishop were married on last New Year’s eve by Justice Steinmehl, Previous to her marriage, at any rate, the Phipps girl was nothing but a woman of the town, and, indeed, if the stories are true of her conduct since her marriage her union with Bishop did not improve her in that respect. JShe was a full-faced, flaxen-haired, light-complex-ioned girl. Anyone would have said she was good-looking. Her father, John Phipps, an old man bent and feeble with years, lives seven miles south of Casey, Ills. Jennie has two sisters that are well-known and some others— younger ones—that are not so well known, probably because of their years. These two are Emma and Sally. Emma married and got separated from her husband. Her whereabouts at present cannot be ascertained. Sally’s home, however, is not so hard to locate. She is an inmate of Jude Carr’s establishment on Second street between Wabash avenue and Cherry street. About a year ago when Edgar Williamson, a Casey, 111., farmer, disappeared in this city, being last seen in clo^e communion with Emma Morey and Jennie Phipps in the St. Clair building, they and John Phipps, Jennie’s father, were arrested on suspicion of having killed the man for his money. They were kept in jail for a while and were then let out. There was hardly any doubt about their innocence. Williamson’s body was taken out of the river one morning after he had been in there for weeks.srN'or1 §ilMALS.Gal!**racks,)rm. Grub, , Hoof Ail''onndcrs,trains,THE MURDERER.Young Bishop is the son of John Bishop, the old gray-bearded, spectacled man who is a well-known character about town. Separation in married life also appears to have taken possession of the Bishop family, old John Bishop and his wife having been divorced for years. Mrs. Bishop lives now on south First street. George Bishop, the boy, has a slight figure. Sofar as now known he has always borne a fairly good reputation—not so good as he might,however, or he would not have allied himself in the Phipps family. However that as it may, the boy hasbeen working at the car shops up to the time of the murder and he is said to have been industrious and fairly temperate in his habits.LEADING UP TO THE MURDER.! Bishop and liis young wife have been living at 936 south First street, in the front part of the house occupied by Mrs. Carson and the Smith family. Two±ney uiu go 10 .me Aarr piace, anathere, according to the story of Miss McFarland, Jennie wrote a letter to Will Rourke, an I. St. L. brakeman,whom she thought more of than her husband. Then they w’ent up to the I. St. L. depot so that J ennie might get an opportunity of seeing her lover. Hedidn’t come in, however, as she expected and so that pleasure had to be waived. Jennie never did see him afterward. While at ithe depot Jennie told her companion that she was going to leave George, as she didn’t like him, and she was going to go to Rourke, who had either sent her money or was about to do so. The McFarland girl was soscared this morning that she couldn’t speak very definitely on every point. Miss McFarland says she knew Rourke and that Jennie bad given her his picture. This would show that Jennie had a stock of the precious things on hand to suit any emergency. Rourke is represented as being about 21. He figured recently in a paternityscrape, but a little thing like that didn’t seem to have affected the passionate ardor of Mrs. Bishop. In fact, it may have acted with a reversible back action on her and increased her admiration for the gay young Lothario. Rourke’s father lives at St. Mary’s.went in and no concealment was mat j to her of Jennie’s presence. Miss M ! Farland went back and told Bishop th : she had found his wife, and then Bishc made haste for the little bouse on tl, hill, his revolver in his pocket and r! doubt bent on carrying his executic! into effect.A MIDNIGHT DESERTION.Last night when Bishop came home from work, according to his story, he was tired. They had supper and afterward Bishop and Miss McFarland went down to her uncle’s, Perry McFarland,who lives farther south on First street.McFarland works in one of the brickyards on the hill. Bishop came backalone and he found Jennie ironing. TheMcFarland girl came home afterward.They had 10 cents worth of beer twiceand they didn’t go to bed until about 11 o’clock. There was no apparent trouble between Bishop and his wife, but on the contrary they were very pleasant and joked and laughed as if nothing but death or high water could separate them. Bishop and J ennie slept on a pallet on the floor and the Missouri cousin had possession of the bed. Bishop says he went to sleep very soon after lying down and the same was true about Miss McFarland, according to her statement. But Jennie slept not. About midnight she got up, dressed, packed up her clothes and left. Between 12 and 1 o’clock Bishop woke up, discovered that his wife was abent, but thought nothing of it for a while, according to his story, as he supposed she was around some place. But as she didn’t appear after a wait he be-gau a search for her around the house and in the yard, but without success. Then he returned, found her clothes missing, and then he woke up the Missouri visitor. She said that was the first she knew of Jennie’s disappearance.THE MISSION OF DEATH.Then Bishop dressed himself and sallied forth in the darkness of thenight in search of his truant wife. He went to Jude Carr’s and Sally told himshe had seen nothing of her. Then hewent to Mrs. Michael’s house a square or so north and she wasn’t there.THE FATAL SHOT.When he was admitted to the Monhouse about 5:15 and saw his wife (the bed he pulled her off of it aiwalked her over to the sofa. Miss Mrey’s statement is as follows: “Easked her to go home with him and sisaid she would not, and he began to gmad and violent and I was afraid s omthing would happen. He drew his revcver,but I made him put it up. He drewagaiu and I rushed to her endeavorirto protect her. He had hold of her arand she was in a stooped position c the floor when he fired. He had tl pistol, so far as I could judge, right t against her head when it went off. SI fell back dead instantly and I laid hi down out of my arms on the floor rig] where she was shot. Then he threaten* to shoot me. He ran out of the houi with the pistol in his hand and wei south through the alley east of tl house. Jennie’s last Words were ‘O please Em. don’t let him hurt mlt; Then the shot was fired. He was a ways jealous of her and she couldr look at a man that he didn’t get ma He was in the house about fr minutes before he shot. I a sure Lucy McFarland can here for the purpose of seeing wheth Jen was here. She asked for clei clothes when she first came here aishe told me she was going up this mor: ing to get a divorce from him. Bishc said before he shot that she thoug] more of me than she did of him, and 1 said ‘I’ll just put an end to you rig! beside your partner here.’ He was d Jy sober. I didn’t notice the sign lt;any drink on him.” There was no 01 in the room at the time but Bishop, hwife, Emma Morey and Tommy Bele aged 16.THE MURDERER ARRESTED..The police searched for Bishopsoon as the news was telephoned to tloffice, but were unable to get any tralt;| of him. About 8 o’clock Bishop caueast on Farrington street and walklt;into the alley back of his house, whilt;is near the corner of First and Farrinton. As soon as he saw Wm. Smith !dropped to the ground. He was corpletely broken up and cried bitterlSmith brought him up town aiSmith and Officer Voit tolt;him to jail, surrounded by a large crowAs they passed down Ohio street to t jail from First Bishop might have h; I a good view of the scene of the murdlt; but he didn’t turn his head in that 1 rection. As soon as he got inside sobbed and buried his face in his ban and it was some time before he couanswer the Coroner’s questions.EXAMINATION BY THfl CORONER.Searching houses of ill-fame for hiswife! He then went out to the Uniondepot. He went through the coacheson the track, thinking she might be on the train going home to Illinois. At 1:20 Sergeant Dwyer saw Bishop standing on the depot platform. Bishop asked him if he had seen anything of his wife, and when he was answered negatively he said he was searching forher; that she had left him while he was asleep at night in bed. Then Sergeant Dwyer and Bishop went through the coaches again and saw nothing of her. The officer told Bishop he had his rounds to make, but that he would meet him in about an hour at Second and Main and together they would renew the search. The officer was a little late in getting to the spot named, and when he got there Officer McNutt told him Bishop had been there and had gone. Bishop searching around town for his wife again, going twice to Emma Morey’s during the night and was told she wasn’t there. Finally he went borne. This was about 4 o’clock. When he got home, according to Miss McFarland, he asked her if Jennie bad told her anything bearing on her departure, and then she told him about Jennie saying she was expecting money from Rourke to take her away. The Missouri girl says she didn’t tell Bishop anything else. Then Bishop, who had on the day before for some unexplained reason taken a pistol out of the bureau drawer at his mother’s house belonging to his male cousin, deliberately loaded his revolver in the presence of the McFarland girl, putting in, to the best of her knowledge, two bullets. He said as he was doing this, according to her statement, that he was going to hunt her up and kill her and then himself.The prisoner was led into the passa£ way to the east of the jail office and € amined by Coroner Kornman, \*ho toi his testimony. The prisoner cried almccontinually and spoke with his hei buried down in his hands in jerky ai disconnected sentences, making it e tremely difficult to get at the meafiii of some of his statements. The suncrn r-n nncrnrnlv rrirl namod T.i-mvHIDING AT EMMA MOREY*S.Well, he went at it as if he meant business, and what is strange about the performance the Missouri cousin went with him. She waited for him at Sir-ronia’s saloon at First and Wabash avenue while he made some more expeditions around in the neighborhood. This must have been nearly 5 o’clock. ) When he came back he sent her down to Morey’s to find out where Mrs. Dunnstance of what he said, however, that he woke up in the night and fo his wife gone; that not finding herundertook to find her around town, detailed his movements while in sef of her as they have been told previot most of his statements corrobora the story of the McFarland j He said that when he leai from Lucy McFarland that his wife at Emma Morey’s he went therebegged her to go with him home; he kissed her several times when \ were on the sofa together just be the shooting, and that she flatly refi to go with him and said she was glt; to leave him. He said he remem blt; the pistol going off in his hand, but didn’t remember having pulled trigger. All he knew about the 1 was that the revolver went off in hands. He was closely pressed on point, but he stuck to his story, said he took the revolver when he at his mother’s house yesterday, said he went there to write Je Bishop’s name on a piece of piec* paper and to sepd Jimmy McDan his cousin, up to the postoffice so ai see whether he ' could get letter belonging to his wife. This wlt; indicate, of course, that Bishop k his wife was corresponding with R01.and he was trying to get a letter ihim to her. He said that Lucy him that Jennie said she loved Rot and she was going to him, and he he told Jennie what Lucy told in their interview before the shool He said he didn’t know what becam the pistol. He probably threw it a some place.THE MISSOURI VISITOR DETAINEDWITNESS.Miss McFarland will be detainedwitness in the county jail unless sh* give bond. Prosecutor Henry h her story this morning. It is evi j that she is trying to‘tell what she ki about the case. One point m her s ‘ ment which is important is that
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Terre Haute Weekly Gazette
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 17, 1886
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