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('AunmsiA, Mil., Nov. i‘i.—The rtj-turn* from thr* .Senatorial election In thin district give Abney (Dem.) “6a majority.Xew* reached here to-day of a terrible tragedy which owurrud hut Friday near Min Aii\ Cooper county. A young; man named Henry Umi, who was nmdly in love with Mis* Molltr Wallen, having asked Her father'* consent to their murrUgo, and been refried, attempted to commit snleMc,but was prevented by his friends, He then procured a Cult’s revolver, and Ibr next day pruueodod to Urn house of the woman he loved. She was in the yard ft# he tunic up. and held mil her hand to bin. kindly nud hospitably. As he was Jo the very act of slinking bauds with her. he suddenly drew his revolver, and fired twice luto the body of the poor, innocent thing, ut such short mug* that the |wwdt*r Hit her clothes uu fire. Shu threw up hr; arm*, gtvsjKHl out a wont tint wiu lnar livulate, mnl died almost instantly, With n wild cry of horror, soma of the famifi rushed forward to grapple with the murderer; but he was too ipiich for them all. Without moving from hi* tracks, he placed the revolver to his own head, and Mattered his brains out upon the ground. On His person was found a letter, which In nibafcanoo declared Uua lie loved the woman to madness; that he could not live without her; that He had dcliberatmh made up His mind to kill her first and then himself, and that, disunited on earth, he Hoped thin- might meet somewhere in the unknown future.It Is said that Mi«s Wallen bail never encouraged young Hoe's suit, or given him any imuntneo ol her love. She wn oung, beaudfiiI and accomplished, and Her family h one of tlilt;* most respectable In the cuuiitv.
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Jefferson City State Journal
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Fri, Nov 14, 1873
Page 6
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