Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-05-26
A Sickles Case in Cincinnati.
! HusBAND KILLS HIS wIrE's PARAnout

A HUSBAND KILLS HIS wIFE's PARAMouR.
We are again called upon, says the Ciucin-
natl Commercial, of May 10, to record the
particulars of another tragedy which occurred
last night at the Tl,gr pr House, in-wlich
Richard Malone wac instantly killed by a pis-
tol shot in the hands OF John w. Clawson.
The particulars a t nding the melancholy
affair are vague and rather unsatisfactory
We relate the circumstances as given to us by
a gentleman who was an eye Illness to a por-
ton of its enactment. Clawson, Malone and
a friend named Adams, were in the above sa-
loon standing at the counter waiting drinks,
which they had ordered, when the converse
ton turned on music. Adams said to Claw
son that his (Clawson's) abilities as a singer
were small, for a man who was pretentious.-
The latter replied, that he could not sing, but
could whip Adams if he would step out on
the sidewalk. Malone and Adams turned
and were proceeding towards the door, when
Clawson drew a pistol and fired, the ball Ia
king effect in Mahone's back, and glancing
~downwards, passed almost through the body,
lodging an inch or so above the navel. Ma.
hone threw up his hands and cried, "I1n
shot" at the same time starting for a drug
store, and reached the door of the store with
out assistance, but fell before he could cross
the threshold, the blood pouring from his
mouth in a perfect stream. He was picked
up by those who followed and carried in and
laid on a Tongue, but expired in a few moments
He regained his consciousness before his death,
and when asked who shot him, replied in bro
ken accents, the blood still gurgling from his
mouth, "John Clawson has killed me about
his wife"
Clawson, together with a younger broth
er named William, who is also implicated in
the matter, have been arrested
Clawson is a young man, not probably over
twenty -four years of age. His troubles seem
all to have occurred from an unfortunate mar
riage. Six years ago he led to the altar a
young and beautiful girl of Philadelphia. The
marriage was opposed by both his friends and
her friends. The objections urged were their
ages-she not yet fifteen, while he wanted
three years before attaining his majority. De-
spite the warnings and ~counsels of friends,
they eloped, and were married clandestinely.
They came to this city, and for two years
their lives. were happy: but at last the tempts
er invaded the s%anctity of their h6fn9, and the
girl-though q mother, still a girl-again
eloped, not as a wife. but as a mistress. She
was soon forsaken by her seducer, and writing
to her husband, who still cherished for his
erring wife an unaltered Affection a p~enitent
letter, he received her again with all her i'm
projections Two more years rolled away;
she performing in the interim the duties of a
wife and mother in their fullest sense; the dark
spot in their marriage existence was almost
forgotten, when a fiend, more arch than the
first, ingratiated himself into their household,
and succeeded in alluring her from the path
of honor. This was the man whom the hus-
band killed. For a time stolen interviews
were hao, but of late the twain have lived to-
gether publicly as man and mistress. Malone
Is also married, and is, We believe, the father
of three children.