The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-15
TRAGEDY IN MORGAN CO., MO.
A Horrible Murder-The PerpetratOr
Lynched.

A Horrible Murder The PerpetratOr
Lynched.
From the Morgo1. County Banner September s.
AS we stated our last weeks issue, this com
munIty was startled by the report that Elijah So
cum, living on the Osage river, in this county, had
bt EN- cruelty murdered at mis- home wednesday
morning OF last week by an old man named Ewing
tucker.
Our readers will remember an account we gave
some months since oil rather a mixed marriage IN
Buffalo township-Tucker having entered the Rebei
service nothing was heard OF him for several years
then a rnnor of his death-.hen the dIsconsolate
widow marrying a wealthy and respected citizen
named Slocum-iu the course OF time a crl-sis-
another crisis in the appearance of Tucker not dead
but very much allVe-a settlement OF the affair, by
=, n;ch Mr TucEer GOT fhe wife habv n ceriai1
amount of bacon and other eatables We stated
these facts in fall at the time.
After all this, the fuckers seemed to live quite
unhapplly, and Mrs. Tucker was compelled to leave
her home she went to live with Mr.. SlOcum, her
very well. tucker threatened Slocum's lite and it
is somewhat singular that he lSlocuml, teari ng
Tucker and guarding against danger, should not
have a fiji EARN in his house
The testimony OF Mrs Tucker is that on the morn.
ing in question: little after dayOreek, Slocum who
had gone to milk his cows, came running ana said,
d" they are coming: they have shot at me-" That he
told her TO take the butcher knife and clue and
run up stairs and guard the oit w1ndO g that while
there she heard considerable confusion below, and
Tucker assembled half way up the ladder, intending
to kill her; but by her entreates she prevailed OH
him to desist. When she came down SlOcum was
|, ing on the floor dead. Nothing else was disturbed
and his pockets were not searched.
Sne lmneu1aJeN gave tne alarul, DUt the country
b-ing thinly inhabed, IL was quite considerable
time before the neghbors collected. They then
tracked Fucker bv peculiar mark of his shoe sole,
most to his house.
Cons able Shockley at once went to Tucker to
arrest hlm and found him c0OllY at WORK a short
distance from the house. He dened his guilt, but
the statements he made as to his whereabouts the
nght before were fatlY contradictory. 1ucGer was
t9en taKen to Slocum's, where, the presence OF
thevlc'Im OF his unsuitable revenge, his wife gave
the testimony above stated.
The daY being now far advanced, Constable
ShOckley took Tucker to his (Shockley's) resi-
dence preparatory to bringing HIM 10 this pace to
hand hm over to the sheriff, and for greater
h IN TO guard him, Some time near midnight ne
heard noise on the outside OF his house. and upon
going out 20 ascertain the same, halted bv some
one unknown to him and asked if EWiAg Tucker
was. III the house. Shockley now saw some fifteen
or twenty men, all blackened and disguised. He
attempted to reason with the crowd, out was cut
short by being tod to shut up, or his brains would
be ventilated with a bullet. At this he started TO
run round the house where the door was OF en- but
the mob had forced the front door open and were
taking Tucker Off
When the mob had got a short distance from the
house he heard several shots fired, and the ReXt
the identical spot where his victim was the morn
ing before.
Thus ended the career of a bad man, and II is only
to be deplored that the civil law was not allowed to
take its course, and that mob law prevailed. BAD
as the man was, he had O right TO trial by jury,
and a LEGAL conviction No clue mas yet been OBJ
tanned 20 any OF the perpetrators OF this act but
COnst able ShockleY 10 making every EFFORT in his
power.