Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-01-24

"DETAILS OF the Crfme-The Wretch "a
Il scaprs Intense EIctfeme epf-Re-
ward otfe red for the Criminal.
Especial dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
VALPARAISO, Ind. January IG.
A lonely little cottage. about four mills
from Valparaiso. Indiana, and forty miles
southeast of Chicago. was the scene. on the
cold midnight of Tuesday. of one of the
most horrible and cold blOoded crimes,
that it has syer been the duty of the press
To relate. While the quiet farming neigh
borhood was sleeping, a man-rather a
fiend in human shape-bursts in the door.
shoots dead two of the inmates an aged
lady Of son seventy years, and his own
wife to whom he had been hut two years
married: shoots, beats and bruises Young
girl. and then sets fire to the house and
burns il down, to cover the silent witness
cs of his fourfold crime. The circum-
stances in detail are rs follows:
About two years ago. Chauncey Page. n
man thirty-two years old, now the murder
er and incendisry, married young. gay
girl of only twenty summers, named Emma
GOss. She lived with her mother and her
siepfaiher, Mr.. Benjamin Long, wealthy
farmer, whose home was in the town of
Union about four miles west of Valparaiso.
The old people were members Of the ''Ma
necse" order of Christians. sect resem-
bling the Quakers in dress and customs
They never vote or resort to the law in any
case are quiet and peaceable, and bear the
best of character among their neighbOrs.
After their marriage, Page and his yOurs
wife moved 20 Valparaiso where he work
ed at the matchmaking trade with Mr.. A..
Rogers. He appears To have been Cf a
s;tIOn. and in a very short time their mar
ried life became intolerable to both. In
three months they separated. tho bride re-
turning to her step-faiher's roof and the
husband starting off on peddling tour. in
which occupation he has been engaged
most of the time since. through Indiana.
Iowa and Illinois, and having no permanent
abode, though frequently returning TO Val
paraiso. Previous to his marriage he had
lived in California for some years. He had
some property in Valparaiso, besides his
stock OF iewelry which he carried, and is
supposed 10 be worth some S6,oO0 orr. 900.
About year ago his wife applied for a
divorce on the grounds of i'll treatment,
failure to render support, and abandon
ment. The case was dismissed for some
informality, but a new application was
made about two months ago and the trial
was to come off this week Page has made
frequent and open threats that his wife
should never obtain divorce from HIM,
and went so far in his malignity as to offer
a man fifty dollars to- seduce his wife 50
that he would have gronnd on which to
base an application for separation.
On Monday night Page returned to Val
paraiso and stopped at the Gould house.
His name is seen on the register, giving his
residence in Chicago. He had first writ
ten ''Io"-probably intending Iowa On
Tuesday he went out to Mr.. Longs house
and sat some time with his wife and her
mother, apparently in a friendly manner.
About eleven o'clock, when the family
were asleep, he returned again and knock
ed for admission. He had learned during
the day that Mr.. Long was absent visiting
a son some ten miles away. The old lady
came to the door and inquired who was
there. He answered page" and she told
him that he could not come in at that hour
of the night Without further delay Page
barst open the door, and drawing a six
shooting revolver fired, and the old lady
of seventy years fell dead at his feet. His
wife, who was sleeping i'm an adjoining
room, rushed out and falling on her knees.
begged him not to kill her mother. With
ont a word the fiend raised her by one arm,
placed the pistol at her head, fired and his
young wife too fell, without groan, upon
the floor, a corpse.
In the bed with Mrs. Page was n young
girl, daughter of Mr.. Martin Rudolph, about
seventeen years of age. an invalid. She
was called "Retty" Rudolph, and was
spending the night for company's sake in
The absence of Mr.. Long. Terrified by the
fearful scene without she drew the bed
clothes over her head for concealment, and
in doing so left one foot exposed. The in
fnriated man discovered this, and rendered
more desperate, like beast, by the taste of
blood. or determined TO leave no witness
behind him, rushed to the bed, seized her
by the foot and threw her upon the floor.
Then raising the helpless victim by the left
arm and placing the revolver against her
face be fired, and the ball passed through
beneath The lpD'r per. nffhe noso. com;rg
ont below the o;har eva Again he ti-.j
and the b-lI ". seed ihrnrr', tho righishoul-
der; again. and orc Of the feeble wrists vas
shattered; still again, and the ball passed