Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-02-08
Shooting of DR.. Yournan by Miss.
Cynthia Chase.
From the Milwaukee News, Jan. 1st.l

| from the Milwaukee News, Jan. 1st.l
The quiet city of Milwaukee was
thrown into an unwonted excitement
last evening by an attempted assassina-
ton at the Prairie du CHEN depot.
The affair was invested with additional
interest on account of the principal in
it being Miss Cynthia Chase, a young
woman of more than ordinary intelli-
gence, prepossessing in appearance, and
connected with some of the most re-
spectacle families in the neighboring
village Of Waukesha. Her victim was
DR.. Youman of Muckwanego, against
whom, it will be remembered, Miss
Chase and her friends waged a long and
unsuccessful prosecution some time
since, for alleged criminal practice and
outrage upon her person.
The circumstances of the assault
were substantially as follows: The par
ties were both intending to leave on the
$40 P. NJ. train from the Milwaukee
and Prairie du Chen depot, and neither
was aware of the others presence, until
within few minutes Of the time of
starting. DR.. Youman had entered the
car short time before and had taken
seat. Miss Chase entered the same car,
she AYERS by accident, and caught sight
of the Doctor as soon as she passed
through the door. She walked rapidly
down the aisle toward his seat, drawing
and cooking four barreled revolver as
she approached, and fred upon him
without the slightest warning or excla-
nation. Two balls were discharged at
short range, but for some unaccounta-
bic cause one of them few wide of its
mark and crashed through the glass
window CT the car, shivering it to atoms.
The other struck the lower part Of the
abdomen. as a glancing shot, and, pass
ing nearly across it, lodged under the
skin above the groin. Although the
car was nearly full of passengers at the
time, the confusion was so great that
the would-be murderess stepped from
the car, and walked hurriedly out of
sight toward the center of the city be-
fore the affair was comprehended. A
surgeon was fortunately on the train,
who probed the wound, extracted the
ball, pronounced the injury slight, and
decided that the wounded man might
be safely conveyed to his home. He
was accordingly made as comfortable as
possible and was borne away in the care
of his friends Before his departure
he is reported to have said that he had
long expected this, or some similar at
tempt on his life, but that cit was all
right-he should never prosecute her
for it,"
Her excitement doubtless unnerved
her arm and saved the life of fellow
creature. Her bearing and converse
ton after her arrest were singularly
self possessed, and indicated intense
determination in her purpose. She
claims to have sustained irreparable 10
juries at his hands in mind and body,
declares that she has carried weapon
for three years, firmly resolved to take
his life at the first opportunity, and re-
SiClS GIdJ Ill dli tHdb IituC OlO wac una
BILE to accomplish the deed.
Thus closes another unlocked for act
in one of the most painful domestic
dramas made public in Wisconsin for
years. Both parties are respectfully
connected, and surrounded by friends
and relatives ready to prosecute to the
bitter end of the law. The mad act of
yesterday, which it would be charity to
iupute to insanity, will revive with ten
fold bitterness the passions which it
was hoped we're forever appeased at the
close of their late litigation, and reopen
the entire question Of DIR. Youman's
criminality. Of her guilt there can
be no question, and nothing but a
senseless maudlin sympathy will attempt
to justify premeditated- murder in cold
blood.