The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-02-11

of destiny, on the far off slopes of Wyo-
ming, the i'll assorted pair had again
come together. and but for the railroad
accident would perhaps have been IN
disturbed by the man who had taken so
deep an interest in the fate of one of the
parties, until the decision of the case had
been rendered by the Courts. But he re-
turned, and on Tuesday evening. the L 9Th
| inst, was one of several persons invited
to an evening party at the house of the
woman who had such deep hold upon
his sympathics The husband had cone,
ostenslbly upon a journey, but was watch
ing the house instead, and saw the man
who possessed the confidence he had been
unable to get in fourteen years. pass in.
What TRANSFERRED afterwards ~ill probably
never be known, as the two living wit
nesses are widely apart in their yer sions
| of the occurrences. But it is certain that
the door opened the Infatuated husband
passed into the room with a drawn revol-
| yer; he approached his unarmed victim;
| fash after fash followed in quick success
sion; the tall form quiyered, staggered
into the street, fell on the sidewalk, and
with gurglc and a gasp, all that was
! left OF the gallant, impetuos and brilliant
young James l.. Laird, was limp of
| clay resting on the blood stained snow
Still, with remorseless fury unappeased,
| the murderOus assassin, satisfied that his
victim could infiict no injury upon him,
points his deadly revolver and again dis
| charges Its contents into the inanlmate
body of his PROSTATE foe. He claims
that ne was foully dishonored, but the
| fact is question: by those who know the
clrcum stances, and it rests between him
and his God. He had, it seems, pre-
pared cup of poison, or at least pretend
ed that he had, and poured it into the
fire. He asserted his belief that his wife
had before been guilty of criminal inter-
course with another, basing his opinion
upon the fact that she had, in order to
escape the embraces of the man she de-
| tested, made surreptitious visite to the
family of man whom he charges with
her seduction; but there is. so far as we
can learn, no evidence of criminality in
either case. Gen. Cole is denounced as
a murderer for shooting the man who
had worked his dishonor by the use of
force, running III that way the woman
who had sincere affection for her hus-
band. But as stated above, we have no
comments to make. we tell the harrow
ing tale according as we understand the
facts. They will make the subject of a
judicial investigation justice will be rig
orously demanded, and we are content to
leave the case in the hands Of those who
are sworn to administer the laws faith
fully.
James J.. Laird was born in Naperville,
ILL.,, in 1888. Many of our towDspeople
will remember the tall, fine looking man
who, two years ago, spent several weeks
here on visite TO his relatives, and made
so many friends by his frank disposition
and winning manners. And if events
shall demonstrate the fact that he has
been murdered for the exhibition of that
sympathetic telling which could not fail
to enlist the impulses of chivalrous ma
ture, they will join in the wish that dire
punishment may fall upon the man who,
not content with his assassination, must
blacken his memory with the stain OF al
legged adulterous criminality.