The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-25
A THANKSGIVING MURDER.
shooting of n Trnducer of Female Characte

Shooting of u Traducer of Female Character.
From the KokOnto {Ind.) Tribune.
just as the citizens OF this place were enjoying
their Thanksgiving dinner a terrible tragedy was
enacted at the Sherman House. For some time past
it has been known to the family OF Mr.. Daugherty
cuIation touching the character Of Miss Daugherty.
The report went back to time when the family re-
sided at Indianapolis. The scandal was traced to
the family OF VanhOrn. member of this family
was talked to upon the subject and Joseph Vanhorn
was given as the authority II was also believed be-
yond any question that Joseph Vanhorn had uttered
the scandal in public room in presence OF acquaint
ances and strangers.
OF the regular army, brother Of Miss Daugherty,
returned home on furlough, when the facts became
known to him. On Thursday at noon Lieutenant
Daugherty, in company with his father came to the
Sherman House. Joseph Vanhorn was there just
the stove in the office, where he had stopped mo-
ment, and went inside the bar-room confronted
Vanhorn, when the following conversation oc-
rs your name vanhorn?7
''You have been sandering my sister, and you
must retract it or take the consequences"
al will not Tetract It,"
(Here there is a difference OF testimony. One man
says Vanhorn denied ever uttering the SANDER An
other says he declared he woud not retract, and he
(Daugherty) could not make him do SOY
Lieutenant Daugherty then began to feel for his
revolver, SAYING
~ viii see whether you will or not"
He coolly took out his revolver and cooked it,
when Vanhorn seeing what was coming, lodged
downward to the floor. The first shot was just then
III
Yanhorn then attempted to run round screen,
but Lieutenant Daugherty met him, and fired, the
ball entering his left breast.
Vanhorn then tried to get around him ana out Of
the room when another discharge took effect in his
right breast
Vanhorn then ran into the office, but did not make
the short turn he attempted, when another discharge
took effect in his back.
He then ran northward through the office east to
the diningroom, north to the room door leading to
the family room of Mr.. Faulkner. Here he fell. At
every jump the blood gushed from his mouth After
he fell he said, 81 am Killed. and then, breathing
heavily few times, he died.
Lieutenant Daugherty was taken before the Mayor,
waived an examination, and freely went to jail to
await the action OF the Grand Jury, which will meet
| next Monday.
We may add that few persons had ever heard the
| scandal that none would have believed it, and that
the Daugherty family of the highest respeCta-
! by. We may also say that the deceased, who was
brcklayer, although addicted to drinking to some
| excess, was not a quaTrelsome man among stran-
| gers. He has had trouble in his own family and
his wife was divorced from him at the late term of
| court The city, although at first excited is now
! cool. excepting always two or three persons
without knowing whether Joseph VanhOrn was
guilty Of circulating the report or not, may we not
deduCe the following moral:-'lt is well TO circu-
late no evil report OF our neghbors. 1t s just and
| proper to hold no intercourse with gossippers?"
The writer hereof had a conversation with Lieu
tenant Daughtery since the assault He did not ap-
| pear in the least excited, he not when the
sincerely the necessity for the occurrence, but under
the same circumstances, could not but repeat the
| same thing tomorrow, or at any future time" We
| should be pleased to comment at length upon the
sad calamity, but willing to leave the case to ouI
| courts, which WILL we know, do justice.