Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-12

= 1A 8 THE RUMoR
Of the death of RICHARD YAPp, Jr., in thu
town of Ridgeway on the evening o
Thursday last, 4th inst, reached here or
Friday, and at 8 P. NJ. one of the editors O
this paper and j. I. G. repaired to the
scene of one of the saddest affairs thai
has ever transpired in this section, for the
purpose Of seeing what was to be seen
and learning what could be learned in re.
gard to it.
THE DECEASED,
Who was % years old on the 10th of last
January, was in this village on The day Of
the murder, and made some purchases Of
groceries, &C., at Hendy, Thomas & Co.'S
starting for home about four o'clock,
which he reached about dusk, meeting
several neighbors on the way, who testify
to his soberness, and that there was moth
ing unusual in his appearance. He had
some talk with one of them about trading
horses. 1t seems that he got home, put
out his team, and had been to supper
that the children, except the baby, were
abed upstairs that his wife, as she testi
fies, was sitting at the table engaged in
darning stockings, and that he was stand
ing by the stove; that she heard the re.
port, looked up at her husband, who was
looking at her; that he said,
ooh! I'm shot !"
and fell that she took the baby, and went
to her mothers, leaving the other children,
the oldest boy of seven years, alone with
the murdered man; that one of her broth
ers Harry Ro6erts,) went to neighbours
(Farwelps) house-went in, stayed little
whle-stood with his back to the stove,
and "acted queer" He was asked what
was the matter, and replied that he g had
trouble on his mind" and being asked
what the trouble was, said
/" DICK is SHOT p
Accompanied by the neighbor he went
to the church, where meeting was being
held and some one told the preacher, who
dismissed the audience, informing them OF
the cause. Thos. Carkeek, j. p, and a
number of citizens went at once to the
house of the deceased, where he was still
lying. Some one went at the same time
to bear the sad news to his aged parents,
both of whom went at once to their dead
boy and had him conveyed to their house,
where
TIE BODY
Was on Friday evening. 1t presented a
CHASTITY appearance. There is at all times
an awful solemaity and mystery in death,
which is ten-fold greater when it is caused
by violence. There was hole larger
than an old-fashioned cent, over his heart,
which must have been hit, and was made
by large calibre cartridge or
ball, and five smaller holes in his body,
one being .on his other breast higher up,
and nearly foot from the heart wound.
Bearing this in mind, it is not possible, in
the nature of things that it was case OF
suicide, as a gun brother weapon held close
to the body couldn't scatter so much
THE HOUSE ~
Where the murder took place is a single,
one-story log one, with but one room, ex-
cept the chamber, and we should judge, is
about twenty feet long by twelve wide on
the inside. 1t faces the east, has two win
dows, one on the east side, and one in the
south end. The door is near the corner
by the side of the east window. The table
was under the south window The stove
is in the north end, and the place to go up
stairs in the northwest corner, near the
stove. The deceased was evidently stand
ing by the stove with his back to the
stairs, as one of the balls or buckshot
passed entirely through his body, through
the stairway, and into the log beyond from
which it was taken by the coroner's jury.
He must have fallen forward on to his face
and side, the sickenipg mass of clotted
and frozen blood being directly in front Of
the stove, the prints Of his knuckles plainly
showing, his hand being placed on his
breast.
THE EAST WINDOW sf
Was broken in three places, parts of two
panes evidently having been gone for
some weeks, and one pane gone entirely,
with every indication that it had been done
but a ,tsw hours Pieces of glass and putty
were found in basket or bucket standing
under the window, and glass was scattered
as far as the stairway. There were two
small dents in the sash where the broken
pane had been.
THE vERDIcg
OF the jury was that the deceased came to
his death from wounds received from a
weapon in the hands Of some person to
them unknown.
AN EXAMINATION
Was had on Friday before Justice Car.
keek at the residence of Mrs. Roberts
mother-in law of the deceased. His widow
Mrs. Yapp was sworn, and one of her
brothers. We were not present. Hei
statements are said to have been rather
contradictory, going to show that her hus