The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-04-09
A Rival Wooer Shot Down while
Walking with His Lady.

From the Memphis Avalanche, March 30.
Six or seven years ago a man named
German kept grocery on Beale street 10
this city. He was doing well In business
and married here. This commencement of
domestic bliss was fatally interrupted by
the appearance of a lady from New Jersey
who, with her family of three children,
claimed the faithless German as husband
and father, and he left Memphis in their
company. The unfortunate and betra we'd
woman remained behind; o littls dauyh-
ter was her solace in her dcsertion. Such
is the account that is given of an upfortup.
ate woman, whose sorrows connected with
connubial projects was unhappily not yet
at an end. Some time ago she became &C
quainted with Mr.. John Kenned =, an
iron moulder by trade, u steady, industri>
Gus, honest man, who stands we'll with
those who are acquainted with him. Ken
neday and Mrs. German recently becams
intimate friends, and Kenneday's feelings
ripencd into passionate love He wooed
her and won her consent to marriage
with him, and joyfully set about pre- pairing
q home for her who had won his deepest
affections, and whom he expected to make
his lies companion. He took a house
and furnished 1t at an expense OF seven or
eight hundred dollars EVERYTHING was
prepared for domestic life. The very coal
and wood were laid in, and the arranee>
nents Tor the marriage supper were CON-
pleted. Then she, for whom all this was
done, refused his home and him. That his
feelings were iacerated, and his brain mad
dened with wounded pride, disappointed
hope, and crushed affection, it is easy to
believe. Unfortunately, be brooded over
his woes. He believed some intruder had
won the heart he had thought his own. and
he formed projects of vengeance against
the serpent that had brought despair aud
anguish into his bright aud aowery pa,a~
disc. He watched for a confirmation of
his tears, and determined to seek revenge,
now he was denied happiness On Sun>
day night, between I and 8 o'clock, be saw
her whom te viewed as the cause of all his
suterlngs, walking on Madison street, be-
tween Second and Third, in company with
Mr. feter Clowlcy, man of amiable dis
position and unblemished character, greatly
esteemed 10y all who knew him. Kenne>
day, now Uiindcd and maddened with all
the wild passions of uAres,raiDed Jealousy,
drew from beneath his dress two pistols,
and SO armed he approached the man he
had marked as his victim, and in the
hoarsc tones of irrepressible passion de-
clared that he should die, and by his hand !
HIS accents, his threats, the deadly wcap.
ons presented toward them, caused the
couple II stand almost stiffened with fear
to which was added the terrified sbriekipg
OF the little girl who was ccompanying her
mother. kenneday ordered the man ne
had doomed to kneel, and SO receive his
death ! This aroused the horror strick en-
Crowley, and he sought safety in fight
bounding with the 1eetness of deer toward
the unoccupied lot near the corner OF
Third and Madison. But the maddened
victim of jealousy and disappointed love
was behind him. His enemy closed upon
him, and, placing one of the TWO pistols
which he carried to his back, he fired !!
The wound was fatal, although not i'm
medlately so the mans lungs were pierc
ed, and death was inevitable. This act Of
blln0 and unreasoning vengeance complet
ed, the miserable Kenneday, with the
crime of murder piled upon his mountain
OF woes, fled ! Crowley was taken to a
room connected with Clark & Co. s watch
store, at the corner of Main aud Madison,
by which firm he has been employed for
some years as porter There the ball was
extracted, and the consultations of religion
were administered to him by priest of his
church and there, at o'clock the next
morning, he breathed his last Up to last
night, Kenneday had not been apprehend~ :
ed. During the war, he served with credit
in Clay Kings confederate regiment. A
more lamentablo tragedy was never enact
ed in Memphis. We cannot but pity the
unhappy Kenneday, driven on to madness
10y disappointed passion. The fate of the
luckless Crowley must excite compassion in
every bosom. OF her who was in his cons
pany when the sad tragedy occurred, we
forhenr q sneak: there are snrrnns too sa-
cred for public comment.