The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-16
AN ILLINOIS MURDER.
A Wife Deeoys Her Husband to be Shot BY Her
Paramour Body Ploughsd Under the
Ground and Discovered by q Dog

Wife Decoys Her HUSBAND 70 DO ohVt W N'4
Paramour-Ths Body PlOughsd Under the
Ground and Discovered by Dog
PARIS. Edgar County, Ill, Oct : r.
Just a mouth ago to-day on sunday, the
eth of September, 1878, Mr.. Mack Wood
rich and respectable farmer of Mulberry
Grove, went, with his wife-a young and
handsome woman though so susceptible
ofhattery as to be considered weak minded
% pick some plums in a grove not Tar ron
the house. His wife returned alone ana
accounted for her husbands absence, by
saying that he had gone TO another held at
some little distance 10 examine some
cattle. The night passed and he did not .
come home. Next morning she went to
the tree beneath which she had left him. F.
There she found a pool of blood and some
locks of hair while a track along the grass,
plentifully besprinkled with glots OF gore,
led 10 a heap of bushes, where the body
seemed 10 have been dragged aud con-
cealed Ii had however, vanished.
On Monday morning at daybreak
brother.in-law OF the Nursing man, named
Williams, was blowing in the field adloln.
ing the grove. In the center OF the field
he made his team sheer 10 one side, so as
TO throw furrow of earth over one spot
on the direct line on which he was plough
ing. and so that his.hOrses did not trample
upon the SPOT so covered. The apparently
trivial circumstance did not strike the per-
son who observed il as at all singular or
significant.
Meanwhile the hue and cry had gone
out over the country, and several hundred
farmers had assembled and began the
search for the body of the murdered man.
For days it was prosecuted thoroughly
swamps were explored, thickets were peue-
trated, suspicious houses and lonely barns
examined, wells sounded, but all in VAIN.
Detectives were employed aud rewards
offered, but equally in vain. sun the
ploughed field remained unsearched, and
the widow declared that the body had beer
buried on the farm.
There had been family feud between
Williams and Davidson, his two brothers
in-law, and Wood. Williams was ARRESTED
on suspicion of having been concerned II
the murder, but was released. Low lien
Ion. Young man who had been "chorlng
on the farm, was also arrested and reieas
ed, whereupon he took Hight and has no
since been seen. Henlou was a good
ING Young fellow, who had been desperate
" in love with Mrs. Wood, and his pas
sion had been returned. Mr. Wood ha
been aware of the fatal attachment, BIT
feeling pity for his weak-minded and III
fortunate wife had discharged HenIo
andtried to hush the matter up.
On Wednesday afternoon man answe
ing IN the description given OF Henlon nj
a correspondent Of the Danville Times
a fair mt Catlin, and informed him that
farmer named Wood had disappeared fro
Mulberry Grove that it was believed
had been murdered, and that SUSPECT
nointed 10 his brothers.in-law as the mt
derers The man was wild and excite
bnt the recital affected the gentleman W
heard IL so little that he did not even Ia
Many DAYS passed, and the search h
been given up, when little girl was 81
ON an crrand TO a neighbor OF Wood O
Williams. She took short cut across
field in which Williams had been ploui
ing ON the morning Of that Monday :
had with her little black dog, that
ahead of her. In the middle Of the =
the little creature stopped at the bend
the furrow, and began to bark loudly;
ing near 10 see what he had found,
smelt the stencil of decaying flesh.
telling her story to the nelghDors I
promptly visited the spot, a few stro
Of the spade exposed the body, Which
barely CDNeTeu Will lllC sun
pierced by three balls, one breaking
iaw-bone and lodging in the throat,
ond going through the head, ard Il
through the heart.
The news soon spread, and within
hours the coroner and his jury and
medical officers were present. a hf
brush was made by the side OF the cor
and by its light the doctors examines
the Jurors viewed it, and returned a
diet Of "wilful murder" "A.
Henlon had absconded, but VIII
and his wife we're arrested. Williams
MED all knowledge Of how his brothe
law had come to his death. He knew
ing of HenlOn, though he had lent b
revolver ON Saturday which Henlon
returned ON Monday. Where was II |
did not know. Judge Lynch was in
TO conduct the interrogatory, when
Jams showed where the weapon was
den in heap Of refuse. But he am
his innocence.
Thus the case rests for the present
Henlon is found. The theory Of tn
tectives is that Henlon is the murd
- and that W ilhams and possibly other,
accessories before the fact Henlol
madly in love with Mrs. Wood.
Der husband out Of the road he prof
Is knowledge Of the family feud to
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