The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-05
NUN. 40.
Bloody Social ITragedx.

by the enactment of a tragedy most
horrible in its details. The facts in
the case were obtained last evening
on the arrival Of the Missouri River,
Fort Scott and Gulf passenger train
from Baxter. This train left Baxter
yesterday morning, the morning af
ter the tragedy, and brought mp the
latest details of this bloody and un
natural occurrence.
1t appears that John Craige is a
well-known andisteady working car
penter in the town of Baxter Springs.
He is about 40 or 90 years of age,
and was the father of bright, hand
some andindustrious daughter, now
aged about nineteen years, Katie
Craige has been for two years past
a member of the family of Matt.
Clury, the well-kDown conductor on
the Missouri River, Fort Scott and
Gulf railroad. She was light hearted
and gay, and up to last Sunday no
one supposed that Katie had ever
thought oflove. But she had. There
was a hard working and steady
young man in Baxter named George
Elliot. He was a teamster, owning
one or two teanls, and was making
his way steadily upward in the
world by hard work and steady hab-
its. He and Katie had seen each 9th
er, loved each other, and kept their
business a secret until last Sunday.
Last Sunday morning, Katie
Craige and Geo. Elliot left Baxter
Springs and came up the road to
Columbus, a lively young city in
Cherokee county, and there Katie
Craige became Mrs. Elliot. The
happy pair went back to Baxter on
Monday, and found a home in the
house of friend of both families
not more than two hundred yards
from the railroad depot.
No one except Katie suspected
that anything serious would result
from this runaway marriage. Bui
the blithesome bride beseeched hel
husband to be careful, for her ia
ther was a dreadful man when an
| cry. But George Elliot conscious
of having done no wrong, went GU
to work with his team on Tuesday
and after his days work was nearly
over, drove up to Baxter Springs
depot for job of hauling. He haC
been engaged to haul load ofcom
mercial travellers trunks over t,
Joplin, twelve miles distant. H
was waiting at the depot, just be
fore sundown, looking northwar,
for the Kansas City train, tn
smoke of which was just visible il
the far, dim distance of the prairie
Then it was that John Craige, tn
father of Katie the bride, walked "a
to Elliot, and said through hi
teeth:
"George Elliot, you have acte'
like Cd id dog" With tina
Craige commenced to shoot a
point-blank range. The first sho
passed through Elliot's body. II
turned and started to run, and ra
across the railroad tracks, three i
number, and turned southwark tc
wards where his new made wife wa
living. As he ran he received tw
more shots in the body from th
pistol of his father-in-la and stag
gered and fell with his head upo
the iron rail of the side track jus
as his young wife came rushing tC
wards HIM from the house he wa
seeking to reach. Father an
daughter met face,to face. The latte
reeled and fell insensible as her hu
bands corpse was being raised frol
, the track and laid upon the pla
form. The murderer turned and ra
to his house, which was close b
and arming himself with a doubl
barreled shotgun and two revol
ers, started westward across q
prairie on foot. The city marshi
of Baxter ard his deputies startC
in pursuit, but Craige leveled b
. weapons upon his pursuers and
brisk fight ensued. The fugiti'
was wounded in the head by a bu
: let, but continued to fight and r
: treat, loading as he fell back.
= The city marshal and his pos
: returned to Baxter and the sher
= and a well-armed posse took Il
case in hand. From the blood f,
; the grass and on the weeds th'
we're led to a small acre lot in q
prairie, where in the high weeds &
= y murderer was found bleeding
= death. But he was prepared
fight to the death, and it was on
= by a charge made with overpow'
ing force that the desperate N
I; was taken. He was arrested a
\ taken into Baxter Springs, whe
. he at last accounts was in a hoy
- less condition, q bullet having {
= tered his head between the two ey
= Mrs. Craige is an invalid, 3
this shock will probably kill h
y The bride, Katie, passed from O
or swoon TO another, aud it is thOue
her reason is upset. The case,
is ken in all phases, is one Of the ms
ne tragedic ever enacted in SouthS
Kansas. The bridegroom kill
a the father in-laW mortally wound
IL the motheT-in- law on the point
On death and the bride on the road
x insanity. There was no cause
le. the murder other than a perso
OF antipathy on the part OF Crsige
III | wards Elliot. The former had [