The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-09-18
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Man Shoots His Wife Through
the Heart, and Then Blows HIS
Own Brains Out.

own BRAINS Out.
A horrible tragedy MAS enacted als'n'
four miles east Of Pleasant Hill Friday
in which q man by the name al joseph
Quiciey, a farmer. shot his wife To- death
and then committed suicide by blowing
out hi. own brains. On learning ii the
.hooling. rP .rier Of the EAn'D pr,s'nrc.i
horse AMI buggy AMI .ir"ve 0ai o. learn
the particulars If the occurrence. which
are about as follows: ...-..
Joseph QuigIey, the man who done the
-hooting, was an Irishman by birth. and
resided about four miles
EAST Oh TINE HILL,
ON am all farm. He had been drinking
pretty hanl for the past three WEEKS, and
going home in beastly state OF intoxica.
ton every night. A few days ago he and
his wife came 10 town to make some Par-
chases, and while they were here his wife
went to all the saloons in town and made
fhS saloon Keepers promise mol
To GIVE HER HUSBAND
any more whisky. lie found out what she
had done. and after severa! Intellectual ef'
forts Ia obtain liqu, u, he started home, tell
ing his wife when she GIT in the wagon
that he woull kill her for what she had
done, when he got home. He dill not put
his threat into execution, however, and hi'
wife punished her fears and forgot all
about the natter. Everything passed along
smoothly until yesterday, when the man.
LONG PENr Up FASHION
broke out and he committed the terrible
deed which cancel the death OF hi. vii.
and then himself, and left hi- small chill.
,lren orphans. Quigley complained alIday
yesterday Of being sick, and kept his bli
all forenoon. In the afternoon he got up
and walked around for about two h"nr<
but was compelled to take 10 his bed again,
About dark he told his wife he was going
to get ~. but she urged him io keep hi
bel, a his getting up might make him
worse. lie insisted, however. anil sh. a-sis-
tel him to Get up. When Ia arose Ia u
standing position, he pulled
ALARGE SIX SHOOTER
pistol out from under the hesh ii thc bed
and placing it t' his wiies breast, fred with
the quickness Of thought. Sh. uttered a
scream of agony aud called to a young man
10y the name Of Melvin Knight, an employe
on thu farm, vino MAS sitting in the front
door, that she wAs shot. The young man
ran 10 where Qaig'ey Was standing and
,eiseI the pistol and tried to wrench it on;
OF his hand, while lac wis h1lIins the pis.
tol Qa,gley 6rel again. the shot carry.
ing of
THE LITTLE FINGER
on the young mans right hand. The youn4
man then ran outside oi thu house, an.i
Quigley laid dosn on the bel again, and
placing the muzzle of the pistol in hi
mouth, deliberately pulled the trigger, and
waited his soul into eternity. lie died al
most instantly. Alter he had shot his wiis
she ran out daors AL nearly \ haa,lre.l
yards in the direction of a neighbor's hnu-.
and fell. The young man Fan to her and
picked her up, and she walked about foul
steps, when
SHE FELL DEAD
Quigley has a brother living abont = nil,
from lis house, and has hid a CRU lge
against him for two or three years. lie
sent message To him Yesterday morning {,
come down 10 his house. Ills b:"iher did
not 10, AMI il i vel! that he didn't, as 1t i,
thought that Quisley, only wanted 1. -,
him down u his house AMI then s...,t
him. together with himself aud wife, ana
thus all leave the world together.
The unfOriuns man
LEAVES SIX CHILDREN,
ranging from two Ia mine wears Of age, en-
iirelv dependent on tie charity of the neigh
lors fer supper, as they are all 10" yonns
to earn living for themselves.
The sad affair has cast gloom over the
neighborhooi that will not be easily dis
PEELED, As the murdered woman Was love-,
and respected by all who knew her.
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