The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-08-07
CUPID ON TUE WAR PATH.
Tho Serpent In the Eden Of an Of
terville Home Tho Mischief
Wrought by . Light O'Love.

A. long n men will WOO ard love, bright
. eyed women will listen tn the story never
old and always sweet. Even when il j,
whispered over broken VOWS aud leads Il
ruin, there il sure to be found somewhere
foolish woman, who turns her back on the
glorics Of her household, To find delight in
the stolen bliss which is thought Ia nestle,
~ the old song has il. "out in tie moonlight
meath the vine" But il really DOESN'T
make great deal IL difference whether
this kind III love niaturr- ia TIE no,.n.,sh;
ar in the dark corners Jnd >hsdcd rrcc>-e,
Of the house.
1 1T - FAD LOVE
and IN sure Ia end in misery Oi that, an
iOttervilI- husband Is j,IsI E"w furnishing
ample aitrstalion. Over once happy lives
the shallow of grea; sorrow has passed,
and ruined woman and griei-s;ricken
husband nos sit amid tine shattered wrecks
Of all they have loved and lo~t- Tie trail
Of the destroyer has blighiei their Eden
inr the woman, despair, and for the man
Lifelong regret.
| THE PARTIES
To this affair are Jno' !; A"'ek a furniture
dealer ut O,iervil!e, JSdie Kuykendali, a
haTess maker and Chas. Swearingen, to-
geiher with Mrs. Amick. Sunday last Mr..
and Mrs. Annex attended the s""'her"
Methodist church, Of which denomination
they are both members. About two O'Clock
huy kendall went 10 Amicks house. MI.
and Mrs. a. were lying q" the bed. Mrs.
A. got ny and invited Mr.. N INT" an adj
jung room.
SUSPICIOUS ANicK
was not asleep, not . bit. Directly he
aruse ami went out OF doors, "stensibiy
to 20 away from the house, bat IN place Of
going away he went quietly !" SIDE WIN
dos ami i'e saw what he Was looking Tor.
HIS vile was seated ." rs. lap kissing,
hugs'ns AMI squeezing IN the most approx
Cd style oil ardent lovers on Sunday night
Annex rushed IN and k"ykendai' made
hot haste for door out side. tie succeed
ed in gaining the outer door With Amick in
close pursuit and Though the yard across
pig siy and over high Paling fence went
n hatless. He
MADE GOOD His fsrArE
and Amick went back ana made the even
ing hot Tor Mrs. A. The PeoPe IN the VI
cin'tv sav that they passed q 'emPest"ous
evening. Ii Was noised all over the town
what had occurred. Groups of men dis
cusse,l the matter ON the street corners and
the ladies' met acro~s the back fences and
whispered the scandal to the others with
tine Injunction don't tell il to anybody for
the world"
ANEW NAN.
Monday passed and nothing out Of the
usual wav trsnspirrd excepting that Judge
Miller convened the O,,erville Common
Pleas court, which brought together several
attorneys from Boonvil!e and Sedalis.
TUESDAY, about els ven o'clock a. M, Charles
Swearingen, poor fellow, with little intel
iigence and rather weak minded, team
.,er. me, Amick on the stree, and asked
him il he had some moulding to make
picture frames Of? lie told him he had
and the two went into Amick's shop, and
there the bargain was completed. They
had some other conversation, all of friend
" tenor. a. Swearins,n says, and he turned
to 60 out Of the store, when Amick pulled
. revolver
AND BLAzED AWAY.
The first shot took effect in door post, the
second struck Swearingen shout the small
of the back and the third in the Aeshy part
Of the left thigh.
The news spread like w,ld fire over the
usually quiet village. Judge Miller sd.
journed court, and all gathered around the
wounded man. Din. Saunders and Hewlett,
attended to S~earineen's wounds and very
soon pronounced them serious, but not
dangerous tn his life.
ANIcK GAVE HIMSELF ur.
and vent before Justice Dempsey. where he
waived . preliminary examination, and
gave . 81 800 bond, with seven good sure
ties, for his appearance at the next term
IL the Cooper circuit court.
The rumor was current in Otterviile that
swearingen wrote note to Mrs. Amick on
Monday but s. denys il, and further says
that he gave I'D provoca,ion for the shoot
ing.
ANIcK INTERVIEWER.
A BAzOO reporter called ON Mr.. 4. at hi
place OF business, this morning, and told
him that he was representative OF
newspaper, and desired to know I: he had
any statement to make to the public.
He snswerei that he Was in great trouble,
that he had heen advised by his at
torneys. Messrs. Walker Il Rice, and Draf-