The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-11-22
NO. l3.
A Dangerous Girl-She Entertains n
Burglar.
Ia. Dali.

| new 1hNell
Yesterday morning we printed brief
statement concerning the murder COM
mitted Mt NorW hich Falls Saturday
night. Yesterday afternoons Coroner s
inquest was held over Muzzy's body,
and verdict rendered that he came to
his death by blows inflicted on his head
by club in the hands of Louisa Bowen.
The murder occurred in James H. Bow
ems house about o'clock a. IN. Sunday,
and Muzzy died two hours after. The
first intimation that the police had of
the deed was the notification of Henry
+. Davis, son-in-law of Bowen, who ran
from the Falls to the police: headquarters
and reported q robbery. He said they
had seized the burglar and could hold
him, as he had received one or two
severe knocks and had been secured
with handouts. Police Burdick was Mt
once sent to investigate. He found the
wounded man in an unconscious condi
ton, secured by handouts and by the
tying of the feet. The man was re-
leived from the handouts and fastenings
of his feet, team was procured and he
was taken to the police station. The
man calculated few words mechani
cally, and, even it is thought turned his
eyes in one case when spoken to, but
there were no other indications of con-
seriousness after the officers arrival.
Medical attendance was at once sum-
moncd, and it was eveident the unfortu-
nate man was rapidly failing, He died
at :23 a. m. He was As years of age
and leaves n family of wife and three
children. living on the West Side.
Louisa Bowen, nineteen years old,
at once admitted that she had killed
the man. At the time there were in
the house Bowen and his wife, and in
room on the second floor three girls,
Lousia Bowen, Jessie Bowen and Annie
L. Dickinson. The Bulletin says:
"The Bowen girl under arrest says
that the first intimation she had that
stranger was in the house was by being
aroused by Miss Dickinson who asserted
that q man was in the room. She arose
and in the search went down stairs,
without light, and discovered that
some one was in the front room. She
returned to the sleeping apartments and
counseled with her friends as to whether
she should attack what they supposed
to be burglar. She decided to do so
and rushed down. seizing common
base ball club that she found on her
way. Rushing toward the man who
was crouching near table, she dealt
him n blow on the head. He spoke,
and she at once recognized the voice,
but as he rushed uponhershe continued
to use the club in self defense. She
states that he fell over the stove and
bi oke it, but that is evidently mistake,
as the club plainly shows marks of the
blow which by mistake was given the
stove. There is large indenture on
the club, which is blackcd with stove
polish. The hadcufls used were borrow
ed at the house of neighber opposite.
Muzzy was commonly known MS good
fellow. He was little loose in his
habits, and though he drank, and some
times to excess he was not considered
n drunkard. His debts were sometimes
allowed to go unpaid, and his character,
aside from his good nature, could have
little said in its favor. 1t is thought
that on this occasion he had imbibcd
liquor, but perhaps not to excess. Ger
tain it is that he had definitely planned
his maraudings, as his hat and boots
were left outside the house. so that lie
could go about in his stockings and I'M
1t is thus evident that he
was not so much stepped in liquor as to
be intoxicated What his objects were
in making the visit is not known, and
may be left to conjecture. The house
in which the Bowens live has two tene-
ments, and Muzzy, and his family, at
one time occupied one of them, showing
that the two families must have been
well acquainted. Since the NIuzzys
moved away there has been trouble also,
md Mrs. Bowenat one time complained
10 the police authorities that Muzzy haG
tried to burn the house by setting fire in
jhe tenement that was then vacant"
Muzzy had six terrible wounds on
his head most of them fractures of the
jkull, which was cracked i'll all direc-
ions. The coroner,s inquest revealed
10 facts of Importance.