The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-14
MURDERED AND BURNT.
7 he Fate OF "a Farmer and Ills Wife-A Hired
Mans Crime.

Ia CROSSE, Wis, July l0.-At o'clock Sun
day morning news reached this city Of the MUIR
der OF n man named Joseph Ennis and his
wife nj their home. Ave miles down the river on
the Minncsota side. Joseph Marquette. In the
employ OF Joseph Ennis. who IL a iarmer had
quarrel with the latter about money matters.
Marquette. as he WIS leaving. asked Ennis to
lend him his gun. which he refused TO do.
and he went TO IA neighbor named Nj Donald.
about quarter Of a mile below. ard bor-
rowed n gun. saving that he wanted
10 shoot birds for fish bait In the mean.
time Ennis went to llOknh with lund OF
potatocs. and returned about II o'clock. Short
~ after his return the s"ii9n men working on
the railroad near 10y heard three shots fired. hut
took no notice OF them. At IL o'clock the Sec
ton men went 10 u tree near MIR. Ennis house
to eat their dinner. About holt an hour later,
while rretinp beneath the tree they d is covered
the house to he in nnmcs, and on hnrrylng To
the rescue found the doors lock ID. They broke
them in, and found the fire in several different
parts of the house. so that II WIS Impossible To
cn,cr The house and barn were burned down
"M a9n irS so 'n OF Mcdonald of whom Mar
qu tie borrowed the gun. came along, on his
way to his work. and stopped 70 the irc, ana
quarter OF n mile AWAY. While the men were
at work boy employed 10y Ennis came, along
the railroad track. going toward the house
He said Marquette sent him TO the house TO get
sgmgthns e at, They asks s,d Nh msr wnsrs
d
told him they had gone TO La Crosse; lie went
on To- the house, and saw the house was
burned ms had been told him. and came back
to whore they were at work. The boy then
said he was hoeing corn in Held around
and Mt ~ O'Clock he went TO the house for
dinner, and saw no one but Marquette He
asked Marquette why dinner was not ready;
| Marquette told him Ennis and his wife had
| gone To- La Crosse and they would have to eat "A
! cold dinner and they wcrc TO follow Euns to
| load barge of raft poles They LEFT the house.
| and after they got away short distance Mar
| qurtt" told the boy To stay there while ne went
! back to the house to get some blankets, as they
| back with a double -barrelled shot gun and two
! blankets. They had not gone inr when the boy
/ remarked to- him that he smrllrd somrthl NIX
! burning. Marquette said IT WIS nothing but
some brush that some one had fired;
They follow "a the Root river until they came
! to the railroad track of the Chicago. Dubuque
and Minnesota Railroad. about II mile nnd Il
! half above the house. around a curve. and Mar.
quotte SAID they would gO To la Crosse. and
asked him IL he WIS hungry. The hoy said that
| nous ana get some bread and butter, ana that
! he lNnruucttt) would walk slow So thui h" ith,
| bow could oysriako him. That WAS the last thai
was seen ol Marquette liy the boy.
above one of the MrDonnld- mounted u hors'
and rode down the valley TO Pat M'kano's.
farmer. Mrkane and his brother ana hir,,
hclp came NJ To the burning build
ing. In tho cellar they found tw'
bodies which. on clearing the rubbish away
lh,y w're a good deal burned. but not hcypn'
recognition. On cNuminat on II was found thu
they had both been shot through tu' head.
uppenrs that one ol the MELON ild boys was a
TIE house when Marlutt' returned th' sun
He face WIS badly cat. Marquette WIS arreste'
ON lrruD IA Island