The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-05
LIE AMlCK AMOUR.
The Otterville Shooting Case il
Court.
A Sketch Of the Causes that Led
to II.

In July last, Jno. F. Amick, furnitu'
dealer in Otterville, shot q young ma
named Cl:as. Swearingen. Of that place. 1
two place~ The wounds were not fatal, an
Amick, aftergiving himself up, was release
on bail. His case comes 40 to-day befor
the Criminal Court of Cooper county, il
Boouville, and the evidence will be given il
the BAzoo Tomorrow, and reported iron
day to day. until the case il disposed Of.
The shooting was done on Tuesday, tn
3lst Of last July, and in order that our read
ers may thoroughly understand the cause,
which led to il, We re publish the account O
the affair given in the BAzoo at the time O.
its occurrence.
THE PARTIES
to this affair are Jno. F. Amick furniture
dealer at OttersiIle, Jodie Kuykendall, q
harness maker. and Chas. Swearingen. to.
gether with Mrs. Amick. On Sunday Mr.
and Mrs. Amick attended the Southern
Methodist church. OF which denomination
they are both merb ers. About two o'clock
Kuykendall went 70 Amick's house. Mr..
and Mrs. A. were lying on the bed. Ms.
A. got up and invited Mr.. X. into an adj
joining room.
SUSPICIOUS ANICK
was not asleep, not bit. Directly he
arose and went out Of doors. ostensibly to
80 away from the house, but in place of
gong away he went quietly to a side win.
dow and he saw what he was looking for.
His wife was seated in KS. lap kissing,
hugging and squeezing in the most ap-
proved style of ardent lovers on Sunday
night. Amick rushed in and Kuykendall
made hot haste for q door outside. He
succeeded in gaining the outer door with
Amick in cloae pursuit and through the
yard across a pig sty and over high fence
went K. hat:ess.
HE MADE GOOD HIS ESCAPE
and Amick went back and made the even
ing hot for Mrs. A. The people in the vi
cinity say that they passed a tempestuous
evening. 1t was no,sed all over the town
what had occurred. Groups of men dis
ruseed the matter on the street corners and
The ladies met across the back fences and
whispered the scandal to the Others with |
The injunction "don't tell it to anybody for |
The world"
NEW MAN.
Monday passed and nothing out Of the
way transpired excepting that Judge Miller
the Ottervilie Common Pleas
court. which brought together several at
lorneys from Bo1nville and Sedali.. Tues
lay about eleven o'clock a. m, Charles
. poor fellow, with little in
elligence and rather weak minded, team
ter, met Amick on the street and asked
aim if he had some moulding to make pic.
ure frames Of? He told him he had and
he two went into Am;ck's shop, and there
The bargain was completed. They had some
'ther conversation, all Of friendly tenor,
a Swearingen Gays, and he turned to 60 out
4 the store. when Amick pulled q revolver
AND BLAZED AWAY.
The 6nt shot took effect in door post,
he second struck Swearingen about the
mall Of the back and the third in the Aeshy
'art of the left thigh.
The news spread like wild fire over the
quiet village. Judge Miller
adjourned conrt, and all gathered around
he wounded man. Drs. Saunders
md Hewlett attended to Swearingen's
rounds and very soon pronounced them &C.
ious, but not dangerous to his life.
An OK GAVE HIMSELF Up,
md vent before Justice Dempsy, where he
'aived q preliminary examination, and
ave 81 500 bond, with seven good securi-
les, for his appearance at the next term Of
he Cooper Circuit court.
A BAzoo reporter repaired to
and interviewed the parties
nth the following result: At the
moment the reporter knocked at the door,
4r. and Mn. Amick were seated in the
Dom to the left of the hall way, apparently
q deep conversation. The reporters en-
rance disturbed them, and he came upon
he scene, perhaps, at an inopportune no.
nent. His reception while polite vas BY
70 means cordial, and Mrs. Amick looked
. II she had much rather have had the &C.
ection Of her visitors. There was appa-
emily just
THE LEAST BIT OF FROST
bout the delicately curved lips-the
lixhtest shadow upon the brow. and the
eautiful eyes of the lady might have had
brighter light. But these signs of dis
'leasure passed rapidly away, and Mn.
mick and the reporter soon became cordial
rieods. She is Of medium size. and slight
, inclined to eabonpoint dark hair and eyes
nd clear olive complexion. Mr.. Amick
onfeases to being thirty six years OF age,
mt she
LOOKS MUCH YOUNGER,
mo might readily dr0p on dozen years
rom her age without ANYBODY being the
riser. She had on plain calico wrapper.
nd cameo breach with an onyx engraving
astened ribbon around throat, full and
apering an which sustained head, which
ct squarely and rather haughtily on her
houlders. Mrs Amick cannot be said 10 be
'eautiful in the etrictest sense Of the word,
mt there Is . charil shout her presence
'hich nigh: verv readily fascinate = young
nd inexperienced man. After apolcgizing
or 20 early visit, the reporter addressed
he LADY - follows:
Mrs. Amick, 1 heard that you think the
3Azoo has done you IN injustice in its pub
ication regarding the shooting affair which
ecently occurred here, and have called to
&c in What particular it was in error. and