The New York herald., 1878-08-14
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

MARSH GnANNIs, In UNADILLA, N. T., KILLS
HIS WIFE AND SHOOTS zINsELr-sTRANGE
f CONDUCT OF THE AuTHoRIrIEs--A DRUNKEN
CORONER, SECRET BURIAL AND NO IN
QUEST.
UyAp:LLA, n. Y, August Is. 1878.
This quaint httle town thrown Into the greatest
excitement about ten o'clock last Thursday night
by the aunou ucsment that Marshal Grauns had taken
the lie OF his wife and then killed himselr The
tragedy was kept very quet by the authorities, and
II was only by the merest accident that IL
became known to tho HERALD correspondent,
who after ride Of lwsnty-four miles
from Cherry Valley, reached the Of the douols
tragedy UuadiIa s situated on the Albany and Sus-
quehanna division of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Companys Railroad at tho junction Of the Una
dila and susqushanns rvsrs. and is the sousn west
town Or olssgo county aud is bounded the north
BY Bustsraats the cast by otego, NE seash BY
the susquenanua Rsvsr, which separates s nom Del
aware county, and The west By tho Unsdiils River,
which divides Il vom tho county Of Chsaango.
STORY OF the CRIME
From what the HERALD correspondent could lesra
II appears that Marsh Grusats he Is caed has for
some time separated from his wie, owing TO hts
diss,pating habits. He was lately discharged from
the employ OF the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com.
papy,s railroad on account OF arupkenssss and
sucs that ~ has been ieading life OF debaschery.
On a1NnE11spsa IA .sppsassd 4.as loasssAs ~
dsunkcn state Auh sHounshed . pinot which
he threatened TO use on several persons whom .
met He arrived at Uoadilla about s,snt O'Clock on
Thursday evening. and going to a n.shbor,ng ipn
wrote letter to hts wife asking her to meet him ~
tho msrohaus store Of y. d. Fellows 4 Son, as ten
O'Clock The wife reached tho place Of ap.
poissment shortly after the time mentioned,
and had been there bot few moments
Grlnpis did was TO pick up his tnrec year old boy,
Who was sested upon aupt' bsrrs and after repeat
so2 2 without word Of warsins puiiss a siS barrel
revolver and &imng1s st kss wife fired. rae ball On
sve So. ioli 70 sSs Moor ana expired
: t.... Tnx oy1Y WITNESS.
!" Major g. D. Fellows wss she only person present
who with sesed the tragedy. He was tsken Ut sur.
prise by the explosion OF the pistol and seeing Mrs.
Grannss fall he made IN attempt 70 eapsurs Graois.
lie, aea from the store. Alter I. short while
Major tho aoor sn S II:
his dead wite's body and blood flowing from pistol
shot in the temple over the pros,ra,s body OF hts
parents hung the little boy, crypx ior bis mamma 10
get up. Without making any alarm Major Follows
had the bodies removed tho band room, above The
NO INQUEST ALLOWED TO ne HELD
old mSo arrived o. FRIDAY 70 SoS u nqae nus
MsJor Fellows snd the Supervisor OF the IOWA SOLO
u. Cone refused to permit hm TO see the bodies
or TO hold an ipquss. The Coroner retired,
ana tho murdered wife and ihs suicide
were buried without an inquest
proper record beiug maae Of their decsass
Supervisor Cone ono Of the most rsspec,ed
OF the county, says Coroner kaynods eamc TO Una
diia in beastty drunken condition, and that he re-
fused to permit the inquest 10 be held, he knew
would only be occasion for drunken orgc for the
villagers.
BIsroRY
Craunis and hts wife I'd only been separated few
weeks. For many years 0ranns bore tho reputation
oil u drunken and worthless fellow. In 1878 hc was
keeper OF the county jail at Ccopersown. Four
children ara leit orphans b. this tsrtihiA Ixagsdy.
one OF thom 10 now confined In toe House Of Refuge
At OueOuta.