The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-04-20
A MISSOURI MURDERER.


His Arrest sn this state for the Mar-
der Of uts Wife. tn sit Of jealousy.
Caused by discovery of Her Illicit
Amasrs.
Last night white the 7:3o east bound
Was stopping Mt the Union depot for
supper, HERALD reporter walked
through the coaches in quest Of An item
and saw y man In the smoking, car
hsBdcuffed and shackled. Approach
ing the officer who sat beside him.
the reporter learned that he was the
sheriff from Green county, Missouri,
and that the prisoner in his care
stood charged with murder in that
county. In the year 1878 Marion Judy,
the prisoner, was married 10 Miss
Tuckett, n beautiful young woman,
and one of the most popular bellies of
Springfield society. Judy was a
thrifty, well 10 do farmer residing
near that ely, and the marriage was
looked upon a. n great event in Spring
field society. He possessed n SPLEEN
did farm, upon which he had reared
a magnificent mansion. To this be au-
tifui home, surrounded by all the com.
forts aud eouveniences of q country
life, he took his young bride But the
beauty who had sailed aluft on the gay
nf ,ify Iift. WA NOT tn to- lin r.t
by the peace aud quiet of country
home, however elegant it might be,
and so the husband was importuned
tn purchase house ia the city. Her
wishes were law with hun, and they
moved to their home in the city, from
which he would make occasional
trips To his farm. They had
not been lOug married before hs
discovered that his wife was
sverse to settling down in life. This
panied him very mu, 81, and the wife's
desire for young fashionable society
increasing, he began to turn his at
tentiou more To his farm, and it was
not long before an enlargement be-
gan TO grow between them. After
this he would sometimes spend week
st time at his country home, while
his wife would be enjoying herself in
the bon-ton society of city life. Ii
WAS not long before his wife's actions
began to excite his suspicious, which
were Increased by the devoted attention
paid her by a young doctor of that place
IL was during one of his trips to his
farm that he returned suddenly and
unexpectedly to the city one night.
On going to his room ne found the door
locked, and calling to his wife received
no answer, when the light that was
burning ia the room was extinguished.
Bursting open the door he found his
suspicious to be true, for there stood
the doctor aud his wife in their night
clothes. The fsithlessness of his wife
made him 4 madmsn, A. the thought
of the shame and degredstion she had
mind, and he ran to corner in
the room for his shot gun, while
his wife's frightened psramour fed
from the house. Turning aud seeing
that The spoiler of his happiness had
escaped, he fired both barrels, loaded
with buckshot into her, killing her n
stsntly, after which be made his es-
cape.
No one knew where he had gone,
not even his father or mother, who
lived in the county. The people of the
place knew that he bad committed a
great wrodg, yet there was sympathy
expressed for the man, as they thought
of how he himself had been wronged,
and so strong cid this sentiment be-
come that the paramour of the de ad
wife was compelled, for his
personal safety, To leave the
place. The whereabouts of judy
was discovered by his writing
letter, trying to sell some of his prop
erty, when IL feli into the hands of
other parties than for whom il WAS n
tended, who informed the authorities
The letter was dated Graham Civ,
Young county, and the sheriff came
on and arrested his prisoner. Being
aware that the sheriff was giving IA
history Of his troubles, he remafke ed
that lit might appear strange to the
outside world, hut no one could know
the madness aud anguish until placed
in "A like position" The prisoner Is n
rather fine-looking man, and appar-
emily one of education and refinement.