The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
A QUARRELsOSIE CHOIR.
The OrEamIst Kills the SOpra-
mo and EaEmseIE
BRTHLEHEM, Pa, ia

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Jan. 2.
The little village of Ferndale was the
scene of terrible tragedy last night
the murder of Miss Lizzie Davis by
her lover, John Haddock, and the lat
ter's subsequent suicide. Haddock
was ORGANISE OF the only church in
the town, and his victim, a comedy
Welsh lass, was leader of the choir of
the same. They were about the same
age. Paddock was passionately in
love with his choir leader, and when
Israel Jones, former rival reappsared
in the village, his passion became in
sanity. On Sunday last he threatened
that II she would hold any intercourse
with the man Jones he would kill her
and then himself. Miss Davis inform
ed her uncle, with whom she lived,
that she prop3s I'd as soon as Jones left
the village, 20 discard both.
Having previously borrowed a re-
yolver, Haddock last evening visited
the young lady, whom he found alone
In her uncle's house. 1t Is supposed he
renewed his suit and was rejected. A
desperate struggle ensued. Haddock
secured u butcher knife with a blade
eight inches long and worn down very
narrow and tapering, the edge not very
sharp, and, after repeated attempts
with the knife, as the cuts on the bod Y
testified, he was compelled to resort to
the pistol. There is a cut in the throat
extending almost from ear to ear,
showing he must have had his victim
in such position s to enable him to
attempt to cut her throat. The knife
scarcely penetrated the skin. There Is
a cut on the top of the head, another
under the right car, another in that
ear, an incised wound at the angle OF
the jaw, two cuts on the chest, slight
abrasion over the lett eye, and back Of
the right hand. The latter were, nc
doubt, received in guarding against
the maniac's assaults. Besides these
cuts he fired at the girl three times,
lIiCting her but once, however. The
, bullet struck vital point, probably
the lungs. A second ball was found
on sweeping the room. The girl lived
ten or twelve minutes after being dis
covered, but was unconscious. She
had run up stairs in the hope of escap-
ing her fate.
There are evidences of the struggle
on the upper floor, again down stairs
and back into the parlor where the
fatal bullet..was finally fired land where
weltering in her own blood, the girl
was subsequently discovered in a dy-
ing condition. The girl was not killed
by the first ball fired. She guarded
her body even against the pistol. Her
arms sleeves and white cuffs are burn
ed and powder marked, and her left
arm showed burns, especially at the
left elbow joint. There are also pow.
der marks on the left forehead and left
temple.
Satisfied that the work was well
done, Haddock proceeded to his own
home, about 200 yards distant. Hi
parents had retired. He tapped Al
their bedroom window, and his mother
opened the door. He asked her to put
a chair in froHt of the door, and retire
that he was "going down and back,
and would be in soon. In few mo-
ments he entered, and the mother re-
marked that he was "Back soon." He
replied that he had 10 desire to remain
long, and passed up stairs. By thi
ruse he escaped being detected in hi!
blood begrimed and torn clothing. HI
no sooner reached his room than the
family were startled by the report of a
discharged firearm, aud the liieless
body OF John. Haddcch was found in hi
room. The fourth charge of the old pep
per box revolver had passed between
the fifth and sixth ribs into his heart
and death was instantaneous.