The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-12-28
FORT SCOTS TRAGEDY.
The Trading OF of q Wife
Which Resulted in O
Murder.
The Woman Admits Shat She
Never Did Love Her
Husband.

NJ Eht SSVt', Ncu"aN, h -ttsr my
asIoou, We-i~y Welsh tho, aud killed Casr
lie Whitney. The 6r-t report BY ,eie'
graph gave .n old iend o. the cau-e Of rts
killing. bui IN interview With psriie. ~hC
sere ssqusin,~d with all the isc's in ,hs
cs-e p ace. IL in different light. o. Sat.
urdsy LIST Mr.. aud Mrs. Welsh lett ForI
Sroit on the 40 .. N. train for Nrvsda
Whitney followed on the 10 o'clock ,siin
and came hack wi,h the wife 81 Welsh.
NJ. WeIsh, hos~ser, came back on the
s.me ir.in, the two having agreed that
Whitney should be the owner ard PCS.
sessos Of
TIE SAID "wIYE"
Everything se~med o be all right until
Monday, when Welsh, while standing di-
recsiy behind Whitney, drew = twenty-five
IonG-csIibre pis,ol. AID q --,i. the bill tab
ing t6-cs in the hack part OF whitney
head, killing him Instantly. Welsh 81,
once ihr~. the Pi-ioI aside ard gave him
srIf up To the authorities. lie Vas cuI.
vey.d To the jul aid . jury Summoned IT,
hid 81 irqr--i over the holy Of Whitney
The folio~irg Is the
STORY o. MRS. WELSH.
the wife VI the mur,ieS~r, ss she gave il yea
iesd.y:
am the wife Of we-ley Wel-h. I~as
married to him over three years .go va
.cau,inied ~i,h Charley Whitney; have
known him i"s i~~lse wears; We wsr
children together; ny hu-b snd treated m-
10 -0on after our % .rrisyr. la the lime
that ne have bren married ve have k-."
hou.e shout . year; Mr.. Welsh lei, mr
ivicr v.a gone Tor several months each
time; left me the lsst time s.ou, = ye 2
ago, md wss zone for ssven Do'.ibs wro'e
him while he vas absent the last time that.
I vould never live With him gain he vac
in wiscoasin after his return he per-usd-
I'd NE To live With him AGAR. Since tina,
time there hss bern family troubles. Mr..
Whitney wanted me tn live With him, and
my husband said he would lie before he
WOULD GIVE NE CP.
o. last Saturday morning nv husband and
myself left ior Nevada, M; Charley
Whiin-y csne on the 10 q. o.. freight
train he found Us NJ the hotel. and he
and Wesley hal . conference together.
and il vas seresd int wss To live wiiL
Charley Whitney my husband said To
me tsfose taking the train for home ::
"When you board that train you are No
longer my WIFE," "Of ccur.-,' said he.
you sre my vile until -ou get . di-
varcr, but you "~td not look TO me for any
further surr IT," aud rrcn,i-~. him tbs:
I would not Charley snd Wesley we're 'o-
xe,ber, and seemed To be very friendly /;
Charley came first; uhs1 Wesley came lie
wanted 4, know Of Charley ~hy he I'D no,
81 e~n up ,ovn?' and, after .hor, CONVEX
ssiion. Wesley ven, out; Charley rem,Tked
th.t he "gueased We. thought he VS.
afraid to 20 mp town." and he (Chsrl~,i
left, and in .hout 6flesn minutes I hesId
,hs, he 80 killed; l don't think there ~ss
Q better msn living in F, Scot ihsn Charley
Whitney v.s he s,i.; he sould die fsr me
and he har; I don't love Wesley wel-h,
and never did.
The VICTIM.
Mr.. whi,n'y b~ars the n.me Of being .
very qnarr-lsnme and abu-ise man; he got
into some trouble seser~l years ago and
Lost his lsi, arm, And Monday ne loei his
life.
THE MURDERER
Mr.. Wesley W. lsh Is . brother Of the
county clerk Of Bourbon county, and i.
men that people a-reraliy repo-e great con-