West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1881-04-16
VOL. ".
AJEALoUs LOrER,s CRIME.
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lue nlIe village OF FeTnGale, a. station
on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. seven
miles north Of Bethlehem, Pa, was the
scene of terrible tragedy, recently, the
murder Of Miss Lizzie Davis, by her lover,
John HaddOck, and the la,ter's subse-
4uent suicide. Haddock was the orpanist
OF the only church in town, the Prssbytc
rlan, and his victim, a comely Welsh lass
was leader of :he choir of the same
lhey were OF about the same sge-twen-
". Haddock, a sober, industrious
Welshman, was passionately IN love with
bis choir leader, and when Isreal Jones,
former rival, resppeared in the village
bis passion became insanity. On Sunday
he threatened the young woman that if
she would hold any intercourse with the
man Jones he would kill her and then
himself. Because Of their strife regard
ing her, Miss Davis inforpaod her uuclc.
with whom she lived, that she proposed.
az soon as Jones again left the village. 10
discard both.
laying previously borrowed a self
cooking, primitive "peper-box" revolver.
Haddock visited the young lady. Il Is
supposed that he renewed bis suit aud was
rejected. Then he proceeded to carry Gu,
his hellish purpose. a desperate strupple
ensued. HaddOck had secured the family
butcher knife, Sn instrument Of the o.
dinary make. The blade was about einht
inches long, and had been worn down
very narrow and iaperiDg. The edge was
not very sharp. and after repeated At
tempts with the knife, az the cuts or the
body testify, he was compelled to resort
TO his pistol. There is a cut in the throat
extending almost from ear 10 ear, showing
that he must have had his victim i'm such
\ position ~ 10 enable him to attempt 10
cut her throat. The knife refused 10 do
the horrid deed and scarcely penetrated
through the skin. There is q cut on the
top Of the head, another under the right
ear, another in the ear, and ncised wound
at the angle Of the jaw and and two cu;s
on the chest. The latter were no doubt
received in guarding against the msniac's
assaults. Beside these cuts, he fred at
the girl theee times, hitting her but once
however. The fatal bullet entering be
tween the fifth and sixth ribs and struck
vital point, probably the lungs A sec
ond ball was found on sweeping
the room, but no trace has been found of
the third ball. The girl lived probably
half aH hour. She lived for ten or twelve
minutes after being discovered but was
unconscia+E. The girl had run up stairs
in the hope of escaping her fate. There
are evidences of the struggle on the upper
floor, again down stairs and back into the
par)oT, where the fatal bullet was finally
fired, and where, weltering in hOr own
blood, the girl was subsequently discov-
cred in dying condition. The position
of the cuts shows that they were mainly
random blows struck during a terrific
life struggle. The girl was not killed by
the first ball fred. She guarded her body
even against the pistol. Her dress sleeves
and white CUFFS were burned aud powder
marked and her left arm showed burns,
especially at the left elbow Joint There
are also powder-msrks on the left fore
head and left temple. The fatal shot was
fired at longer range, neither the dress nor
the Besh being powder-marked where the
ball entered
Having satisfed himself that his work
was vel done Haddock proceeded from
the house of murder down the only street
of the village 10 his own home, about 200
yards distant. His parents had retired
He tapped at their bed room window and
his mother opened the door. He asked
her to put chair in front Of the door end
retire, that he was "g7lng down bacg"
and would be in soon. In few mo
ments he entered, and the mother re
marked that he vas "bsck soon" He re
piled that he had no dssiro 10 remain long.
and passed up sta.rs. BY this russo he Is
capped being detected in his blood. .begrini-
Cd and torn clothing, He had 10 soOner
reached his room than the family were
startled by the report Of discharged fire
arm, and tho lifsless body Of John Had
dock was fouad in bic room. The fourth
charge Of the old pepper box revolver
had passed between the 9Th end sixth
ribs into bis heart. The ball shattered the
sixth rib and made an external wound
probably an inch and a half ia diameter.
Death was instantaneous.
AZ soon as The scltmurjer had been dc
covered the village was aroused. When
hr. Davis first learned Of tho suicide he
recalled the threat that Usddock had made
and At once proceeded 90 his homs He
found that the front door would not open
because something l-y ia front Of it.
Fearing the worst be called bis neighJor,
Ar. Edwards, who went into tho house,
and fouad tho dying girl lying upon Che
over coat Of nor murderer. She died about
twelve minutes later. Near the body wac
found the murderer nccktie, which he
had lost ia the struggle.
Tho murderer left behind no xorSa o.
explanation. On tho paper collar which
he had worn he bad written, in bold.
legible hand, these words: "Forgive me
mother"