The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-21
A HIGBEE HUSBAND
Who Produced a Sensation
by Cowhiding His Wife's
Paramour.
Brown. q Merchant, too Intimate
With the @. & A. Station
Agents Wife.

Over at Higbee, sixty miles north of Sc
jalia, on the line OF the Chicago 4 Alton
and Kansas j. Texas roads, society is all
broken up, as it were. and, as is too often
the case, an unfaithfui wife is responsible
for the trouble.
The agent of the Chicago & Alton road
at. that point is named Murphy, and it is
Mrs. Murphy, the agents second wife, who
has brought disgrace upon herself and hus-
band.
For some time past Mr.. Murphy has sus-
pected that an undue intimacy existed be-
Brown, but until Wednesday night last he
could never secure sufficient proof to CON-
firm his suspicious.
Mrs. Murphy is represented as hand.
some and intelligent woman of twenty-five
years, and has always moved in the best
society in the town.
On Tuesday last Mrs. Murphy met her
paramount, Brown. in his store, and meet
ing was arranged for the night
following at the home OF
married sister Of Mrs. Murphy's
kitchen mechanic. There Was to he mon
light picnic on the night in question. and
Mrs Murphy was to have charge of one Of
the stands for the sale of button hole bou-
auets, etc., while her husband would, of
course, be confined to his duties at the
depot.
But there's many slip betwixt the cup
and lip, and so it proved in this instance,
as the sequel shows. The husband OF the
woman at whose residence the guilty par
ties were to meet learned of the contem-
plated visit. and, like an honest man,
deemed it his duty to inform Mr.. Murphy
OF what was about to take place. He met
Murphy Wednesday and let him into the
secret, and the latter insisted that all the
details, as previously arranged by his wife
and Brown, should be faithfully carried
out on the part OF the lady where the meet
ing was to take place.
Wednesday night arrived and Mrs.
Murphy informed her husband that she
proposed going to the moonlight picnic,
and would probably not be home until late.
She asked ii il would be too much trouble
for him to call for her about II p. M, but
he told her he would be very tired and she
could come home with some one of their
neighbors.
This was just to the wife's liking, and
she could scarcely conceal her delight at
the manner in which everything was work
ing.
Soon after the supper hour Mrs. Murphy
left her home and proceeded to the picnic
grounds, and by half past 8 o'clock a re-
10 arkably large crowd was present. As
usual, Mrs. Murphy was the center of a
group of admiring friends, dispensing
smiles and bouquets with lavish hand.
All went we'll till about o'clock, when
Mrs. Murphy left her stand in charge vi
lady friend, saying she would not be absent
a great while. Then hastily leaving the
picnic grounds she hied herself to the
rendezvous where she was to meet her
lover, and al Instant later they we're en-
loving the sweets of each others society
While they were thus engaged u cyclone
came upon them in the shape If the njured
VINO entered the room where they
were holding forth. He carried In his right
hand cowhide, and he lost no time in Us.
ing it on the head and shoulders of the
nan who had wrecked his home. In vain
did Brown plead to be spared, for the ticks
only fell harder and faster.
Satisfying himself in this respect, MUIR
DIV next turned his attention to his un-
faithful wife and threw her from the
house.
What followed during the remainder of
the night is unknown to the BAzOO, but the
next morning Mrs. Murphy was sent to
Centralia, where her people reside. and the
following train carried her trunk and other
effects.
As might have been expected, the affair
caused no little excitement, and scarcely
ANYTHING else has since been talked of in
The town. Brown, the villain in the case,
IS a single man, and heretofore has car
ried on q large business, but it is thought
10 seek pastule IS new.
Mr.. Murphy bss the sympathy of the
in which he dwells, and his
action in brinsin into use cowhide in
,tead of . revolver is generally COM