The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-11-13
HORRIBLE.
A Father Ruins His Daughter
and Murders Her With
a Shot Gun.
He Completes His Fiendish
Work by Killing His Wife
and Then Himself.
Special to the Bazoo.

Special to the Bazoo.
INDEPENDENCE, No, New. s.
The small city of Independence wa:
thrown into great excitement this evening
by the most horrible double murder and
suicide ever committed in this vicinity
The following are the particulars: When
the children of Henry Clay MCGEE arrived
home from school they were Mortified tc
find
THEIR MOTHER LYING DEAD
on the floor with her breast full of buck.
shot, and on entering the next room they
found their sister, a beautiful young lady
of about twenty years lying on the bed
completely riddled with shot, and On
search being instituted for the murderer
the father was found u, stairs with an
empty morphine bottle laying hesi!e him.
all having the appearance OF being dead
for several hours.
The house being isolated, the neighbors
had not been aroused when the terrible
deed was done, and the bodies consequently
lay until discovered by the children late in
the day.
MCGEE is described as man of violent
temper, amounting almost to frenzy at
times. He was prosperous and wealthy
farmer, having come into this vicinity
several years ago irou Kentucky, where it
is said he once killed a man. He bears a
very hard reputation among the residents,
and about month ago attempted to
RAvIsH HIS OWN DAUGHTER,
Many, beautiful girl twenty years Of age.
but owing to her desperate resistance he
was compelled to cease his effort, for
awhile, Since then, however. his wife and
daughter have admitted that he had ac-
complished his vile purpose, and had been
guilty of the crime of incest great many
times in the last few months, and the neigh
bors were talking seriously of lynchiDg
him, which, it is supposed he having heard
it, weighed so much on his mind it caused
him to commit the awful deed.
McGee's family consisted of himself, wife
and six children, some of them married
Many, the murdered daughter, was twenty
years of age. Another daughter is the
wife of Mr.. Sands Hopkins, a member of
an old family here. She was accidentally
shot and killed by her husband some
months ago. MCGEE was forty or fifty
years of age.
The following account is given by the
Associated Press dispatches concerning the
discovery of the bodies and the cause of the
crime:
MCGEE had earned the general dislike of
his neighbors on account of his violent
disposition, and his treatment of his family
was the subject of much comment. The
children On returning home this afternoon
opened the door of the sitting room aid
saw their mo'her lying dead upon the
floor. Stricken with fear, they
RAN SCREENING TO A NEIGHoR's
house. A party was soon gathered, and
fearing violence on account of McGee's
nature they armed themselves and then re-
paired to the house. In the sitting room
they found the body of Mrs. MCGEE lying
upon its face with terrible gunshot wound
in the breast and with her cloak drawn
partly on and hat near. In the bed
room adjoining was the daughter, Mamie.
crouched down in a corner, cold and stiff,
with wound in her back. Under the bed
was double-barrelled shot gun with both
chambers empty.
Passing to the door at the stair case the
party found it fastened
FORCING THE LOCK
they mounted the stairs and in the neares
room stretched upon bead with an empty
morphine bottle at his side lay the mute
ather of the awful tragedy, the immedi-
,te circumstances incident to which cannot
DE known as the lips of the witnesses are
sealed 10 death. But the belief is general
that it was the work of McGee's evil pas
sions which had more than once before
threatened some domestic calamity.
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