Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-24
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A JEALOUS HUSBANDS AWFUL pssu.
An Attractive Young Girl. OF tr's county,
| Pa, ,Msrries Agsinst the wishes of Her
| H.laoo. n .nstsr AZ .yaalousy

An Attractive Young Girl. of Er,s county,
Pa, Msrris. Agsin.t the wishes OF Her
Frispds monster OF Jss,ou.y.
The little market town of Eiinboro, Erie
county, Pa, was the scene Of terrible
tragedy, Sunday morning, q jealous hus-
band having shot his young wife aud
blo~n his own brains out, after a futile
attempt to murder his stepfather. The
tragedy occurred at an early hour IN the
Exchange hotel, where the husband had
found his wife after looking for her n irly
a week. The murderer and his victim are
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Williams, Of C9m'
bridge, Crawford county. They were
| married about year ago, but have h'cd
| uuhappily together, owing to the Jealousy
| Of Williams. His wife and Miss Mag 10
Psrshsll, daughter of William ParshaI, :
| farmer, of Edinboro, the town in which
she was married and where she receive
her death wound. She vas girl NJ
considerable personal attractions, OF whleh
she was quito conscious.
She had many admirers, one OF then
being a minister of the gospel, but of al
her swains the village belle preferred
Charles Williams, an idle and Gissoute
fellow, with no visible means OF support.
Her courtship brought out Williams III
sane jealousy, aud her friends, foreseeiug
| \ mletEtDic lllc IL suc halti'u hAoi'
estly desired her to break off the connee
ton aud accept one of the several reputa
, BILE young men who sought her hand
The lovesick girl turned a deaf ear TO al
entreates aud married Williams. lu les
: than a month she became disenchautet
aud realized the full force of the warnin!
which she had disregarded. She was the
wife OF jealous monomaniac. The slight
est attentions of ordinary politensss wert
regarded as frsught with concealed mean
= ing by him and the life led by her at las
e became unbearable.
, She packed her valss and left his hom'
"a last week, going to Edinooro There he
husband tracked her, and he aud his step
father, George Redmond, visited her, th
latter acting in the capacity of mediator
u An affecting interview took place, result
Is ing in the wife consenting to try be
Is husband ouoe more, he promising to trus
a her implicitly. With kiss and ION
, embrace this reconciliation was seale'
aud the husband and wife passed out INT
III the street, arm in arm. They entered tl
Ii store of F. L Prontt, and Williams pu
is chased for his wife the best pair OF x
n shoes that money could buy. To the sto
- keeper they appeared to be most atfe'
tionate pair, the man lavishing upon her
VI whole vocabulary OF endeariug terms.
10 Williams announced his intention
ne occupy the room in the hotel which q
n wife had occupied and the pair retir'
about midnlg t. An hour later Rsdmon
he the successful peaoemaker, was aroused
,o hearing a cry for help.
ue My God, Charles. I am innocent
an False devil, you lie." were the signihca
100 sentences heard. Then q shot was hear
.ly followed by terrible shrek aud hea
bs fail Redmond rushed up stairs and "
met by Williams at the top, who sto
an with a revolver in his hand. He open
5e fire on Redmond, but missed him twic
go then putting the muzxls to his own hes
" fired, and put bullet through his o.
-, brain. The wife is still alive. but CAM
i-' live It 10 believed that her ante.nort'
ne statement will be taken before she di
Ter At present she is unable to talk.