Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-26
SHOT THEIR WIVES.
URGED ON bY TuK DEMON JEALOUS,
lho Terrible Deeds OF Two suspicious Nus.
bands--Shoo,ing Their Bcipnests
aud Then Themselves

sud Thcn Themselves
Tuesday morning Geo. 4. Riley, Of st,
! Louis, having been nursing his wrath all
night and having stcadied his nerves by
coptnus ltbatious, entered the yard in front
-, 2Sui Morgan street, walked around to
tho kitchen and. opening the door. smiled
lovingly ON his wife, who was at work
there Still smiling, he remarked
Mamie, guess III go up stairs aud lc
down awhile"
She faced him rs he entered, but made
no answer. His purpose was to got u
| chance to shoot her in the back and he had
probably the loaded revolver in his pocket
at the time to make the slaughter certain.
| When she looked him in the eye, therefore,
he WAS driven to the subterfuge of pretend
ing to have an innocent mission, and he
| Withdrew to wait for better opportunity
| TO get her ut complete disadvantage.
Presently he returned from the front room
and walked out through the kitchen door
| again into the paved yard at the side OF
the house and Mrs. Riley said nothing
to him and evidently expected nothing.
In the kitchen with her was a colOred
woman named Josephine Davis, who for
years has done the laundry work for the
family. Mrs. Riley was talking ch ,cr-
fully To the laundress aud had Just ap-
preached "A towel, which hung alongside
the kitchen door, To wipe her hauds when
the door again opened aud Riley entered.
lie moved as though to pass on into the
front room. but noting that she had her
back towards him and was talking to the
culnrcd woman he suddenly turned and
drew revolver from his pocket ~ he did
| SO. Without a word and before either of
| the women could comprehend the danger
| he fired two shots, holding the weapon so
close to her that ho could not fail to
wound. The poor victim shrekcd as she
| felt the bullets tear their way through her
body aud turning dashed past him into
the side yard, prolonging the screams rs
she ran. He followed and overlook her
before she had gone ten yards, firing three
more shots while tTayorsng that space.
Two of these three struck her aud she
sank to the ground, her screams ceasiug.
Satisfied that ho had killed her, he
turned and deliberately walked into the
kitchen, past the colored woman, who
was transtixed with horror, passing
through tue dining room into the parlor,
where he was lost to her view, and in
another second the sound of another shot
coming from that room, followed by q
heavy crash, told that he had blown out
| his own brains.
Riley was au experienced river prlut,
earning one hundred dollars per m N a.
While on late trip he received word that
| his wife was altogether too intimate with
her family physician, DIR. w. J. Barnes,
and this seems To have maddened him aud
led to the murder and suicide. lie was Al
years of age, while his wife was but 80.
She is still alive, buS very low and no
hopes are entertained for her recovery.
| DIR. Barnes denies the intimacy with the
| at,I -,
for neuralgia at the time her husband re
ceiyed the lying letter.
Like Crime In New York.
George Russell shot his wife while she
was asleep in bed at their residence, IN
Brooklyn, Tuesday morning, and then lired
two bullets through his own head. He
will die ; the wife may survive. Russell
was probably laboring under an attack of
mental alteration. His wife kept boarders
and Russell was made violently jealous by
the slightest attention shown any Of them.