The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-02-19
While in a Fit of Drunken
Rage Attempts to Kill a
DefenceleSS Woman.
York Robinson Beats His Wife
Nearly to Death and Leaves
Her on the Track.
The Brutal and Cowardly Vii
lain Discovered ana Ar
rested at Kansas City.

At late hour Sunday night a BAZ1o
reporter learned al most aastar6iy at
tempt IT murder, near B-anan. hy a dis
reputable colore1 mau 10y ,he name Of
YORK Robinson, residing IN this city.
The reporter Wa informed that Robin
in,on, after beating his wife almost 10
de IN, placed ner Un the railroad track,
and not xi,hSIsBdiug her feeble protests-
tions, Lett her there 10
MELT HORRIBLE DEATH,
and that the next train which passed the
spot ran over the unfortunate woman.
throwing her 10 one side of the track, an
inert bgt Irving mss o. fe>h and blood
Vest, rday morning The reporter started
ont 10 ascertain the facts in this brutal
attempt al murder which he found To- be
about - follows:
Saturday evening Mrs Robinson, against
the protests of her husband, started 10 at
tend dance n Besman station. Robin
son, j, i s,id. met his viii on Main street
Saturday evening, and noticing that she
Was dressed up, demanded 10 know where
she WAS going. He received a very unsatis-
fac DRY r plv at the time, aud became very
angry. He then proc edet To
GIT VERY Drunk
and followed his wife to Beaman. Meeting
her III The room where the dance was
In progress, he commanded her To accom-
pany him home, which demand the woman
at the lime refused To obey. Subsequently,
she reconsidered her action aud consented
To 20 with Robinson. The couple had gone
hut short distance when the enraged nus
band made brutal assault upon his wife
with a club, which he carried, and at the
same time made lunge at her with a
razor which he carried, In addition TO a
large knife. The thoroughly terrified
woman
SCREAMED FOR HELP,
but there Was 30 one IN hearing distance
and she would have doubtless been murder
Ell had mol the north bound passenger train
come laundering along about that time.
The engineer noticed the woman flee ing
from her pursuer and could distinctly oh
serve by the glare made 10y MS headlight
the CLEAN of the would-be assassin's muir
derouS steel.
The train was brought TO a stop aud the
woman who had fallen in a dead faint by
the side of the track, taken on board and
carried back To- Bea a. an from which point
she was cor yeyed 10 the residence of rela-
tiyes and attended by DIR. Rothick. The
brutal husband fled down the track. Ii Is
reported that the woman has q very
DANGEROUS KNIFE WOUND
extending clear across the abdomen, and
also has two ribs broken.
Immediately after reaching this city
Robinson called on Mamie Brzyser, his
wife's sister, snd representing TO her that
his wife was seriously ill, succeeded in OBJ
tanning from her Sl2 which had been left
with her for safe keeping by his wife. Rob
inson then liz out and
As HE DISAPPEARED FRoH
his usual haunts, il vas surniised that he
had left town, and would In all probability
make his first stop in Kansas City, where
he has friends and sequaintsnce.. Ac-
cordingly a telegram was sent TO Chief
Speers, and last night a telegram vas re-
ceIved from him announcing that he hsd
Robinson
DEAD To- RIGHT.
Constable Csrnes will leave on the early
train this morning, and will doubtless have
the would-be wife murderer behind the
bars Of the Pettis county Jail before he is
twenty-tour hours older.