The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-04-07
PAFFLEY-KAGLEY.
The Scandal at Last Finds its
Way into Court.
Paff1ey Charged with Attempt
ing to Cause a Tragedy.
A Powerful Amount of Cross.
Swearing INDUCED in.

The resderS of the BAZoo will remem-
Der q ra'l er senss ticusl episode which &C.
Cured In Z S, S.dalis a few weeks ago In
which Mr.. John Patty aid Ms. Andrew
Ksgley figured in u very slight degr e. Ii
was stated at tie lime tia, the end wss
not yet snd in veIitcs'ion OF that fact il
found its way into court yesterday In q
rather unexpected and sensational way.
Miss DORIS I. ksgley, the heroine of the
drsma. having sworn out warrant against
Mr.. Pc ffiley charging him with
ATTEMPTED MANsLAUGBTER.
The affidavit in the case reads as fol-
STATE OF MIssOURIl
JOHN B. PAFFLEY.
Attempt to assist Dora T. Pafiey to
commit se!f-murder.
The afisnt DEF ose,h end saith that on
the 10Th day Of March. 1885, or about said
date, at the county and state aforesaid, one
John Psffiey, did unlawfUlly and mali
ciously attempt to deliberately assis: in the
commission of self murder, and in pursu
ance of said attempt, the said John Patfiey
did then and there, in said att mpt, ard
towards the commission of said Ohense,
wilfully aid maliciously and felonionsly,
persuade, instigste and induce this sffiant
10 commit the Offense of Sc f-muIder, by
persusdirg. instigatiDg and inducing her
TO purchase a deadly poison, to-wit:
strycbnipe, snd did then aud there wilfHl-
", maliciously and f.loniously Persuade
her TO take suficient quantity thereof to
produce death: and did then and there will
fully, malic ously End feloniously give
her money TO purchase the same
and caused her 10 take the same
for the purpose of causing her to com
NIT self murder. But The said John Peffley
did fail 10 assist In the commission Of the
said crime Of self-mu,dpr on sccoun: of the
refusal of The sffiant to purchas. and Ike
the same to-wit: The saith deadly pc son,
that said of, nse on the part of ssid John
Pafiley was AID is against The statute in
such case, made and provided and sgsiUst
the peace ard dignity of the state.
GSigned1 Miss DORA T. KAGLEY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
3lst day of March, 1885.
P. b. RIFE J. P.
THE CASE
was called esrIv in the day and was not
cor cluded uuti' $50 m, owing TO the
immense number of witnesses subj enaed
ard the amount Of brow beating and bull
dozinc INDUCED in by the attorneys, the
swearing on behalf of the prcsscH ion and
thu d, Tense was as a whole Numerically
opposite. The ffiant and her friends includ-
ing her parents contendingposiivelyt to the
truth of the statements as alleged in the
affidavit, while the defense swore as posi-
itively to total denial.
Miss Kagley is very handsome and
bright locking young lady of some nine
teen summers, whose large piercing eyes
are we'll calculated to smash The hears of
such susceptible young men as Mr.. Pafiiey,
who is "a years Of age. Both parties are
respectable and well connected, and DO
suspicion or hint of anything but a virtu
Gus affection and unfortunate misunder-
standing is alleged as the cause of the
trouble and Suicidal contemplation. The
case was weariGame and accri-
monious, and the evidence of
q character TO show a great deal
of bitter vindictiveness on the part of these
concerned outside the chief participants ia
the persons of the deferdsnt and plaintiff
While there was nothing in il calculated to
reflect credit upon any one concerned, the
main points brought out were that Mr..
Psfiey and Miss Kagley had been lovers
for some three years, about one-hslf of
which time they had been engaged to be
married. That there was bitter opposi
tion made on the part of the family OF each
of them exhibited toward the match, and
that out of this grew difficulties which
eventuated in breaking Off the match,
and while il did not come to the sur
face direct there was evidence
to show that the fact of the Kagleys' being
strict Catholics and the Paffi- vs. as strict
Protestan;s, was the cause of the entire
trouble MessTs. Snoddy and Lamm con.
duc;ed the prosecution, while Judge Shirk
appeared for The defense, snd TIE case
eliminated in the discharge of the defend
ant.
Altogether the mstter Is very uufOr.
tunate one, and il is to be hoped il will not
again be dragged into public view, as it
can but result in harm to all concerned.