The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-19
A MISSOURI MYSTERY.
4 Young and Beautiful Bride
Meets Death i'm a Myste-
riOuS Manner.

Houston, Mo-, October 13.-The most
cruel, shocking, mysterious and diabolical
murder that ev stained the criminal an
mails of South Missouri was perpetrated on
Big Creek, sixteen miles east of Housto,
in this county, last Friday morning, On
that morning at 8 o'clock, Mrs. Ella Will
llams was lying in her bed asleep. when
some person, as yet unknown, placed pis-
tol TO her forehead and sent ball through
her brain. AS to who was the perpetrator
OF the foul crime, various speculations are
rlle, but nothing to a certainty is known.
Two men hired by young Williams, w. B.
Cooper and William Haynes, were sleep
ing In the dining room adjoining the room
at The rear OF the main room, in which
Williams and his wife were sleeping.
Cooper said: 1T was about 8 O'Clock in
the morning | was aroused suddenly from
my slumber by
THE REPORT OF A PISTOL
IN the front room where Williams and his
wife were sleeping. Immediately sprang
from my bed and started for their
room IN my night dress. Before /
reached the room / heard Rolf CRY
out, There is SEINE one in the
house there is some one i.
the house 81 entered the room as Quick
ly as possible and saw him standing hold
ing the front door. The lamp was burn
ing and he looked greatly excited. Re
still kept shouting that there was some
one In the house. looked and could see
no one. / listened and could hear no per-
son nywhere either in the house or out. /
then turned toward the bed and saw that
Mrs. Williams face was
COVERED WITH BLOOD,
and then / knew she had been
shot. No person could be seen or
heard. 1t is a great mystery to me
who could have shot the poor child. II
asked Rolf why he did not get his pistol
and kill whoever il was in the room when
ne first heard the noise. He was so excited
that he made no reply"
Young Williams had been sick for the
past few days, and he was found almost
wild with excitement. He seemed almost
on the verge of insanity. His father
would not permit him to talk. About an
hour before the fatal shot was fred, she
had been up to give her husband a drink. |
The facl that
NO PERSON COULD BE SEEN OR HEARD
after the shooting deepens
The mystery. A man could not
have run down the boulder strewn hill |
without being heard, il he did not break |
his neck. The victim of the assassin's /
bullet was one of the most beautiful young
women in this section of the state. She is
now nineteen years of age and since her
sixteenth year she has been noted in the
country for her beauty and charming dis
position.
Rolf williams, the husband, is about %
ears old, the son of Maj. III. Williams, a
eading politician Of the county and one of
IS wealthiest citizens. The young man
las passed for good hearted boy
FOND OF GIRLS,
arejess of books, devoted to fun, and not
iven to much piety and godliness. The
ather of young Williams is
lmOst Frustrated with grief and :
fears that uuless some clew
an be had soon that his son will be the
lsrk Of suspicion, He said, II am salts
ed that whoever shot the girl meant to
i'll Rolf. Rolf was like many other boys, :,
lid before his marriage, and became in .,
olved in many broils. His life had been :
lreatened frequent and quite recently, and {
as bent on killing him, went to the house :
nd shot the girl, believing his pistol to :
e directed toward Rolf. i know can :
rove by the best testimony that Rolls 7
fe has been threatened time and time :
gain, and shall offer large reward for
le apprehension of the murderer"