Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-07
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Crazed by jealousy a Chicago Woman
Shoots and Almost Instantly Kills the
Husband Who Deserted Her to Live

with His Handsome Sister-in- Law.
CHICAGO, Dec. 70. There cannot be u GOD,
or He would not let such troubles come, +"
p~iteouelY moaned a slender little woman, as
she lay back with an cir OF utter exhaustion
In . chair IN the Twelfth street police station.
She Was Mrs. Ida McLauley, and but q few
hours be fore she had shot aud killed her bus
BAND, William McCauley, In thei- hone atNo.
yl Arlington place. 1t Is the old, old story, II
faithless husband and q jealous wife. The
McCauley family is a most estsmeole one. and
came here ten years ago from philadelphia,
and have always been highly regarded oytne,r
~naighbors, and looked upon as an unusually
happy family. William McCauley, the victim
OF the shooting, WAS 4 handsome young fell
low Of thirty years, intelligent and pleasing
in manners End conversation. he came here
from st Joseph, Mo, where his aged mother
now | yes, some twelve years ago. About
four yesrs ago he entered the employ Of
Bartholomew Il Roesing, brewers, at West
Twelfth street, where he remain ed until the
time OF the tragedy. Foar years ago Ida
Mack.n was a very pretty little lady with
brown hair and blue eyes, and at
t~rsctive manner. She las living With
her sister, Mrs. Wright, and firing
Of an inactive lie secured n position as cash.
Ter In a Twelfth street grocery house. Nc
Cauley was a clerk there and their friendship
ripened into love, and three years ago they
we're married. The first cloud that cast a
shadow upon their happy home was seen two
years sgo, when their boy was born, and Nc
Cauley refused to stay al home two nights be-
fore that event. In the meantime her brother,
James Msckin, had married Molly Thompson,
the handsome daughter OF n West Side dress
maker. During the past year, however, Nc.
CAuley neglected his hon so constantly that
II nearly drove his wife wild, and but a short
time ago her suspicious were directed toward
Mrs. Mackir, her
HANDSOME sIsTER-IN LAW.
About eight weeks aro Mrs. Mackin disap-
peared from home and after q long search was
found living with McCauley SIS bis wife at
3421& South Sangamon street. Friday Mrs.
McCauley hai learned the trus state OF aka,fs
aud bt came frsntic. Sometime this morning
rha started down town and consulted some
LAWYER, ehe c4pnOt remember who, thea she
went TO Plnkerton, the detective, and related
her trouble. She then started home. On the
way back she purchased a revolver, intending
10 Kill herself. When she got home enc
found her husband there. She says che sGii
to him:
a. It true, Do you love that womani'
"Yee, l 90, Ida; can't helpit; | cove Molly
and must stick 10 her." ne replied.
"What is to become OF me aud the babies!
OA, VIII, you won't leave US"
~ can't tell, Ids, III take care Of them
somehow"
care you happy, Willf'
"No, my G ID, no, but l must stick to Molly
now"
when | vent home a reporter was there,
and VIII went into another room with him /
had the revolver IN my hand when / reached
home, and laid IT on the mantel. When VIII
went out, l saw It, and the thought entered
my head that no other woman should ever
have my husband. l went right In after him,
and put the revolver to his head and fired.
| don't know what else happened. We were
so happy before all this trouble, and, oh, /
loved him 60"
The reporter called the patrol wagon.
McCauley lay unconscious upon the floor
With an ugly wound just back OF the ear,
while his wife hung over him moaning pitt
eouely and csreseing him, utterly unconscious
OF her surroundings. The wounded man was
taken to the hospital where he died this
evening. Mrs. AcCauley was taken to the
station.