The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-14
REJECTEDLOVER'S CRIME
WITH TWO REvOLVsRs He 1RIEs
TO laUREER A FAMILY.


He Kills a Father, Wounds Three
Others, and Then Shoots himself
The Girl Who Discarded Him Is Only
Slightly Injured.
From. the Neig YorI; Sun.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7.-Caspar F. Calispy. &
rejected sutton, crazed by combination o.
rum and opium, committed a series Of hor
ribIe murders this morning, and finished
the bloody work by letting out his own life
The slaughter occurred in the dining-roon
Of the house 3l34 Hickory street The
house was occupied by John Arson, G
machinist, his wife and children, Maggie
aged "a; Mary. %; Agnes. IS; Michael, 16
Teresa, IA, and Lily, 10. The girls, Maggie
Mary aud Agnes, were dreSsmakers, and
were handsome women
1t was 80 O'Clock when the family sat
down to breakfast The dining-room is in
tae basement, and in the rear is a door
opening on a short pair of stairs that lead
to the back yard The family had scarcely
taken their seats at the table when the
sound of rapid footsteps coming down the
back stairs was heard. A moment later
August F. Calispy, a machinist whom Mary
had refused to marry, burst in the door, re-
and then drew anotherirevolver, saying:
Now / have you all"
He fired first at the father, who sat at the
head of the table. The ball struck him in
the temple and he fell to the floor dead
The murderer fired three more shots in
quick succession, and, as the boy Michael
rose TO grapple with him, fired at the lad
point blank The bullet struck the boy on
the right hand and plowed furrow on his
r-icf 10 or oil rhn nv
this time had fired ali the bullets
in one revolver. The boy held the
n1urderer's left hand, in which was a
revolver fully loaded. They staggered out
through the door, and, shaking the boy off.
Calispy ran up the stairs to a rear porch.
Michael picked up the weapon dropped by
Calispy, and pursued him. He tried to
shoot Calispy, but discovered that all the
cartridges in the weapon had besn ex-
hausted. He threw the worthless weapon
at the head Of the flying murderer, but
missed the mark. Then Calispy suddenly
stopped, placed the weapon he carried
to his head, fired three shots, and fell over
dead.
When the lad returned to the dining-room
an awful scene confronted him. Lying on
the floor at the head Of the table was his
father. The CHASTITY wound in the temple
roid the story of death. Next to the father
Agnes was lying, with blood and brains
oozing from bullet hole in the left temple
She was breathing, but the physicians en-
terrain no hope of recovery. Next to
Agnes, Mary lay with wound in the fore
head. She was unconscious, but an exami-
nstion showed that the bullet had not en-
tered the skull She revived in a short time,
and is believed TO be out of danger. The
two younger sisters and Mrs Arson escaped
the fusiade The boys wound is not con
sidered dangerous. The shock has had such
a prostTatiDg effect upon Mrs. Arson that
she is now unconscious, and the physicians
have serious doubts about her recovery.
August F. Calispy, who accomplished this
deadly work, was % years old. He was
employed in the same machine shop as Mr.
Arson, and it was due 10 the efforts of Mr.
Arson that he obtained the position. The
men became good friends, and Arson invi-
ted Calispy TO his home. There he met
Mary Arson, and instantly became infatu-
ated 1hesgirl did not encourage him, in
fact, took very little interest in him. The
father said nothing for some time. Then
he discovered that Calispy was addicted to
the Opium habit, and told his daughter TO
have nothing 10 do with him She refused
Calispy' proposal OF marriage, and he said:
~ viii have yon or have blood.n
On Thanksgiving evening she accom-
pa nisd D friend TO a place of amusement,
ard the next day Calispy told her she must
marry him or he would ''have bis rights.
That was the last she saw of him until this
morning. Calispy lived with his mother,
and was a man of violent temper and
evratlc disposition. Mary Arson, the
girl with whom Calispy was infatuated and
whom he tried hard to kill, said to-day:
"Calispy has been calling on me for two
years, but never cared anything for him.
] always supposed he was nice young man
uutil my father heard he was in the habit OF
eating morphine Father told him | did
not care to have him come to see me any
more. but he used to come just the same.
Thanksgiving dav he came to the house
and after sitting around for long while he
said:
- Mary. am going to kill you.
Il laughed at him, and we all did, and
thought nothing more about it.
"a week ago last Sunday he came to the
house. and my brother Michael felt re-
volver In his overcoat pocket. Michael told
father. and father said afterward that he
complained to the sergeant of police on this
beat. but nothing ever came of ii. O, nv
Goo this is horrible
Here the wounded girl burst into tears.
overcome by recollections of the tragedy
After a few convulsive gobs she continued:
HE was here last night and asked me
why I went to Music hall on last Wednes-
day night with another young gentleman.
told him because wanted to. Then he
begged me pitifully to marry him, but re-
fused. This morning while at breakfast /
saw Calispy come in the room with a re-
volver 10 each hand. Father fell at the
first fire, then I felt singing sensation in
the head, and that is all | remember"
The grief of Anson's daughters was heart
re1ding, and it was with difficulty that
they could be persuaded to leave the room
where their father died. Kind neighbors
B1ndeavored to console them, but of no avail.
Lilly went into the room where her mother
was and procured a sheet, which she ten
DERBY spread over the remains.
A neighbor was requested to break the
news to Mary, the slightly wounded girl.
which was done as quistly as possible; but
the poor girl appeared to have exhausted
every tear. and, in sobs and means, rocked
TO and fro in her chair.
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