The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-03-05
KILLED HER CHILDREN.
A Woman Who Also Killed Her
Husband and Last
Herself.

| Chicago, ILL.,, February 26.-In nicely
| furnished and well-kept room at 229 Irv
ing avenue the police in Lieut.. Boards dis
trict made the horrible discovery of a
double murder and suicide shortly after l(
o'clock yesterday morning.
Stretched at full length on q bed lay the
forms OF young woman and two children
All were dead, their faces blackened and
their features showing the terrible suffer
ings they must have undergone before
death came to their relief. The woman
and moth-r, Mrs. Ida Macauley, held firm
| ly clinched in her teeth a rubber tube, one
end of which was attached to the still flow
ing Jet The tubes ran from the jet under
the bed clothes, which were drawn over the
faces OF Mrs. Macauley and her children.
| Asphyxiation was seen at n glance to be
the cause of dea:h. Her children, a boy J
years and 8 months, and girl, year and
months OF sge, were clasped in each arm
They were named Willie and Ida.
The suicide was discovered first by Mrs.
George Turness, to whom Mrs. Macsuley
ad rented the house furnished, AMI to
gether they kept bosrders. Mrs. Mscauley
not coming down stairs by 10 o'clock, Mrs.
Turness went up to the room. 1t was in
the frst-story front. Mrs. Turnes after
knocking and receiving no reply, smelled
gas and became alarmed. She sent word
TO the West Madison Street Station, and
Lieut.. Beard detailed an officer to investi-
gate. He broke open the door and found
the bodies as described. The three were in
their night dresses.
Mrs Macauley has not been really right
in her mind since December "a, 1887.
when she shot her husband. She broOded
a great deal over the crime, but never gave
any int;matiol of committing suicide. She
was at her sisters Mrs. Wright, at 224 Ir-
wing avenue, last evening, and left the
mouse In her usual spirits Mrs. Macauley
leaves Ito brothers and two sisters, Chas
) and j. III. Mackin, and Mrs. Oliver and
Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Macauley was 4 very
beautiful woman, and her children wer
exceedingly handsome. The shooting Of
Mssauley by his wife caused sensation
in Chicago. The couple had been married
about three years, when the husband be-
gan to stay away from home
tive or three days at a
time. He was employed with Bartholomew
and Leicht and claimed to his wife that
he was kept busy night and day attending
to his duties. the wife suspected that he
was intimate with Mrs. Mackin, her sister
lu-law, and wife of cigar dealer, how
ever, aud she finally traced her to 243l
Sangamon street and found that he Wa
living there with the woman. Mackin
discovered the criminal relations about the
same time, and he swore out warrants fer
the arrest of the guilty pair. The warrants
were given to Constable Ives to serve, and
the woman was found at the house on San
canon street. Mrs. MackiD was taken iDto
custody, and then the officer proceeded to
Macauley's home, at 81 Arlington street,
to arrest the man. But his legal writ was
of no avail. The man whom he had
intended to make a prisoner, was
unconscious and dying. His wife
had taken the law into her own hands.
The Jealous woman had sent for her hus-
band after he had been absent three days,
and after upbraiding him for his conduct,
declared that he should not live with
"MOllie Mackin am longer" The has
band, to escape his wife's wrath, entered
bedroom, but he had no sooner passed
through the door than she pulled revolt
yer from her pocket, and, rushing to the
doorway, fired. The bullet entered the
back part of Mscauley's head, lodging at
the base CT the brain. The woman was
standing over ithe dying nan when tn
police arrived. When doctor approached
him, she exclaimed:
"Let him alone, doctor, don't save him
| want him to die. would kill the scouu-
drel doZ times before / would PERM
him to live with that false woman, Mol
lie"
The victim was taken to the hospital
soon after the shooting, but an hour after
reaching the institution he was dead Mrs
Macauley Was taken to the Thirteenth
street station and detained there until the
day OF the inquest.
The coroner's jury decided that the wom-
an was insane and not responsible for her
actions and she was re leased