The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-27
M'GONEGAL OF MANY WIVES.
LIE hurled OSE HEtDLESS AND
ONE m ORrID MN.

The Two Were sisters, ana ns Married
uhem tn a Peculiar SncceHSiOn-Thsy
rnid For isis Medical Education.
SYRACUSE July 2G--Ncarly every bod Is dead
who knew DR.. hcGonsgal Nifty vears ago whom
tho man accused If killing Annie Goodwin by
Inhlprnctico was school teacher in Apulin.
He was born in FAhiuS solHo ~ years ngo,
and livod on the farm With his uncle
Cri who wni Echuol Commissioner.
Within TOW milcs Of McGonegals homo
lived Miss Jennie utir, the most beauti.
full girl In that section OF the country.
When MoG oncEal wns q Young man he md
sho taught school together in ApuliA, live miles
FROM Fnbius. little lntor ho hung out n
Shinglo as country dentist In the same place
aud a year or two subsequent TO this no and
Jcunic went to the Albany Normal School to-
Eoi!ler Here McGonogOl registered as COM
tir from Ithaca. Miss Dutln graduated. md
shortly aitorwaid married McGuncEnl. who
hal not flushed bis cour.s Mt Albrny, but Ind
d. Grained on urinE physician. The youuE
VIC .!,t llaCo rs a school ioncher near New
1cik, whore she -Hvod her earnings and turned
hom ovor to AUGoroRsl IN order that he
might co!nric;e his medical o lucHtion. When
hcGpncgal had nearly completed his medical
Studies the couple removed to Ealdwinsvilie.
Cn"ndaaa county. whore both tAuRnt school
nSa'n IN tho Union School on tho north side Of
Tho river Mrs. McGono.als parents In tho
pcaG time hal removed 10 Van Buren,, a short
d.';unrc away, and Miss Mary Jutin. u young
O.; slBoF, came to live under the Doctors roof.
Presently tho family OF three removed TO Mar
eors.
Tbs vito told her friends that her husbands
tfoa'ment OF her had entirely changed and
that aho had tn endure abuse and cruel treat
mont ut his hands. Shy then began to fan in n
Mysterious manner. and her subsequent death
We regarded as sufficiently suspicious to DO
inveE; i.;arcd. Her brother Dwight Butin,
moved IN tho mattor and had the body
dsintrrred To tho horror OF oil
tho rcnains wore without q hoad
10y 7 set hS va nHS
shared head and remark able character ,ha: he
hdd rnserred her head because he wanted to
eHaalino hor brains. In some way or other the
persuaded lila siser-in.i aw Mary. who was
vito dosrod lie should marry Mary. After much
Isrsnnsi92. ard against the protests OF her
lireo miles from Auburn This was nearly
forty years nEo After the marriage they went
Wei to navenpor, Iowa where he REractsod
hardly got set,lcdl befor. the Doctor said that
70 ought 10 attend medical lectures IN Now
i Ts N SeSSNSq rk T S6tS Sna
vile b, bad starved apd stinted herselI 70 sup;
tuu ,RoctbT, iiHu the SeCOnl WIG ICIOWhu
suit sendAg 10 him all she could spare from
Dor waScS After n while she ceased to hoar
IRON him. Md although she wrote repeatedly,
she received no answers to her letters.
Finally sNe determined to go 10 New York |
aud learn ioH horse i what was the cause OF his
slonce. Sh9 found him living with another |
woman. HSieisned penitcnce, and got her in.
20 certain private APARTMENTS, where he kept |
ben practically prisoner. She was not al !
lowed to CORRESPOND with any one and lis |
treatmcnt Of her Is described as harsh. She |
managed nag to II row letter ont of The window TO
W,
brother, Dwight Butin. In Van Buren,.
and which finally effected her dellverancef
Dwight Butin went to New York at once. ard
arrived there Just IN time to see DR.. McGoneGal
knock Down his wife. Mrs McGonegal went
home with her brother: The next ster taken
eyentually dono. Mrs McGonegal then went
10 Dascnrort, Iowa. with her family, aud later
with her aged mother, Her brother, dwight
l;utin and Mira DR.. Dickinson also reside
there. since prQeuging her divorce from DR..
McGonagal Mrs. McGonegal has been active In
charitable work and church enterprises. She
has figured in the Wost as lecturer and author.
and In the Baptist denomination as well as In
tho Women,s Christian Temperance Union
she stands high. So DIR. McGonegal's young
wife in New York is his third at the least