The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-04
Double Tragedy on Missis-
sippi-St. Friday Night.
Logan McAfee Kills His
Wife and Then Himself.
jealousy is the Supposed Cause
OF the Deed.
Bodies OF Husband and Wife
Lying Side BY Side.
From the Church Door TO Eternity in
Twenty Minutes.

One more double tragedy has been
added to the long list OF crimes in the
history OF this city. and in this case the
murderer was Logan McAfee, who
shot and killed his wife, Emma
McAfee, and then killed himself. The
awful tragedy occurred at II :25 last even
ing on n. Mississippi-st., in front of 5O4,
which is the residence OF Dr. Leroy S.
Henthorne. J. F. Lang, who lives next
door to DR.. Henthorne, heard the first shot
and rushed out of the house in
| time to hear the murderer ex-
claim, my God, I've shot Emma"
following the exclamation with the second
shot. By the time Mr.. Long could get to
the spot the last spark of life in the body
Of each OF the unfortunates was extinct.
In pool OF his own blood lay the corpse
of the murderer. his hat by his side, his
| eyes half closed and his mouth
open, while a small stream of blood
| tricked from a hole above and back of
the right temple. Near him on the side
walk lay the corpse of his wife. a hole back
of her right ear showing the course of
| the bullet. Blood was flowing from
both her ears and nose. Her umbrella lay
| beside her. She was dressed in a dark
cloth dress covered with walking jacket,
and upon her gloves and dress was little
| dirt. No witnesses saw the tragedy di-
rectly, and beyond the last words of the
murderer nothing could be learned OF
what might have passed between the i'll
fated couple.
! McAfee was young man said to have
been in this city many years and up to
| recently had been a porter on the c., W.
q NJ. road, running between this city and
Benton Harbor, Mich. He had quit rail-
reading short time ago and was en-
| ployed as collector on the Freeman and
for the past week had worked
as janitor in the Martindale block
for his wife's father, Nathan Pierce.
| Officers Nathan Ward and James Hurt,
upon whose beat the awful crime was
J committed, arrived at the scene of the
! tragedy few moments after the occur
renee, and summoning Kreglo's ambu-
lance had the bodies taken to the morgue
and repaired to the home of the father OF
| Mrs. McAfee to break the news of the aw-
| ful calamity.
On arriving at the morgue the bodies
were placed on cooling-boards side by side.
In pocketbook taken from the corpse of
Logan McAfee were found rabbits foot
and S16.S5 in money. Other articles found
were three punches of keys, twenty
one keys in all, a box of cigarettes
and an envelope stamped, but with no
address on it; and pair of curling-rons
wrapped in a newspaper on the sidewalk
near where the tragedy occurred, and where
Mrs McAfee had probably dropped them.
A letter written Thursday was found also
in McAfee's pocket, which his wife had
given him to mail, and which in all prob
ability he had intended enclosing in the
envelope mentioned. The letter which is
| given below would tend 10 show that at
some previous time some jealousy or i'll
feeling had existed between the couple:
INDrANPoLIs, Ind. Jan. %, 1891.
DEAR CoRNIA-I received your kind letter
| few days ago, and was so glad to hear from
you. But l must really say that l begin
ming to be angry with you because you did not
write. thought may be you were trying 10 pay
me back for the way in which l treated
you. but without cause, for you know that
love you too dearly for TO be so mean as TO not
write TO you for a purpose. This leaves me
WELL but Logan is not so very WELL He was
sick in bed last week, bat is up now, but not
we'll by any means. lie is not working yet,
only helping father, for he is not we'll and
| don't suppose will ever be. He has
trouble with his throat Logan is only out of
his railroad job until his is liked. 1t was
taken Oft to be remodeled, but they say it will
not be put on before March or May, or later,
L..k- 80 e. L
again If he can get anything else. He has
very nice letter Of recommends
ton from the railroad official.
Your dream was not a good one and il did not
pretain to Logan and j. as far not getting
along together, for We are. We have not had
any trouble for many day and hope never
for he tries 10 do everything possible
and in his power to do When his
pay day was he gave me a ten dollar
gold piece besides 81 in paper money
and some new stockings. umbrella, pocket
book and several other little things. So you
see my Christmas came after Christmas. be-
cause his payday was not until after then. So
l had TO wait until he did come. So had
and myself went down after church
Sunday night TO see Mr. English and the other
Porters. And we had quite pleasant time
aud you know how funny he is. When we
were leaving he pretended as though be was
talking to Mrs. Bass aRd he said with a smile,
"Don't be long again Mrs. Bass before
you come" and of course / knew he
was talking TO NE because / had not been
down before for long time; as they were with
me / did not get to ask anything about Char
lie. Logan sends his love to you. Ma and
are going over TO your mas TO 20 to love.feast
Monday night. Charlie aud Nell
lie have quit going together
and he is travelling for the freeman. And he
wanted to get your address from me for to send
to him because he is coming to Cleveland and
wants to call on you. Well, must close as
there is so many coming in and out. Write
whenever you can. hope that you are better.
From your true friend,
EMMA.
years / never heard of an unpleasant
ness between her and her husband and
did not know but that they lived happily
together"
Burns Fisher, barber in the Denison
house, was on Mississippi-st. near the SPOT
where the bodies were found, and in con-
versation with Mr.. Knox told the latter
that he heard both shots and saw AIcAfee
fall, but heard no remarks or words of
dispute.
There is scarcely any doubt but
that the double tragedy was the
result of jealousy on the part of
the husband. The letter found in his
pocket written by his wife to friend,