The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-03
TERRIBLE TR AGEDY.
Miss Anna Luther of ROSedale
Sh0 by Would be Suffer.
The Shooter Kills Himself and
Saves Judge Lynch a Job.

Kansas City, Jan. ga sensa.
tional tragedy, shocking in its detail;
and awful in its results, Mortified the
little village of Rosedale last night.
Maddened by unrequitted love,
Charles Goble attempted to assassin
ate Miss Annie Luther, and then with
the same murderous pistol ended his
own worthless life by bullet through
his brain.
For several years GOble, who is a
young man about 80 years old and an
iron worker by trade, had known and
loved Miss Annie Luther, a handsome,
accomplished and popular young lady
of Rosedale. She has persistantly
refused his address and last night
he attempted to make good his often
made threat that she should not live
to marry any other man.
Last night, at few minutes after
9 o'clock, Annie Luther and her sis
ter, May, sat reading in the front or
sitting room of the cottage. The
aged mother had retired to her bed
upstairs and the two girls were alone
on the first floor. Suddenly came a
crashing sound as if the outside door
~ the kitchen was being broken 10.
With the instinct of fear, they rushed
out from the sitting room to the
kitchen. As they como ont of tho
81 ;tIng room door, Annie in front,
they were confronted by the desperate
lover, revolver in hand, with his
mind fully made up as to the awful
deed he was about to commit. Only
once did he speak. With hate glar-
ing out of his eyes he calculated, "My
time has come now" As he fired the
first shot from the revolver which he
held ready in bis hand, Annie invol-
UNFAIRLY threw up her left arm to de-
fend herself. the ball struck her
arm penetrating the flesh below the
elbow, then going through the arm
again near the shoulder. Annie
and MAY threw herself up
ON the murderer in a vain attempt TO
stop him.
Throwing her aside, tearing an ear
ring from her right ear in the struggle
he pursued his fleeing VICTIM, who
was trying to find refuge in the sit
ting room. just as she got inside the
iOor he fired twice more. One ball
struck the frontal bone just over the
eft eye, iohicting a jagged wound
md probably glancing off. The third
hot struck the right side of her neck
md passed up through her mouth.
Faint and bleeding the wounded girl
ank to the flor. Believing that his
work was finished the murderer step
ped inside the sitting room and put
ing the pistol to the top of his head
ent bullet crashing through his
brain. As he fell the pistol slipped
rom his hand to the rocking chair
,y his side, one load out of five re-
in it. Crazed, almost, by
he awful scene which she had witness
ID, May LIthur ran out into the yard
murder at the top of
Ter voice. Awakened by the shots
md screaming, Mrs. Luthur made
Ter way down stairs to find her
laughter weltering in her life |
,lood and Charles Goble dying
lpOn the floor.
Attracted by the screams of Nav |
luther, Mr.. A. n. Todd, who lives a |
ew hundred yards away, was the first
o reach the scene. What he saw is
old below.
Other neighbors were soon on the
Gene and the wounded girl was put
n bed which was put up in the sit
ing room. DR.. B. NJ. Barnett soon
rrived and set about relieving the
of the girl. Meanwhile the |
'Ody Of the murderer, who breathed |
or half an hour after he shot himself,
Ias conveyed down the hill to an
mpty store next to the Catholic
hurch, there to await the arrival of
Deputy Coroner Gates, who was mott
otifed. Shortly it was taken to Mr..
iates' undertaking establishment,
There the body was cared for and the
ullet cut out from just back of the
ight ear, where it had lodged under
be skin.