The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-03-30
A DEVILS AWFUL DEED
Livingston Once More ii, Scene Of a
Shocking Tragedy.
NO KNOWN CAUSE FOR 1T
a Man Kills His Young Wife. Then
Commits suicide Intense
Excitement and lndlg-
nation.
srecial Dispatch to the standard.

srecia Dispatch 10 the STANDARD.
LIVINGSTON, March c9.-This city was
to-day thrown into fever OF excitement
by tho discovery OF one of the most shock
ing tragedies that has ever occurred in a
county already famous for its record OF
dramatic and startling crimes. At
about : o'clock this after
noon sounds indicative OF an
angry quarrel were heard by neigobors
in tho home of William Mallahan, gen.
cral foreman of the Northern Pacific ma
/ chino shops here. aud Il. MeManus, q
young man who has recently been in the
service of the Northern Pacific as brake
man and married to Mallahan's daughter.
| The young couple were alone in the house
aud lad who was in the vicinity, q
brother Of Mrs. McManus, appears to
have overheard the alteration and real.
lied its importance as he at once gave the
| alarm at the house of a neghbor. asking
cXcitedly IL some ono would not come and
save Mary.
| A moment later Mrs. McManus stag
gercd from tho back part Of tho house and
fell, at tho Same instant McManus ap-
| pearcd outside at the front with blood is-
suing from hts throat, and in answer to
an appeal made by Mrs. Wilson, who
was FASTENED TO the house, as to what had
happened, simply shook his head and re-
turned within.
An examination of the PROSTATE woman
| developed tue fact that she had
| been shot dead, and inside the
house tho body Of McNnnus was
| farther discovered lying face downwards
\ in pool of blood which had issued from
a ghasily wound in his throat. Clear
traces left OF the tragedy Indicate that tho
murdered woman was IN the act of fleeing
when she received her death wound, and
that after inilicIlng it, tho husband re-
| turned TO their bed room. extracted a
razor from bureau drawer, and having
administered TO himself the fatal stroke,
walked out of The house TO where he was
last seen alive, and then return-
ing, passed through the rooms 60
the kitchen in which ho finally fell.
Tho revolver with which tho
shooting was presumably done was found
on the iloor OF tho bed room aud tho
opened case of the razor in a bureau
drawer, which had hastily been thrown
down. A trail of blood could be followed
throughout tho house where the assassin
and suicide had walked about after hav-
ing dealt himself the death blow.
McAianus had been for some years en-
pioyed in the capacity of brakeman by the
Northern Pacific railroad. Latterly he
had been laid of with the reduction of
train service on the road. He was about
% years of age and n little over year ago
was married TO the daughter OF William
Mallahan. general foreman of shops, q
member Of the city council and q much
respected citizen.
No theory can be assigned for the crime
other than that OF dependency on the
part of the dead man, who has once or
twice, il is understood, threatened to take
his own life, but SO far as IL known he
never had menaccd that of his young
wife. The dead couple leave an infant a
few months old.
The coroner's jury hava concluded their
Investigations and no material new facts
beyond those above told were brought out.
Mrs. McMiluus was shot in the back
while trying 10 escape, the bullet
passing ont At the breast. Other
shots were believed to have been fired,
but diI not take effect. Tho murderer
and suicide after taking the life Of his
wife sat down IN n rocking chair before a
mirror and cut his throat. Afterwards
acting in the manner above recorded. In
dignation is widespread and intense and
there is little doubt that the dead man
woyld have been summary dealt with il
hc had not made away with himself. The
infant child OF the couple was found lyins
on the floor after the tragedy unhurt.