The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-05-18
WAGES OF SIN.


week. Here was a man advanced
to old age-surrounded by faith
full and trusting wife and a family |
of bright and intelligent children
member OF the Christian church,
occupying an enviable reputation
in the community in which he had
lived for several years, and a
regent of one of Oregon's most
prominent institutions OF learning,
that through his amorous passion
for another mans wife-a woman
far his inferior intellectually
became a murderer and suicide.
Who would have believed a year
ago that DR.. Applewhlte would
now. be a corpse as result of his
own acts; that he would within
that short space of time disgrace
his family and friends as he has
done? History furnishes few par
allels of such duplicity as has been
practiced upon the Corvallis COM
munity during the past twelve
months by this man. About one
year ago the woman at the bottom
of the whole affair, went to the
doctor tor medical treatment, and
through some shrewd deception
on his part the wife of one of his
neighbors was seduced. After his
purpose had been accomplished
some sort of an alteration was
formed for the woman, and trip
to California was planned and sub,
sequehtly carried out. At this
time the general public became
aware of the intimacy that had
existed between the pair, but not
until his return home about six
weeks ago was his utter lack of
shame and total disregard of
decency and morality discovered.
On arriving here he set about in
the most brazen manner to beguile
the public into the notion that he
was an innocent and muchly per-
secuted man. Many people be-
lieved him, and some few still
assert his innocence. Knowing
that he was guilty of one of the
most revolving crimes against soci-
ETY., yet he joked and laughed with
his old friends and attempted to
force his lecherous society into the
families where he had once been
received as a friend as we'll as
professionally. After being indict
ed jointly with his paramour OH a
charge of adultery preferred by the
husband of his gullable companion
in vice, he attempted to bulldoze
the officers and threatened every
body with dire disaster,' who dared
to express their sentiments in the
premises. Then he attempts to
get the woman-who had already
denounced him-to leave with
him. This she refused to do. He
then sent a threatening letter to
her husband, and two days later
walked to a secluded spot along
the highway; concealed himself
behind tree and like an Indian
waited in ambush until his victim
came along that he might shoot
him in cold blood without giving
him a show for his life. Fortu-
lately, Applewhite was a poor
shot, and Kenyon escaped after
quite fusilade, with only a slight
wound. The would-be assassin
then drags the wife from her hus-
band to retreat in the mountains
when, fifteen hours later she is
found dead and he lying by her
side in a pool of his own blood and
weak from the effects OF morphine
and hemorrhages from wounds i'll
flicted by his own hands.
Picture the scene for moment
Its horribleness can not be describ
ed by words. Alter having shot the
woman that he had wronged, and
administering to her dose of NOR
phine to complete the job he
drags her into the brush intending
that they should die together
Finding that his attempts Oh hel
life had been unsuccessful, his
fiendish proclivities knew NJ
bounds and with his bloody finger.
on her throat, strangled her t.
death. Too weak to pull the
trigger and send a ball into hi
own miserable body, he takes 4;
lance from among his surgical i'll
struments and makes severa
futile attempts to cut his throat
For nine hours he lay beside hi
victim, weak. from the loss o
blood, but perfectly conscious o
his surroundings. Imagine, then
the thoughts that must have en-
tered his mind during those Ions
dark hours. The idea must have
occurred to him of how grossly
he had deceived his friends, how
he had forsaken true, devoted
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