The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-17
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Wesley '1kvIing Sends Bullet Through
His Chfds Brain, Attempts to Muir.
defHs Wife But Fails and
Hangs Himself

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Fo Hangs Himself
Lrw'-uraqfws
On Thursday morning the town of
New Collpnbia was thrown into u
fever offeNcitement by the homiry.
ing annodncement that "Wes PawI.
ing shoS4Ais wife and child go \
special reporter for the News han.
pened tobe there. and in company
with MrM A. Walter, started i'm
mediatelSfbr the scene of the awful
tragedy. after drive of some
three miss through violent rain
storm they arrived at large brick
farm house the place where one soul
had been hurriedly ushered into
eternity aud another is trembling in
the balance.
Wesley Paving was young man
apparently not over Twenty-Five
years of age BY the will of his
father, s. b. Pawling, lately deccas.
ed, he came into full possession of
the farm which he occupied at the
time of his suicide. About two years
ago he married Miss Ella Boar and
two children are the result of the
union. The elder child, bright
little boy, was not at home ut the
time OF the shooting, or it, too.
would have net cruel death at the
hands. Of the apparently insane
father. Just what motive prompted
the,awfsl zine will probably never
be fullyfexaasI r'sn1ias.slilays be,n
committed in fit Of temporary in
sanity superinduced by jealousy.
On Wednesday afternoon Mr..
Pawling had the family out for a
pleasure drive and the husband and
wife seemed to be unusually happy
IN each others company. The help
about the farm say that nothing of a
dlsagreeable nature occurred be.
tween them before retiring. On
Thursday morning Mr.. Paving
arose Il little earlier than usual. and
II any unpleasant words pissed be-
tween him and Mrs. Pawling, she
alone knows their nature. Just
about day-break he procured re.
volyer OF thirty-two calibre and shot
the infant child-perhaps four
months old-in its mother, arms.
The ball entered the child's forehead
and came out Il couple of inches
above the base of the brain. The
mother jumped out of bed and
grasped the arm that was still hold
ing the sun oking instrument of
death. But her strength was too
frail to prevent u b ullet from crash.
ing into her forehead aud she too
fell unconscious to the floor. The
frenzied husband, who must have
been transformed into a yerita BILE
demon, then left the house and
drove after his wife's mother who
lives more than Il mile away. To
Mrs. Boar's inquiry rs to what
brought him there at such an early
hour, he laconically said: Il have
done some shooting up home and
want you to come over right away.
Mrs. Boar acco mpanied him back
but could get no further explanation
from him. Judge of her horror
when she was suddenly ushered into
the presence oft bleeding form of |
her child and that other grandchild |
The husband then admitted what he
had done and asked what she
thought would be done with him by
the authorities. She replied: II
can't say Discovering that the
wife was not dead, he approached
the bedside and asked for her for
giveness, which was speedily grant
ed-accompanied by the words,
"Wes, how could you do itW He
then bent tenderly over her and
kissed her, and with last good bye I
left the house. BY this time Elmer c
HUFF was well on his way toward Mil C
ton to summon medical aid. Drs. a
Re:fsnydsr and McCleery responded /
and did all they could !
TO relieve, the wounded patients. A {
search was then instituted for the a
man. After looking about }
he hout = ind barn his dead body
vas foun, banging in the workshop, j