The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26
NEWS OF KANSAS.
A HeartIess Downs Mother De-
serts Her Child.
Left by the Roadside it is Gored
to Death.
OTHER STATE NEWS.
Continental Hotel at Leaven-
worth Sold Under Mortgage.

ATCHIsoN, April 26-Central Branch
train men who came in from Downs tell
q horrible story of mother deserving
her babe on public road and of its hav-
ing been gored to death by COW a short
time afterwards The Woman's name is
Connolly, and she was clipping with a
Mr. Ruby.
j. NJ. Connolly, the husband of the
heartless mother. resided on a farm a
mile OF two from Downs. Ruby is a la
borer, and he and his wife live in Downs.
Before these two couple were married, it
is said, Ruby and the present Mrs. Con-
nelly were sweethearts.
The tender feeling which Ruby had
once felt tor Mrs. Connolly returned and
was reciprocated by her.
An elopemont was decided upon.
Tuesday morning after Connolly had
gone to work in his field Ruby appeared
at his residence and in q short time
thereafter he and the farmers wife
were on their way to Cawker City. few
miles distant, where they intended to
take the train for this city The couple
decided to walk to Cawker City. The
two-year-old baby was placed in its
buggy and the flight was begun.
Mrs Ruby noticed that her husband
didn't go to work in the same direction
as usual She became suspicious, went
on horseback to the Connolly house and
found that Mrs. Connolly was not there.
A neighbor living near by said she
had gone with Ruby in the direction of
Cawker City.
Mrs. Ruby hunted up Connolly and
related what she had discovered to him.
Connolly took Mrs Ruby's horse and
started in pursuit of the clipping couple.
After Ruby and Mrs Connolly had
gone about mile form the latter's home
the baby buggy and its occupant were
placed. near fence at the SIDE of the
road aud left, the couple believing that
they could make much better time if the
child was left behind. Near where the
infant was left was a farm house, and it
was supposed that its cries would at
tract the attention of the people living
there. Before this happened, how
ever, a COW, grazing along the road,
attacked the buggy, demolished it
and killed the child. Nearly every bone
in the body of the infant was crushed,
one of its legs was torn nearly off, aud
it was otherwise mangled in s.ckening
manner.
The noise the animal made in its mad
ness brought a farmer from his field and
the remains of the dead infant were car
ried to the nearby house Not a half
hour after his child met such d horrible
fate Connolly passed the spot, but he
knew nothing of it. All he thought of
was overtaking his truant wife, and he
did not notice the fragments of the baby
buggy scattered about where the life of
his child had been crushed ou+.
He came in sight of the runaway
couple about q mile from Cawker City.
When Ruby saw that he was to be over
taken he deserted the woman and es-
capped by running through a wheat field,
where he succeeded in hiding himself in
deep ravine. He has not been seen
since. 7e
Connolly overlook his wife and she re-
turned home with him. When she
learned the fate that had befallen the
child she so heartlessly deserted she
gave way to Mysteries, and had not com
pletely recovered up to yesterday morn
ting. Mrs. Connolly is the daughte of a
prominent citizen residing near Downs.