The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-24
M'MANUS' DEED.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
JoNESBoRo TRAGEDY.
killing Caused For the Reason That
Mcsinnus Was TriGe Too Fa-
miliar With Mrs. Cornwall

On last Saturday morning, near 7
o'clock, j. c. Cornwall. until recently
freight conductor ON the Cotton Belt
railroad, was shot and killed by John
McIanus, ex-train master for the same
read
The two men met on the platform
near the express Office at the depot and
engaged in conversation for a short
! time, when McManus drew a 44-caliber
Colts revolver and fired upon Germ
wall the charge striking him Just be-
/ low the left eye, passing through the
brain and lodged near the skull in the
4 top of the head. The man field to the
=, platform and expired Immediately,
without uttering a word.
MI McManus voluntary s1uren-
dered himself to Deputy Sheriff
Charles Gibson, by whom he was car
ried before Justice NJ A. Adair, who
ST the preliminary trial for yesterday
evening, when Messrs. Cate, Hughes &
Cate appeared for the state and Mr..
n. F. Lamb for the defendant. The
triad was concluded late in the evening
and resulted in committing the pJiS-
oner to jail without BAIL
The difficulty which resulted in the
tragedy grew out of an alleged insi-
macy between McManus and Cornwalfs
wife. Not long since Mrs. Cornwall
made a visit to the north, and soon af
forwards McManuS went away also.
1t would seem that Cornwall came TO
the conclusion that all was not right
and SO concluded TO go i'm search of his
wife.
The following, which appeared in the
Waterloo Qowa) Daily Courier, of
July 2S, Will give the dead mans YER
sion of the affair:
-. c. Cornwall. of Jonesboro, Ar
kansas, arrived in the city this morn
ing in search of his wife and 2-year-
country with John McManus, of the
above mentioned city. He found that
/ they had stopped at the Central house
! last Tuesday but had left, supposedly
+ for Chicago,
Cornwall is a conductor on the Cot
/ ton BelT line out of Jonesboro, and
/ John McManus is the train master
Some few weeks ago. about the first
of July, Mrs. Cornwall came to Gar
win, Iowa, to visit relatives. During
her visit there she was in correspou-
dence with McManus, who was still
at his post i'm Jonesboro
Cornwall and his wife have been
married about thirteen years and have
/ two children, aged s and years.
During their married life everything
has been lovely as a May flower, Mrs.
| Cornwall being a lovely and devoted
wife and Mr. Cornwall conducting him
self as becomes a good husband.
For several months Mr.. McManus
roomed with Mr.. and Mrs. Cornwall
and being train master, knew the
whereabouts of Mr.. Cornwall and took
advantage of this knowledge to make
li1ve to Mrs. Cornwall. Then it was that
Mr.. Cornwall first noticed that there
was an undue intimacy between the
! two.
MIR. McManus is also married man
and has two grown-up children. Some
! twenty years ago he roomed at the
I Central house, in this city, and ran a
! train out on here to Dubuque, where he
/ has folks now living.
/ During Mrs. Cornwall's VISIT at
! Garwin, and while corresponding with
McNIamus, they made aITang ements to
meet in this city, McNIanus having
taken few weeks lay-off to rusticate,
and chose the Central house as a meet
/ ing point.
! "McManus arrived early in the fore
noon Of Tuesday, July 81, and Mrs.
/ Cornwall and her 2-year-old child ar
rived later the same day, but it ls not
I known by what route either of them
came into the city.
1T was evident that there was some
understanding regarding telegram
sent him by her and addressed to j.
K. Jones, and which she called for upon
her arrival at the hotel
-'McManus had registered in his own
name and was in his room when she ar
rived He met them on the stairs and
picking up the child kissed it lovingly
and carried 1T up to their room. That
evening they left for Dubuque, so they
said, but Mr. Cornwall found today
that they had checked their baggage
to ST. Louis, so that he was Slightly at
sea as to just what course to pursue.
Another interesting Development Is
that Mrs Cornwall had also been in
correspondence with a. lady CO at Man
haitian Beach, Chicago; a lady whose
husband is a machinisr. One of the
letters addressed to Mrs. Cornwall was
dropped on the floor and found by Mr.
Cornwall. In it the Chicago woman
advised Mrs. Cornwall to rope in some
sucker and come to Chicago and have
a good time
"Frpm this letter Mr.. Cornwall was
pointed to Chicago, but this theory was
knocked in the head by their checking
the baggage to st. Louis.
''Mr. Cornwalrs theory now is THAT
McManus has gone back to his work
and Mrs. Cornwall to her home, each
believing they had been too smooth
for the old man. This is very p'aus-
ible theory, and if followed up may
prove the correct one.
Mr.. Cornwall was regarded as
quiet, ipeaceable and good citizen and
his umrtimely death is much regretted
by adj who knew him. His remains
were buried with the h0nors of the
Order of Railway Conductors, ON the
Inn owned bv that worthy order, in
the citv cemetery, he funeral services
haino held i'm the Methodist church at
, o'clnc5k ON Sunday, conducted by
Rev. w. B. Ricks.-Jonesboro Times.
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