The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-30
COLD FLOODED ACT
Greene of FurIey Murders
Wife on Depot Platform.
TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF
Now in Hospital in This City
and Will Recover.
TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF

When the morning Rock Island passen
ger train pulled into Furley az twenty
minutes before II yesterday Sarah E
Greene stepped TO the platform followed
by Thomas Greene. her husband. who
placed IS rim fire revolver TO her right
ear and fired. The shot passed downward
cutting the jugular vein, She sank in the
presence Of a train load Of spectators
and fell heavily TO the board platform in
an unconscious condition, the blood
squirting from her wound, and in one
hoour and thirty minutes she was dead
She never spoke but lay in a pool of blood
a CHASTITY spectacle. The blood poured
from the hole in her ear. spread out on
the platform. IL came slower, IL oozed
and in the chill December morning CO.
egulated and actually piled on each side
Of her dying head.
Thomas Greene then turned the gun at
his own head, fired a glancin gshot which
feIled him to the platform not fifteen
10 c1A ~ AlyLll All, VIE. lie Ld4lGtff anu
IN his effort to kill himself snapped his
pistol again and again till he had dis
charged three more shots, all the loads
NJ had. The train pulled away. Sur
prise, CONSERVATION took possession Of
the bystanders. Greene got up, passed 10
the north, up the railroad track across
10 the west side something like $50 feet
away. where he found a cOupuns pin,
with which he vIcI5usl- oeat his own
head in his mad effort to end mis- life.
Hatless the blood streaming from his
bullet wound and running from the cut
made by the coupling pin, was a picture
Of desperation. It was a fight with him
self; a struggle to root out his own hated
life.
He was unprecedented and he plead with
the officer TO kill him. He asked that he
might nave ammunition with which to
finish an existence thai mad come 10 be
a torment To him The depot authorities
did not want him brought to the station.
His children did not wish him brought to
the house. The officer bound him like
Sampson was bound and for four hours
on bed Of hay in sight Of a dying, then
a dead wife, he lay, while curious spec
tators viewed this awful tragedy. The
wife, in her dying condition, was left in
the open hard bed Of a railway platform.
the spectators believing It unlawful 10
even touch her after the doctor had said
her wound was fatal. There she lay till
dead. There the murderer lay bound till
the sheriff and coroner drove in from
Wichita
The cause Of the tragedy was the jeal-
ousy Of Greene Mrs. Greene had been
accused Of inhdelitJ. This charge made
rupture two years ago. The locality
was full Of rumors but there was a dis
position to keep things quiet. Greene is
an ignorant man much older than his
wife His exact age IS not known and Il
Is doubtful if he himself knows. He Is
probably about -. Mrs. Greene was 81
and has been married twenty-five years
and IS a grandmother. There are four
children. Charles, Mrs May Ferguson,
Ruth and Mary. The family has not
high standing. Chas. Ferguson got into
trouble and skipped out The children
were very much averse to telling any
thing. The neIghbors are discreet. Mrs.
Greene was Sarah Osman and her father
lives in the vicinity of FurIey.
The scene Of the tragedy was on the
platform Of the depot at Furley. The
platform is a board platform 10 by 80
feet. The dead woman lay there till the
coroner's inquest was held. the most
chastity sight ever seen in that quiet little
town--posS IDLY in this county. Her face
was yelled in blood. Clottsd blood filed
her hair.
The coroner impanelled a jury and
after a hearing the jury returned YER
dict that Mrs. Sarah f. Greene came 30
her death by "A gunsh0t wound from re
volver fired while in The hand Of Thomas
Greene, with murder1us intent. After the
verdict Of the jury. the murdered woman
was bathed and when the blood was re-
moved ii revealed 81 fairly good looking
woman. She did nor look a day older
than she is-too young for a grand
mother. The south bound train carried
Thomas Greene under charge Of murder
in the hands OF the sheriff: stretcher
bore the remains Of Sarah L. Greene to
their Utte home The first act OF this
tragedy is closed
The daughter. Ruth Greene. claims her
father is not right. Something more than
a passing notice need be given - this. in
view Of DR.. Fuller's statement to 3e
found elsewhere.
JAMES BRACES ACCOUNT.
James BrasE. a constable for Lincoln
township. was an eyewitness. and made
the arrest Of Green.
Did YOU see green and his wife set Of
TIA traine'
L did not see them in particular. saw
those who got Of. all together, without
seeing anybody in particular"
state when you first saw Mrs. Green on
the platform"
Il heard a shot and noticed Mrs. Green
sink toward the platform. then fall for
ward. her forehead striking the platform
heavily. I then saw Tom Green shoot
himself. I saw him fail; saw him as he
endsavore6 TO shoot himself
saw il al"
Did you see Green shoot his wlfe?"
Not exactly; but saw her a moment
Alter she was shot; 7 saw The smoking
7.stol; saw her sink and faI."
was Green badly hurte"
y don't know. The train pulled cut and
he got up and went north along the track
md across Il some $50 feet. He walk as
-hough he had considerable strength
did he shoot any more2"
No. he had fred al the loads ne had
"Wha; did he then doe''
''de got a coupling hin ana pounded him
SELF over TIL head. He raised the coupling
pin TWO or three .irres and struck himself.
thu u-e~- 70 him