The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-07-20
HELD HIM WHILE SHE SHOT.
Husband Pinions a Man While
His Wife Kills Him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack RckIef Go Cunning for a
Former Empleye Named Creason, Whom
1t Is Alleged Boosted Of Intimacy
With the Woman.
With the Woman.

"a @ SAOoSAAS aAIhJ near mere to-day /
a man named Creason lies diving
from the effects of a shot fred by a |
woman, and the woman, Mrs. Jack |
Ricklef, shot in the mouth, is in |
precarious condition and may die. |
The woman's husband who helped
his wife take revenge on the man
who slandered her escaped I'M
harmed.
During the spring Creason was
employed by Rickler as farm hand.
Mrs. Rieklef became infatuated with
the young man and they frequently
were seen together. Ricklef noticed
this, but being slow to question the
faithfulness of his wife. did not pro-
test until Mrs. Ricklef and Creason
made a trip to Atchison and had
their pictures taken together. Then
he discharged Creason and threaten
ed to start the machinery of the law
against him. He was persuaded out
of this step and there was no more
trouble until Creasou began to talk
about his relations with Mrs. Ricklef.
He showed the picture and letter
received from Mrs. Ricklef after he
had been discharged to many OF bis
friends and limited at improper init
macy with the wife of his former
employer. AS soon as Mrs. Ricklef
heard of this her infatuation for the
young man ended. Instead there
came desire for revenge against
the man who had led her into her
indiscrstions and then robbed her of
her good name.
The result WAS the tragedy of to-
day in which her erstwhile lover was
killed and she herself was seriously
wounded. The details of the crime
as near as can be learned are these:
About noon Ricklef and his wife
armed themselves each with a revol.
yer and a horsewhip and went in
search of Creason. They found him
at a neighbours in the field at work.
Ricklef called him to the roadside.
When the young man had almost
reached the wagon, Ricklef jumped
out and pulling revolver, cried:
"Now, you -. hold up your
hands till I tie them. My wife is
going to horsewhip you until the
blood runs. Well teach you to go
about the country peddling your
ISLANDERS. Don't move, you cur, or
I'll shoot you"
Like - you will" said the young
man, and he made a spring for his
assailant's revolver. He grabbed the
weapon from Ricklef and felled him
with blow on the head from the
butt of the gun.
In the meantime Mrs. Ricklef be
gan firing, and the young man had
to turn his attention to her. He
fred one shot, which took effect in
her mouth, knocking out several
teeth.
By this time Ricklef had recovered
FROM the blow on the head, and
getting up, grappled with Creason.
and finally got the young man pin
Toned to the earth. Then the wife
came up, and holding her revolver
to her victim head, fired two shots
But one took effect, lodging in his
skull, and making it impossible to
live many hours.
over the shooting and opinion ia
divided. Those who think the woman
has been intimate with the young
man hold her responsible for the
tragedy, while those who believe she
was iudiscreet but not improper in
her relations feel that the young
man nerited his fate for the stories
he told
Champions of Creason insist that
the shot which lodged in Mrs. Rick
lefs mouth and May cause her death
was not Intentionally fred at her,
but was received during the struggle
of the two men, when the gun was
discharged accidentally.
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