El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-07
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Kansas is now in full swing at Edo
RADIO, says the Kansas City Journal.
Ii is that of Jessie Morrison, daugh-
ter of a Judge. Tor the killing with
razor of Mrs. G.. o. Castle. a bride of
one week The tragedy occurred June
%. last.
Mrs Castle was killed with a razor;
her throat was cut several times, and
Miss Morrison. who was standing over
her, with a razor in her hand, also
slightly cut. is accused of having muir
dered her, for jealousy. Mrs. Castle.
who was Miss Mary Wiley. had only
been married a short time before to a
man whom both she and Miss Morri-
son seemed to have been in love with.
though he was younger than either
of them
The killing of Mrs. Castle was a love
tragedy, If there ever was one. 1t was
so far as all appearances go. simply
the revenge of the unsuccessful lover
on the one who had won the prize.
What makes it SO remarkable is that
the contestants were women. instead
of men, as is usually the case, and that
it took place in staid America. In
tropical country. where the blood runs
fiercely through the veins, and love is
a passion brief but strenuous, such
things are not SO seldom as to cause
sensation; but in the United States it
is rare indeed that the unsuccessful
rival for a mans hand ever tells of
her wishes let alone kills the girl who
gets him
G. O. CastIe-Olin, as he is generally
called-iS and was clerk in the
Racket store at Eldorado-a shop
peculiar to small towns In the same
place up to last January worked Jes-
- hax L., oh 9TH
er. and he even showed her some at
tentions. though she was several years
the older. He is a good looking chap.
with blonde. curly hair. and a face
indicating no particular strength. He
plays in the town band, and seems to
be a sort of favorite. He is tall and
not bad looking. as such things go.
Jessie Morrison seems to have cared
a good deal for young Castle from the
first. She showed her liking very plain
ly; in fact. it is reported that she left
the Racket because of her evident
attentions toward him. He says he
did not share this regard. but that
ne showed her some courteSieS. walk
ing home with her and taking her driv-
ing. as is the habit of rural SWANS.
Even after she left the store. she went
in to see him. She always wanted him
to wait on her. but lately. he refused.
She went in there one day and asked
him to sell her some slippers, but he
declined. and another clerk waited
on her. She paid much more atten-
ton to his movements. however. than
she did to the slippers.
Another girl OF Eldorado was Clara
Wiley-she was 26-Miss Morrison is
about go She was pretty, too, and
Castle. wo seems to have been rather
a town beau, showed her more atten-
ton than he did the older girl. They
were engaged for a year and a half,
and finally, on the unlucky day of
June Is. they were married.
Just few days before this wedding
so the story goes, Miss Morrison step
ped into the Racket and talked with
Castle. The full purport of the con-
versation is kept secret yet, but Cas-
tie admitted that she asked him to
meet her at a certain place at II
O'Clock that night He refused. he
says But on his way home that night |
from Miss Wiley's. he declares she |
stopped him. she had, in this inter |
view, he says. declared that if he didn't |
keep the appointment, she would |
make him wish he had" She detained |
him, he says. by placing her hand on |
his arm He says he shook it off and |
went home and told him mother. There |
are also those mere who say Miss Nor |
rison threatened to fix" Castle if he |
married the other girl, but no one has |
limited at anything wrong in the rela-
lions between Miss Morrison and the |
young man.
The wedding took place. however. /
and was made much of, in the style |
OF small places. A week and a day
thereafter. the parents of young Castle
gave a reception for the young couple.
but Miss Morrison was not there. That
day she had gone into the Racket"
and leaning against the counter where
the cutlery was kept, in the showcase
of which was broken glass, had talk
ed with some of the clerks.
Castle went to the store early the
next morning-about $50 o'clock. as
was his habit. About 9 O'Clock came a
message that his wife was dying. He
went home at once. His wife Law on
the floor in the front room. her throat
cut across several times. unable to
speak. Blood covered the whole room
and was in pools on the floor Neigh
bors crowded the room, and physicians
were working over the sufferer Seem
ingly. the husband was one of the last
TO be summoned. He came too late
to see what really had happened
But the neighbors were there early, |
and they saw the elements of as real
d Tragedy as ever shakespeare wrote.
Mrs f. X. Spangler. who lives the first
door north of Castles, tells this story:
About $3.50 or S:45 that morning I
was sitting in my front room with
Mrs. b. Silver and her daughter Sud
denly We heard two voices screaming
but supposed it was children playing
The screams grew worse, lasting prob
ably three minutes and soon we heard
a lamp smash | ran to the Castle
house. looked in the window and saw
a woman on the floor covered with