The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-28
Came Near Sleeping Under the
Hillside as Result of His
Mad Passion
LOVE WAS NOT RETURNED
GOES TO GET HIS AFFINITY WITH
A GUN BUT SOON FOUND HIM.
SELF WITH A HEMP ROPE
ABOUT HIS NECK.
(American News Seryice)

San Antonio, Texas, June 2S.-Willie
Staper, the ardent lover of Sophie
Lieck, confesses that he has been cur
ed of all love notions. and that probab-
ly it is now with him a case of never
again" Willie came very close Sleep
ing under the hillside as the result of
being lovelorn. For many years VIII
lie has simply adored the ground on
which Miss Lieck walked. but there
was no reciprocal relations. To Sophie
Willie did not appeal as lover AS
long as there was still some hope VIII
lie did not really press the matter very
much. Time would adjust it. no doubt
But few days ago Sophie announced
that she had been engaged for some
tine and that there would soon be a
wedding. To Willie it seemed then
that no more time must be lost. Arm
ing himself with the biggest revolver
he could find he made for the house
Of the maiden who had scorned him
Just what he wanted to do with the
gun Willie has not admitted, but what
he did with it is nothing to his credit
When Sophie's mother saw Willie in
the door she scented danger and told
the girl to run for her life Happily
the house of one of the girls brothers
is only a short distance away and to
this the girl fed.
Willie took the house by storm and
made Mrs Lieck back from one room
into another with the barrel Of the
gun close to her forehead A tragedy
was averted by the woman keeping he,
wits about her and telling the would
be son-in-law that Sophie had gone te
town. Not finding the young woman
in the house, Willie finally abandoned
his original plan, said to have been {
combination of murder and suicide
and quietly took to the road. He hat
to discover. however, that while low
has a good many privileges, there art
few 1t has not. About an hour aftel
his search of the Lieck home. Will,
found himself. or better his neck at tn.
business end of a rope and a bunef
of determined men at the other, tn,
latter looking for a convenient tree Of
telegraph post But love is said to b
lucky. At the eleventh hour and fifty
ninth minute a peace officer happened
along. making it possible for Willie Il
do three days in jail for disturbing
the peace and paying a fine of on
hundred dollars for disregarding al
injunction issued by Judge Seeligsol
for the purpose Of giving peace to poo
Sophie. Willie likewise has paid /;
fine Of one hundred dollars for pistol
toting, and within the next few day
will be assessed two hundred dollars
for the violation of another injunction
concerning Sophie. Pending agains
Willie and all due to his amorous In
clinations is a charge of contempt o.
court, the violation of q bond of $J0t
to preserve the peace, assault and bat
terry and threatening violence through
the mail. Sophie's family and the au
thorities will see that Willie gets thu
limit in every instance, and while Wi!
lie is a prosperous farmer in this coun
ty and will not feel the loss of few
dollars he will pay in fines. he is liza
BILE to have little time left for thoughts
of Sophie by the time the various
courts get busy with him.