Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-25
ice Dudley Found on Moline Tracks
With Bullet Hole in Head and
Groin Crushed.
DIES on WAY TO HOSPITAL
Haunted by Fear Of Capture, Wife
Slayer Takes Own Life Near
e b. & O. Station.

with remorse, Joseph Dudley, aged
about 80, died about 1880 Saturday
night of injuries received when he
presumably attempted to hurl him
self beneath the wheels OF q pass
ing train near Twentieth street
and Railroad avenue, Moline. 1t
was found that he had earlier at
tempted suicide by shooting him
self in the head, but the bullet
failed to penetrate the skull caus-
ing only a minor scalp wound.
Death Of Dudley was the climax
to one of the most CHASTITY and cold
bIOoded murders committed in
Rock Island in many years.
He loved ferceIy, jealOusly,
radIy-sHe was Indifferent. He
was 10 lose her, he thought, to an
other man. Consumed with a burn
ing passion and mad with desire,
he became freuzied when she re-
fused % allow him to touch, even
approach her Out Of love grew a
rar-t-. lata-a bI0Od-demanding
thirst for revenge. Broodmg brought
the morbid obsessioD that, if not his,
she should never be auother's. The
idea became . plan, the plan be-
came an act-a tragedy,
Young and attractive was Mrs.
Rose Dudley. 6O51z Fourth avenue.
A hard worker, friends and neigh
bOrs said, with sweet but sadden-
ed disI siti0u. Sasdened from the
disillUsiOn and bitter realization
following her marriage to Joe Dud-
ley. i had been an av full mis-
take-marriaGe She did not and
could not love him; this truth she
RECON lied. His affection and
wOuld-be Caresse= were unbeora bic
she wa cold to his advances. He
was iusauely jealous and often &C
cused her Of caring for another
man. She felt ard knew that such
q condition could not continue but
she could not leave him until the
furniture. which they. curing those
first few days OF happy illusion.
had purchased on the installment
plan. was raid for II would not
be Ion. now. for her night work
wages at the restaurant had helped
bring down the balance surprising
ly
Perhaps all Of these things and
many more ran through the mind
of young Mrs. Dudley as at s
o'clock Saturday morning she
trudge6 homeward. ignorant OF the
fact and unsuspecting that she was
returning from work for the last
time. little knowing that in less
than three short hours she was to
walk n another wOrId-the Valley
OF the Shadow.
She was weary-the night had
proven a long and tiresome vigil.
1t was O'Clock before she reached
what she called home. He was
there, for he also worked nights
at he arsenal. Unobseryant, indif-
ferent, she still had noticed that he
had been particularly moody and
ill-natuTed the last few days He
seemed especially DOrOse and sui
len on this morning, and as from
afsr, uniutaIested only as a casual
observer, she idly speculated, per
haps, as to its cause.
It came without show of feeling,
out of a lifeless, terrible apathy.
He was without employment; the
entire night shift at the arsenal had
been laid of. She paid little atten-
ton, only to wonder sieepily if he
might not now leave her Of his own
accord. He prepared himself d
meal, and ate in silence, alone, at
the little kitchen table Uttered with
UuWashed pots, pans and dishes.
She Prepares to Retire.
She sank YEARLY into a low-back-
ed rocker IN the room adjoining the
kitchen, just out Of his range of
vision. Shes had removed her
blouse and had slipped a faded
bathrObe over her working dress.
Ter heavy hair bothered her and
she Icosaned IL, depostting the few
haiTpius which she removed upon
a dresser in the small bedroom ad
joining. The piece OF furniture
stood about six feet in front and
about three TO the right Of where
she sat.
He finished eating. Hate-dcsire
for reyen re- gripped him. He felt
Of the revolver in his pocket Its
cold. sinister mUzzIe typifed his
state Of mind-his feeling. He felt
strangely sOothed.
Mira Nellie Roe, who, with her
husband made their hume upstairs,
passed through the Dudley living
room as she left to visit a sister,
Mrs. Celia Willhite, SO Fourth ave
nue., only a short distance away.
She had finished ironing. Although
the young couple ouarreled fire.
quentTy. she had heard no words
that morning. IN fact, she ha&
heard no fuss since Thursday Ex-
cham ing a few pleasant words with
young Mrs. Dudley, Mrs. Roe de-
parted u was 10 o'clock.
Joe Dudley thought on. Now was
the time What was the use Of
keeping up the useless farce She
did not love him, but another. The
sooner i al ended, the better. A
knock on the front door. AS he
passed hts attractive, young wife
hts sinister resolve became fixed.
He shall never have her" fired his
brain Raarhirg the door. glover
ing. he threw It open. The Argus,
sir said little Donald Carter. q
carrier, on ms rounds Of collection.
Hints Of Plan.
whats the use OF paying your
t5ll Dudley, surveying tie lad
CaFlsIg- after today my wife and
wont be here any more" The !
hidden meaning il the tOneless /
statement was lost On the boy and /
he hurried. Tt was 1890.
Theory Of Deed.
AS, from behind the closed door, |
he~watched the carrier depart, he |
drew the gun from his pocket |