A Midnight Assassin’s Work.
SPRINGFIELD, MO., Sept. 11.--Some time after midnight last night several shots were fired into the house of Andy Savage, at Stafford, <sic> near this city, one of the shots hitting Savage’s wife in the head, killing her instantly as she lay on her bed.This morning John Davis, a near neighbor, was arrested as the guilty party, and the excitement became so intense among the citizens that he was hustled off to the jail in this city by the authorities this evening to prevent a mob from lynching him. The prisoner to-night appears very much excited, but declares that he is innocent. He is a bachelor 40 years old, and says he has studied law and written several novels that have been printed. He claims that there had been no trouble between himself and the Savage family, except that they had poisoned some of his fancy dogs.
Last night rocks were thrown at his house, and he says he left home, although he heard the shots that did the fatal work.
~ The Daily Record, 12-Sept-1889, Page 1, Column 2
You can visit the memorial page for Mary Caroline “Mollie” [Ford] Savage.
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