Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — SLAIN AT WEDDING SUPPER. [ARTICLE]

SLAIN AT WEDDING SUPPER.

Ct»>® and BrtJf Assassinated by the Tanas’* Rejected Suitor.

Chartes RasaMa. a farmer 27 years of age. Frank Walker and his wife, wham he- Haiti married but a few h-.»nrs Wtffgv-. and then committed suicide, at the Blvhedc off James Cook, nine miles east Agf Moatgotaiery. Mo. on Tuesday e-venamg. Rankin, was a jealous lover of the feeikfe. ffocmvrty Miss Goskome. The- fecite ami groom sat side by side att the head off the wedding suppe-r table. There- was an uncurtained window behind tthicuaiL. Saltenly there was a minjgksl tfin of screams, gunshot reports and crashing glass. The- fertile and groom sat tend Bn their chairs. The onlookers, held by horror- eff the sight, saw a flash outside the window and heard another reffiMt. Terror stricken, the guests at the feast sumuiEoawd the sheriff and a posse was f«mel to search for the murderer. I® the yard off the house lay the murtew. deadL He had bored his foot that be might get a better hold of the trigger with hss twe and had then Mown his head itffi. He left a mote explaining that be <o®M an* Eve without the girt, and as to k3H! her h®sfe«nid would be to make her maaserafeue. he had decided to end the lives «eif fc*o«h amd the® kill himself.