Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1893 — LOVE AND JEALOUSY [ARTICLE]

LOVE AND JEALOUSY

Bay State Passion Leads to Murder and Suicide. ¶ Unrequited love and jealousy were the cause of a probable murder and suicide at Quincy, Mass., Sunday, the principals in the tragedy being Mary Victoria Lafave, a comely lass of eighteen years, and Joseph Massey, aged about thirty years. The girl, had been to mass and was returning home unattended. Massey, who had been waiting for her, followed her. When the girl had reached a point opposite the entrance to the old Miller estate,' Massey was seen to step up near her and drawing a revolver fire three shots in rapid succession. The whole affair camo so suddenly upon the eye-witnesses that they were for a monent [moment] apparently paralyzed and paid no attention to Massey, who after doing the shooting, did not stop to see the result, but turned and walked leisurely away. The murderer was pursued, but before he could be overtaken fired a bullet into his own own brain, from the effects of which he expired in ten minutes. The girl will undoubtedly die.