Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — A BRIDE AND CORPSE. [ARTICLE]

A BRIDE AND CORPSE.

Brief Honeymoon of an Unfortunate Kcntucky Girl. At Sturgis, Ky., Henry Delaney, a drug clerk, charged with the ruin of Miss Oliver, having refused reparation, was forced at the point of a revolver in the hands of the giri’s mother to accompany her and the girl and her father in a carriage a distance of fifteen miles to Morgantown, whore a license was procured aud the couple were married. On the way home the carriage wassurroundedby four armed men, who began shooting. Delaney joined the attacking party, who are supposed to be his friends, and the firing continued. Miss Oliverwas shot in the head and her father in the face and arm. The team ran and the attacking party followed, shooting at every jump. The girl died at 5 o’clock Wednesday morning. She would soon have become a mother. Mr, Oliver is fatally wounded. On warrants sworn out by Mrs. Oliver, Geo Delaney, Frank Hall, Geo. P. Henry and Henry Delaney have been arrested. They are in danger of heing lynched.