Show MAD LOVERS CRIME Two of His Victims Dead and Two Fatally Wounded and He Himself a Corpse All Through Jealousy Ottumwa Ia Aug SW S Jenkins baggageman for the Burlington at the depot at Chariton la today shot his sweetheart Julia Murphy her sister sis-ter Josie their mother Mrs Eliza Murphy and himself Jenkins and Josie are now dead while the mother and younger sister are fatally wounded woun-ded Jenkins had been devoted to Julia for five years and she had received his attentions Mrs Murphy kept a boarding board-ing house and Jenkins boarded there Becoming more and more enamored of Miss Murphy he became more bold in speaking out against the attentions of other men until after a quarrel over the matter Mrs Murphy requested him to find another boarding house This he did and did not seem at all hurt but kept calling at the Murphys No one knows why he became particularly par-ticularly excited and jealous today but he went over to the house in a bad mood He had some words with Julia about the attentions of a man He then drew a pistol and shot her Turning to the mother who had rushed into the room he shot her twice without a word after which he stepped into a hall where her sister stood and shot her killing her instantly He then blew out his own brains firing into his right temple Jenkins has always borne an excellent excel-lent reputation and the general belief is that he was insane The coroner I will investigate tomorrow |