SLOCUM KILLING

A Tragic Affair

No more tragic occurrance than that now convulsing the country around Rowletts Station has occured since the famous Slocum killing of three or four years since. The Courier-Journal of Monday has the following account of the affair:

The suicide of Henry M. Rowe, of Rowletts, Ky., a short account of which was published in the Courier-Journal on Wedsnday last in a special from Munfordville, Hart County, has developed into a sensational tragedy which is being discussed all over that section of the country. Henry Rowe, after asking Miss Logsdon (Sallie) to marry him, blew out his brains in her presence and the horror occasioned by the deed caused her to swoon. When the young lady recovered consciousness she was a raving maniac and it is thought her reason is permanently destroyed. On account of the prominence of the parties to the affair is is being much talked about. Non of the particulars were stated in the special and none could be learned until last night, when a Courier-Journal reporter met a gentleman from near Rowlett's Station and learned the following facts concerning young Rowe's sensational suicide: "Henry Rowe was the son of John Rowe, a well-to-do and highly respected citizen of Rowlett's and was eighteen years of age. He was a young man of stedy habits, a telegraph operator, and had been employed in Rome, Ga. He had been home several weeks on a visit to his parents and Tuesday night he and a party of friends were on the little turnpike bridge which crosses the railroad. In the party were the Misses Sallie Logsden, Flora Rowlett, Jennie Cardin and John Coats. Just before starting for home, young Rowe called Miss Logsden away from her companions and they walked along the pike ahead of the others. Rowe had been paying the young lady marked attention and as had been expected, he asked her to marry him. The young lady's answer was that she would if Rowe would never take another drink of liquor. They waited until the others came up, when Rowe coolly took off a watch which belonged to a friend, and gave it and his pocket-book to Miss Rowlett, asking that they be given to his father. The young lady thought his actions rather peculiar, but took the articles thinking that young Rowe had been refused by Miss Logsden and intended (there is some missing here) "Rowe and Miss Logsden lingered behind the others and presently a pistol shot was heard, followed by Miss Logsden's screams. The others hastened back and found Rowe stretched on the ground, with a smoking pistol grasped tightly in his right hand. A hole in his forehead, from which the blood and brains oozed, told the story of his suicide. Miss Logsden had fallen to the ground in a faint and was lying across her sweetheart's breast. She was carried home and when she had recovered, her reason had fled. The young lady became very violent and has gnawed most of the flesh from her hands and fingers and is with difficulty prevented from dashing herself against the walls of her father's house. Miss Logsden is the daughter of Joseph Logsden, an old and highly esteemed resident of Hart County and is a very beautiful and attractive girl, just growing into womanhood. "What prompted young Rowe to take his own life is merely a matter of conjecture. He was not at all dissipated, as would seem. Rowe had been seen taking a drink at a place operated by one Eff Marriott and this had been reported to the young lady. Hart is a prohibition county and Marriott has been selling whisky surreptitously for some time. He had received a letter signed by nearly every citizen of Rowletts warning him to leave the place before next Thursday and Marriott will heed the warning. "On account of the high standing and respectability of the parents of the young people, every effort has been made to keep the affair out of the newspapers.
[Unknown date, Submitted by Ray Green]