Deceased has followed farming and well-digging during the time previous to his becoming insane, he was always considered a hard working industrious citizen. Henry Blouse: Have been acquainted about seventeen years with John M. On this subject he was undoubtedly a monomaniac, but upon ordinary occasions seemed quiet and sane enough.īelow we give the testimony of the witnesses before the coroner’s jury: McGinnis had frequently sworn that he would never go back to the asylum alive. He thought that kind words would calm and subdue the aroused and insane devil in McGinnis’s nature, and his cruel murder showed how fatally he was mistaken.
Sheriff Ramsey had frequently been warned that McGinnis had threatened to kill him but he was of such a kindly and human nature that he could not bring himself to believe that the former was reckless and wicked enough to put his threat into execution. The whole party now proceeded to Stafford’s place and the tragic story is told in the testimony herewith given, of eye witnesses of the terrible event, taken before the jury at the inquest held by Coroner Stanton on the body of John McGinnis who lay there dead with a bullet on his brain. Before going there however, they went on to the residence of Henry Blouse, to get his assistance in making the arrest. Myers and Eugene Nafus, the sheriff started about midnight for the Stafford farm about eight miles south of Chariton. Procuring the assistance of constables, D.S. A warrant was issued for his arrest and placed in the hands of Sheriff Ramsey about 9 o’clock same night. Woods, charging McGinnis with being insane and dangerous. Thursday evening preceding the tragedy, an information was filed by W.O. He had been working on the farm of James Stafford since early June and only at intervals showed evidence of an unsound mind. He has since been at large, but his whereabouts was unknown until within a few weeks ago when he returned to his old neighborhood in the south part of Warren township. Pleasant asylum from which he escaped the following September. In March, 1888, McGinnis had been adjudged insane and taken to the Mt.
Last Friday morning, this community was thrown into intense excitement by the news that Sheriff Ramsey had been killed while attempting the arrest of John McGinnis near Freedom.
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