Yesterday, we noted this item, amongst other:
If ever there was a story that there must be a lot more to, this is it. And yet, it's impossible, based on the limited resources available, to learn much more.
Thomas, I'd note, didn't merely state that she wished Cornish dead. He was a "persistent wooer", as the article indicates, and apparently the couple had engaged in some prior wooing. She also reported to the police that he was consistently abusive and had been that day. That's likley why Thomas shot Cornish. He not only wanted her ardently, but he was, she thought, or stated, abusive.
Thomas packed a pistol, we'd also note, which while it's something we'd expect of Lauren Boebert of Colorado today, wasn't average lady like behavior in Colorado in 1923. Heck, my paternal grandparents were married and living in Denver at the time, and my guess is that neither of them routinely packed pistols. Indeed, as far as I know, the only firearms my material grandfather routinely used were shotguns, which he was reportedly very skilled at. My uncle reported to me that when he was a boy, and they were living in Scottsbluff, my grandfather would take just the number of 410 shells necessary to fill his pheasant limit, and come back with the limit. Here in Wyoming, he hunted ducks.
Seems that's genetic.
Anyhow, I'll bet my grandmother didn't pack heat. Either Thomas figured she needed to, due to Cornish's nature, or she routinely did. We'll never know. She had a pistol anyhow.
A Coroners Jury found Thomas acted with premeditation, which doesn't mean what people think it does. It just means she had sufficient time to know what she was doing.
Well, they're all gone now. My God rest their souls, and I hope Thomas's time in the pokey wasn't too hard.
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