Majors, Tillie - duped by Darnell - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Miss Tillie Majors, who was shot by Oscar Darnell, near Jamestown on Wednesday morning, was alive at last accounts, but the hopes for her recovery were not bright. She is so that she can talk, and has related all the circumstances of the affair to her parents. The bullet has not been located, and she cannot swallow. The suicide of the young man prevented a lynching.

Miss Tillie Majors, the victim of Wednesday morning’s Jamestown tragedy, was still alive this morning. The physicians and her family had practically abandoned hope of her recovery. Darnall was buried yesterday.

Miss Tillie Majors is still alive at Jamestown. The Journal of that place contains the following:

We have learned since that she was deceived from beginning to end. Darnall proposed that they would go to North Salem, take the train for Illinois and get married. The idea of going to Darnall’s farm was to change horses so that no one would know how they had gone. It was believed that she was chloroformed, for she did not know what transpired from the time they arrived at Darnall’s farm until she was shot about 3 o’clock in the morning. It is not known why he shot her, or why she was cut on the neck. No doubt Tillie was honest in her desire to become the wife of young Darnall and anticipated no wrong.