The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-14

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TEMPTED SUICIDE By THE MURDERER, IN ELKuABr
COUNTY. IND.
We and the following full particulars Of the late
socious murder Of wife BY her husband tAs last Co
shen DemccTdf:-
Fleming Wright, hitherto citizen of ordinarily COED
standing IN the commupity where be resided killed his
-iie Friday the 22a instant at their home ssvea
miles south o. thi, psss By beating her a.d seeut
the bead in the NEST shocking and brutal manner with
D Assivs iron 6re shovel
The parties married the 18th Of October is4s
and from all accounts, almost from the Of their
union lived together anything but happily Both pos
sessed violent tempsrs and continued bckerngs bros
and repeated alterations in blows seemed TO have
been the the time Of the perpetraton Of the
fatal deed they separated Each had been previously
married During the lives OF their first companions they
lived premises immediately adjoining, their houses di
recty facing each other opposite sides OF the road
Hei also they continued with their families during ths
had removed to her former domicle. suit was com-
menced BY her for divorce, the 9Th Of March last
faets sworn to by her in the bill be true shs w.s Ger
tsiny the victim Of IS harsh treatment at the hans
OF Nuel husband as woman could well be sub
Jeot to- Thus two months after their MARI sse IS
alleged he accused her Of having attempted poison him
Atervad in October 1S49 rs charged to have usiau
sted that child which she had previously bors him was
not his At one time the epithet of liar is banded
between them, which followed his part BY the naic
ton Of blows with his fist and threats to repeat them
with rod and a. anoths according to the statement
of the bill he accused her with having drank quec too
father and OF being too intimate
HIM Again in the month of February 1850 he charged
with bs wing declared to her " time to beat
you nearly to death and pretty which he sub
oy repeated and the day il ia alleged
beat and bruised her with broom stick and his dsts
about the head ans face and kicked her with his feet
and eked her about the house by the hair in ths
shocking and revolving from the effects Of which
abe suffered for two three month"; After this .
temporary separation occurred which followed
short time after by a nciation brought about shs
AYERS, BY the Interrogation OF relative and
necessities from wan. Of the Of living by herself
rxwfth of
his part During the period OF thsr last eohxbitatoa
acrmony and bitterness 1t seems completely gained the
ascendant BE is charged with declaring to her In sub
stance several occasions: You ought your
damned throat cut and believe il would be for
oe to do it, and on the 2Sth OF last February -hs a.
bsws with the fist and kicks with the feet ending VITA
tA'owng hsr OIL the porch on to the ground saying "a
hs did so. There damn gn 70 helli' This the
of the final separation, and of the Institution Of
proceedings for divorce
The pending at the last term OF the Circuit
Court, which commenced on the 4th inst and was
tinued on his application to give him time 10 procure
absent testimony he denying generally in his affidavit
ali thu material allegations OF the bin but ayerriag
the time his desire for recOnclia ton.
and stating as hi belief that if the case were
the two you'd be living together before the mex. term
temporary order for her relief de By the coar
in which he was required TO furr III hsr for the time
being with the means of sustenance and requisite house
hold furrure, &c The court adjourned to Saturday,
the 10TH The order carried into effect early tho
next week and she commenced preparations for CARRYING
on farming in connection with her son, young OF
about years Of the premises set apart
dover OF the estate Sband
Thu. stood their fairs the day of the perpetratioo
OF the bloody deed Little known positively of the
cumstanees connected with this awful transsctoa ex
cepf that Wright with his hands did the act. No
one about the premises the tme except their two
infant cbdren The cries OF these attracted tine
ton of gentleman who passing bv at about eeveo
O'Clock of the forenoon He proceeded into house
and there bebeld the horrd spectacle The body Of
murdered woman turned part over on the face la upoo
the floor her skuh broken and her whos head GU aad
mangte0 10 the most shocking By her side
wreched murderer holding in his left ha al ous Of
VIE I'M NJ with kat kprt. In
right. attempting 70 cut his throat Near by covered
with blood laid the Instrument Of death huge ire
shovel Inc wound upon himself is not likely to provo
fatal AID be is now in prison Waiting the penalty OF the
law. His account OF the matter that he the
ainy to get o. them-tha they got into CONVEX
sation, IN the course of which used language that
provoked him to intense anger in the heat of which he
seized he shovel ana feled her to the floor being
tho time 81 ed en- stool combing her hair On having
CONNIE Decd he avo~s It tn have been his intention to
hnsn oy killing her outright BE expresses desire 20
avoid the consequences which must to himself
only sems to depreate the Of its Dg
stain upon his family. He protests that he Lowell hs
wife well could and that he believed her au sK
.sllent woman, with the single exception that she pos
sessec a violent and hasty temper.
The fact that these parties hitherto occupied aaite
abie position IN society and had large circle Of
consectons has caused the affair to produce profound
sensa ton throughout the county Nrs. Wright
forty years old she leaves seven CHILDREN to mourn her
Husband One son is Of full age and two daughters are
grown TO womanhood. Involved, to extent in the
winch ensue 10 the wretched cInlnai
four children borne him by his first wife and the
hapes babes who uncon cious observers of the
awful deed by which they were a once deprived Of
tnef ana rendered worse than fatherless.
A STRANGE AFFAIR.
Some time ago noticed that's woman named Mary
DeAny had been convicted in Pittsburg, OF nansaugh
Ger. she charged with murder in the first degree
but after session of the jury, six eight days in
length, eidst Of guilty rendered. II turns
out that The unhappy defendant is not the guilty person
1t vas stated by her counsel motion to set de the
VERDICT t5at a person had just made confession to
the effect that he the guilty PARTY and that his
scies would not alio OF Mary belany suffering in his
st ad This COME sson had been made in presence of
81 s 1yiduas and the speaker understood that the
matter Low undergoing investigation before the city
usgt tIate "