Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-10-29
From the Stoughton (Wis) Independent.
Another Horrible Tragedy
in Iowa.

| We have received, through a letter to
this city. the following account of the most
horrible butcheries we have heard Of since
TIE days of Adam Horn The information
is from one whose responsibility cannot be
questioned. The account comes in pri-
vate letter, and is said to have occurred on
the l7th ult.
1t appears that man named Adams was
kins. who had previously been engaged to
another man by the name of Harley. Har-
ley, on the morning of the wedding day,
had threatened Miss Jenkins with revenge,
if she persisted in marrying his rival, but
she laughed to scorn his threats, and was
at The appointed time, duly joined in we'd
lock to Adams. On the 10Th of Septem-
Der Harley came TO Adams house. while
the latter was absent with his wifi, and
finding it only occupied by an old negro
woman, knocked her down with an axe.
fracturing her skull, and then proceeded to
demolish all the furniture and dis6guro the
premises, knocking down partitions and
breaking the plaster off the walls. Adams
and his wife returned at night, and their
feelings on pcrceiving the work that had
been wrought, may better be imagined than
described. Medical assistance was obtain
ed for the old woman, and her few. broken
wandering words. ending, it is said. almost
in shrek a. the mention of the name Of
Harley. indicated satisfactorily to Adams
the probable perpetrator of the outrage
I Accordingly. the next morning he armed
himself with rifle and n knife, and went
in search Of Harley. He had not far 10 Co.
for about one hundred yards from the house
on the road which passed through strip
of woods, he met Harley. apparently pro-
ceeding to complete his work of destruc-
ton A farmers boy who happened to be
short distance behind, was the sole wit
ness cf the dreadful scene that ensued, and
that froze his blood with terror. AZ short
but violent conversation commenced be-
tween the two. when Adams discharged
his rifle, only wounding Harley in the arm
Harley. large, athletic man. then closed
with him, and terrible conflict followed.
Adams at last received fatal blow from
his antagonists knife, and Harley, though
cut almost to pieces, raised the dead body,
if possible, more bloody than his own, with
the knife still sticking upright in his breast,
and carried it into the presence of Mrs.
Adams. The boy followed mechanically,
to see the denoeument, too frightened to
summon assistance, and too weak to give
it himself. Mrs. Adams received the muir
derer with a dreadful shrek, and fell faint
ing on the corpse. Harley, weak and ex-
haus ted, had still strength enough to draw
the bloody knife and cutting her features
until not liniament was recognizable,
plunged it irto his own heart and fell back,
his hand still grasping the long hair of his
victim. The boy at last sufficiently recov-
cred himself to run for aid when it came
both men were dead and Mrs. Adams in
sensible, having almost bled to death
Great excitement prevailed She was care
fully removed and attended. but cannot re.
cover. Adams had been deoently Inferred
but when 1 left proposals had been made
for mailing Harley to tree. Adams was
universally respected. being the editor o
the Ware county Sentinel, the only paper
in that section - " 10