Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-10-28
EBRssBURG, October 26, 1857.
Another Horrible Tragedy in Iowa.

Another Horrlble Tragedy IN Iowa.
We have received, through a letter to this
city, the following account of one of the most
horrible butcheries we have ever heard of since
the days of Adam Horn The information is
from ono whose responsibility cannot bo ques-
toned. The account comes in private let
ter, and is said to have occurred on the 18th
ult
It appears that man named Adams was
married short time since to a Miss Jenkins,
who had previously been engaged to another
man named Harley. Harley, on the morn
ing 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 appointed, was bound in
wedlock to Adams On the 18th of Septen-
Der, Harley came to Adams house while the
latter was absent with his wife, and finding it
only occupied by an old negro woman, knock
ed her down with an axe, fracturing her skull,
and then proceeded to demolsh all the furni-
ture, and dis6gure the premises, knocking
down partitions and breaking the plaster off
the walls. Adams and his wife returned at
night, and their feelings on perceiving the
work that had been wrought, may better be
imagined than described. Medical assistance
was obtained for the old woman, and her few
broken, wandering words, ending, it is said,
almost in shrek at the mention of the name
of Harley, indicated to Adams the probable
perpctrator of the outrage. Accordingly, the
next morning, he armed himself with q rife
and knife, and went in search of Harley
He had not far to 60, for about one hundred
yards from the house, on the road which pas
sed through a strip of woods, he met Harley,
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destruction A farmers boy, who happened
to be short distance behind. was the sole
witness of the dreadful scene that ensued, and
| which froze his blood with terror A short
but violent conversation commenced betwetn
the two, when Adams discharged his rife,
only wounding Harley in the arm. Harley,
large, athletic man, then closed with him,
and terrible conflict ensued Adams at
last received fatal blow from his antagonists
knife, and Harley. though cut almost to pie
ces, raised the dead body, if possible more
bloody than his own, with the knife still stick
ing upright in his breasl, and carried it into
| the presence of Mrs. ADAMS The boy fol-
lowed mechanically to see the denouement,
| too frightened to summon assistance, and too
weak to give it himself. Mrs. Adams recei-
we'd the murderer with dreadful shrek, and
| fell fainting upon the corpse. Harley, weak
and exhausted, had still strength enough to
draw the bloody knife, and cutting her fea-
lures until not lneament was recognizable,
plunged it into his own heart, and fell back,
his hand still grasping the long hair of his
victim. The boy at last sufficiently recovered
himself to run for aid when 1t came, both
men were dead, and Ars. Adams insensble,
having almost bled to death Great excite
ment prevailed. She was carefully removed
and attended, but cannot recover. Adams
had been decently inferred, but when left
/ proposals had been made for mailing Harley's
body to tree. Adams was universally re-
spected, being the editor of the Ware county
Sentinel. the only paper in that section
Stoughton Wis Independent.