The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-10-28
From the sto1ghton (Wb.) Independent.
Another Horrible Trnraav,

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We have received. through . Letter ssnt %
tnas city, the following account or one Of the
most horrible butcheries w have heard Of since
the days Of Adam Horn. The ioforms.ion 4
from one whose responsibility cannoa be cues.
toned. The account comes in priy.se letter.
and 10 said 70 have occurred on The l7,h uls.
II appears that man named Adams vas mar.
RED short time since to Mis- Jenkins, who
nad prsviousiy been engaged 70 another man
~ the name Of Harley. Harley on The morn
ing OF the wedding day, had threatened Miss
Jenkins with revenge II she persisted 10 marry
ing his rival, but she laughed 10 scorn biz
threats, and vas, q appointed, bound in we'd
lock to Adams. On the 10th Of Septenber
Harley came to Adams house while the latter
vas absent With big wife, and 6nding is only o.
cupied ~ an old negro woman, Knocked her
down with an are, fracturing her skull, and
then proceeded % demolish ~ The furniture and
dlshgufe the premises, knocking down parti-
lions, and breaking the plaster on the walls.
Adams and his wife returned 1t night. and their
feelings on perceiving the work that had been
wrought may be better imagined than des-
cribed. Medical assistance wae Obtained for
the old woman, and her few broken. wandering
words, ending il Is said, almost in shrek It the
mention Of the name Of Harley, Indicated 70
Adams the probable perpetrator Accordingly
the next morning be armed himself with ride
and knife, and went in search Of Harley. He
mad not far to 60, for about one hundred Yards
from the house, on The road which passed
through strip Of woods. be met Harley, sp-
parentiy proceeding 70 complete bic work OF
destruction. a farmers boy. who happened to
De short distance behind, was the sole witness
Of the terrible scene that ensued, and which
froze his blood with horror. "A short but yio-
lent conversation ensued between the tvO ,vhoc
Adams discharged his rife, only wounding Har.
ley in the arm. Harley, ! large athletic man.
then closed with him, and terrific conflict fol-
lowed. Adams at last received . fatal blow
from his antagonists knife, and Harley, though
cut almost to pieces, raised the dead body, il
possible more bloody than his own, with the
knife :taii sticking upright in his breast, and
carried It into the presence Of Mrs. Adams.
The boy followed mechanically to see the de-
Monument, too frightened to summon assistance.
and too weak to give IL himself
MRS. Adams received the murderer with
dreadful Shrek, and fell fainting on the corpse.
Harley, weak and exhausted, had still strength
enough to draw the bloody knife, and cutting
her features until not lneament vas recoc-
nizabie, plunged it into his own heart, aud tell
back. his hand still grasping the long hair OF
MS victim The boy It last sufficiently recover
Cd himself to run for aid when it came, both
men were dead and Mrs. Adams insensible,
having almost bled to death. Great excitement
pre- vailed. She was carefully removed and ct
sended, but cannot recover. Adams has been
decently inferred /; but when left proposals had
been made for mailing Harley's body to i tree.
Adams was universally respected. being the
editor Of the Ware County Sentinel, the only
paper in that section. #9
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