Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-01-08
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ROCKVILLE, EED.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. s, ISIS.
HORRIpLE TRAGEDY.


was enacted one of the most horrible
tragedies it has ever been our lot to re-
cord. A man by the name of George
W. Lishear, n shoemaker by trade,
and residing on the farm of Mr.. Thos.
Rawlings, in the neighborhood of Coles
Vile, in this county, cut the throat of
his wife, and then attempted self-destruc-
ton by cutting his own throat. The
particulars, which are mostly derived
from one of the children, boy about
six years old, are somewhat to the follow
ing effect:
On Thursday morning, the day on
which the mdrder was perpetrated, Mrs.
Lishcar left home to visit friend and
conncxion, living about two miles dis
tant, where she remained until about two
O'Clock, when she left for home On her
arrival there, she found Lishear at work
and she went on attending to her donles-
tic affairs. Some words now ensued,
when he struck her with au unfinished
boot, and knocked her down; then soiz-
ing her, cut her throat from ear to ear,
with shoe-knife, laying open the throat
to the vertebre and severing the jugular
vein. After this, she rushed out of the
house and ran some thirty yards, in the
direction of neighbours, when, from
the loss of blood, she fell in the path
and expired. Lishear then picked her
up, and partly dragged and carried her
to the house and laid her on the bed
lie then cut his own throat, but the
wound, though desperate, was not fatal.
After attempting to wash the blood from
the floor, and arranging things in the
room where the dead body Of his wife
lay, he started, besmeared with the blood
which flowed from the wound in his
throat, to the residence of Mr. Rawlings,
some half mile distant, and announced
that his wife had attempted his life by
cutting his throat and then killed her
self by cutting her own throat. He was
Immediately secured, and DR.. Duvall
was called to the house to sew up the
wound.
4 jury Of inquest was summoned next
morning. and, from all the testimony
they were able to procure, rendered the
following verdict;
We, the jurors, believe that Eliza
beth Lishear came to her death by her
husband, George w. Lishear, cutting
her throat on the 31st December, 1857,
ut about Eve O'Clock, P. NJ"
On Friday afternoon, his wound not
being considered fatal, he was brought
to this place and secured in Jail, to await
his trial at the next March term of our
Court
We are told, by those who know him,
that Lishcar is a sober, industrious man,
but subject to occasional fits Of aberra-
ton Of mind, and it is supposed must
have been laboring under an attack of
the same when he committed the shock
ing net, He had on several occasions
previously threatened to take the life of
his wife, she having twice left him and
sought the protection Of friends, and only
returned to him, the last time, in No
vember past.
Mrs. Lishear was lady of excellent
family, and highly respected by all who
knew her; her maiden name was Walker.
IT Our newly elected Board of Com
missioners met for the first time on We'd
nesday last-prcsent, Messrs. RIGGS,
SHAW, 0gguTr, and SPENCER. The Board
was organized by the election of Samuel
Riggs, of r., President.
They meet again, as will be seen by
reference to notice in our advertising
columns, on Wednesday, the 10th inst.
CONGRESS-. Congress re-assembled on
Monday last in full strength, after the re-
cess, and proceeded Immediately to bu-
siness. In the Senate, Mr.. Pugh intro
duced an important bill in relation to
--r;-aasssy Will in the Hahses -sde capture
Y Gen. Walker was the subject of dis
ssion, which was brought on by re-
4 tion of inquiry in relation thereto,
Admitted by Mr.. Clingman.
TIE TnfBusrERs. 1t is stated that
Instructions Of peremptory character
were dispatched South, on Tuesday, to
collectors, district attorneys, marshals,
&c., against the departure of filibuster-
ing expeditions, and to rigidly enforce
our neutrality laws.