The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-07-05

Attempted Murder ly ~ i.umatsc-l Soun.,
Lady r'a-,u hy DrUni>Hrsi.
A desperate attempt to murder q yonnc
Miss Jane I.e Roy, was made on Saturday
morning last by an Irishman named Pat
rick Ryan, while laboring under an attack
of frenzy produced by excessive alcoholic
indulgen
1t seem that Miss be Roy, who keeps
house on Main-strcct, near the hill, for her
brother, Mr. James lie Roy, the attorney
was seated in the kitchen on Saturday morn
ing. about Q o'clock, when she heard the
sound of person chopplng wood in the
yard On looking out Of the window She
discovered man, stripped entirely naked
walking toward the door with q large axe
in his hand, and acting in a wild and excl
ted manncr notwithstanding her alarm
at the unwOntcd sight, she retained pres
cnce OF mind enough to lock the front and
back doors, anl to run up stairs to her bed
room where she locked herself in Pres
emily she heard the madman-ior such she
was row convinced he was-breaking in
the back door, job which he accomplished
in short time Dnce IN the house. ne
went around In an ainlcsS manner to upset
everything he could lay his hands upon.
lie rummaged the drawers, overturned the
chairs, tore papers, set things out of their
places, but apparently without any inten-
ton either to rob or destroy He entered
Mr.. Le Roy's bedroom and broke open a
satchel containing some law papers, which lac
tore he pulled out the drawer Of the wash,
stand, the contents of which lac threw about
and committed other similar follies.
All this time Miss lie Roy sat in her
room, trembling with terror, and hopine
against hope that he would pass by he'
door without attempting to enter, bu: /
seems that the lunatie, with cunning no
unusual in such cases, was all the whll
aware of her whereabouts, and finally cam
to her chamber door and demanded admit
tance She not answering, he again call
ed upon her to open the door, or if she di
not he would break it down and kill he
when he got inside. The terrified gil
kept still, ard was almost frantic with tel
ror at the prospect before her. At lengt
the madman, grown impatient, dashed |
the chamber door, and sprans into tn
room, axe in hand Miss lie Roy, scare,
" knowing what she was about, opene
. the window and jumped to the ground b'
low. a distance of some twenty feet, an
. ran for the fence, which is some four fee
; high, and with an agility that is truly su
prisinc, as she is small and delicate, spral
, over il with bound, aud ran across Il
= corn field toward the river, calling for he'll
The mailman had cunning enough left n
to follow Miss 4c Roy out TT the wlndo'
but ran down eta..s oH which he drorpt
bis axe. la; on arriving in the yard lac pT
cured a lab and gave chacc to the ilyr
woman She kept on running, the make
maIuan at her heels, until she got acre
another fence, when she fell on heap
t. sand, and her would-be murderer on top
hcr-tnc bow he had intended tor her IA
- ing on the sand He recovered hims'
Immediately aul vas about aiming anoth
blow at her head. when several men "
were in an adwining field came to her II
: cue. and seized the lunatic before the bl'
70 fell Il was almost a miracle that VI
A. Lee Roy was not brutally murdered