, 1866-12-10
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY,
Murder Ola Child By irs Mother-The
Wrcteheu Woman Attempts to Conn
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| From the Wheeling Iae<7geac<r VIC learn
| the following Particulars Of most horrible
and desperate murder and attempted suicide
Which occurred Oh Wednesday morning Last
| st The Packer Hotel in that city:
k.A woman, who gives her name rs Ainni,,
| Sugent, arrived there on Tuesday morning
| las, on the Parkersburg boat and look FodG.
! iuge. She had with her little girl about
| 1hrcc years old. There was nothing especial.
y unusual about her Appearance, or that
mission On which she had come. After she
had been assigned to \ room. very little wis
ssen Of her BY the inmates Of the hbusc.
She ate her breakfast and also her
So1h es bixns sbe the s ehla Id. With bs5 =,
next etteiday5 19a mornine e f. Iaaax dss
noticing her absence, sent up to her room 10
sec II anyt thing was wrong, aud the chamber.
maid returned saying TINT the woman was
woman did not come down. Thinking such
long fasttn. n very unusual occurrence, the
landlady vent up to The room second time
Tttl her chambermald, and, knocking at the
doot, me woman came aud opened It. The
She pointed those at the door to her little
girl lying dead In the bed, and at once con-
fessed that She lad murdered 1t on The pre-
vions evening. since which time she had been
unoes Inc Influence oi opium, taken with
the Evidences Of all she said were conclusive
Enough. She had been vomiting. and was 1T
the time III state 'of delsEiu,n from the ef.
:ects Of the drug. Her child was lying in its
niood .stat@ed night clothes IN the bed from
dagger slabs through its Ieit breast md side.
Tie sight vas horrible enough, and was
made doubly so by the situatEon or INC
woman. Confused ss sht was With opium.
sue vas able to tell The history Of the cir.
cumstance; She related that her maiden
Mlllamstown, In Wood County, In West
virginia, opposite Marietta; that tour wears
ngt' she hsd married man named Nureut.
against their consent, running away with
bin, and that two months after the birth OF
never rct54ncd; That her mother had REUSED
to become 1cconclled 10 her. and had never
forgiven her marriage, but had made her
home so intolerable that sue could not live
there; and had poisoned the minds Of al her
osheF relatives against her to such an extent
!hat she bad no place on earth to call o
hotne, and was forced to go out In the world
and seek subsistence. She had gone
out, md had found tnat there WIS no place
Tor her; nothing that she could do, and she
s9uld aao not bcar to bsg her way from p1ace to
orer her homeless prospects, and anxious not
TO leave her little daughter to ta;~S worse.
Perhaps, than death, she calmly resolved to
end both their lives, and aficr making up
her mind tt. this effect. came to Wheeling 70
dagger ard also several papers Of powdered
otin1n. and seems to have made minute prep
arations for death, as the documents pub
ilshed below seem to Indicate. She said that
for several hours after arriving, she conld not
she must do 1t. She waited until 1t f-ll
asleep. and then putting IN It's night clothes
and piacsngi It In bed. bent over 1t, and kissed
It several timo before planting the dagger
In its heart, Us she flraily did. The chiu,
with scarcely struggle, bled to death, She
bad stabbed It three times, twice in the LED
lung and once In the heart. She 5ays t1l7t he.
fore she took its life she knelt down ana
p5ayed over It, and alae repeated her prayer
after che had inflicted the wounds and that
she had kissed away its Last expiring breatl.,
Alter the perpetration Of this horrible and
which she proposed to take her own life. mud
then lay down beside her dead child to die,
from some cause, either FROM M overdose
OF the opium, or else from au insufficient
amount OF II, she failed TO accomplish her IN
tcnttons ofsuicide. She had vomited a great
deal, Gnd seemed to have thrown up most OF
the POISON. Several powders, with directions
~ q femme handwriting, were found among
M ner staeets, a. we're also number Of letters.
she y young Woman, aged only about
twenty.one, rather illiteraie and evidently
unbalanced In her mental and moral organl.
zatton. The following letters serve to show
these characteristics. We have rewritten,
and, as It were, translated them from mass
ol almost nlegiole manuscript;
UNION HoCtE, WukE1tao, wxsrEA
AT' <7o71tt;or: when jon discover thai
haye Committed suicide, dos's lei a crowd Of
people inll Of curiosity INTO my .o2nn 70 gszc
IS. VIII plsip eotan Lay ny u dead baby Out too
aed place her beside me, with her acld upon my
deten; ar r1sh i.s N; .,n !, aloqud hes, and ri us
ssn III = ,hs is besnd nd d pnt pa: ons
= the et'cc and Five the other 10 ~ editor to pub
~, fhJ onc MI nc 20 Kind shaH like = be
Cnrtcd :, tho:e Who iii . Do thi.. Oh s:r,
=, mf sos t,on t S1hr, anu 90 as o.o you.
soa thst M ha!e i p.eed s iSsse a''n's 0n ny per-
Ans MNHlH Erakxr.
u..,.M4n M4n1EFrA, Wa.hin.ton, Co
bosFd. FS ''e "0res 'sl' IN my POCKET book Tor my
dry: but tafed 70 get eaacse when iefe
noiei, whte!iar. ". Va. 1''e''' VI NC on''n
u, Isiox n9TlL, WnEEtxso. West Va,
1ss hest a etnf se des %
"a happ, heasls ny thaddeT. but isc hsss! Seatt
yEt5 rad ftueed. haven't Ting 10 say nnch'
Ire thought Of dying ever since got married.
~ n9ther: @ sissss ~l,cla~ md bsot6ef. NJ he
CAY Who Nould lsy down their 1ires for me, many
VIC Wpuld su1eF. AanT tat hearts there 4ill be
VIXEN tnet near an nead- Hat mother, korgiFe
yon; yon drove me 10 this fon caused all our
niany 70 m1ueae ne *tthont1 Z ea1fe; bat for
gre 5oa. aha Waht so9 10 DC better woioal
Mhst clothing hare At home. bum MP every
thi1R that have leit Jennie. too. don't haie
:Tse 10 more. God Knows l ht7e tried
alnaJs 70 90 right a neaf as III
scnt9. aId oesteeh inote who love me The aoet
eseply Eot 70 g!;ere, but 70 bc xlad hccanss ytn-
Ale = nAPp5 Skterr want yon to neTcT ceaee
prsJtne Tor me md othest. ffeei haop1. lei
tEat God!t ccar to ne. meant % SAY FFe4t
deal n1ose, ent don't tetI hAe writing. sumo.
how must die soou. a last and long good bye!
Lnse t<me enemies but none who will iniura
me, npEe who has Attempted TO- don't want anv
one TO EFetc for me. hnt Have request 10 make
Lizzie. heln our folks to lay a.lac hard thoughts.