Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-01-10

$ delicate health-was lying upon the bed with
C her invalid sister. A dispute arose, in which
D Bishop charged his wife with undue intim.
} acy with Mr.. Ward, who with Mrs. Ward
had made call on Mrs. Bishop and her sis
ter the evening previous While this was in
! progress Mrs. Ward came up from down
stairs, and Bishop at once turned upon her,
reiterating his suspicious of something i'm
proper in the relations of her husband and
Mrs. Bishop, and she denying his assertions
In the heat of this controversy Ward, who
had come home to dinner, made his appear
ance, and was heard approaching by Bishop,
who, apparently maddened by his passion at
once seized his pistol, a revolver, when Mrs.
Ward rushed from the room, and meeting
her husband at the door hurried him down
stairs, rs,-telling him that Bishop would kill
him, as it is believed he would have done
had he seen him. \ moment after three
shots of the pistol were heard, and Mrs. Bis
| hop, wounded and bleeding, came flying down
stairs, and rushed out TO a neighbor's house
for help. The neighbors alarmed by the
cries of murder came in, and found Bsh-
op lying insensible in pool of his own blood,
upon the floor, and the bed. doors and stairs
smeared with blood from the wounds Of his
intended victim Bishop it appeared had
fired two shots at his wife as she lay on the
bed, the first passing through her wrist and
a portion of her breast and lodging in the
folds Of her dress the second entering the
angle Of her right jaw. After he fired the
second shot she escaped from the room, and
he turning the muzzle of his weapon to his |
right ear, fired again, with fatal effect He |
lived in an insensible state for about an hour.
dying at O'Clock PM His wife's wounds
are not considered necessarily dangerous
though severe, and combined with the excite
ment and shock in her delicate condition,
were calculated to excite serious apprehen-
sions.
Bishop, by his own accounts, was the son
of a manufacturer of means, in London, had
been a sailor in the British Navy, and also
soldier in the British army, from which he
deserted in 1862, and afterwards served, as
the Messenger thinks, in Massachusetts,
regiment in our army, Rum, jealousy. and
passion had in his case their nat
ural ending in crime and suicide
The NoRTHFIELD DlsAsTER.-Another fatal
result of the disaster at the Harlow bridge
has been added in the death Of Michael Hea-
ley of CRANKY, C. f. All the others of the
injured are thought to be out of danger.
CHRISTIAN CoNvENTIoNS.-There will be
Mass Christian Convention for Washington
,ounty, at Mortified January 9TH and one for
Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, at
he Congregational Church in St Albans.
January - each to commence at 9 O'Clock
l. m, and continue one day. Tie exercises
Sill be prayer meetings, discussion Of prac-
-ical questions. and sermon in the evening
PRESENTATIoN-Mr.A. X. Ballard, pro
1rietor cf the Burlington Pottery, was agree
,bly surprised, on New Years day, by receiv-
nc through the hands Of a committee of his
a handsome silver plated Ice pitch
n, bearing the inscription '' To A. X Bal
ard from his employees, Jan. I, 1865" 1t
$ pleasant to chronicle such Indications of
,leasanI relations and good feeling between
Employers and employed.
FIRE IN RUTLAND.-A fire in Rutland on
sunday partly destroyed the wooden block,
'omer of Merchants row and West street,
occupied by Walter c. Landon, grocer Ma
on Il Marshall, grocer; Sadler & Sweet,
ooot and shoe makers; Smith Il Williams,
nachinists L. T. 4 G. 0. Lawton, dentists,
md couple of families named Frees and Ben
,ett. All saved their goods, though some
what damaged. Loss fully covered by insur-
lnce.
AssAULT-The Vergennes Termonter says I
hat a seemingly quiet. sober gentlemanly man
named J. A. Smith, of Westport, Ny, was
pitched upon, he afirms, at Burlington, last
week Monday evening, by four Irishmen,
between the Post Office and Times Office, 8
about half-past eleven and most horribly
beaten and bruised His jaw was badly hurt,
one tooth broken, face and eyes badly swol
en- so that he could scarcely see. Mr.. Smith
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