The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-06-15
Battle of the AmazOnS.
TRAGIC FEATS OF A HERoINE-A FE-
MALE PITCHED BATTLE-SANGUI-
NARY RESULTS OF JEALOUSY.

MALE PITCHED BATTLE-SANGUl Ul-
NARY RESULTS OF JEALOUSY.
/ The Nashville Union, Of Satur-
day last, tells the following extra
ordinary story:
One of the most sanguinary
deeds growing out of jealousy,
and one of the highest exhibitions
Of female courage we have seen
any account Of for many a day,
occurred few days since near
the East Tennessee line, in the
edge Of North Carolina, bordering
on Blouut County. The account,
which we abbreviate from the
several reports, seems miraculous.
Tie parties represented are cred
liable and respectable.
It appears that the wife Of
James Davenport became jealous
of a young girl named Kate Jack
son, represented as being quite
handsome and lovable. Quarrels
and contentious were fierce and
frequent between the two ladies.
On the day Of the fatal collision
it appears that Miss Kate Jack
son, in company with her married
sister, Mrs. DeArmand, passed the
residence Of the Davenport family.
As soon as the sisters wero dis
covered on the road, the Daven-
ports, six in number, comprising
the mother, three daughters, two
of thom grown, and two sons, tho
eldest about eighteen years old,
rallied in force, and set out in Wig
orous pursuit Of the defenceless
sisters. Tho trail was continued
until the sisters had nearly
reached the Tennessee line. Here
the Davenport brothers, by q
movement, strategically fauked
them, and presented tron.armed
with sticks and stones. This
caused Kate and her sister first to
halt, and then attempt to retrace
their steps. But upon attempting
to retreat they were confronted
by Mrs. Davenport and her th. ,e
daughters similarly armed, who
demanded Mrs. DeArmand to get
out Of the way, as they intended
to kill Kate. Instead Of obeying
this military order, Mrs. Dear
mand made preparations to de-
fend her sister. Young Daven-
port, the elder son, seeing this op-
position to his order, at once let
90 a stone at her, which took
effect on her head, breaking her
skull, and prostrating her lifcless
on the ground.
The heroic Kate was thus, at
the onset of the engagement, left
to defend herself. She rallied and
maintained her line by indiscrimi-
nately hurting upon the attacking
party such finty missiles as came
opportune to her. One of these
shots took Immediate effect upon
the elder Davenport boy, Sitting
one side of his face open, and pla-
cling him hors du combat. Turn
ing her attention to the maternal
head Of the Davenport family, she
directed a stone against her head,
which inflicted scvero wound
and laid her sprawling on the
field. This accomplished, the brave
girl slowly fell back to a position
where she could supply herself
with necessary ammunition.
This point obtained, and being
still beseiged, she again discharged
a shot, and another of the Daven-
port boys wilted. Then the Da-
venport girls rallied and made a
desperate charge upon her with
clubs aad stones, inHicting serious
wounds, but not succeeding in get
ting her down. Just at this crisis,
Kate, hard pressed as she was,
and having no time to stoop to
gather rocks to defend herself, ex-
tricated from ber pocket a small
penknife, measuring about six in
ches in the blade, and commenced
an indiscriminate and very wild
and general cutting and slashing
at the combined Davenport girls
surrounding her. The result of
this fearful frenzy on the part Of
Kate was seriously detrimental to
the well-being Of the Davenport
females. Two Of them received
serious slashes from the weapon
she welded, one dropping on the
field from loss of blood, yet food
ing from the knife, and the other
so seriously disabled as to be a fit
subject for hospital practice.
This unexpected result eontri-
buted materially to the withdraw
al of the remaining Davenport be-
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