Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-23
A DIVORCED WIFE'S REVENGE.
Ass.,ssiiiaiIort q q scnthern POeless.

CANAbOAAO4ib " ShN feASASN-AN"AS - -
most outrageous and murderous attack up
on Pearl Rivers; The newly welded wife Of
A. NJ. Holbrook, ESQ, who Is now lying at
the point of death. The real name Of the
lady, by which she is unknown to the read
ing world, is Eliza ]. Pointevent, and it is
but q few weeks ago the marriage took
place, and the lady received the congratula-
lions of her friends.
R-Jennie Bronson, the woman who made
the attack, is the former wife Of Mr.. HOl-
brook, from whom he is divorced by regu-
lar decree of Court. Her desire for re-
Venge was rather sudden. She had given
in her acquiesenCe to the new marriage, and
it was only known yesterday; when the cir
cumstances of the horrible affair began to
circulate around the neighborhoOd, that she
was bent upon some deadly injury upon the
unfortunate victim of her jealousy.
About twenty minutes before the attack
was made, closely yelled woman, subse-
quently ascertafned to BE Jennie Bronson,
was seen standing on the corner Of Grange
and Constance streets, looking toward
Magazine street, evidently expecting the a.
rival of some one. Growing impatient, she
walked up Constance and around to the
rear Of Brs H5lbrook's residence. This
was about one o'cioGEE.
The house is one Oh a row, is Two stories
in height, placed somewhat back :fom the
street, with a handsome garden in front
the parlUr on the lower floor, projecting
Into bay window. Knowing, from her
former life, the surroundings, the exits and
the entrances to the mansion, jennie
Bronson; with tread like a cat; stealthily
FA-,yJo,l, kfro hob crossed tbh
yard, assembled the stairs iEto the hallway,
directly over the lower passage, with fell
and murderous intent. Pearl Rivers, I'M
conscious of danger, stood in the room at
the end of the hall, up stairs, making her
toilet in front of the bureau, or, rather, was
"dreSsin5 FOR dlnnersn Jennie Bronson ad-
vanced, and covered her head With 9 pistol.
Pearl Rivers turned and saw the woman
with the pistol leveled, the sight bursting
upon her vision like an apparition.
The crack of the pistol and the sudden
turning of Pearl Rivers were simultaneous,
and one=tWo-three shots were fired in an
instant at her unfortunate head, the sssail-
ant looking like a demon in her hate, all
three shots taking effect. 1t may have been
the instinct of selfpreservation, or perhaps
the QUICK prompting Of a woman's impulse,
but for some reason, EeaTl Divers, small
and fragile as she is, rushed toward The
murderess and grappled with her, large and
powerful as she was, wrestling the pistol
from her grasp, while its barrels were yet
heated and smoking. Then the rage end
fury of she assassin knew no bounds. In a
frenzy, and while the powers Of the assail-
ed young lady were gradually departing
from her. the woman seized the Orna-
mental vases and bottles on the bureau and
crushed them, one after the other, upon her
head, raining blow after blow, cutting deep
cash in the forehead, another over the ear,
a third On the crown, from all of which the
blood poured, mlngling with that OF the pis-
tol-shot wounds previously given, and Pearl
| Rivers would undoubtedly have been killed
but for the arrival of the third party. This
was a good strong Irish woman, who hear
ing the noise OF the GontcntlOrI rushed up
the stairs and pinioned back the arms Of
| the virago, rendering her pOWerless for
more harm, while she ground her teeth in
| impOtent rage.
While she was struggling with the ser
! want, Pearl Rivers dsrted down the stairs
and out of the house like flash, and into
the house of Mr.. Rainey, calling on the
| family for Gods sake to protect her. Jen-
! ME Bronson turned to Wreak her vengeance
! on inanimate things. Her dress and
| hair were covered with Pearl Rivers blood.
| She tore the yOuns wife's dresses cut from
| the armoirs and STUFFED in them as at q
masquerade; she broke mirrors and toilet
sets; she descended into the yard, and, seiz-
ing an axe that lay in the woodshed, rushed
with it into the house, and, making for the
grand piano, hewed the fne work Of it
! into bits; she dashed open the cover, and
with several sturdy and vigorous blows
with an axe, cut the delicate chords Of
! the sounding board, and rendered the
! beautiful instrument worthless; she attacked
| the plate glass mirrors and smashed them
! into spinters. Turning round and seeing
! the table laid out for luncheon, with the
| crockery and table ware upon it, she de-
stroyed that in blow after blow, streWing
their broken fragments about the floor il
every direction. From the storeroom she
seized the champagne, and opening bottle
| drank it's entire contents almost at gulp
destroying everything upon which SHE
could lay her hands, and sparing nothing
beautiful or artistic with which the mantel:
were covered, and running the interior o.
one of the most tasteful and we'll decorated
houses in the city, including the oil paint
| ings which hung Upon the walls, and th'
| chandelier pendent from the ceiling, as vel
as the carpets under foot. The police ar
rived to lind the interior of The house il
ruins, the whole neighborhoOd aroused; anC
the woman only at rest from sheer exhaUs
ton Of all her powers. She was afLerwarC
taken to the police station in a cab.
III ~
Pearl found herself among friends, physi
clans were sent for, the first being DR.
Nicholson, who said there was no danger
but DR.. Slife was also called, and by tbi
time the reaction from the flash of terTO
had set in, and the poor young lady lay
PROSTATE in a state Of absolute tOrpOr, s.
that the news came in last night that he
life was hanging by a thread. Perhaps be
fore this reaches the eye of the reader tn
worst will have happened, and the fai
young pOetess of our lOwlands, whose swee
songs are immortal, will have passed away
We hope not. There were two dee
wounds, it was afterWard discovered, one
deep cash in the scalp, passing from tn
frontal bone and making the circuit of th
head; the other on the left temple, where
, is impOsS BILE at present to tell whether G
, not it is bullet wound or the cash of on
of the bottles. The house on ConstanC
street last night was almost like the hOus
of death, and those who came and wei
trOd noiseless and with hushed breath.
1t isevident that two of the bullet wound
have produced very dangerous iDiuriC
while, should they not prove mortal, th
blows upon the head made with the pc
fume bottles, leave little hope of her fin
} | recovery. Jennie Bronson, the WOuld-t
l assassin in this fearful domestic drama, is
: woman of singular beauty, but of violeI
) and Incorporate passions. Her wedde
life was a scene of incessant distuTbanc
and it was only when her furious temp
was no longer to be borne that her husban
. resorted to the alternative of a divorc,
y When sometime afterward he sought pea
8 and happiness with pearl Rivers she swol
a bitter revenge, saying both should feel Il
effects of her vengeance. How faithful
she has carried out this threat the events
Yesterday attest. She was arrested by p
lice officer Dorsey and carried to the Pacal
Ter Station, where she was locked up.
the evening she was visited by a number
t acquaintance and members of the pres
) but she refused to talked freely of the o
: currence,a and desired to make no statemen
. saying that she left all things in the hant
: of providence and trusted only in God