The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-17
THE DAY HOLLOW MURDER.

| holders Dy the Hon. l.. NJ. Ninde, all of Ft.
Wayne.
| THE DAY HOLLOW MURDER.
HISTORY OF THE oRIME-AN ERRING AND RE-
/ PENTANT WIFE MURDERED BY HER AssocI-
| ATE.
| A correspondent of the New York Times.
writing from Union, N. Y, gives the follow
| ing facts connected with sad tragedy
near that place: The brief announcement of
the Day Hollow tragedy, near this place, has
been followed by the death of the victim,
Mrs. Thornton. The particulars OF the
tragedy are as follows: The murdered wo-
man was the wife of Joshua Thorn
ton. farmer in good circumstances. They
had been married about eight years, and
had two children, one five and the other two
| years old. They were always rated among
| the respectable people of the community, an
| estimate which was changed by the singular
conduct Of Mrs. Thornton In March last, A
brother Of Joshua lived with his father,
about two miles away, on Boynt
Hill. This was Levi Thernton.
the murderer. He always bore
brother Joshua's wife, however, he found
defender and apologist, fact which none OF
her friends and acquaintances could under
stand. That there was criminal friendship
existing between the two, no one for an in
slant suspected. In March last, Mrs. Thorn
ton eloped with her dissolute and
unprincipled brother in law, leaving
her children and home to the
| care of her almost distracted husband
Joshua Thornton made every effort to find
the whereabouts of his unfaithful wife, but
| without success. He had given up all
thought of ever seeing her again, when, one
dark and stormy night in August last, he
was awakened by some one knocking at bis
sSs SSSr. bss0sJP IL proved to S.r be his wife
be permitted to again take her place in bis
home, and professed the most sincere
| sorrow and repentance. That she was sim
cere her subsequent short life and fearful
death sufficiently testify. Shortly after her
return Levi Thornton also appeared again
in the neighborhood. He sought and re-
ceived his magnanimous brothers for
giyeness for his
| BASE CONDUCT,
and renewed his visits to his house. The
confidence that his brother reposed in him
he at once began to abuse, and used every
argument to induce his sster-in-law to
again go away with him. She steadily re-
fused. and ordered Levi to leave the house
and never enter it again. He went away
and did not return again for some time.
Sunday evening of last week he again went
| W his DICbuof >. ln6 l6bL6r WAS out In
the barn feeding his stock, his wife being
alone in the house. Levi went in and at
once renewed his solicitations. Mrs. Thorn
ton ordered him to go away. and threaten ed
to call her husband II he did not. There
upon Levi seized his sister-in-lsw by the
hair, and, with an oath, drew the blade OF q
large pocket-knife across her throat, inf1ict-
! ing wound several inches long, and sever
ing the large arteries of the neck.
Mrs. Thornton ran shrieking from
the house, and fell senseless in
! the road. Her murderer then
and started rapidly toward his fathers. Mrs.
. Thorntons shrek alarmed her husband and
a neighb0r, and they ran and carried her into
the house. A physician who was sum-
moned pronounced her injuries fatal. The
coroner was notified as soon as possible
and Mrs. Thornton's ante mortem statement
was taken, the substance of which is given
, in this account of the tragedy. A warrant
was issued for the arrest of the
murderer, and Constable Merceran
fathers house. He was in a weak con-
dition, he having reached Boynt Hill nearly
, exhausted from loss of blood. He was taken
, to Union and held to await the result oi
Mrs. Thornton's injuries. She died on Fri
day, and her murderer is now in Jail await
ing the action of the grand jury. The day
before the murder Thornton made the
declaration at Boynt Hill that he was going
to Josh's, and If Sarah (the murdered
woman) did not leave with him he would kill
her. When he came to his fathers after the
bloody deed, he confessed to The crime and
, showed bis father the knife with which be
committed it. Thornton's condition is not
dangerous, although the cash in his throat
is an ugly one, and just missed the jugular
vein.
Considerable interest has from time tc
f;rao haop o;fad NON m M of Az
discovery of supposed human foot marks il
the solid rock, the latest being an account in
the Nashville Union of August 2, of then
occurrence at the Narrows of Harpeth. II
! may not be amiss to state here that there
! can be no question of the artificial origin o
, all these marks, the similitude of the human
! foot being favorite form of fpicture-writins
!, among the aborigines. Several we'll exc
cuted specimens are in the National Museum
at Washington; and others are to be founC
elsewhere. They are usually executed in
+ limestone, slate or sandstone, and are o
very rude workmanship, notwithstanding
, all enconiums upon their marvellous per
fiction. On close examination they will b,
found cut through the lamination of tn,
rock, instead ofindenting it. as would be The
I case if produced by a naked foot traversins
j surface liz plastic condition.
r According to an English journal, the diff:
ficulty of removing hard putty from win
/. dow sash can be obviated with great readi
! ness by simply applying piece of heatet
, metal such as solcering-iron or othel
s similar implement. When heated (but no
: red-hot) the iron is to be passed slowly ovel
Q the putty, thereby rendering the latter 81
!, soft that it viii part from the wood without
0 any trouble.