The New York herald., 1874-07-21
A BLOODY TRAGEDY.
A Welsh QuarrYman Attempts to Kill His
Wife and Himself.
JEALOUSY THE CAUSE.
Description Of the Horrible
Crime.
STRoUDsBURG. Pa, July.2o. 1874

STRoUpsBURG Pa, July. 20. 1874.
gentleman who arrived in this place last
night from Stating ton. In Lehigh county, brings
the particulars OF q most horrible domestic trag-
edy.
Slatington is in the heart Of the celebrated quar-
rying region OF Pennsylvania Hundreds OF men
find employment there many OF them from the
stone Quarries in Wales Among these one
named John Jones' He went to Slatington in 1870
and entered the quarries. Not long afterward he
married young girl whose acquaintance he made
at the hotel where he boarded she being en-
ployed there as a dining room girl. Not long after
they were married Jones became desperately
Jealous OF his pretty Wife, and thenceforth all
DOMESTIC PEACE FLED THEIR HEARTH.
They parted from each other three times, but
each time reconciliation was effected. Less
than a month ago they had fearful quarrel,
arising, 1t is SAID, from Mrs. Jones passing few
words with young man to whom she was en-
gagged before her acquaintance with Jones. Her
husband left her and went to the coal regions.
His wife remained at home IN Slatington.
Last saturday Jones appeared suddenly In the
very few 70 Of ms old resorts. He exh6led ed to an in
l'f said he 'd received fever days 'o before re
maaon Of the fact that MRS jones' % Was
preparing to sell the furniture, &C., belonging to
them, and then intending TO elOpe with a former
lover. The letter was not signed but Jones pro-
fessed TO believe its contents, although ridicued
by his friends. He said he intended to put stop
to the affair. Whether he was meditatlng then
the deed he subsequently committed Is not known.
Abou nine O'CLOCK saturaay npnt Jones went
next heard was shrill cry of murder" issuing
tered. The cry was heard by passers by, and sew
eral rushed in. Bursting into the room shocking
nar the door with her oas
the blood Moving nom the wound IN streams.
The bed, on which were evidences OF a struggle,
lew feet from his wife, lay Jones, on his back,
groaning. The handle OF large butcher knife
protruded from his stomach, the blade being
buried out Of sight. He opened his eyes when ap.
preached and said,
When the knife was drawn out OF his body he at
tempted TO seize 1t, crying. .Let me finish II"
The two were laid on bed and a physician sum-
storing Mrs. Jones to CONSEQUENCES. 1t was found
that her windplpe was not severed, but that sew
were entertained at last accounts OF her recovery.
MRS. JONES' STATEMENT.
she made as,G giving the
about nine O'Clock BY some one whom she ,
which he drew large carving knife. Mrs. Jones
endeavored to escape from the room, but he seized
her by the hair, pulled ner down on the bed, and
then drew the knife across her throat. Before she
fairly realized her condition Jones plunged the
room and Struck the handle against the vail
driving the blade In to the handle. She hall0oed
Murder" and ran towards the door, after which
she lost all consciousness
MURDERERJ WOUNDS.
An examination OF JONES' wounds proved that
there nine chances in ten OF their proving
fatal The blade passed through the bowels and
came out at the back near the root o. the spine.
POPULAR FEELING.
Great excitement prevails in Satington over the
traIedy. A two-year-Old child belonging to the
victims Is being cared Tor by relative o. Mrs.
Jones. The story OF the intended elopement, as
mentioned in the letter Jones claimed to have re-
ceived, Is without foundation, ana the letter itself
Is believed to be an invention.