Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-04
Another Br.nckley Case.


4 Dscorce ssst and its tragic exN
A Newman (Ga,) paper of a recent
date gives the details of the killing OF,
Mrs l.. +. Brinckley in that town by
her husband. Additional interest is
given to i, by the fact that the murder
er is the uncle Of the Mr. Hugh Law
son Brinckley whose wife secured a
verdict of divorce. in New York on
Wednesday. From the details is learned
that Brinckley's family consisted of
himself, his wife aud four children.
The husband and father is sail to be a
dissipated naM and a burdea to his
family, frequently maltreating them SO
badly as TO cause police interference.
Last winter he was indicted but acquit
ted OF assault upon his wife with intent
to commit murder The narrative Of
the tragedy is thus told by the local
journal:
AS we have before stated, immediate
ly after the acq,iittal and release OF S.
b. Brlnckley, at the last March term q
the Superior Court, ticket to Mem
phis, Tenn was furnished him, and he
took his departure for that place, osten
sihly, bat whittier lie went is not
positively known III this community.
He has brother, living in Memphis,
who Is said TO be wealthy and an est
matle gentleman. "a few days ago he
made his appearance in Newman, re
manned here short time and then went
tothe country. On Nedn,s a. evening
last he returned to town, and about
O'Clock bought a pocket knife from one
Of orr merchants. He then went di
rectly to the store of his wife. Scarcely
Lad he entered the store when loud
screams were heard and number OF
neighbors Immediately ran to ascertain
the cause Of the screams, when they
were met at the door by the dying wo
man as she rushed into the street in he.
fight from her assailant, with her life
blood gushing from six wounds infict-
ed by the man who had sworn to love
and protect her, either four of which
would have been fatal She had scarce
~ reached the street before she sank to
The ground. She was followed by her
little children, who, in their fright and
desperation, clunc to her until the,
were literally bathed in their mothers
blood
Mr.. Brinckley was Of course imme-
diately arrested, when it was found
that he had apparently made an effort
to take his own lite, having inflicted
four slight wounds in the low,r pant OF
his abdomen, none of them extending
through the hollow. Mrs. Brinkley S
wounds consisted of one stab in her
breast, two in her back, one in each
arm, and one i'll the side--four of which
penetrated to the cavity. The unfor-
tunafe woman lived about two hours,
and died in great agony. y large and
excited crowd collected on the streets.
and lynch law was freely talked of
So exasperated had our people become
that many OF our very best citizens
were open in their advocacy of the
immediate lynching of the man who
dyed his hands in the blood of his
wife. A conference of some of the
calmer of our citizens was held, and
they determined to do everything in
their power to prevent any act that
would add another crime to that which
had alread, been committed. Manor
Berry issued proclamation calling
upon good citizens to unite in putting
down and discouraging anything like
lawlessness. At length better counsels
seemed to prevail, and the crowd grad
ually dispersed. AS a precautionary
mea sure, however, the Newman Guards,
Captain w Anderson commanding,
were called out for the purpose OF
guarding the iail during the nioht.