The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-01

negative he drew his pistol. cocked IL and
presented it to the breast of Mr.. 8 Mrs
s., being yet in bed, aud hearing the click
Ing, OF the pistol, rushed to the spot. and.
with more than woman's courage seized II
just as 1t fired, causing the ball to pass he
tween them and lodge in the bed. Mr.. s..
tnen closed with his antagonist. orasnin0
him by the throat, while his wife held ON,
with N"'
DESPERATE n ERIC FIRMNEss,
to the pistol. The negro was finally forced
to release his hold on the pistol, when Mrs.
S. wrenched it from his hand and aimed Il
at his breast. Unfortunately it failed to dis
charge, and so their struggles were pro-
longed. Seeing she could not discharge it.
she dealt him a blow 10 the temple with the
hilt of the pistol, shivering 1t in pieces.
This, together with the efforts
of her husband, felled him to the
floor. Whilst Mr.. s.. pinioned the negro to
the floor, our heroine, with unparalleled
presence OF mind, closed the door and locked
1t, TO bar the other william out; who. il would
seems was afraid to enter and would not do
so, though implored by his comrade TO come
to his rescue. Mrs. 5. then seized a rock,
which served as an andiron, from the glow
ing hre and -pummelled him on the
head right industriously for awhile;
finding at length, the rock too hot
for her hand, this Joan of Arc enveIoped it
in a certain article of her wearing apparel
(which shall be nameless) and again tried
her strength on his Uranium. At length.
~supposing the wOuld-be assassin dead. She
lett him PROSTATE ON the floor. and Mr.. S.
who is in feeble health, sitting exhausted in
a chair. and ran up stairs to a window to
alarm the neighborhood. She soon heard a
noise down stairs, FASTENED down and
reached the room as the negro was rising to
his feet, knife In hand. The negro now
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some way pared the knife aimed at his
throat, out received it in bis cheek, infict-
ing a CHASTITY wound. By this time Mrs. S
had gotten a farmers spade, used in the
house as a shovel, and with a well-directed
blow brought the murderous thief again to
the floor, this time with his skull
crushed in the occipital region. The
negro being now hors de COLI hat. his fe-
male antagonist continued to club him with
the spade, until there was not n vestige of
life remaining. In her own words, " killed
him every time he moved" In this terrible
melee Mr.. Setter received some frightful
gashes about the face and hands,. Mrs.
;. one severe cut on the arm, besides aving
the entire palmer surface of her hand.
BLIsTERED BY THE HOT ROCK.
Drs. Luckey and Eaton were called in to
dress the wounds. They pronounced them
not dangerous. A coroner's inquest was
held late in the evening of the 18Th, up to
which time the negro had not been certainly
recognized. The jury returned a YER
dict of "~justifia bic homicide" would say
in this connection that the place
of the Tencounter is only three-quarters OF
a mile from the bridge where McFee was
found murdered a few weeks since. Whether
this IS the same party that killed McFee is
not known; the suspicious are somewhat IN
that direction, as some of the neighborhood
think they have seen the negro i'm the
neighborhood before. In conclusion, let me
say that the whole country is ringing with
encominms upon the heroic conduct OF Mrs.
s, ana with joy at the happy issue of the
attempted assassination and robbery.