The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-04
FREAKS OF A JEALOUS WOMAN.

Attempts to Murder her Husband with a
Places-Then Cuts her Tbroat-All on Ac-
count Of Another Woman.
That part of the staid town of Royalton
lying near the village of East Barnard was
the scene of transactions on Monday, the
LIST inst,, of no ordinary character. 1t
seems that in this section of the town OF
Royalton resides tolerably well-to-do
farmer by the name of Nelson Barrows,
his family, consisting of himself, his wife
and two minor sons.
For some considerable time past the
more KNOWING ones" have been well sat
isfied that Mrs. q. has been justly or un-
Justly the victim of the
oREEN.EYED MONSTER" JEALOUSY
that she has harbored the tormenting sus-
picion that her lege lord has been dallying
with the charming and captivating Mrs.
w. of the goodly town of Woodstock.
Believing that
AN ILLICIT CORRESPONDENTS
was being carried on between them, she
made inquiries at the postoflice, where her
husband has his mailable matter, TO ascer-
tain, If possible, the true facts in the case.
1t is not known what information she
gathered as the result of her inquiries, but
this much is known From some cause, on
Monday last, little before the hour of
noon, while her husband was engaged at
some work in his barn, the infuriated wife
and mother stole stealthily up behind the
husband and father and dealt him
FEARFUL BLOW
upon the back of his head and neck, well
nigh depriving him, for the time, of reason
and consciousness. The weapon she en-
ployed to infict her would-be deadly blows,
was good
STOUT PITCH-FoRK.
Not satisfied with the single desperate
blow she had dealt, before Mr.. b. could
gather his shattered senses enough TO beat
retreat to safer locality, she gave him
the benefit of a second blow, in no respect
inferior to the first AT this point in the
ARRAY the husband made his escape, but
upon his person the unmistakable
evidences of his better halls undivided at
tention.
Had this been the finale Of the affair, it
would have passed comparatively harm
less, many, perhaps, secretly indorsing the
procedure of the 'weaker vessel" as per-
haps very nearly what it should be. But
the
MORE SERIOUS PART
of the affair remains to be told. In the af-
ternoon of the same day Mr.. Barrows, ac-
companied by the eldest of his two boys,
repaired to field some distance from his
dwelling to engage in labor for the after
noon. While thus absent from his dwell
ing his monomaniac wife deliberately set
the house on
FIRE IN NO LESS THAN SEVEN DIFFERENT
PLACES,
which, as a matter of course, burned to the
ground. Nor was this the ultimatum of
the desperate woman's acts for, no sooner
had she consummated her incendiary de-
sign, than, with razor, with which she
had provided herself, she made the rash
ATTEMPT TO TAKE TER OWN LIFE
'Gashing both sides of her throat in a
fearful manner, well nigh severing the
wind-pipe, she yet failed to sever the Jug
ular veins, and her wretched life up to the
present time has not paid the penalty of
her rash and unnatural act.
Drs. Sherwin of Sharon and Lovejoy of
East Barnard were Immediately ummoned
and rendered the very best of medical as
sistance, and it is perhaps quite probable
that the patient will yet recover. As may
well be supposed, the whole community in
the vicinity where these tragic acts &C.
Cured are not only unusually exercised,
but actually shocked as it well may be.