The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-08
The killing OF u Wife aud the Suicide
Of IL Husband.

(Rosevillc, Pa, Sept. &c, to New York Sum-
About five years ago William Russell,
a farmer, living few miles from this vii.
age. was left widower with one child
by the accidental death Of his wife and a
second child, they being thrown from a
wagon by a runaway horse. The care Of
the farmers house then dcvolved upon
his daughter Harriet, aged Is years. a
girl named Mary Stokes, about the same
age, was employed to aid in the house
hold work. The girl had lived in the
house about eighteen months, when Miss
Russell discovered that her father was
paying the attention Of lover to the girl,
and that close intimacy existed be:
tween them. Naturally shocked
and indignant at this, the
farmers daughter dismissed the Stokes
girl from her situation in the family.
When Russell learned Of this proceeding
he Immediately brought the girl back,
and told his daughter that she was to
remain there as long as she chose. The
daughter thereupon left the house, and
went to work at sewing IN the neighbor-
hood. The affair created great scandal
in the rural social circles. Mary Stokes
finally left Russell's and retured home. A
few days afterward Miss Russell resumed
her old position in her fathers house and
the scandal soon ceased to be the subject
ofgossip.
Living in this village was a highly re.
. oected young carpenter named Horton
Hurst. His father owned farm adjoin.
ing that Of the Russells. Some years
ago difficulty arose between the two
farmers about the prorer location of a line
fence. A long, bitter, and expensive law.
suit followed. Farmer Hurst was finally
successful in the suit, and died two years
ago. Russell hated the name Of Hurst,
and when, some three years since, he
made the discovery that his daughter
and ethe son of his old enemy had
formed an attachment for each other,
and were actually engaged to be married,
he threatened to disown Harriet if she
did not at once renounce the idea of wed.
ding young Hurst. She made the sacri.
fee in obedience to her parent. When
she left home ON account Of the difference
with her father and Mary Stokes,she and
her old lover met again, and renewed the
VOWS that had been broken. This did
not come to the ears Of her father until
some months after her return home. He
then reiterated his displeasure at her
choice, and declared that she should
never take the name Of Hurst so long as
hc lived.
About three months ago Russell as.
founded his daughter by telling her that
he intended to marry the girl Mary
Stokes and bring her back to the farm
house. Harriet was firm in her opposi
tion to the old mans folly, as she termed
it, and assured him that when he brought
his wife home he would find his daughte,
gone from the house never to return.
The early part of last week Russell
made known to his daughter that he wa:
to be married Oh the following Friday
She made no reply, but went to work al
once in perfecting arrangements that hac
been pending between herself and Hurs
for some weeks, in view of the marriag,
of her father. Friday morning the ole
farmer, first telling Harriet that he woult
dcturn with his wife in the afternoon
rrove awax toward the home of Mar,
Stokes. The daughter placed the hous
and about noon started for Roseville
She left behind her, on the bureau in he
room, the following letter addressed t.
her father:
DEAR FATHER: have always tried to be
dutiful daughter to you, but the act you inten'
to do to-day is more than l can submit to, as
have more than once told you. You choose
'comI anion above me. | hope she will te a