The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-06
The killing Of a Wife and the Suicide
Of q Husband.

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The killing Of a Wife and the Suicide
of q Husband.
[Roseville, Pa, Sept 26, to New York Sum-
About five years ago William Russell,
farmer, living a few miles from this viii
lage, was left widower With one child
by the accidental death of his wife and a
second child, they being thrown from a
wagon by runaway horse. The care of
the farmers house then devolved 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 retired 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.
MISS RUSSELL LOVER.
Living in this village was highly re-
spected young carpenter named Horton
Hurst. His father owned a farm adjoin-
ing that of the Russells. Some years
ago difficulty arose between the two
farmers about the proper 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 we'd
ding young Hurst. She made the sacri-
flee in obedience to her parent. When
she left home on account Of the difference
with her father and Mary Stokes, she ard
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
he lived.
THE TWO WEDDINGS.
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-
ton to the old man folly, as she termed
it, and assured him that when he brought
his wife home he would find his daughter
gone from the house never to return.
The early part Of last week Russell
made known to his daughter that he was
to be married on the following Friday
She made no reply, but Went to work at
once in perfecting arrangements that had
been pending between herself and Hurst
for some weeks in view of the marriage
of her father. Friday morning the old
farmer, first telling Harriet that he would
deturn with his wife in the afternoon,
rrove away toward the home of Mary
Stokes. The daughter placed the house
in readiness for the return of her father,
and about noon started for Roseville.
She left behind her, on the bureau in her
room. the following letter addressed to
her father:
r DEAR FATHER: have always tried to be a
dutiul daughter to you, but the act you intend
to do to-day is more than can submit to, as
have more than once told you. You choose a
comt anton above me; l hope she will lie as as
both be very happy. DO not think I am
writing this with a light heart, although in
leaving the home of my childhood | 90 to find
a home with one long have loved and whose
wife l expect to be in a few hours. God bless
you, father, and good by.
Your once loved daughter, HATTIE.
Upon reaching this village Miss Rus.
sell was met by Horton Hurst. They
proceeded to the house of Mrs. William
Filley, sister of Hurst's sand about three
O'Clock in the afternoon were married by
the Rev. Mr.. Young of the Methodist
church. Afterward they went in com.
pany with Mrs. Filley and young gen.
tleman, friend of Hurst's, to the village
tavern, where it had been arranged to
take dinner. They were nearly through
the repast, which had been very little
like wedding feast. when the door Of the
dining room was burst in, and farmer
Russell, pale with rage. and a singular
glitter in his eye. sprang into tie apart
ment. His daughter arose hastily and
ran toward him with outstr:tched arms,
and he threw her aside and sprung upon
her husband
THE TRAGEDY.
you id scoundrel!'' he exclaimed.
"You set my daughter up to leave her
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