Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-08-28
A Chapter of Horrors.


GIRL THROWN FROM A THIRD-STORY
wINDoW-A FARMER ATTEMPTS TO
KILL HIS WIFE AND HANGS HIMSELF.
Thomas Harding, As years of age, shot
his housekeeper, Mrs. Wood, aged 26
Ninth street, between Tenth avenHe and
the Boulevard, New York, about five
o'clock Saturday morning. At the hour
named Harding entered the housekeep-
er's room, and after awakening her told
her to get up. She noticed that he had
q very wild look, but did net think that
anything serious was going to happen
until he addressed her as Libby" his
wife's name. She also noticed that he
had revolver in his hand, and asked
him to leave the room, but he refused,
saying, "You have ruined me, and will
ruin you"
Mrs. Woods, then became convinced
that he intended to murder her, and
sprang from the bed and ran down
stairs. Harding followed and fired two
shots at her, one of which took effect in
her left shoulder. The terrified woman,
however, managed to reach the street.
where she raised an alarm. A Mrs.
Merritt, who resides next door, hearing
the screams of the housekeeper and the
report of the pistol shots, raised her win
dow and called to Mrs. Woods to run
into her house, which she did. Two
other reports from pistol followed al
most Immediately after, and then all
was quiet. Several policemen entered
the house and found Harding in dying
condition, and Immediately summoned
a physician, who found bullet hole in
the forehead, and thought that was the
only wound until the unfortunate man
rapidly sank, and died two hours after.
1t was then discovered that he had also
shot himself in the abdomen, inflicting
the wound which proved fatal. The
housekeeper's wounds were found not to
be fatal. Harding, who was widower,
married a Miss Beckman about four
years ago, but because of some differ.
ences they had not lived together for
two years, and cross suits for divorce
have been pending for some time. Mrs.
Woods, the housekeeper, is a rather
good-looking widow, about twenty-five
years of age. She went to live with
Harding shortly after his wife left him.
In New York on Saturday morning
Della Fox quarrelled with Anne Kenny,
a servant, at No. 469 sixth avenue. A
fight ensued, in which the servant lifted
Miss Fox in her arms and threw her out
of the third-story window. The woman
fell headlong, and would doubtless have
been killed on the stone tagging of the
yard beneath but there happened to be
an extension or awning built out from
the second-story, and Miss Fox fell up
on this. Nevertheless her left leg was
broken, and it is thought she has also re-
ceived internal injuries that may prove
to be serious.
On Friday last farmer named Jacob
Linsibigler appeared at the house of a
neighbor greatly agitated, and requested
that several neighbors be summoned to
his house Immediately and then left for
home. When they reached his house
they found Linsibigler's wife lying on
the floor with life almost extinct. Her
hair was matted with clotted blood,
which was oozing from gashes made by
q blunt instrument which had cut the
scalp and crushed the skull in several
places. In the stable Linsibigler's body
was found dangling by rope attached
to some crossbeams in the shed, and life
extinct. A physician dressed the wounds
of the old lady, who soon recovered suf-
ficiently to request not to be buried be-
side the old man if she died. She did
not die, however, but is again able to be
about. She states that her husband
drove her into the house with the gun
as she was about to leave him for good,
but has not given further PARTICULARS
Linsibigler and his wife were each over
seventy five years of age, had been mar
ried fifty years, and had titled their lit
tie farm and had accumulated consider
able money by close economy. The
neighbors were aware of the fact that
the old man and his wife frequently
quarrelled, as the latter had mplained
that his wife threatened to kill him
while asleep.
At West Hoboken, n. J., on Friday
morning, Johan Ackert, silk weaver,
returned home from drunken debauch,
and, after quarrelling with his wife,
seized and threw her through a window
to the pavement beneath, a distance of
thirty feet. The woman received fatal
injuries and died in half an hour.
At twenty eighth street and Tenth
avenue, New York, last night, John
Casey, hackman, and vagabond nam
ed Michael Brennan, alias "Mike the
REBEL" had quarrel, when the latter
drew a knife and attempted to use it on
the former. A young man named Jas.
Kelly interfered I'd protect Casey, when
Brennan stabbed him in the left side,
the blade entering the back and penetra-
ting the left lung, making a wound
which will prove fatal. Brennan then
fled, and up to an early hour this morn
ing had not been arrested.