The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-05-17
no ne IIUnG.
Sou,hern KiIiS Her Rival
MS at "a Dance.
s.n,enccd 10 slang Sune 81.

III q tfNF~~~y
y 81 week in conviction Tor murder
n piekenS county, Georgia.
: i,;no for long time near Jasper
I;,,le country town, was an old farm
'n.med Hambrick He was re
. e,,ble. well to do fellow, with i
} al.ome daughter that was the ap
II If his eye. The girl, Kate, was
5 niciure of country belle. Swift
e snIle strong, rosy, full OF health and
\ ~, she was tile queen OF ali the
sal.ides. She had, OF course, il mum
= If rough lovers, but her heart
d sms to have been set, with Il singu
' :, intensity, from her early girlhood,
7 Robert Southern, youth OF rather
,.e habits, aud with handsome
f,,n,. A pleasant lace, and good heart.
Sm,hern was himself favorite, and
I Kae had to encounter many rivals IN
! - contest for his love. The chief
..suq these was IL Miss Narcissa kow
h. Who had been married 10 one Co
aa aud had been divorced from hiui
81 was a very engaging swoman, be
b ;osof the plump, robust build that
e tales the rural eye. She was lively,
,,.si.natured, and il was said was ex
eeaingly ioud OF Southern lie was
.tmy rate very attentive 10 both wo
men. and tley were, OF course, very
bimr toward each other. They had
sepra quarreis, aud were often on the
nost Of going to worse than words.
'F6 feeling between them was not i'm
- nor was their rivalry ended
- e5athoSRl Ast murrial Kate
fnhmbrick.
iSouthern's wife soon began TO hear
that her husband aud her old time
rival were seeking each others's com
Pany, aud her high spirit became al
most uncomfortable under the iufu-
enee Of her jealous suspicious ~
length some youths started out for u
irohe in the house OF Mr. Hays, Miss
Fowler, being Of the party 1t was
discovered alter the party was made up
that Mr.. Hays house could not be
used, and MIR. IIambrick's house was
selected as a substitute. Miss Fowler
a first refused to 90 to the house OF
her successful rival, but ut last con-
scented. When Mrs Southern saw her
enter the house she at once told her
husband that he must dot dance with
her. He disregarded her request, and
once or twice he sought Miss Fowler :
hand for dance, but bis wife utter
fered At last he led Miss Fowler out
for set, and his wife appeared aud
said he should dance that set with her
Miss Fowler said that she intended to
dance the set with Southern, making
some remark about having known him
before Mrs. Southern did The wife
evidently annoyed, stepped away, and
the set pr ceeded, the husband aud
Miss Fowler dauciug together.
Mrs Southern sat down Oh a couch
aud watched the dance through. Sire
then called her husband to her, and
they had whispered but animated
conversation. While they were talk
ing Miss Bowler passed them three OF
four times. At length Mrs. Southern
hurried out OF the room, and asked
her father to lend her his knife He
noticed something strange in her man.
uer, aud refused TO let her have It, She
insisted, and he finally gave il to her.
Without saying u word she re entered
the room. aud hurried across the room
to where Miss Fowler was staudug
She spraug upon her rival like ii
gress, exclaining, You have danced
enough r
It is supposed that Miss Fowler
made "a reply, for Instantly Mrs South
srp screamed, ,'.AIl right all right!
al right 20 with each exclamation stab
Ing her fearfully with the knife.
Miss Fowler was cut to the floor
Sic did not speak after her iniuriated
rial first elu,ched her throat She
ded instantly, even before her rival
hal loosened her clutch upon her pros
tute form
The first wound was a cut and
stb, the knife entering the heshy
shoulder, severing an artery, and being
dngged up-to It's hilt through the DO
SON to the upper side of the heart
Tie next wound was across the bosom
a ieariul cash, opening clear into the
vihls. The third wound, made after
The victim had fallen aud the murder
ess had thrown herself upon the body,
was across the abdomen, the kuife hav
Ing beeu forced through the dress aud
other clothing into the abdomen. Eth
erOf the wounds would probably have
beln fatal 1t is said that when the
arlerJ on the neck or shoulder was first
cut the blood spurted fJr several feef
out inio the room.
The killing was done so quickly that
It vas not at first known who did II
Soae one asked who did it, and Mrs
Southern, raising her white, beautiful
lace from the dead aud bloody body oil
her rival, said Il did it; I've been
lnsBdiug to do it Tor long lime"
movement was at once made to
close the doors aud prevent Mrs
ooaihern's escape, but her husband
draFing his pistol, put bis hand Oh
hiswiie ; shoulder. aud, starting to
ward Tie door, said by God, we are
going to shoot our way through il
necessary, for we are going to leave
this house !"
Owing to the difficulty in raising
pose, the fugiiiyes had several hours
IN which to arrange for escaping from
the country, aud they improved them
well. BY daylight they were out Of
the county, plnnging through the
woods towlrd North Caroline, the
ready resources Of the husband throw
ing Of de organized pursuit, and his
strong arm. combined with the help Of
his brothers and his father, who &c
companied him, enabling him to defy
any Interference. Backed 10y his ia,
iher and brothers. he took his wife to
Macon county, North CaroliDa. The
coupe lived in this county for several
months, child being born to them
while they were resting on the farm
Mrs. Southern says those were the
happiest mouths Of her life Atlength
however, it was thought necessary 10
push on to the great Vest and they
backed up and stnrted- 1t was either
late or chance that on the very day of
their start from their farm party OF
men from Georgia. who had discovered
their whereabouts. rode down to the
farm to capture them. The pursuers
aud pursued pissed each other on the
road Just at dusk The pursuers lost
!, dav and half at the farm before