Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-22
A FEMALE FIEND.

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"A Wealthy Widow Cuts the Threats of
Her Servant Woman and Her Child--A
Young Man Kills the Father of His Sweet
Heart and Then Hangs Himself--A Ver-
mont State Official Kills a Scissors Grinder
--Other Criminal Matters.
FIEND1sH DOUBLE MURDER.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
RICHMOND, Va, July 21.-Mrs. Sarah Sist,
wealthy young widow living in Nelson
county, near Perry's Mutt, cut the throat of
servant woman on her plantation with
razor, almost severing the head from the
body. Her victim died almost instantly.
After completing this fendlsh work the in
furiated woman directed her attention to the
child of her victim, girl of seven or eight
years, who was close by. Selling her she
made quick work of her, cutting her
throat and throwing her body in
mill pond. The reason for these fiendish
and brutal murders can only be
explained by the fact that it is believed that
Mrs. Sist was at the time laboring under
temporary insanity. There had been no un-
pleasantness between the two women before
the occurrence, and this morning, several
hours before the murders were committed,
Mrs. Sist and the woman who fell by her
hand were in friendly conversation. Mrs. Sist
- we'll connected and wealthy. She had
not been arrested when last heard from.
MURDER AND sUIcIDE.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
LYNcHBURa, Va, July 2l.-Preston and
Charles s. Burton became involved in a
quarrel yesterday concerning the latter's
daughter to whom Preston had been paying
some attentions, when Preston shot Burton.
He then walked to the barn and hung him
self. The murderer and suicide was highly
esteemed young man about twenty-three
years DID, q son of the late Hon. Walter
Preston, of Tennessee, and is said to have
been married to young lady in Nashville
early in the fall.
TRAIN RoBBER CAPTURED.
Special Telegram to the Globe
GALVESTON, Texas, July PA special
from Round Rock, relates the capture there
| yesterday. of Sam Bass, who confessed that
he was implicated i'll the Union Pacific train
robbery. Bass is fatally wounded.
SHOT HIS MAN.
CLEVELAND, o., July 21.-Last night
fort, man named Jno. Martelson was shot
and almost instantly killed, by David Null
lyme. The parties had been quarreling in {
saloon in the early part Of the evening, anc
Marterson. with three others, had been fol
lowing Mullyne about the street. Mullyne
fearing an assault, fired, as he claims, il
self defense.
LEGISLATIVE RECORD FALsIF1Ep.
TERRE HAuTE, Ind, July 21.-The Erpres
of this morning prints fac-simile of rol
call No. 5, of the Indianapolis Representa-
tives, March LIST, 1e77, showing that the Stat
house bill was lost OF the third reading: an,
that the summing up which gave it a ma
jority was false. Conley, of Viga, and Don
nettell, of Vanderburg, were entered on tn
House record as having voted in the affirma
tive, when the roll call shows that Conle
voted no, and that Donnettell did not vote
The Express also prints a certificate fror
Conley and Donnettell, stating that thei
votes were falsihed on the record.
SCISSORS GRINDER KILLED.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, July 2l.-Joh
DAILY. keeper of the State tin house of STAN
ford, VT, yesterday killed an aged scissor
grinder named James IaLflcK OpellInat
The murder originated in a quarrel abor
, payment for grinding two razors.
, EMBEZZLER ARRESTED.
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 21.-James E. Tol
ner, book keeper of G. II. Marley q Sol
l Pittsburgh, has been arrested here charge
' with embezzling $4,000 from his employ
ers. He absconded OH the a18th of NJ "
with Annie Berry, of Steubenville, Ohio
= $4,000 of the money was recovered.