The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-01

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LOVE, JEALOUSY AND MuRDER.
A bloody Anair in Pickeas .Cona,r.
scOrgin-What Jealousy Drove
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lap On yesterday Q. .defeceive reauhea tlaA,
city with Kate Southern, q smuEllareee,
from Pickens county, whom he had
caught near Murphy, n. u, after IA
exciting chase Fer capture irevivesiA
lstOfy that reads like earoukaoce. aDurikk
the Christmas holidays OF 1876 Hats
southern, In at, OF, Jealousy, stabbed
and Killed Miss Coward. at q pubic
ball, while she was dancing Wifh her
husbantlss Bob Southern;sh q itlashine,
handsome young fellow In & Piclsns
county, married, after. = long courtship,
Kate Hambright, the belle, of the
mountains. Bob and Ms wife, both
being great favorites with the young
people and fond of social pleasures,
cOntinued, after their marriage, to at
tend all the country Dances a AZ these
parties Southern paid q good deal or at.
tention tola Miss Cowaft, to whom he
had paid court before, he married. ., His
wife, thinking that she was beinA
sltghted during the hOneymO6n. .iFbS
came Jealous, and insisted slthat Bob
should cease his attentions to her old
rival. 81 Southern laughed at the idea of
her being Jealous, and, became most
asstduousf in his attentions to Miss
COwart. is3iiys adt a. it,itii5 ii
9 After they had been married about!
three months Mr.. Hanbright gave d
dance e3complfmentar to the married
couple. Before the dancing xcom tnencea
Kate went to her husband aha beeved
him MOTTO dance or tale TO Miss Cow
art during the evening" The husband
seeming to treat her request, Nghtly,
she went to Miss Cowart and accused
her OF trying to destroy the happiness
OF her home circle by en- ncOurauinusher
hasband I'M his attentions to her. and
begged her to refuse to dance with. Bob
In case he asked her. During the eve.
ming Kate seeing Bob and Miss CowJart
take their position for dance, went I'd
them and told her husband that he had
an engagement with her for that dance.
and insisted on taking Miss Cowart,s
place. Miss Cowart contended that she
had a right to the dance, ana the husl
band decided In favor Of Miss Cowaft
and led her down the middle fiushsd
with excitement. 9 Kate. left the room,
and meeting her father In the iia1I Boz
rOwed his knife for some trivf 'ccaalIifsE ccaalIifSsE
and then returned to the tdoorway WJItR
the knife concealed In her dress ana
waited until the dance was over. ThIeenni
walking up to her husband and fifs fafr
partner, she caught Miss Cowart by the
arm, and saying, tsYou have. dancteesna
enough" whipped out her knife. and
quick as lightning pfunged~-it into the.
breast of her rival, ,,,.,,,o.t,,. .,isr
Miss Cowart staggered back as she
was struck, and a stream of blood
gushed from the wound, going three 81
four feet from the body. AS Miss
Cowart wasitrying tosrise, Kate South
ern sprang upon her, and catching herI
by the hair, pulled back her head and |
cut her throat almost from ear to ear.
The murder created the most intehse
ning the roorn.fo Young
Houly, one. of the floor nanagers,,
called out, tWhat man.did that ?'' |
said, ssI am the nah that did |
it, and don't regret ft.'' Mr.. Houly
then sprang to the door, and said mo
one should leave the ;sroom until the
matter had been Investigated and the |
guilty parties arrested. .<ot-4- -4.tgiJ
Southern, who mp to this time seemed
to have been ina sort of stupor, stepped
up to his wife, and putting his arm
her,pulled out q pistol and said
he would leave the room and take
Kate with him if he had to wade3
through blood. His brother pulled out |
a pistol and stepped up to his side.3
The parties guarding the door knowingI
that the Southerns were desperate men,
withdrew from the ,door, and allowed
them to pass out liunmolested. The
next morning Bob Southern, his father,
brother and, wife, Were not to be found
in Pickens county. Il Rewards were
offered for Kate Southern, both by the
Governor of the State and the father of
the murdered lady, but all to no effect.
About five weeks ago detective living
in Fannin county heard incidentally
that the Southerns were farming near
IN. c., and, getting the pro-
per papers and a sufficient escort, he
went to North Carolina to arrest the
mnreerers Of Miss Cowart. On reaching
their farm, he found that the party he
was in search of had left the farm sud-
denly without notifying any of the |
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