Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-10-04

through the back of the neck, the ball
entering the base of the brain. At the Cor
oner's inquest the unhappy woman testified
that she had gone to bed as usual, and had
no recollection of any thing more until she
stood upon the floor in the morning with the
pistol in her hand. All the servants testified
that deceased had been very kind to his wife.
The Jury, after being out 15 minutes, re-
turned n verdict that the killing was done by
Mrs. Lounsbury while she was in condition
Of temporary insanity.
In the town of Porter, Rock County, Wis,
on the 23d, George harrington, a German
employed on the farm of Alexander White,
murdered the latter's little boy, aged ., in a
most atrocious manner, and then fled, riding
off one of Mr.. Whites horses. The boys
body was discovered lying under a manger
in the barn, his throat cut from ear TO ear,
his abdomen ripped open and his feet and
hands securely bound. There were indica-
tions that the murderer had first hung his
victim, and finding death by that means too
slow, had cut him down and finished him
with knife. No cause for the deed can be
imagined. The murderer was subsequently
arrested.
At Worcester, Mass, on the evening of the
23d, Maggie Courtney, a young lady about %
years of age, was fatally burned while at
tempting to take down hanging kerosene
lamp.
Buck Mailing, negro, who committed an
assault upon little girl in Obion County,
Tenn, was hanged by mob, headed by the
girls father.
Anthony Blair, colored, was hanged at
nrt ba mn
der of his step daughter, Il girl of IS, in July
last.
A railway train on the Island of Ruatan,
carrying 400 barrels of gunpowder, was
blown to atoms recently by an explosion of
the powder. Ten persons were on the
train, and the ground was strewn with their
dismembered bodies.
Marcus A. Whitley was hanged at Poca-
hontas, Ark, on the Goth, for the murder of
Duke Sumner in February, 1877. He eX-
pressed penitenee and was baptized by two
clergymen.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Morris of Yolinia
Township, Cass County, Mich, were muir
| dered on the night of the 2sth ult., it is sup
| posed with the object of obtaining money
| received from u large sale of wheat made re-
Gently by Mr.. Morris. The body of Morris
was found on the back steps of his house,
with two bullet holes through his neck; that
of his wife in bedroom closet, shot four
times i'm the breast. There was no clew to
the perpetrators of the deed.
During quarrel about property, Edward
Decourci was shot dead by his brother at the
village of Lambton, Ontario. The brother
then poisoned himself. Both had been drink
| ing.
1t is reported from Silver Reef, Utah, that
party of 2S prospectors, who started on an
expedition two months ago, have been mas
sacred by the Indians near the east line
boundary of the Territory.
Mrs. Lounsbury, who shot her husband,
the Rev. Dexter l.. Lounsbury, at Stratford,
Conn, in n supposed fit of insanity, has been
arrested and committed to Jail to await the
action of the Grand jury. She pleaded not
guilty.
In New York City, on the 30th -ult., John
Sheehan shot Henry Won Geritschen, in front
OF his residence, No. 80 Christopher Street
and then shot himself, both fatally. Sheehar
believed Won Gerltschen to be unduly inti-
mate with his wife.