Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Mrs. Sarah TyreII, in the Town
ofMt. Hope, Breaks Her Hus-
bands's Head with a Club.
The Climax OF Long Domestic Quarrel
between an Old Man and his Third
Wife. She Claims that she Pound
ed His Life out i'm Self.Defense.

has been married three times. His frs
wife died many years ago. BY her h
had three daughters now living, all maj
ried. His second wife was divorced an
remarked a man named Rose, in Boscc
bel. His third wife, who killed him, an
whom he married about ten years age
was Sarah Day, daughter of ''Trav'
Day, well known old settler of Gran
County She is now 48 years old.
This homicide is the elimination of ;
long series of domestic quarrels. Nh
Tyrell is represented as having been
hard, tyrannical man and his third wifi
is evidently not of a meek, forgivini
spirit. About five weeks ago they ha'
a fight in which he drove her out of tn
house with black eye. He wished, t
sell his little farm and she refused to sigl
the deed.
A week ago last Monday he left he
and went to Boscobel, where he has
married daughter. Monday, this week
he came to Lancaster on business ant
returned TO his house in Mt. Hope tina
afternoon. There had been in the hous
a bureau, about the only fine piece 0
furniture they had, which had been il
his family long time. This he hat
told his wife he was going to take t.
Boscobel and give to his daughter. Il
his absence she took it out in the var,
and demolished 1t with an AK. Its frag
ments lay there when he came home AM
probably exasperated him very much.
On Tuesday Mrs. Tyrell came int
Lancaster with Mr.. l.. G. Ransom, t,
see about getting divorce from he
husband, who had left her without an
means of subsistence, and notified all tn
merchants not to trust her on his &C
count. Mr.. Ransom saw Tyrell in Ian
easter and told Mrs. Tyrell of it, bu
they did not know he was going to re
turn home.
Tuesday evening about four o'clocl
Mrs Tyrell arrived at Mr.. Frank Place
house, a neighbor of the Tyrells, AM
staid there two or three hours. Thel
she went home, where she found he
husband and the deadly encounter be
gan. 1t was just about shutdown Ac
cording to her sworn statement at tn
inquest, he told her it was the last da1
she would see daylight and it was
short part of the night she would live
Then he grasped splint- bottom chair ant
struck at her. She caught the chair anC
succeeded in getting it away from hin
and then ran outdoors He took an
other chair and threw it at her Ther
he picked up piece of pine two inches
square and about four feet long anC
struck at her. She threw up her arm
and warded off the blow, which left it
mark on her arm. She then grapplet
him and pushed him over against tn,
banking of the house which is about l.
inches high, of dirt held up by pine
boards. Grasping a piece of pine scant
ling 2X4 and about two feet long, shc
beat him ON the head until she though
she had killed him. She said she though
if she left any life in him he would xii
her
Mrs. Tyrell then went to Frank Place,
and told the family she had killed Ty
rell. In company with Frank Place she
started to go back to the scene of tn,
She had gone but little dis
lance before she was taken with convul
sions and had to be carried back tC
Places house. Place and other neigh
bors then went to Tyrell's house anC
found him lying on some boards in from
Of the kitchen door, still alive, but I'M
They placed him with hi,
head resting on pillow, propped up by
a chair, and sent for Dr. Orr, at Mt
Hope village.
1t was about ten o'clock before DR.
Orr arrived. He examined the wounded
man, and found, besides several sever,
bruises over the eyes and forehead
fracture of the skull on the upper back
part extending back to the suture be-
tween the parictal and the occipita
bones. This portion of the skull was
deeply depressed, and pressing on the
brain, produced Inconsistencies. The
pulse was hardly perceptible and the ex
tremities growing cold. He was fm
past surgical aid and at IL O'Clock h,
died.
The theory advanced by some that the
fatal wound was caused by Tyrell's fall
ing on a stone or other hard substance
seems to be disproyed by the fracture:
being in such position that it mus
have been made by downward blow
from in front, and was probably mad,
by Mrs. Tyrell while she had him pushed
backward over the banking.
Yesterday Esquire Ransom, who lives
in the neighboorhood of the homicide
called an inquest, impaneled a jury com
composed of Alfonso Trapp, Elmor,
Brodt, Hannah Place, Philip n. easier
Frank Brodt and James NJ. Gull, VIII,
took the testimony of Mrs. Tyren, Franz
Place and others and rendered a verde
that David Tyrell came to his death BY
blows upon the head with a piece o
scantling in the hands of Sarah Tyrell
his wife. The verdict was signed by til,
jurors and L. C. Ransom as Coroner
District Attorney Orr and Sheriff
Richards visited the scene of the homi
eide yesterday afternoon. As it was in
convenient for the Sheriff to bring tn
woman to Lancaster in the buggy oc
cupied by him and Mr.. Orr, she wa
brought to Lancaster by her brother, o
j. Day, and is now in Jail here.
She viii have her preliminary hearin.
tomorrow before Justice Baldwin. Col
John G. Clark will defend her.
Yesterday afternoon q urp4 -