The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-18
FOR SWEET LOVES SAKE.
MISS BROCKWAYS LOVE AFFAIR
ENDS WITH A SUICIDE.

Her Father Objected to Her Suitor anu
Battle With Shotguns Followed -
The Lover, the Father and Brother
Wounded in the Fight
From the Ne,e York World.
NORTH ADAMS, MASS, Jan. l5.--The de-
tails Of a terrible tragedy, resulting in the
suicide of a young woman while trying to
protect her wounded lover from the shots OF
her angered father and brothers, are re-
ported from Hancock, a secluded little
French Canadian village fifteen miles from
here, close to the New York State line
The locality is without communication by
telegraph or railroad to this place Carrie
Brockway, the lS-year-od daughter OF
Farmer Brockway, loved a young man
named Washington Sweet. The girl's af-
lection for Sweet was objected to by the
whole Brockway family, who regarded
Sweet as an unfit companion for the dauSh-
ter, who nevertheless met her lover ire
quently and for the most part unknown TO
| her family. She was often at Sweet mouse
without her father knowing 1t.
Within day or two Brockway learned
that his daughter had been meeting Sweet
secretly, notwithstanding that he had
warned her repeatedly against the young
man. He reprOved the girl sharply ana she
replied with great spirit that she loved
Sweet and would see him as often as she
wished. This aroused the fathers anger
and with his two sons he started for Sweet $
house. They were all armed. Sweet heard
of their coming and proceeded TO defend
himself against their attack. This he did
by barricading the doors and windows and
arming himself with shotgun and reVol-
yer. When the BrOclways knocked on his
door he replied to the summons with shot
which took effect on one of the boys. Then
began a rattling fusllade OF shots from botn
sides. The wounded son was carried OFF and
left behind wOodpile while the father and
other son fired shot after shot into the house.
They directed their aim at a window
where Sweet was stationed Suddenly no
more shots came from the house, and the at
| lacking party, surmising that Sweet was
| killed, advanced to enter the door.
At this moment Carrie Brockway, having
| learned of the attack and its purpose, ap-
| peared on the scene. She called out to
| Sweet not to shoot, but no answers came
| from the house. The door was then broken
open and the body of Sweet, bullet wound
in his shoulder, was found outstretched on
the floor. At the sight of her dying lover
| the girl screamed Historically, censured her
| father and brother for Wandering her sweet
| heart, and then in her despair, and before she
could be prevented, seized from the dinner
table carving knife, plunged it into her
throat and foil dying across the body of her
lover, deluging him and herself in pool of
her own blood Amazed at this unexpected
climax of the tragedy, her father dispatched
the son aftera physician, but the girl was
dead in very few minutes. The popula-
ton of the village was thrown into the
| greatest excitement on learning of the awful
| tragedy, and as they have divided on the
question Of the right and wrong of the mat
ter, good deal of feeling is manifested
which threatens to lead to trouble Sweet is
badly wounded. bullet from revolver
lodged in his back, making an ugly wound.
The wounded son is also in IA critical con
dition He received the contents of Sweet
shotgun in the hip