The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-04-13
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

In three room house just beyond
Campbell's Hill, some quarter of a
mile south of the Kennesaw Marble
Company's works, shocking tragedy
occurred on Tuesday morning last
about II o'clock.
1t was at the home of Ann Jackson.
colored There lived with her and her.
three daughters up to four weeks ago,
her son-in-law, Mack Farmer, his wife
and seven months old girl baby. But
insane jealousy fired the heart Of Far
mer, and he and his wife didn't get
along agreeably. He was about 55
years of age, very black, and she about
80, mulatto, and his second wife.
The mother-in-law naturally took her
daughters part, so Farmer rented a
tenement house from Miss Burnap, and
with his two boys moved to it about
four weeks ago. and wanted his wife to
go also, but she refused to accompany
him, and they lived apart
On Sunday last she concluded to try
to live with him, but when she entered
his home he renewed the old quarrel,
and she returned to her mothers house
to stay. Farmer wanted the child and
brooded over his troubles. He worked
at the Marietta Chair Company but on
Tuesday morning about O'Clock he
turned up at Mr.. A. Howell's house in
in this city and asked to see Mr.. Robert
Howell. He begged the loan of a pis-
tol, stating that he was going fishing
and he wanted to shoot rabbit or
squirrel that might perchance be seen.
Mr.. Howell was reluctant to let him
have IT, The negro stated that Mr..
Howell had known him long time and
that he would return it by five O'Clock
that afternoon. With kindly DISPOSE
ton to accommodate friendly requests,
Mr.. Howell let him have it.
The negro then started up the rail-
road. He went to Ann Jackson's and
asked to see his wife alone. They went
into one of the rooms and he fastened
the door.
Shortly after, Ann Jackson says she
heard pistol shots and her daughter
Ella screaming. She then, with an
axe, rushed to the door, forced it open.
and found her daughter on the floor
and Farmer trying to kill her. On
seeing her enter the room, he turned
and shot her through the right shoulder.
making flesh wound She grabbed
the pistol and desperate struggle en-
sued to keep him from shooting her the
second time. She admits that she fed
from the room with the pistol in her
hand
The Jury empanelled by Coroner
M. r. Lyon, composed of G. w. York,
E. P. Green, HI. G Haynes, @. N. Bar
rett, Charley Barker and r. w. Moon,
came to the conclusion that while Far
mer and his mother-in-law scuffied for
the possession of the weapon, the pis-
tol was accidentally discharged and
the ball struck Farmer beneath the
chin and passed out at the top of his
head, lodging in the ceiling He
dropped over on his face dead, his
hand relaxed its grasp on the pistol,
leaving it in the hand of Ann Jackson,
who ran out of doors to neighbours
house and dropped the pistol on the
ground. The pistol, Colts, As cali
bre, of six chambers, was empty when
recovered.
Farmers wife then staggered out
doors, and it was found that she was
shot in the breast through the left
lung, the ball coming out just below
the shoulder blade. Another shot
passed through the woman's lower Jaw
at a slight angle. The shot through
the lung is considered very dangerous.
She is expectorating a good deal of
blood, and the probability is she will
die.
Doctors Oortelyou and Simpson dress
ed the wounds of the women.