A Woman Kills Her Sister and Fatally wounds Her Nephew.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 16, 19 April 1884, Page 3

A Woman Kills Her Sister and Fatally wounds Her Nephew.

Opklik.v (Ala), March 11. — News has reached here of a terrible tragedy which occurod a day or two ago in a remote district of Coffee country. Mrs Harvey and Mrs Hughes, two sisters, lived on adjoining farms. A few days ago Mrs Harvey's cow did some damage in thegarden of Mrs Hughes, whereupon the latter drove the animal out, striking it across the back with a stick, When this incident came to the knowledge of Mrs Harvey she flew into a ruge and started out to the residence of her sister, armed with a sharp butcher-knife. When about fifty yards from the house Mrs Hughes met her and attempted an explanation. Mrs Harvey immediately made a lunge at her sister with the knife, sending it at one thrust through ber heart. As the wounded woman fell, her son ran up with a stick and struck hir aunt with it on the head. The infuriated woman then turned upon her nephew and began cutting at him. The boy's screams attracted the attention of some neighbors, who rushed up and stopped the progress of the bloody work. Mrs Harvey was taken to the Elva jail, where she will be held for trial. The boy is so badly wounded that his recovery is not probable.