A Horrible Tragedy.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1853, 5 July 1886, Page 2

A Horrible Tragedy.

A horrible tragedy (says the Chicago eorrespoudeut of tbe Auukiaud Herald), has just takeu place in Jersey city, where a woman in a state of mental derangement killed iier four children. With tbe well known cunning of the maniac, she told her husband that tbe hen house door was open, and she would go out and shut it. It was the early morning, and the two were ont among the flower*. Bbe nu to shut thu pate, an 1, picking up an axe, hid the same in the fluids <d her dress, and proceeded to the house, where her little llock lay asleep in their beds. Tbe woman had fortified herseil for the deadly deed by taking a dose of nit poison. She flew to tbe eiib of the youngest, dashed out its I.rains with o c blow, then rushed to ano’ber bed, and slew her boy, then to the room where the other girls elept, ami hit one, who begged on her knees (or meicy, but she strnek her until the brains protruded fiom the head, and flew lo the cct, where toe last victim put up her poor little hands to protect herself, and which were chopped off. Leaving the room, >he next flew to her c .lest daughter's bed loom, who had the baby The poor pir), by a miracle, w. gmq strength aim the maniacal mother, shut and bo ted the door ; but, with her axe, she had nearly broken it open when the wretched father, attracted by thescreems ins bed in. She instantly dro| pad the axe' and followed him down-stairs, (tying, •• Qod told me to do it, to save them Irom 'bmnr and hell.”