A MOTHER'S VENGANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 191, 19 August 1870, Page 2

A MOTHER'S VENGANCE.

A STRANGE scene occurred towards the closeof the Stowe mur lei- case at Janesville, "Wisconsin. The arguments of counsel, in tho awe were prolonged until 3 o'clock p.m. to-day. Judge Ljon then delivered his charge to the jury, instructing them that according tp the law and the evidence they must either find the defendant guilty of murder or of manslaughter in the third degree. The jury then retired for deliberation. Mrs. Roberts, the aged mother of the murdered man, who had been a quiet and attentive listener to the argument, arose and said that she desired to make a few remarks to the jury. The Judge requested her t> sit down, hut she was persistent, and the sheriff was com.polled to interfere. She took her seat for a moment, and the officer stepped away, when she as;ain sprang to her feet, exclaiming, " He killed 5 my sin, and I will kill him," rushed upon the oii iran Stowe, and grasping him by the throat and head, caused the blood to flow from the wounds she iuflicted. The sheriff and his assistants interfered, and Bh» wai forced from the court rooi:, still declaring that she would yet accomplish her purpose. It produced quite a sensation among the audience for a brief period, but the effieers soon restored order.

The conduct of the aged mother on this occasion may be well excused, bereft as she had been of a son on whom she and a feeble husband had for many years depended for consolation and support. She .bettered he had been murdered in cold blood by the old man Stowe, without just cause or provocation, while delirious from a drunken debauch—she \vell knew the uncertainty of ihe law, and that criminal after criminal throughout the land was escaping on a plea of insanity, or other frivolous pretext, and she became frenzied, and determined to take the law into her own hands, and meet out justice to him whom she believed had committed a great crime againit G-od and humanity. — Day's Doings.