A Jealous Woman

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 31, 26 August 1884, Page 3

A Jealous Woman

■ ' : ■», — Aurora, an Indiana town, is arloating over a capital sensation, the tarring of a woman by a divorced wife and three other jealous women, in which the feathering was omitted on account of disappointment in not getting a material; Mrs John Rorton, «r rather tb« divorced wife ot Mr JohnHorton, had her jealousy exited by the faet that John Horton, her former husband, had rooms in the sam« building with a Mrs Amelia Owens, a widow 7 . It was a cenement house that whs thus occupied by the euapected pair, and Mrs Owens lived in the »econd storey of it. Mra John Horton, with three sympathising women, set out with a pot of tar and a. paint brush, arriving at the house of Mrs Owen* at four o'clock in the afternoon, and proceeded to business at once. Mr« Owens was first gagged and then stripped and thrown on the floor. Mrs Morton's three assistance, all able-bodied and determined women, held tho victim down while Mrs Horton, with the paint brush, painted her thoroughly from head to foot with tar. This process was kept up for a long time in expectation that a woman who was to get a lot of feathers would arrive with them, but she failed to put in an appearance, and so the feathering was omitted. Tho women tJS^i made Mrs. Owens promise that •he would not. rev-al their names, whereupon they took leave. Mr.-> Ovens immediately forgot her promise to keep the secret, pa'lecf for, help to get the tar' off her body,' and told the names of her persecutors.