TRAGEDY AT MISSOURI CITY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1472, 23 April 1873, Page 3

TRAGEDY AT MISSOURI CITY.

The Kansas City Journal says :— " On Saturday evening one of the most frightful tragedies that evei occurred in this country took place at Missouri City. There was a family living there by the name of Mitchell, consisting of several brothers and one sister. The oldest brother, Andrew, was a widower, and had a family of several small children, and the sister, Nannie, kept house for him. On account of some private trouble of her own, said to be an unsuccessful love affair, the sister on Saturday went down town, spent the day, and managed to obtain and swallow first a dose of strychnine and afterwards a dose of morphine, either of which was sufficient to produce death. Returning home she was soon afterwards found by the children in her bed, lifeless. The children immediately gave .the alarm, and a physician and some neighboring women were called in. The children then went down town for their father, who hastened home, closely followed by another brother, named William. Their grief at the action of the sister and its fatal result was of course great. He was very excitable, and proceeded to abuse them, when his father expostulated with him for his action. At this "William drew a dirk knife and ran at Andrew, driving him into the yard. Here Andrew found an axe, and with the pole struck William, felling him to the ground. He then threw away the axe, and, teizing William, endeavored to hold him, but in doing so was cut all to pieces by the latter with the knife which he still held in his hand. The younger son of Andrew, seeing what had been done, seized a shot gun, and was -going to kill his uncle William, but was prevented by the interference of the women. Andrew at last accounts was still alive, but was not expected to live, and William had been arrested and was in gaol."