A WOMAN'S REVENGE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 43, 27 July 1878, Page 3

A WOMAN'S REVENGE.

(Boston Globe.) That " truth is stranger than fiction " lias just received a terrible: cxcmpliiiea(i<hi in a tragedy that culminated on the ."lid in a conviction for murder in Pickens county, Georgia. An old farmer named llaiubrick lived near Jasper, having a handsome daughter that was the apple of his eye. Tin,' girl, Kate, was the picture of a country belle. Swift, supple, strong, rosy, full of health and spirits, she was the queen of all the hillsides. She had of course, a number of rough lovers, but her heart seems to have been set, with a singular intensity, from her early girlhood, on Robert Southern, a youth of rather loose habits, with a handsome form, a pleasant face, and a good heart. Southern was himself a favourite, and Kal" had to encounter many rivals in her contest for his love. The chief among these Was a MiseNarcissa Fowler, who had been married to one Conort, and had been divorced from him. She was a very engaging woman, being of the plump, robust build that takes the rural eye. She wils lively, good-natured, and it was said was exceedingly fond of Southern. He was, at any rate, very attentive to both women, and they were, of course, bitter toward each other. They had several quarrels, and were often on the point of going to worse than words. The feeling between them was not improved nor was their rivalry ended when Southern at last married Kate Humbrick. Southern's wife soon began to hear that her husband and old-time rival were Booking each other's company, and her high spirit become almost uncontrollable under the Influence of her jealous suspicions, At length some youths started out for a frolic in the nousooi a Mr. liny... afias Fowler being of the party. It WU discovered after the party Was |

up that Mr. H >M not I, and Mr. Ilumhrii I, Miss F li ' 1 fused to go to th hj hi ■■ of her ful rival, but a! last consented.] Wli 11 Mr*. H .■' era aw her enter the ■ .Id her ha,band that he must 11 it dance with In r. He di n I garded hj - r .pi. and once or twi ho | sought Fowler's baud for a dance, i but his wife interfe d. At last he led Miss '.' .r a set, and his «if u . appear, d m 1 sahl he diou! I dauce that <et wi hj 1 :r. Miss i' .wler ti I that she in! iide-i 1 ia-i 1 it se' wi hj S utb in making s 1111. rem .ingkn >wn . him '. 1 e Mrs. N.n hj •rudi 1. Th ■ wife . evi 1.-11 !v ami ■■. J s! pi • 1 awttv ■ 1 the. : |,:,l ■ rm baud and Mi Fowl,' .Lacing 1 ig he". Mrs. So , ■ :i ; s'tt I .'vu 11 :i c .i;eh and i> 1 dauc< throng 1. She ~1 n . a.'.si iier bus- j . haul ' hj, and ley hid a win : I'll ." -111 l I'd r |\ :. \\ \ IU - tile)' v.. ~ i„g M I , ~ r pa ,-I .),,.,„! hj e ..• ;'„;:• (i,,,., . At length Mrs S 1 ie . In : ;. 1 . of iher 111 anli asked ! : a : .. ■■ I . i tid be.' ids knife.! i He : ■■ mi. ' tug : ■.■).;• :, hi r , ""i-i'i r, a-id : . i , : uve it. . '. . . ' •. i a:, I . mal'v ,uv t ,i' . . ■ Wit! n saving ~ -, d ', ■ r . a . ■ . where V - ! ivh-r i> in.iing. Mi, spang upei arrival like a iig.vss, ~...; ■"'.'/'■ m'i ' r 111 VUi'h th" ha'"' Miss l'.,wl"'/w:|s I t r :oi!;.''. '. Su'.iMa ■ alkali rher! : ' ''a : , il : ■ - 1 ■• ', . •r.i'e f nan. Tic fir . v a 1 i wa a : .1 a Ida t,I, tie' ~,;':• .",:... . ' ' y ''. I u;id ma I -\ nu ha i t'a 1. a ;■;. : ::•■ m V 1 a'-.at i hj" V'l ', '- ' i '..r, .v .; I 1d... iy b .. ':,..,' iive.i. : .: " 1 lid ..■ hi; ii r husband, 1 ..-. - his ~ . .. ,-,: | r ;s hand on ids v.ii. - '. and ■' nn I starting towards the we are :;' ing 1 i have this house :' ()w----ing to Mi" ditlicuity iu raising a p.--.. to arrange for escaping from the country, iight th"v were out of the country, plunging tiiroue-li the w , Is |,,card Xorih t'arobna, '.'lie r a Iv resoiire-s of the hits- i band throwing oil' the or amis, d j ursuii,! and his strong arm, combined w.in the! help of his brothers and fader, .. .. at- | eompanicil him, enabling hint to del v anv ] interference. Uaeked'bv his f'a'.li ■':■ and brothel's, In: took his wife t . II u on e.iuuly. North Carolina. The couple lived ill this county for sever..: ui u as. a child being born to them while hey we: ■ resting on the farm. Mrs. Sou'h -I'll savs those'wore the tempi-! months of her life. At length, ho'wev. :• ; was thought nccessarv to push on t , the great West, and they packed up and star...'.l. It was , idler fate or chance thai on the \f.-y day of their start from their farm a party of men fr.au Georgia, who had discovered their whereabouts, rode down to the farm to capture them. The pin siiers and pursued passed each other on the road at dusk. After an exciting chase the Sheriff and his posse came upon the waggon of the fugitives hit.'one night. Owing to the rain the men were all huddled inside, liy a rapid movement the waggon was surrounded and half a do» u muskets were poked under the [lap of the waggoncover. The tollgate-keeper then ' demanded an instant surrender. For all instant all was still as death in the waggon, and then the voire of Uob Southern steadily replied. " Well.d—n it. what, do you want '. ' At the same time he lifted the canvas of the waggon and tho whole party were exposed. There was Mrs. Southern, half undressed, white and haggard, clasping her tiny baby to her breast, and shivering in the cold. The men were huddled in the straw. They supposed, of course, that tho arrest was made solely by the North Carolina authorities, and solely on account of somodifficulty at the! toll-gate. The whole truth was discovered when Sheriff Kindlay stopped forward, and, throwing the light full on his face, said to Mrs. .Southern, "Do'you know ing to bo ashamed of, and was not afraid to go back to Georgia; that she had done right in killing tho woman who had tried to step botw i her hu,'band iiud herself, and was glad she bod done it; and that she didn't care what became of her if thev didn't separate her from her husband. ' (in tho way back to Georgia, those of tic BouthoriM who were not held in outtody made adejier.ite uttompl to rescue Bob and (lis wife, but u.|.' met with such prompt and determined resistance that thev failed. A- an evidence of the pluck oi those men, il may bo 'aid that ' liny nude the attempt at mettO with

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