TRAGIC AFFAIRE,

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 397, 28 August 1889, Page 6

TRAGIC AFFAIRE,

J A special from Bryan, Williams County, U.S.A., July 21sfc, says : A horrible tragedy ,was enacted at Edgerton to-day. The wife ,of Hiram Hoadley loft him some time ago on account of domestic trouble and returned to the home of her father, a farmer named Newman. This mprning Hoadley w,ent to the Newman n residence early, and when his wife cameb.ut to go to the barnyard he seized her with his left hand and held her while he fired, three bullets into her breast, leaving'her for dead. Her ft ther hurried out on hearing th« shots, ana was fired on and killed by lioadley. Hoadley then pursued his ; rncfthieivin-law and his wife's younger sister,' and but for the timely, 'aid which reached them would doubtless have killed them -tool.. He< then returned to •\Vheie his 1 wife- was lying, and findinglher sJtiU alive, . emptied two more. chambers 6i bis revolver .into jher r head, and then shdt« l/hhrisqlf, iniiioti,ng ' a ; fatal wound, from which he died soon after. He, had three 19violvers on his. person, and it is b.elieVed tha^'he. intended to killthe entire fairiiiy. 'Hbadley'' leaves four children by a former wite. " HW'W'as' &'■ prominent politician' of. >WiTWM^ HodurityH 0durity $hd l prosperous in Iwtei- ' ness affairs. • < - ■ 1 A'^'Kirksville (Mo ) special of the same date says :~" About two years ago James Sylva and Miss Buokale, daughter of a wellknown cijiizqn,; of Kirksville, were married and removed to ,Keokuk, la. About six months ago Mrs Sylva returned to the parental roof, stating that her hubband would not support her.' Sylva airived.here this tno'rnirig and went to his wife's father's house. He asked his wife :" Allie, will you return to me?' The young woman replied in the negative, whereupon Sylva fired at her and she fell. Sylva then turned tfie /njoapoji upon himself and pent, a ball inW ' his brain. He will die. J\l rs Sylva was not hurt."