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The Timmons Tragedy.In the year 1848, Mrs. Mary J Timmons,Brf(ben the wife of Elijah Timmons, residing® o (be Michigan road, two miles North of Burlington, in a fit of insanity, in the dead!]., f night, when her husband was asleep sunkUj n axe into nis face. The blow was given I with such force, that the lower part of thcjjtl face was eeveied from the upper part, andj resented ihc most horrid and revoltingap-flpea ranee. Mr. T., survived a day or twoP ~od mortification setting in lie lt;!icd.immons was brought to Delphiegd ''ned in jail, but her relations fro^JRiio ar-j|iiving a short time afterwards, she was rc-B _a9ed, and taken by them to that State.— J he remained there a few years, part of thcJF Jrae in an Asylum, and returned home J ~ured. Since then, she has been keeping®-ouse, and nothing unusual was observed** ■ntil recently, when she again began toa^'manifest signs of insanity. Last week, hcrff,n, the Rev. John B. Timmons brought®_ er to Delphi, \vi,h the view of having theWi reparatory investigation prior to placing® er in the Indiana Asylum for the Insane.® ?he returned home, (ro Dodge town ) with® her son, awaiting the decision of the Su-B-srintendent of the Asylum. We are as-B*lured that she was strictly watched, andjr Jl the axes about the premises were hid,® s was supposed in places where she would Jb ^e unable to find them. But on Saturday®0 -.rning last, by some means she procured®* n ax, and while her son John B. Timmons®? was alseep, sunk the same in his face vorvjlg uch as she had done to his father in 1G48.®Y He j umped up,and iu endeavoring to -match ®d ihe n.x away from her, received a blow on® his hand, severing one or two of his fingers,®-o js Ind before he could succeed in disarming®
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Delphi Weekly Times
Delphi, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 08, 1861
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