Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1878 — Slashing a Leeper. [ARTICLE]

Slashing a Leeper.

Beport says that Miss Coffey was one of the most modest and sweet-tempered young women in Lawrence, Kas., and that Mr. Leeper was a worthless, bullying fellow; yet, when they married, it was his parents who objected to the union. He lived with his wife only two weeks, and then it was mutually agreed that they should separate. The bride assented quietly, saying that she was pleased to be rid of her husband. He subsequently spoke disrespectfully about her to his friends. One evening he stood jauntily in the door of tne Postoffice, smoking. She came along in her customary diffident manner, handed her parasol to a bystander, took off her gloves, drew a cowhide from her pocket, and slashed Leeper across the face until he was terribly disfigured. Then she took back her parasol, put on her gloves, and walked demurely on.