Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1908 — FRIGHTFUL RAZOR STROKE [ARTICLE]

FRIGHTFUL RAZOR STROKE

Outs a Woman's Head Clean Off from Her Shoulders—End of a v Quarrel. Pittsburg. Kas., Nov. 24.—Following s family quarrel at Carona. twenty miles sou'tfr of here, HezekJah Stradler, • carpent •.. geil twenty years, slashed Mrs. Butts, bis next door neighbor, with a raxor. cutting her head entirely off. The murdered woman was housekeeper for Stradler’s cousin, tyho lived next door. Trouble started between Stradler’s wife and Mrs. Butts. Hie man, it seems, had not been paying much attention to the trouble between the twe women. When the trouble broke out again and angry words ware hurled across (be backyard fence Mrs. Butts picked up a brick and hurled it at Mrs. Shadier. cutting a gash In her mouth. Stradler then, getting bis raaor, attacked Mrs. Butte. He made one slash with the rasor and the head of Mrs. Buttn was cut eff clean at the shoulders, die heed rolling Into the. yard, while the body ot the murdered womin foil bleeding at hie feet