Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — Singular Accident. [ARTICLE]

Singular Accident.

Fr the New Orleans Picayune we learn that on the 20th ult., a melancholy accident happened near Brandon, Miss. A Mrs. Jackson had occasion to go during the night to the window pf the room in which, with her husband, she had been sleeping. While engaged in arranging the blind or shutter, the husband awoke and seized his gun, supposing that some felonious intruder was in Jthe room. Mrs. Jackson advanced toward the bed, althoug her husband called out to ber to 6top or he should fire, and he actually his musket at her, and she at once fell dead. He then turned to the place [where he supposed his wife was lying beside [him, to tell her,that he had killed some one, [when the wholq truth flashed upon him that he had shothis iwn wife. This is the story; it is almost incrfedible.