Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — The Death of Mrs. Israel. [ARTICLE]

The Death of Mrs. Israel.

A dreadful rumor was current in Rensselaer Monday and Tuesday, to effect that David E. Israel, commonly known as hl via Israel, a native of this county, who went to Kansas last , Spring, bad just caused the death of j liis wife, a daughter of Wilburn Day, a I Well known and highly esteemed tesi- > dent of Barkley township, by beating or kicking her in such a manner as to ; cause a miscarriage, and finally death. - So fur as we are in possession of the facts of the case we will give them j briefly: Young Israel followed Miss Day to ' Kansas and they were married last i fall. There seems at present some i strong grounds for believing that they did hot Jive happily together, but as to that our information is not positive. As for the circumstances of her deaths we have the statements of another former. resident of this county in a letter to a relative in Rensselner. She died on the 14th of the present month, at the house of Thomas Pritchard, (another former Jasperite) in Edwards county, Kansas. . From the letter aboye alluded (o. we infer that Pritchard had taken her to his house for pro-t-ction. In any case, the letter states 1 hat Pritchard had forbidden Israel to come to his house, and that Israel <Jid go there after his wife, and that there was a quarrel between the two men, during; which Pritchard drew a harrowtooth upon Israel, and that Mrs. Israel was so. frightened by the occurrence that she took to her bed, and lived but a short time. She was en ciente at the time, tier father was, notified of her death, arrived there a day too late .to attend the funeral. The letter states that the people, a! the neighborhood, where the parties lived, at first believed Israel guilty of his wife’s death and even organized a i mob to lynch him. but that wiser j counsels prevailed, and he was arrested, ! andl[ after judicial examination was , discharged. ' > Mr. Day i ill probabljr return? to hi< hoiite shortly and from him we hope to ■ learn more off line particulars of this sod affair. -