Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — A Horrible Revenge. [ARTICLE]

A Horrible Revenge.

Some weeks ago a woman calling herself Bridget Malhony applied to Dr. Jackson, of Columbus, Ky., for the place of cook. Employment was given her, and for a short time she gave satisfaction. A. few days ago the doctor noticed some irregularities in her life, and notified her that she must look out for another home. This appeared to infuriate her beyond control; the pent-up devil in her nature burst forth in a fury of passion that sent the doctor scampering for the police and the family for an asylum of safety. When he returned Bridget had departed, leaving his mirrors and furniture a wreck It appears that, from a mistaken kindness, she was not prosecuted, but allowed to depart unmolested. From his residence she went to the hotel or boarding-house kept by an estimable German Catholic named Switzher, near the Mississippi <fc Ohio Railroad. She easily imposed herself upon the good na ture of this lady, and was permitted to stop with her, paying her board in work. She behaved badly again, and Mrs. 8. discharged her. Instead of going off, however, she went up into Mrs. S.’s room v it was immediately after break!ast),and sent for this lady from the dining-room. When she got into her presence she commenced to abuse her in a most shameful manner. Mrs. Switzher tried to quiet her and expressed sympathy for her. Bridget told her that she had better symSathize with herself and made at her. [rs. S. rushed down-stairs, leaving her three children, consisting of a little boy four years old and two daughters, aged respectively six and ten, in the rpom. The oldest says that the two children were in the bed, with the mosquito-bar fastened down around it, and that Brid - get deliberately took the lamp and satu rated the bed and children with coal-oil and fired it. Before assistance could reach them the passage was a solid sheet of flame, and the two children were burned, with the house and most of the furniture. The fiend is in prison, and the poor mother nearly distracted with grief at her terrible loss. — Paducah Kentuckian. An old woman called at a house in Boston other night, and begged for some food, but a plate* of cakes being set before her she threw it into the face of the lady of the house and rushfed out. crying, “Meat, meat; darn your old dough!” '