Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1876 — An Imaginary Murderess. [ARTICLE]

An Imaginary Murderess.

The London Daily Newt reports: “As the facts are reported, a well-dressed woman spoke to a policy officer in one of the streets of London, and told him that she had committed a murder. She was taken at once to a police station, and there she described herself as a nurse fa a workhouse, and declared that for-a long time she had been filled withfeelfags of hatred and revenge against one of the matrons; that she had watched for and found an opportunity, knocked the matron down, stunned her, and then killed her by cutting her throat with a mor. After this she wrapped the body in her bedclothes and hid it under her bed. This done, she intended to make her escape,- but she thought there would be no safety, and she became Stricken 'by remorse, and determined upon giving herself- up.- The police accordingly made inquiries, and they found one rather important point incorrect The woman said to be murdered was alive, and well. In the room of the alleged murderess there was found, indeed, a long bundle or roll under the bed; but the bundle on being opened was found to contain no human body, only a bolster. The woman who accused herself was examined by a medical man, _ but he appears to have been unable to give any decided opinion at once as to whether she was sane or insane.” Fhom statistics collected R seems that lightning is more dangerous in Europa than fa this country, On an average seventy-seven people are killqd every year by it in France, and the annual list of killed in this manner amounts to 260 persons. Eighty were wounded and ulne killed fa one storm at Chateauneuf-les-Montiero in 1861. Twenty-two are killed by lightning every year in England, nine fa Switzerland and three fa Belgium.