Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1877 — Tragic Results of Being Hasty. [ARTICLE]

Tragic Results of Being Hasty.

As an instance of what hot-temper and rash action can accomplish to ruin a life, an affair that occured at Sharon, Pennsylvania, is one of the best illustrations. A young lady, Miss Kate McGiltery, was out (wiving alone, and when on State street she desired to get ahead of a wagon. She called out to the driver to turn aside so that she could pass. He was a deaf, infirm, old man named Bell, and at first did not hear what she said, but after a second or third call did as requested. Misunderstanding Mr, Bell’s delay, the young lady on her arrival at home told her father that the old man had tried to frighten her horse. Mr. McGilvery is very impetuous, and this made him so very angry that he started down town to find ’Mr. Bell. He found him in front of a store, and, without warning, knocked him through the winddw, cutting hts head badly though not seriously. Mr. Bell was removed to his residence, and his son Richard was so maddened by his father’s condition that he determined to punish his assailant; He found him in front ol the very store where the first assault had been made, aud picking up a two-pound brass weight he hurled It at Mr. McOilvery’s head, fracturing the skull. The wounded man died in a row hours. Miss Kate, the innocent cause of all the trouble, has lost her reason, and is now a raving maniac, though her physician has slight hopes that she may recover from the shock. Young Bell is now in custody. —Two gamblers were in Leavenworth, Kan., several years ago, with about fifty dollars in their pockets. They desired to get money enough to go to California. They went to separate hotels. One registered as a physician, and advertised a remedy for cholera. The other put up a large quantity of yeast powders into sample packages, with a little croton oil in each, and nired a boy to distribute them. Boon family after family, affected by the croton oil, felt what they believed were symptoms of cholera. The sale of the cholera remedy was enormous, and the gambleirs ware enabled to go to California. They now tell the story through the Virginia City SnterpriM.