| Mortimer Hill |
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near there Sunday evening the 19th inst. Mortimer Hill about one year ago married the daughter of George Bainy, a well-to-do farmer at Selma. They lived unhappily together, as he was addicted to drink, and frequent quarrels ensued, which resulted each time in Hill abusing the woman in a shameful manner. Two or three weeks ago the husband took the wife to her father's house, telling the old gentleman that he could not make a living for her, and that he didn't intend to try. Bainy, the wife's father, told him he would care for her and the infant. Sunday night about 10 o'clock while Mrs. Hill was sleeping in her father's house with her child on her arm, Hill, who was prowling in the neighborhood, took off his boots and crept stealthily to the window on the room in which slept his wife. He fired a bullet from a 32-calibre pistol into her breast. Supposing he had made a fatal shot, he placed the muzzle of the pistol to his forehead and fired without avail. He sent the third ball through his heart, causing instant death. The wife was mortally wounded. The cause of the tragedy is supposed to be jealousy and whisky. |