Indiana State Sentinel

We have just learned of an awful murder and suicide, which took place near Palestine, some 15 miles east of this place, a few days since. We were not able to get the exact date.

The particulars as far as we can learn, are as follows: A German, by the name of Nep, occasionally in the habit of drinking to excess, had been drinking in company with another individual, well known here, and both left the doggery in Palestine for the German's home. After there, some difficulty arose, and the individual had his ribs broken by the German. After getting sober, he threatened the German with a suit, telling him that he would take away his property and farm, the latter having cost him $1700 in cash. This caused the German to immediately transfer his property to his child. This operated on his wife, who is represented as having been rather a "hard customer." She afterwards twitted her husband of being a beggar. The whole matters operating on him, he procured a barrel of whiskey, which he brought home, when she told him he ought to have purchased arsenic. While he was asleep, she let the contents of the barrel run out; and when he awoke and found what she had done, he immediately attacked her, beat and killed her, and afterwards severed her head from her body with an axe. He then deliberately stood up before a looking glass, and cut his own throat.

These are the facts as we get them; and from a source entitled to credit. It may be proper to add, that the husband and wife had occasionally separated before the awful tragedy.

Young men! these are the consequences of rum drinking! Would you desire your names heralded to the world in such a connection? Nothing but abstinence will prevent it. Touch not; taste not; handle not.

P. S. We have since learned that the man did not cut his weasand sufficient to produce death.