A Fishy Murder Story

The Pontiac Commercial published a long and sensational account of a murder committed not far from Pontiac fifteen years ago, and now just confessed by a woman on her death bed. No names or locality are given, but it is asserted that a husband disappeared at the time mentioned and that his wife made every effort to ascertain his whereabouts, offering rewards for information concerning him, advertising, ect. As the parties had not lived happily together, and he had just received $1,500 from the sale of some property belonging to his wife, the public soon settled down to the belief the he cleared out with the money and rid himself of disagreeable marital relations at the same time, and this belief as strengthened by her devoted and earnest christian life, full of zealous labors for the church of which she was a member. Recently she died, and in her last moments, stated that she and her husband quarreled of the disposition of the $1.500, and that she struck him in the head with an axe, killing him at one blow, and then tumbled his body into an unused well. The yarn is extremely diaphanous but the Commercial asserts that the fact of the confession claim that it was merely the ravings of delirium.