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Niles Republican
Saturday, 9 July 1859

         Murder - The Detroit Free Press of the 3d gives the
       particulars of the murder of a little girl about three
       years old, by her father, residing in the eastern portion
       of the township of Livonia. Some altercation took place
       between MRS. FULTON and her husband when they were at
       the tea table, when he told her that if she did not stop
       her noise he would shoot her.
         She told him to "shoot away," at which he jumped up
       and took the gun from its resting place on the wall,
       where he had placed it a few minutes before on returning
       from a shooting expedition, and bringing the butt up to
       his hip, stepped back a couple of steps making his dis-
       tance about six feet from his wife, and pulled the trigger.
       The contents of the gun passed the intended victim and
       entered the forehead of the little girl. The mother picked
       the child up and attempted to run away with it exclaiming,
       "My God! you have shot my child." FULTON grasped the gun
       by the barrel and ran after her, replying, "By G--d! I'll
       shoot you," and struck at her as she was passing out the
       door. She received the blow on her arm. He repeated the
       blows rapidly, hitting her with the butt of the gun on
       the head, shoulders and arms, cutting the scalp, and badly
       bruising her body and limbs. She, however, clung to the
       child and managed to escape, and made her way toward a
       neighbor's house a short distance away. Becoming weak from
       the loss of blood, she laid the child down by the side of
       the road and went on alone.
         The balance of the children, two in number, fled to the
       neighbors. FULTON was arrested and is now in jail. It is
       thought MRS. FULTON will recover.
       
       **Transcriber's Note: The 1860 Federal Census Mortality
         Schedule lists JANE E. FULTON, age 4, Livonia, died
         from accidental shooting.