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New York Sun
Monday, 18 September 1871

         Beaten to Death by his Wife.
         
         WILLIAM EDIE of Sangerfield, N.Y., was murdered in
       his bed on Wednesday night. It is believed that EDIE
       and his wife quarrelled while the husband was intoxi-
       cated. The wife was roughly handled at first, but ob-
       taining a whiffl-tree she struck her husband on the
       head, knocking him down, and so severely beating him
       that he died on Thursday morning. MRS. EDIE says that
       near midnight on Wednesday she was awakened by a col-
       ored man standing by her bed. She ran into an out
       building and concealed herself until morning. On re-
       turning to the house she found her husband lying on
       the bed dying, and a bloody whiffletree by the bed-
       side. MRS. EDIE has been held for murder.
       
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