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A Horrid tragedy.

--A Negro Girl Murders Her Three Children and then Attempts Suicide. --The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, of the 15th instant, has the following particulars of a tragedy which occurred in that city:

‘ On yesterday a servant killed her three children, and then tried to take her own life. A few minutes before the horrid tragedy, a fellow servant, observing her leaving her room, where she had been confined by an attack of brain fever, prevailed on her to return, which she reluctantly did; but in a short time she was seen lying at the head of the stairs, the blood streaming from her neck, and upon entering the room, her three children were discovered with their throats cut. Her conduct the evening before had been so strange as to excite the attention of the family, but there was no suspicion that her wandering of intellect would take so cruel a direction. She seems to have known that the servants and family had an eye upon her, for she planned the deed with stealthiness, and has said since ‘"she could not help it."’ The physicians pronounce it a case of insanity.--The unhappy woman is not expected to recover.

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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 21, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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