Mr. [Prentiss] Haynes,¹ one of the overseers of the poor of that town, has been supposed to be somewhat deranged for some time past, and was asked by his wife to retire for the night, when he told her that he would sleep upstairs, as he was fearful somebody would shoot him if he slept below, and accordingly the two went up stairs. After a while a noise was heard and Mrs. Haynes rushed downstairs, followed by her husband with a razor in his hand, the two running against an old lady present, and around the house and back up stairs again, when Mr. Haynes was heard to bolt the door and say, "You have got to die now, any how."

When the door was opened shortly after, it was found that both the wife's and husband's throats were cut from ear to ear causing their death almost instantly!

From appearances the husband attacked his wife and cut a gash on the side of her face before she rushed down stairs and there was another cut on one of her hands, probably done at the same time. At the second attack he was perfectly sucessful, it appears.