Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Crime News Gleanings

January 25, 1882

*Georgeana Smith was lodged in the Flemington jail last Wednesday for the murder of her husband, Wm. R. Smith, at Mount Joy in the upper part of Hunterdon county. It appears that Mrs. Smith had two husbands one of which she had not seen in fifteen or twenty years. Lately she learned that he was in the county and fearing difficulty she went to a neighbor's and stole a revolver, then started for the saw mill where her husband William was at work; he saw her approaching and went out to meet her; when within a few feet of each other, she drew the pistol and fired, the ball striking Smith in the abdomen making a fatal wound from which he died in a few hours. Mrs. Smith attempted to shoot herself afterwards but failed.

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