[Newspaper]
Publication: The Daily Commonwealth
Covington, KY, United States
vol. VI, no. 284, p. 1, col. 7
A Termagent.
MARY CROSS, the colored termagent who has been languishing in jail for over a year for attempting to shoot Mr. Robert Hemingray, Jr., against whom she harbored a wholly causeless but venomous antipathy, was to have been released from jail last night, her term of imprisonment having expired. Immediately after being placed in jail, she began to try Dr. Tanner's experiment of voluntary starvation, and for thirty days remained without food, finally succumbing, however, to the demands of the stomach. She has since then behaved well, and showed no signs of whatever of abberation, beyond that in the past week or two she began displaying her old hatred of Mr. Hemingray by threatening that she would kill him immediately on being released from jail. On this point her sojourn in prison seemed to have produced no other effect than to make her more earnestly vengeful. Mr. Hemingray, knowing from experience that she was no trifler, accordingly felt some uneasiness at her release and last night was induced to swear out a peace warrant, in order that she might be kept in jail until it could be seen what ought to be done. He accordingly did so, and Esquire W. P. McLaughlin, before whom she was brought, remanded her to jail. She was this morning examined by Esquire McLaughlin and placed under $1,000 bond to keep the peace towards Mr. Hemingray and all other persons. The trial was held in the Mayor's Courtroom, at the jail building. In default of bond she was recommitted to jail. After the trial was over, Mr. Hemingray left, but before he got out of the building was called back by request of the woman, who said she wanted to see him a moment. When he returned she opened out on him with her tongue, and such blasphemy, obscenity and filthy language and expressions were never heard before, 'Squire McLaughlin, of course, tried to quiet her, but might as well have tried to stop a railroad train. The woman was put back to jail, but she still kept up her racket, and for an hour afterwards her curses and yells could be heard a block away from the building. She is undoubtedly crazy.
