Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, August 29, 1867, p. 1. A FEMALE FIEND [From the Salem, Indiana, Times, August 22]-The most shocking affair that ever transpired within the bounds of Washington County was committed in Gibson Township between the hours of five and six o'clock on the morning of Tuesday last. The particulars, so far as we have been able to gather them, are about as follows: Jane Williams, an unmarried woman and aged, perhaps, 40 years, resides with a married brother in the vicinity of Little York, a village in Washington County. Her brother, William Williams, having some business with one of his neighbors, left his wife and sister, the only occupants of his own house, and walked over to that of his neighbor and, while absent his sister attacked Mrs. W. with a knife while she was engaged in preparing breakfast, inflicting several savage cuts about the throat and neck, cutting her throat from ear to ear, severing the windpipe entirely and, in fact, almost severing the head from the body. Mr. Williams, who had not yet been absent half an hour, returned, when his sister met him at the gate and informed him of the terrible deed she had committed, saying that she had killed his wife and was going out after the neighbors. Her tale, of course, seemed incredible to Mr. Williams, but when he entered the house he found his wife, whom he had left but a few moments before in perfect health, a ghastly, bleeding corpse upon the floor. The immediate cause or cause that led to the bloody deed we are not prepared to relate, but it is said that the parties have never lived agreeably together and that this petticoated fiend has contemplated the deed she executed on Tuesday morning for over two years. Mrs. Williams, we are informed, often left home in the absence of her husband fearing violence at the hands of this she devil. A vein of insanity is said to have run through the family of the murderess, but it does not seem to us that this act could have been committed in a fit of insanity when she has had the life of her victim in view for so long a time. As we have before stated, she acknowledged the deed from the first and said that, as God was at the head of all things, so must He be at the head of this. The murderess was brought to Salem and lodge in jail at about five o'clock on the day of the murder, and not until the massive prison door had creaked on its iron hinges did she manifest the least concern about the awful crime she had committed.