Hi Barbara Again, many thanks for the article! This one gives us another name to explore -- great! It's interesting that the coroner stamped the death cert. homicide rather than manslaughter. Now to find out what happened to Sarah Stead. Kind regards, Lynne Barbara McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > >And here's another version: >"Trenton Evening Times" (Trenton, NJ) >21 Dec 1924 > >Mother-in-Law Stabs Man to Save Husband > >Philadelphia, Dec. 20. Harry Buskey, 35 was stabbed to death by his >mother-in-law, Mrs Sarah Stead, police declared. The woman is alleged to >have said that she killed the man to save the life of her husband, Walter >Stead, with whom Buskey was fighting. > >According to witnesses, Buskey, under the influence of liquor, went tonight >to the home of his wife's parents with shom she had been living because of >illness. He became abusive and Mr. Stead, coming home, tried to reason with >him. A fight started and Stead, of slight build, was punished severely. >Mrs Florence Summers, another daughter and the other women separated them, >they declared, but Buskey attacked them again. > >Buskey, the woman said, had his father-in-law down on the floor and was >beating him mercilessly when Mrs. Stead seized a butcher knife and stabbed >him four times.