1893-12-15-THE HICKMAN COURIER-Kentucky A Terrible Tragedy. A terrible tragedy occurred in Weakley county, Tenn., near Martin last week. West Edwards, a well-known young farmer shot and instantly killed his wife and then shot himself twice in the neck, dying in a few hours. The Martin Tribune give the following account of the affair: Young Edwards had been married about a year and every one thought the couple happy. Mr. Edwards was getting along well in the world and had plenty of everything around him, but it appears that he had recently indicated symptoms of insanity and would frequently remark to this wife that she did not love him and that he had rather be dead than alive. But his family thought nothing of these melancholy moods, and on the morning of the killing he was helping his wife and sister-in-law about washing and seemed to be in good spirits. It seems that some bird hunters were shooting over in a field and his wife or sister-in-law said something about it, and Edwards said that he had some shooting to do, and went into the house. His wife thought nothing of it. He came out and fired two shots into his wife's back with the above result. He then turned the pistol and fired one ball into his neck, and told his sister-in-law that he was going back into the house and reload his pistol and kill her, and he thereupon went into the house and reloaded his pistol and came out in search of his sister-in-law, who had fled to a neighbor's house, and not finding her, he again shot himself.