OBIT: Betsy KINNEY, 1880, Cambria County, PA

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Murder in the Ebensburg Almshouse.

  The Johnstown Tribune says that Betsy Kinney, formerly of Munster 
township, Cambria county, and aged about 84 years, was on Monday 
assaulted in the poor house, in which she was an inmate for a long time 
past, by an insane woman, named Patsy O'Neil Weakland, who is confined 
in the department allotted to persons who are out of their mind.  The 
latter was allowed certain liberties, and while walking through the 
corridor met the old lady, and they had a few words, when Mrs. Weakland 
ran to the stove and picked up a poker, with which she struck Betsy 
over the head a number of times.  The latter was knocked to the floor 
insensible, and when an examination of her injuries was made, it was 
found that her skull had been fractured.  The victim died the same 
evening, about 7 o'clock.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, February 25, 1880