A woman named Catharine McHenry rented a room a few weeks since in the building belonging to Mrs. Seibert adjoining the Post Office, paying a certain sum per week rent. At the end of a month she was notified to leave. She tendered money in payment of another week's rent and refused to go. Legal notice was given her, and after the expiration of three days, Jacob Seibert, the husband of the owner, finding the tenant out of the room, set her furniture outside and locked the door; whereupon she got an axe and split the door down.
Seibert stood inside and kept her out of the room, she striking him with sticks and endeavoring to get in. Seibert said he would shoot her with a pistol with which he had provided himself if she persisted, which she dared him to do. She picked up a brick, struck the remnant of the door a few times, and then threw it and struck him -- immediately after which the pistol was discharged.
Seibert says she struck the pistol with the brick, thus causing its discharge, but there were dozens of persons present who think it was fired intentionally. Seibert was arrested for Assault and Battery with intent to kill, and committed to jail for the night by his Honor Mayor Allen, before whom he had a preliminary examination the next day. The mayor had a doubt whether there was an intent to kill, and Seibert was held to bail in $200 to answer at the next term of Court to the charge of Assault and Battery. D. Alban, Esq., appeared for the State (the Prosecuting Attorney being absent). The prisoner was ably defended by Messrs. Green & Dawes, and William M. Ramsey.
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