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Uoley 10 spend upon his lusts. Thus, for
some time past, the parties lived. For the
l"st Is or 20 days, however. Morgan has
been Amos, necessarily drunk and seemed
10 care little for business. or for his fam.
ny. On Tuesday night. about II O'Clock,
he went, very nearly sober, to the porter
house OF Mr.. A. Backwood. No. &c Peck
sl'p with whom he was acquainted. and
aIte' remaining a short time left. About
two hours afterwards he came there again.
apparently under The influence Of llqnor.
and akng something to drink, went away.
Abort half past o'clock yesterday morn.
Tag he went there again. with his two
children, carving the younges. in his arms
sayIrg his wife had stabbed and almost
killed herself; wished to leave The children,
and requested Mr.. Black wood to 90 with
him to his house and see her. Mr.. Black.
wood accordingly went, and on passing
from the basement entry into the room The
family occupied, he saw Mrs. Morgan lying
across the doorway in her room, on her left
side. her knees drawn upwards towards her
head, completely cold and dead. He called
for light as that in the room was almost
extinct; but Morgan said he was afraid. and
could MT 60 10 get one. He went out. how.
ever,anl came back without one. Mr. Black.
wood han went out and borrowed a light &
found Ms. Morgan weltcrlng in her body
linen, and marks Of violence on her back.
Soon afie,. two young men. named G.. b.
and II, w. Mead, belonging to hose com.
pany. No !, who had just returned from
fire, and who lived at No. 30 Roosevelt
street, only two doors off, came home, and
were called in by Mr.. BIackwood and
Alderman Guion, of the 4th ward was sent
for, who came and sent for an officer to
come thee also
On the arrival Of the Alderman, he sent
Mr.. Mead and Mr., Blackwood to the mar.
ket, whittier Morgan Ind gone, as he stat
ed, to look after mis- marketins-to bring
hun back. While they were absent howe.
yer. he returned, and The Alderman took
hold Of hin and discovered blood on his
right hand between his thumb and finger,
and also on the ma Of the thumb of the
right hand. On being asked how he got
this blood upon his hand, he said he got it
by taking hold Of the body Of his wife after
no and Mr.. Backwood found her, and ask
ed Mr.. Is. il it was not SO, who said it was
not, as he, Morgan, did net touch her body
IN his presence. The Alderman also found
lying on the floor. directly in front of the
breast of Mrs. Morgan, large dirk knife.
with the blade shut in The handle. and
about haf Of The blade, three inches long
brolen off and missing. About a pint of
blood was also found on the floor. and the
orlfces Of several wounds observed in her
baci. The Alderman ordered Morgan TO
be taken to the prison, after a brief con.
VIBRATION, in which he said his wife had
killed herself because he was out so much
at nights, and officer Narcotics and Messrs.
Needs, and another fireman. named Clan.
cey, of Engine No. 81, conducted him to
prison. On the way he said he had done
nothing, wanted some drink, which they
would not give give him, and expressed
wish not TO be taken to The prison, as it
might be the means Of iDj Uring his repulay
ton. and conversed incoherently to his
conductors. In prison he said he did not
carewhether he lived or died, and appeared
confused and embarrassed in his manner.
10 he meantime. Alderman Guion and
his officer took charge of the body, and
suffered j, to remain exactly in the state
in which it was first found. until the arrival
of the coroner and his jury. Alderman
Wheeler. the coroner, proceeded at once
TO examine the body, and after wiping off
the blood. he discovered seven ghas'ly
wounds.-The knife on The floor he picked
up and opened. and found blood upon il, =,
and half the blade gone, which half he
found under her chemise, lying close to
the skin, across tho abdomen. The body
was then removed to the dead house in the
PARK, where Doctors Doane, Wood and
Cevelng, were in elterdnnce, and with
great skill speedily executed post mOrlem
examination of its various parts.
During the examination, the surgeons
discovered eleven wounds, viz : three in
the back under the left shoulder blade /;
six 10 the left side, towards the spine ; one
through the upper left arm. and one on the
thumb of The right hand, Several Of them
were long and deep, but only one Of
them entered the interior OF the chest.
This wound was given with great force,
evidently by person partly behind the
deceased, and passing completely through
the middle Of the seventh rib, entirely split
1t, thereby permitting the instrument TO
enter the cavity Of the chest, which it did.
In tracing II, it was ascerialned that The
instrument had penetrated the pericardum
or sack that surrounds the heart and had
separated the pulmonary artery at its orig
IN at the heart. filling the chest with al
least two quarts of blood. and inevitably
causing death in a very few minutes.
The physicians stated that such an ms
lrument as the knife then present would
produce such wound. The knife found
in front of the body on the floor was known
to belongto Morgan. and was often used
by him at the market, TO the great ter
ror of his wife. 10 addition to the fore
going testimony the Oldest boy, about Sc
ven years old, said be saw his father
strike his mother with a knife. Under
these circumstances, and with these facts
before them. the jury returned as verdict.
,hat Mrs Tpmima Morgan came IN har