The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-04-25
REVOLVING MURDER.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Mondag ADriI Is

tTSOUfSt, fO., IHoH0uy APTlt 1St.
We have just returned from the most aw
full scene OF butchery that we have eve
witnessed. A mother and Two children
have been murdered, in day light, by the
husband and faiher-lhe natural protector
of all three.
We found some difficulty in forcing oul
| way through the crowd that choked up the
narrow avenue to the dark, gloomy, and
dirty court in which the murder was perpe-
trated. 1t is in Sixth street, between Smith.
field and Wood. The woman was living
on the floor, with large wound over the
forehead and temple, Of itself sufficient to
cause her death. The blow, as in fact all
the wounds both of the woman and chill
dren, were given by smoothing iron. Her
appearance was horrible in the EXTREME
The blood and brains had oozed out upon
her pale and CHASTITY features, while her
projecting eyes and open jaws showed how
terrible had been the stroke which had de-
prived her of life.
She was delicate person; and at one
time must have been handsome. She was
originally from Greensburgh, and her fami-
ly name was Dagnan; though she was bro't
up by her grandfather, who kept hotel in
Manayunk, where she was married 10
Charles Delhi, an ornamental painter, and
who has now become her murderer. After
their marriage they removed to Reading,
from thence to Cincinnati, thence to Ken
lucky, then to Georgetown, Pa, and finally
TO this city, where they have resided for
four years.
They had four children, the Oldest, Emf
line, between and s years of age, who
was on an errand, and by that means es-
capped. When she came home, she saw
her mother and the TWO children apparently
dead, and her father, with his throat par
TALLY cut, standing by the fire. He called
her to him, but she ran out and gave the
alarm. She says her father was good,
When he was sober, and would read the BIZ
BILE and explain it to her mother, but that
when drunk lie was bad The origin of
the fatal quarrel was that Delhi had told his
wItetei gAod serheo liquor, and she declin-
edFEoo 10 SO. 4 .sppears he had several
times attempted her life; botin vain. The
murderer is the son of MIR. Jacob Delhi of
Georgetown, Pa.
The second child, boy, named John,
between and 7 years of age, is down the
river. William has wound across the
Aoieheau duu lell cneeK, CutllnS out the
eye. He is most likely by this time dead.
Mary, about two years old, has the back
part of her skull fractured, by striking
against the ceiling. The conclusion was
so violent as TO cause the overlapping of the
coronal sutures. She was, as a matter of
course, dead.
The neighbors heard screams about s o.
clock, but the alarm was not given until the
little girl ran out OF the house. Emeline
told US that her father had about two weeks
since kept her mother out of the house, dur
ing the whole of a rainy night.
The prisoner made an attempt to cut his
own throat, but his hand was not so steady
when used for se!f-destruction, as it was
when used against the lives of the mother
and her children. He said in the mayors |
office that the reason of his act was that bis
wife had told him none OF the children were
his. We have been informed, however,
hat her character is above reproach, and
hat his statement is without foundalion.--
He resisted considerably but was finally |
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