Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-07-13
SUICIDE ADDED TO MURDER.

SUICIDE ADDED TO MURDER.
Laa Act If he SheH Roal Drdmd-Fnvitet
Particulars of Miss O'Brien's Murder
The causes that led 10 it-Bond The MNr-
dersr-HD Body Found, dc,
Yesterday morning We n6tlced the murder
Of Catharine O'Brien Oh the Shell Road, Civ.
ing such particulars Of the tragic Transaction
Az then came 10 our knowledge. To-day we
| ill up the last act Of the drama, by stating
that her murderer, Edward Fell BOND, adding
further damnalion 10 bis deeds, has shot him
| self. Yesterday morning, at daylight, his be-.
dy was discovered III the woods, a short de.
lance from where he cbr1mti'cd the murder
on the previous evening Three pistol ball
wounds were ID bis face Of which perfo-
rated The skull and SahraiG. The
@SieaG t p wss c CO. Sod dior for
worms.
Bond, we learn, was born III Baltimore,
where some respectable relatives Of his are
living. lie had been living for some time ri
Magazine street, above Deiord, in what was
formerly the German theatre. IN this place
bis wife carried On the business Of dress
maker. The mother of Catharine O'Brien
rented, and occupied for some months, The
rooms overhead. Catharine, about three
months ago, was working at the dressnaking
business in another part Of the city; but,
from oVcrtures made to her BY Mrs. Bond,
ehe.went to work with her. Bond and his
wife did not live happy together, and yet he.
spent much Of his TINA in The house while
Catharine was there. She was prepossessing
in appearance, and there is no doubt he form
ed passion for her, which, however violent
il may have been, was anything but honora-
bic. Catharine, in the meantime, was loved
purely loyed-by IN honest young mechan-
ic ofthis city, whose fullest affection she re-
turned. This Bond was aware OF, and the
knowledge Of it may we'll be presumed to
have boon one Of The causes that impelled
him to her murder and his own Obstruction.
Mrs. O'Brien and her family removed a
few weeks since, from the house 10 which
Bond lived TO a tenement in Gifod stree, and
Catharine ceased 10 work for Mrs. B indeed
her mother did not like the conduct Of Bond,
although there was nothing in it with which
absolute fault could be found. The family
had not been long in Girod street before the
arch intriguer, Mrs. Lennen, called: she told
them she bad some sewing % DO, and b airing
that Catherine was expert at her needle, she
wished her to do Il for her. This was the
first Catharine or her mother appeared to
have known of Mrs. l. She went there,
worked a few days, for which she got paid,
returning to her mothers humble but honest
r0cf every night. On Friday morning she
left home for Mrs. Lennen's, taking a dress
Of her own with her, in the making OF which
the latter promised 10 assist her. When she
returned again 10 that home, it was as a
bleeding corpse!
With reGerance to the affairs of Friday,
| Mrs. Lennen's story is, that she had seen
Bond once at his own house, and that on
| Friday he cam to her dwelling, in Love
street, Third Municipality, with linen to
| gaali. and proposed to drive to The lake, with
| Catharine and herself, 10 which they assem-
| tel. Waen they 80. fhare he ordered dua-