Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-08-09

49, 49,. Hotel in Broadway were
lssS Yesterday morning, about o.
4. cries Of murder proceeding from
49, .. q Mrs Rathban. Mrs Rathbun
h..m;nr that Loomis, her son, was
G. o. h;m,eii. Several colored walters
bp' .' in the hall, where they
-, Isonis Rathbun, a dissipated man,
l ~ . M thirty-five years, with razor
81 S.,d, endeavoring to cut the throat
. y, :. solhsr. who was lying on the floor
= " 4. NM in the second story-having
: .a - very badly cut his own throat.
prs,t, Of SO Liberty street, was i'm
= l.,.ly called in, when both were con-
go 49, dangerously wounded. The par
..a IT,. Il ri. most melancholy affair are
go the,e :-The only child Of Mr.
80 s',s2.rn. long known as the proprietor of
y. ~ which goes BY bis name-has for
-, ve,r. been very dissipated, and was
...,, AGO committed to Blackwell's
M Hospital while in a state Of deIir-
.,.men,. A short residence there
...a temporary cure, and ne was re-
,...sS bot 10 renew his habits Of inebr'-
= Far Few days past he has been
s y than usually under the influence of
nam. M shirts, and his mother has fire.
. s. been in the habit of admitting him
! l,ie hour Of the night into room adj
;aininr hers, where he received every at
;.ntioD she could bestow. During Sum
d.y night he talked about dying, and asked
NJ mother to forgive him, saying ne had
han ] very bad boy, SC. He then ap-
ps.red quite wild and furious. During
ihe night he had most fearful visions OF
evil spirits, and all the hideous monsters
which usually pass before the mind OF
,hsse laboring under the same awful dis
e,,e. About 5 o'clock yesterday morn
4, having a razor in his hand, he step
neS 10 the door Of his mothers room, and
sid .'good bye mother" and instantly
commenced cutting his throat.
Dreadfully frightened, she followed him,
screaming for help and attempting to pre-
vent he act. LOOMS, in rage, possibly
taking his mother for one Of the fiends that
had haunted his imagination during the
restless hours Of the previous night, turned
round and said sdamn her, iii kill her too. "
Ne then seized his mother, struck her,
threw her down on the hall floor, and COM
nenced hacking her with the razor
When seized BY one ofthe walters he had
cut her throat in most shocking manner
having laid bare the jugglar vein, and
caused the blood to flow from the wound
through the mouth. He was Immediately
pinioned and placed upon bed. d.
Pratt, who by this time had arrived, in the
first place dressed the wounds of Mrs K.
who was considered past recovery up til
q. \. when she barely succeeded il
swsllowing little rice water.
Dr. Pratt and his associate, DR. McGre'
eor, leaving Mrs R. as comfortable a.
could be under the circumstances, repair
"a to another room and dressed LOOMS
wound, which was not quite so bad, though
yery severe. At 2 r. NJ. he was so fal
recovered from the loss Of blood as to b
able to 90 TO the Lunatic Asylum, width
e. he was taken in charge by Captain
Cook. ofthe First Ward, on commitmen,
procured by DR. Pratt. This miserably
unfortunate young man, after his confine-
nent to the bed, besought his guards to
release him, that he might "finish himself,
and among other rawlings, said he chad
been to hell, and seen the head man there,
and was now going back to take his moth
er with him-he would not leave her
here" His wound is not considered dan
gerous. That Of Mrs R., who is an old
lady nearly 60 years Of age, is somewha,
critical, but the prospect is that she will
recover. 1t should be mentioned that the
principal actor in this awful tragedy has
on no occasion had his appetite, for that
which destroyed his reason, gratified al
the bar of the house where the deed was
committed, nor indeed was il known to the
proprietors that he was ledger in the
house. 1t was the ever-watchful atten-
lion Of most affectionate, perhaps toe
fond mother, that furnished him, even in
bis lowest degradation with comfortable
bed near her own room, where she would
administer every trifling luxury that
could add to his comfort or sooth his dis
tempered mind.-[N. Y. Cour. and Eng
Tar TAMMArr Hall DEMOCRATS in
New York have repudiated any connec-
lion with the Free Soil party. One Of
their resolutions says: -
Res0lned That we Look nnnn every at