The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-04-07
A DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN Nyw vo,-.
Intemperance and Nina,

! One Of the most fiendish murder.
er announced, was committed at No. a9S SS,e w .''
ty-Inlrd ST., n. Y, on Friday night Nv ven
man, named Thomas Neary, who ScIisaiS's - iS'sh'
beat his wife with stone cutters ToaIet
tchlsel, crushing her head in several riae aat
that she remained senseless till veste-so-'sS So
ing, when she died in tlfe Believe T..l.1' morn
me horrld crime was committed in the nrs!.. ga
OF her three children, the eldest of whom
- years olG, gave the following evidence bet,,s
the Coroner's Jury, who have returned oe.sss
OF %ilful murder against the prisoner: '4'''
EDWARD Neary, living at No. 222 Tr.-
Ihlrd street, testifed-Preyious 10 thu o.-
renee on Friday Eight, he lived with bis SoSuF
dhomas Neary, the accused nv fatber Jva.-'
1eotiy sober on Thursday and FRIDAY n,btstpg PEE
ana my mother had very little to say - a..s as
1ther on FRIDAY; they did not quarrel no. ~.
,'ot'n "oI1s was SICK on Friday, and went -
~ ~ "oouI OF O'Clock In the evening. before
went to sleep my mother went N haJ
IN the same room with me, but in a difFersE5.
bed; when she went to bed She left nv go
IN the sitting room; the room in ,vbi.b -.
adJolned thlsi about l0B o'clock 7 yroe oro,sseS
by the cries Of my sister, who slart in ~ -
bed with me; my father, the nrisoror -
standing by the side Of the bed where mo Ino,S
er was lying, and he was Beating her on ~.
mead with some heavy weapon; the blows on he,
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not hear my mother speak, but she rno9nad. -
father had nothing on him but his shirt =,
hight was out, but distinctly saw him give tbs
blows by the light that came through the hai
room window; could not see the kind Of wac,
on he was using at the time; sat uu in the ~
and cried murder" upon which he came Nh =
me, held the weapon over my head and told ma
to lay down or he would murder me too. tbs
weapon was a mallet-the one now shown me
rs the same; ne bel il IL his right hand afte,
ne made me lie down he went back arsin and
struck my mothor on the head with the mane,.
she was moaning during this time He then
looked out Of the bedroom into the sitting room.
he turned round aud said that she 'moc1ei
very strong, and that he had "better give he,
some more; he seized her with his left hand
pulled ner up IN the bed in 4 sitting position
and struck her on the head two or three times
with the same weapon he then pulled her ou.
Oh the hoor and gave her five or six blows u.r
with the mallet; she then stopped moaning s1l
ne let her 60, exclaiming, ~ thought to El
you before, but 1t failed me- but now you l.s
done ;" my sister and myself were Screaming
during tnIs time; he again came up TO me, ho'i.
ing the naEet over my head, saying I'm mur.
der you, but lie down yet;" he then went into
the sitting room; at this moment there was rap
from the outside at the sitting room door; this
door was locked father asked who was there
.'i4o Nc''[u some person answer, but DO not
know what they said; when l heard the assist:
ance coming jumped from the bedroom VIII.
dow into the yard; jumped from the windos
which IS on floor over the store; then entered
the house aud went 10 the door Of the sitting
room where | found woman who lived on the
same floor; told her my father had my mother
killed IN the house, this woman then woke Der
husband up and sent him TO get. the officers, the
othcers soon came, and after rapping several
times my father opened the door, when they AZ
rested him; my mother was lying on the bed
room floor in the same place that she was when
went out Of the window; about three or four
months ago my father attempted TO kill her viii
4 knife, but at that time he had been drinking