The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

(From the Louisville Journal Of April ~


Yesterday afternoon the vicinity of Main
and Brook streets was thrown into consider
able excitement by the discovery of the com.
mission of one of the most fendish and cr'le
murders of which we have any knowledge
For some time an Irish sail-maker named
Thos. Traver has been threatening the life
of his wife, and in consequence, for severa
days past, she has absented herself from
home. Yesterday the neighbors had their
| suspicious aroused from the fact of the house
Of Traver being mysteriously closed. About
noon they attempted to enter his room, but
it was locked and barred. They found sew
eral policemen, and with them broke through
the door. In the room they found Traver
with razor in his hand, in the act Of COM
hitting suicide. He made slight cash in
his throat, but the weapon was taken from
him by Officer Powell. After very severe
struggle, the man was seized and bound hand
and foot.
The woman was found lying in bed, with
out particle of vitality. 1t was evident
that she had died some time before, from
wounds inflicted by her husband. Traver
acknowledged, after being taken to prison,
that he committed the terrible deed. He
says that he killed his wife about four o'clock
in the morning, using for that purpose a
small pen-knife, which was found in the bed.
He had stabbed her in several places, and
made several gashes on her body. manifest
ing a spirit on his part of excessive virulencc.
What his motive was for committing the
crime is not known. He gives no explana-
ton of his conduct, though it is presumed
that the monster was laboring under the in
tiuence of passions aroused by long indulg-
ence in liquor.
The deceased was about % years of age,
and was originally from Newport in this
State. Her maiden name was Burns, and
she was married to her murderer last July.
From the Louisville Courier Of April A.
A fearful tragedy was enacted near Mount
Washington, in Built County, Thursday
evening, at the residence of julius Bukey,
an old gentleman, who first took the life of
his daughter Bette, and then his own. The
particulars of this bloody deed, from wha t
We can learn, are these: A young man
named John Roby, a neighbor, had been
paying his addresses to the daughter, who was
partial to him, but the match was strenu-
ously opposed by the father of the girl
He had an intimation or impression that
they were about to elope to get married, and
on the fatal evening. the young lady, who
was about l. years of age, told her father,
who had but moment before entered the
room, that she would pay visit to a neigh
Dor. This excited the suspicious of the ia
Their, who demonstrated with her, and re-
fused to let her leave the house. Angry
words ensued, and in the heat of passion be
first struck her, and ther. drew revolver
and shot her twice, both shots taking effect,
one through her head and the other in her
neck. The unfortunate girl fell dead at his
feet in the presence of the horror-stricken
wife and mother.
The wretehed man, on the instant of COM
hitting the deed, rushed from the house
with the fatal weapon in his hand; pursued
by sen, who had been hastily attracted to
the scene by the report of the pistol. lie
tried to seize his fathers arm to prevent fur
Their bloc dshed, and to wrest the pistol
from him; but he eluded his grasp, and af-
ter re'rcating few steps, placed the pistol
to his own head and blew his brains out
Mr.. Bukey was man of some property and
much respected by his neighbors, and was
over so years Of age.