New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-25
THE CINCINNA TI HORR q K.
From The Cincinnati Commercial, Jul, %.

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In Yesterdays edition, the types, owing probably to
badly shaped g. made us set the age Of Loefner at
- instead Of 80 and he looks much older than ne re-
ally is We visited him yesterday at the Commercial
Hosptal and informed by the physician tnat
there was a strong probability Of HIS recovering.
The trachea entirely severed and the Gseophagus
slightly cut The wound itself actually reaches from
ear to ear and has as frghtfu appearance as any
have ever d h a onsr IN ordcs
that he may breathe, as well as for the discharge
of mucus. He still persists, through the medium OF
a pencil and slate in the statement which ne made
on the afternoon OF the murder insisting that ne ad
discovered Mr. Horton and bis wife in criminal act
ard 70 far from feeling repentance Tor what ne mss
done he gloes in his revenge, and processes that ne
would pursue the same action were ne again placed 10
like circumstances Previous TO killing his wife, he
had an alteration with her. in the course Of which she
struck him with the blade of knife across the lose,
and there il slight cut which would appear to indorse
this part of the story He then-accodlng to his own
stsemept-forced her to swallow poison, after which
be stranged her with handkerchief He appears 70
gloat with savage delight in the remnlscence OF us
Grin es and while giving his penced detail, hTndlsh
grin illuuines his saturnine countenance. lie mas
nervous bilious Temperament, dark, swarthy COM
plexon, more resembling that OF o Spaniard than
German. and powerful well developed Frame From
circumstances which we have Cleaned, 1t appears 70
be probable that be is, and has been for some tme,
partially deraneed owing to severe blow when ne
received on the head few years since. he was
epgsged az a hand on enc OF the river steamers,
and In A Quarrel with the mate, the latter seized
a bar roi and f.lled him TO the deck. Ii was al
frat supposed that he was Dead but he recovered, and
it is said has since exhibited partial signs OF derange
ment He has frequently been heard mutteIing wldiy
TO himself ard among other nsane imaginings was
belief that Mr. Horton and his family held communion
with witches who were continually hitting ABOUT Iie
house ard through whose agency the affections OF ms
Wife had been alienated Under these circumstances
it is highly probable the distorted BRAN OF Tue In
happy man might have conceived the idea OF ms WE
infdey and little farther stress OF imasinasivu
would impress him with the belief OF having actua'y
witnessed the crime. 1t certainly seems lnProoao
that man of SO violent temper, as ne
to possess would delay the execution oI ms le'ehSe
for one minute the contrary, bis every
cates tina. he would have taken summary 'enee@hc'
upon the spot. = roor.,
| Besides the reputation Of Mr.. Horlon as nCia'
man and an sectiopate husband aud father inc chs-
acter Of the Inflated wife Of the murderer - sau,
| those who knew her intimately, to nave oeen ehsuI
Ii, d ard With Mrs Horton she was an especial favor
| lie. She was mild accomplishing creature, anu
never diyueed the brutal and unreasonaoe treatment
which she almost daily expentnceo Hoih her nus
band. whose jaundiced jealousy, actibg upon ulso,
dered intellect conjured the bitter ahres ~ ns
ard finally led to the fulhllment ei we oiy Iasuy.
The remains of Door Francesca LoeIaer were oorne 10
H.; I, rtby resting place on Tuesday afternoon,
.,an5ed h hsr now childless father and train OF
hnmhj f,;s,ds The funeral Of Mr.. Horton VIII take
in. ~; .t,srroon from his late residence on Vine
To-, H;I, We are paned to learn fhst the severe
shoct s,,enaant upon the dcaouenem OK the fearful
t,sc.av has 40 affected Mrs Horton tnai 10 coenec-
t;on With her delicate state Of heahn she haVng 70
y,c,p,lv eyen birth to child serious Tears are etter
taired ihst yet smother victim may pe aa"ea " 'oe IT.
ss,iate fury Of the murderer. I'D.
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