Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-01
A COuDIe of She Fiends.

The San Francisco Police Gazette gives the
following account of the late horrible stab
bing affray in San Francisco:
Yesterday afternoon Ellen Speizer and Sa-
rah Ann Drum were both laying in one bed
in an upper room fronting on the street
when Fanny Clark and Margaret Stanley
suddenly burst open the door and rushed at
them Margaret being armed with a heavy
hatchet in one hand, pocket knife in the
other, and Fanny Clark who is more con-
monty known as JGlia Burett, being armed
with large bone-handled carving knife
The two women in the bed were terribly
scared and Sarah Ann rushed to the win
dow to jump out, but the assaiing women
dashed basins, and pitchers and tumblers, in
fact anything that was handy, at her Mar
garet struck at Ellen Speizer known as Ellen
Mooney with the hatchet. inhicting a
frightful wound on her left breast, and say
agely cut her with the pen-knife in mum
Der of places. Fanny Clark was not idle
either, but wounded her severely with the
carving knife. The blood spurted all over
the room as blow after blow was given Lv
the infuriated she fiends, until at last the
whole bed was saturated, and the walls and
carpets thickly spattered with her gore. So
garet Stanley was tired of the horrid work,
and tried to force her away, when Fanny
turned upon her like tiger and cut her
most horribly in the right arm. Having
finished off Ellen and Margaret, she now
made at Sarah Drum, who jumped out of the
two-story window and escaped fortunately
unhurt. Fanny beinS balfed in her prey,
turned again upon Ellen Spezer, and threw
the knife at her, which missed the mark ard
buried itself over an zach in the mahogany
bureau which stood at the head of Elens
bed She then took q basin and smashed it
on Ellen's head, and not satisfied with this,
put some tumblers into towel ana using it
as Sling, was pounding the unfortunate
Ellen on the head, when Captain Douglas
fortunately arrived and put stop to her
tiendish brutality. lie was soon after Joined
by officers Mex and Chappelle, when
they placed the she demon in a carriage and
took her to the city prison, raving aud
screaming herself hoarse, and using most
herrifyingly vile language. which she con-
tinued to do until exhausted, stating also
that she was quite willing to take ten wears
for what she'd done, and would do it over
again if she had the chance Chief of Police
Burke, with a number of officers, also went
up to the scene of butchery. and secured the
various persons and weapons concerned in
the conflict. DIR. Holman and a German
Doctor, whose name we could not ascertain,
were prompt in their attendance, and pro-
ceeded at once to examine and dress the
wounds. Ellen Spe,zer was found badly
hacked up having a horrid wound in her left
breast, about three inches long, one inch
deep and spreading open about an inch and
half! Over her forehead are two long
gashes, one longitudinal, and extending some
three inches and the other about an inch
and half in length perpendicular to the left
eye-numerous smaller stabs on her arms,
and wounds on her head All her hair was
'elOtted with blood, and the bed literally
soaked. Her face, neck, arms, and hands
were also smeared with gore, and on the
carpet were great pools of blood The cur
tains too, were dyed with it, and altogether
the scene eminenty horrid aud the poor wo-
man feariully mangled. There are four rooms
IN the upper story of the house, and in one
ot the back ones we found Margaret Stanley,
her bed and clothes likewise saturated with
the crimson tide Of life, but not to so great
an extent as in Ellen Speizer room. The
BuSh IN MargdreCs right arm, just above the
elbow, isoyer three inches in length and cut
to the bone. 1t looks more like as though
the arm had been cut off. She raved most
violently whilst the Doctor was bondocing
her wounds, crying for revenge upon thai
' Sidney duck, as she called one of the wo-
men, That she would cut her heart ont Inf
she would have revenge, even if she had to
swing for it Her mouth had to be stonned
so frenzied were her'howings The wounds
were all well dressed and both patients are
do ng well as can he expected, no fear of the
death of either being anticipated All the
parties are in custody. Margaret Stanley,
whilst having her wounds dressed, tainted
away, and wasA long time coming to, but
the moment she opened her eyes, she again
renewed her cries for revenge 1t is shock
ing affair Fanny Clark says that she had
man who went up country the other day and
married woman, and that ever since tho
news came down these other women on Pike
street have mocked and hawked at her ia
derision. So she just made up her mind. as
she says, to "sail in and clean them all out p
IT was reported last evening that this woman
Fanny Clark alias Julia Burlett was one and
the same person as Ida Vanard elias Brewer
VINO killed a man in Sacramento some wears
ago. but we find on inquiry that it is not so
since writing the above we learn that Ellen
opeizer received no less than eleven wounds