Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-07

Crime In LyeomiHg Connty-A Husband
MurdeTs his Wife and Commits suicide.
A horrible murder was committed in Will
Transport, Penna, on the night Of the 1lth
ult. The particulars of the affair the Ly.
coming Gazette gives, as follows:
A man by the name of Barney Hindley,
formerly of Philadelphia, residing on the
corner of Front street and Pine-alley, in
Willlamsport, with wife and four small
children, the youngest about sixteen months
old, killed his wife, Mary Hihdley, ia a most
shocking manner, and buried her. She was
seen ON the llth inst, since which time she
has been missing. Inquiries concerning her
absence were made of him by the neiphbors
some of whom he told that she had gone to
Philadelphia, and to different persons he told
different stories concerning her whereabouts.
Suspicion was soon excited by the difference
Of stories, and secretly, the officers went
to work to ferret out the vet uudisclosed
mystery. In few days one of the officers
went to the house and saw a quantity of
feathers scattered about the floor, and some
tied up in cloth. In the course of CONVEX
sation he inquired of Hindley why the feath-
ers were thus strewn over the floor, to which
he replied that his wife had taken the bed
ticks to Philadelphia to get new feathers for
them. Similar inquiries were made by diff.
terent persons, to some of whom he replied
that he had emptied them himself, and to
othsrS that he had another person empty them
that they might be washed.
Suspicion was aroused, and for several
days an investigation was carried on for the
purpose OF discovering clue to the where
ABOUT OF the missing woman. Hindley was
arrested on the morning of Saturday, the
23d ult., and committed to await the resuit
of the investigation. The search was con-
tlnued during Saturday, and it was supposed
that The body was under the ice that was
piled up on the bank of the river.
On Saturday evening, the prisoner, in his
cell, confessed TO friend that ne had killed
his wife, and that the body would not be
found in the river, and thathe had buried il,
but would not tell where
During the forenoon of Sunday, HindleY,
while in his cell, succeeded in getting a
razor from another prisoner, and partially
cut his throat, nearly severing the windpipe.
His situation was almost Immediately dis
covered, and a physician was called and the
wound dressed. When he became able to
speak, he stated that he had killed and
buried bis wife; that he hsd killed her on
Monday night, put her into a meat barrel in
the house; dug a hole on Tuesday, and
buried her on Tuesday night. He offered to
tell the physician where he had buried the
body of his wife, on condition that he would
not disclose it until after his (the prisoners 81
death-supposing that his suicide was
effected.
About the time that these confessions were
made to the physician, the body of the de
ceased was found buried, almost in a state of
nudity, in the wood-shed, about three feet
under ground, having been covered with a
bloody pillow and blanket The shed in
which she was buried was about eight feet
square, and the place where he cut his wood,
previous to the murder, and during the time
she was buried. The body was exhumed,
and an inquest held by Justice Montgomery,
Numerous witnesses were examined, but the
verdict was deferred until Monday evening,
after which the body was laid out, near a
window, so that the head and face could be
seen by the anxious crowd outside. In the
evening the unde1takers hearse arrived with
the coffin, and taking charge of the body re-
moved it to the cemetery. .,
On Monday evening the jury that was
summoned by Justice Montgomery on Sun
day evening, returned the verdict on Hind
ley, in substance as follows:
THAT Barney Hindley, with a certain
maui, bound with iron, and an ak, made of
iron and steel, did. strike Mary .Hiudley on
the left side of the head and face; and that
the said Barney Hindley did violently. feloni.
ously, voluntarily, and of his malice afore-
thought, with knife or some other sharp
instrument, cut the throat of the aforesaid
Mary Hindley, infiicting mortal wounds, of
which mortal wounds the said Mary Hindley
did instantly die; so the said Barney Hind
ley feloniously killed and murdered;the said
Mary HiDdley, against the peaC and dig
nifty of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"
On Tuesday morning, about half-past five
O'Clock, Barney Hindley died in his cell, frem
the effects of the wound in his throat, in.
flicted by himself. A jury was summoned
by Justice Montgomery, which returned a
verdict in substance as follows:
THAT Barney Hindley came to his death
by his own act, which act was perpetrated
upon himself by himself with a razor bor-
rowed from fellow-prisoner named Ignatius
Grimes" ..,.. ...