The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-11-28

Zrsg-dv 1. Cssr tlsss-A Wens. Nur.
dered 6y Av H.sseS About O'clock on
Thursday eyening - cry of murder wAs
heard proceeding - the hack yard Of q
tenement on Cary 64, two doors above
7th street, which wuo goccupled by shoe
maker named Joseph 1ean Mccarthy. Par
ties In the nelghhoVlk61A hsAtened to the
spot, where they f0uu3 k1jea Mccarthy, the
wife. wife Of joseph John. i : dyisE eondiiion.
knife. Several Eana1D1 live IN the same
house, aud representatives. from al OF thena
were yesterday befOsDt Ne Coroner to furnish
testimony as to the circumstances connected
death.
Mccarthy and his family occupied rooms
In the second story Of the house. Mrs. Me-
Cartby, It. seems, Wae widow when McCar-
thy married her, and Ind one child by her
first husband, who was living with thein--
From the evidence Of this chiidit would ar,-
attempted to kill his wife while she was Ia
bed, raising knife 10 stab her with, but
was forced to desIst on account Of her cries
Of murder.
On Thursday evening, when Mccarthy
came home, his wife was about leaving the
house, and passed him near the door Affsi
remaining In the room but for second. be
went out after her, and scuflie was soon
heard at the foot Of the steps leading down
into tho back yard Ugring the scuiile ths
cry Of murder eae hedl, hut before any oue
reached tAe spse II Sataa stsb knd been IN
nicted, and the unfortunate woman was
found lying weltering in blood. Mccarthy
himsclf WAS sitting Oh the steps, aprarentl "
in great agony from wounds he had received
In the struggle. He was taken in stody
by the police and carried Off to the station
house. His condition, though suffering and
painful, WAS not considered dangerous.
On searching the premises two knives
One.Of then an ordinary shoe knife, and the
other bowie knife, with buck horn handle
were found in the yard, very near where the
body Of the dead woman was lying. These
were covered with fresh blood, and gave in.
dic,tiOns Of having just been used. There
was 10 testimony heiore the Coroner's jury
to chow that the deceased had used either
Of the knives, though Mccarthy alleged
when arrested that his wounds lad been in-
ficted by ler.
An O'clock yesterday morning jury was
summoned and an inquest conducted hy
Coroner Sanxay, when the following testi.
mony was elected:
DR.. James Beale, who made an examina
titn OF the wounds On the body of the de
ceased, depOsed: On examination Of the
body of the deceased, Ellen Mccarthy,
found the following described wounds. viz
a wound in the throat at the top of the
pursuing a downward and back
ward course, reaching the tLachca, and
the recurrent arteries in the neigl.
borhoOd Of the RsOphagus; a wound between
the 7th and S!h ribs, passing over the left
lung, aud seyering the lower third of The
heart, and cutting into both venticles; q
wound below the 9th rib, and one below the
last rib. Both these wounds penetrated the
cavity Of the abdomen. Also, a wound on
the left hand, nearly severing the thumb, as
If the knife had been grasped and drawn
through the hand. The fingers of the hand
were also cut in corresponding direction.
1t is my belief that the wounds above de-
scribed, particularly the one perfnrating the
heart, was the cause Of death, and that the
deceased came to her death by the infiiction
of those wounds.
Robert Carter, depOsed: Heard cry for
the watch while at the corner of 7th and
Cary streets, and ran up to the house.
Found the woman dead, and Mccarthy sit
ting on the steps. Arrested him, and asked
who cut him, when he replied that the de-
ceased did. Then asked him who cut her,
to which he made no answer.
Margaret Morris, deposed: Am step.
daughter of Mccarthy, and daughter OF the
deceased. Was up stairs sewing when step
father came in. as mother was going ont
Father went out, and directly heard a cry
from mother OF "murdcr," then ran Down
stairs, and saw mother lying down, and
father lying alongside Of her, with his head
on her shoulder. Her lips we've moving,
and her eyes shut. She was dying. Sep
father got up and sat on the steps; he showed
me his wound, and said my mother cut him;
told him l did not know anything about it,
and did not wish to see it; did not hear
any more. There was no quarrel be-
tween them; they have had quarrels.-
Night before last he raised knife to cut her
in bed, and when she cried murder he de-
sisted; he treated her badly, sometimes
striking her The knives were shown i
That is shOemakers' knife, and belongs to
father; the other knife father had stuck in
his belt he just commenced to wear it this
The murder he put the knife in his belt on
Thursday morning; mother had been at
home all day; witRess came home at 5
o'clock. The stabbing occurred between
md 8 O'Clock; father came in AS mother was
going out saw no blood inside the room.
fter the siabbing step father got up and sat
Dn the steps. He looked like he Was little
IN liquor, but did not stagger; he did not
OOk very excited; witness was absent a
short time looking for policeman. lie tried
20 stab my mother the night before he was
not cut then; was in the whole evening;
ion't know what was the trouble; Vas
in he'd; step-father was little intoxicated.
Richard Steele, deposed Mccarthy was at
ny house on Thursday evening. about z
o'clock; didn't speak much; asked for q pipe;
pulled ont a knife lie Lad in a belt around
him, (kniie shOwn;) that looks like it; he
cut some tobacco with it; then took it in
his hand, and said to young man, "ltOw
would you like to feel it," or something of
that kind; witness told him to put the knife
up, and he did SO. and went out; half hour
Dr. 40 after heard he had Aillcd his wife. My
place l., on the corner OF 9th and Byrd
streets. Mccarthy did not look like he was
don't know Of any difficulty he
tween them, hut have heard Of some; Me
Carthy told NE about month ago he was
going away and leave his wife; she is my
Nile's sister When witness got TO the
lous.,, she was dead, and Mccarthy had
been taken away by the police. He told me
ais wife visited houses where he had forbid
len her to go, and that he. tn ought they
could not get along to- ether.
j. B. Denton, deposed: About ~ O'clock
.ho sentinel called me out and said soine one
vas murdered across the street-when wit
less came out there was little girl standing
It the sentry box, and she said she was the
laughter of the married lady-staried to
where she directed me to go, she following,
md saw a woman lying dead in the yard,
,lst ut the foot Of the stepa, aud man sit
ing on the steps. He seemed in great pain
,r distress. Asked him ii the woman was
lead, and he said she was. Asked who killed
Ter. and he said she killed herself. He ap
,carcd 10 be in good deal Of pain, and
liseoyercd that he was also wounded. Ask
Il him what was the matter, aud he answer
ID that he was stabbed by the woman in TIVE
,laces. Asked how he came to be stabbed,
md he said she did it, pointing to the deai
,ody lying on the ground. Asked him how