Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-07-20
SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Wednesdays Philadelphia North Ameri
can gives the following account of receLt
tragedy in that city .........
The tendencies of the retail liquor traffic
by unprincipled people, were illustrated on
Monday last, near midnight, by terrible
tragedy at a groggery, No. 1,l07 North
Third-st. The circumstances are extremely
shocking. .....
woman named Adeline Reidy formerly
kept the tavern above referred to- JOSEPH
and Isaac Sides were two brothers. Adeline
resides in St John-st., between Willow and
Noble. She keeps drinking house, and
has number of women boarders. She
was married woman but her husband had
left her some time since.
Joseph Sides had also left his wife, and
he, with Adeline's husband, had opened a
Tavern in Thrd-st., below Girard-ave., the
|scene of the terrible tragedy. This place
also contained a number of female board
ers, and was similar in reputation to that
kept by Adeline.
On Monday afternoon Adeline and her
bartender drove to Fairmount Park Here
they met Joseph Sides in another carriage
accompanied by woman The party con,
versed together amicably. On their way
home all stopped at Sides's he being pro-
prietor also of a tavern at the corner of
Germantown-road and Grard-ave Here
several drinks were taken, after which
they drove to the house at Third and Gi,
rard-ave, kept by the wife of Joseph Sides
and Adelines husband Several more
drinks were taken, and all seemed to be
very friendly Adeline suddenly left, went
to her home, changed her dress, and came
back to Third and Girard-ave. Upon en-
tering the door she encountered Joseph
Sides, and asked him where Johnny Reidy,
her husband, could be found.
Sides replied, 'Ie is in the yard" where
upon Adeline exclaimed, with an OATH
"You are one of Them" and Immediately
drew a large dirk, which she plunged twice
into his back, under the left side, piercing
the heart. Sides staggered, sezed chair,
with the intention, it is supposed, of de-
Tending himself, and, raising it about three
feet, fell. The woman withdrawing the
knife jet of blood spirited upon the floor
There were two or three pulsations-pro-
badly spasmodic-of the punctured heart,
that sent the deep-hued arterial blood in a
yelling stream and the man was dead
The knife had cut to his heart.
Isaac Sides, the brother of the young man,
attempted to detain the murderess The
woman is "a years of age, has once been
handsome, but bears upon her face the
wrinkles that are the signet of ungoverned
passions and habits of irregularity and
dissipation. Isaac seized her, caught her
by the back of the head, intending to push
her upon her face and thus disarm her
He reckoned without his host The girl OF
woman was nerved to strength beyond
that of her sex. He failed to seize her hand
in which she held the CORY knife On the
contrary, she turned upon him, and giving
thrust after thrust with the rapidity of elec
trio flashes, spilled out his viscera upon
the ground. He died shortly afterward
The mHrderess ran precipitately from
the house to her own home, where she had
clothed herself i'll sailors garb when the
police came upon her. On Tuesday Coroner
Taylor summoned a jury and held an in
quest upon the body of Joseph Sides.