The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-25
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HORRIBLE MURDER.

! Lake Station. thirty SIX miles from Chicago
was the scene of frightful butchery
| Wednesday night. A man named MolIoy
was recently divorced from his wife in ST.
Louis. She left him, but not satisfied with
the divorce he sought her life. knowing
this she was staying with married sister al
Lake Station on the Michigan Central rail.
road. Her brother-in law, Mr.. Banerman,
keeps the station hotel there. Tuesday even
| ing Mrs. Molloy noticed her husband come
into the hotel. She fed at once to her room
and locked herself in. Molloy repeatedly
sought to obtain an interview with her, bu,
she would not admit him. He then left.
Until Wednesday evening she saw nothing Of
him. About seven O. clock of that evening
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a1connt)-
She was sitting in one Of the upper rooms
| of the hotel. with two of her brothers child
| rem. who where knecling before her with up
lifted hands, repeating after her their simpie
evening prayer, when n footstep was heard
ascending the stairs, and stealthIly approa-
ching the door. Mrs Moiloy turned round
in her chair, the door Suddenly opened, and
ere she had time to utter scream, the man
whom above all she dreaded to meet stood
before her with a revolver pointed at her
| head. Almost simultaneously he fired. I be
shot wizzed past her and lodged in tine opro.
site wailuf the apartment. The children,
alarmed at the report. and at the appearance
of the man. screamed :rantically and rushed
into corner Of the room, where they re-
mained terror stricken and almost insensble.
Fisding that the shot had missed its mark,
Molloy drew a large sheath knife from his
belt, and rushing upon the defenseless wo-
man, seized her by he hair, and bending
back hear head plunged the blade into her
throat, completely severing the wind pipe
| and jugular vein.
| The dreadful deed was accomplished before
any alarm could be given, and the murderer,
his garments besmeared with the blood OF
his victim. rushed TO the bottom OF the stairs.
/ He passed through the bar-room, where q
number of men were seated around the stote,
reached the door, and shouting ''now I'm re-
venged, fled from the house, and disappeared
/ in the adjacent woods.
! So suddenly had the thing been done, and
so completely taken hy surprise were the in
mates Of the hotel, that no attempt was made
to bar his pass ige. The men started TO their
| feet after the first moment of amazement, and
~ war soVH iuduc appdiCfe hbat Wos VIC Sdurc
Q9f the tumult. The vonan,as soon as she
received the fatal stab, had rushed out of the
room rs if in pursuit of the murderer, and
had reached as far as the bottom Of the stairs
when her strength Suddenly failed, and she
fell a corpse on the floor. Then a scene ol
unparalleled excitement took place in the ho
tel. The women and children screamed and
fed into the adjoining rooms, as if they ex,
pected an attack from a gang of rufians.
Some went to the asslstanee OF the murdered
woman. Some rushed out toward the woods
where the stranger had disappeared, while
the more self possessed of the party at once
took measures TO inform the proper authon-
ties of the circumstance.
A large scouting party was organized
/ Wednesday night, and at daylight next morn
! ing they started in pursuit Of MpNpy, the
murderer, securing the woods IN every dsrec
ton, and with the avowed determination q
bringing him in, dead or alive. Hewas found
dead in the forenoon, within two miles Of tAt
house where he committed the fearful mur
| der, and with his t.lroat cut from ear to ear
The instrument Of death, the same knife thA
killed his vile, lay by his side. From th,
I fact that the body was stiil warm and bleed
ing freely, it 10 inferred that Aoll0y, fearful o
being intercepted in his fight, had concealed
himself, and upon the approach Of the scout
ing party had cut his throat Vengeance i
mine, saith the Lord