The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-27
FIENDISK MURDER.
A Man Murders His Divorced Wife and
Then Cuts His Enroat from Ear 80 Ear.

A man named Aolloy, recently divorced from
his wife at st. Louis, followed her to the resi-
dence of her brother, Mr.. Bauerman, living at
Lake Station, tbirty-siX miles from Chicago, on
the Michigan Central Railway. What the cause
was that led to the separation of MoiOy and his
wife has not yet been made public, butit must
have been something very aggrayating, Tor the
feelings on both sides appear to have been in
tense. He desired to have her out of existence
and with such an intent, openly expressed, fol-
lowed her from place to place, breathing ven
geance. To escape him she sought refuge with
her brother
On Tuesday evening she was so alarmed at
hearing OF his arrival at her brothers hotel, that
she fed to her apartment and locked the door.
Al the time her brother was absent. Molloy de.
manded admlttance to herroom, but was re-
fused. He departed, and Mrs. MolIoy dismissed
from her mind all apprehensions, as he took che
trsin for Chicago, and she went about her GUS
tomary duties. on Wednesday evening she was
sitting in one of the upper rooms OF the hotel,
with two of her brothers children, who were
kneeling before her with uplitted hands, repeat
ing alter her their simple evening prayer, when
a foostep was heard ascending the stairs and
stealthily approaching the door. Mrs. Molloy
turned round in her chair, the door suddenly
opened, and ere she had sufficient time TO utter
d scream, the man whom above all she dfeaaed
TO meet stood before her with revolver pointed
at her head Almost simultaneously he fired.
The shot whizzed past her and. lodged in the
opposite wall Of the apartment.
The children, alarmed at the report, and at
Inc appearance Oh Gn6 man, SCI6dultu lIduIl-
Cally, and rushed into corner of the room,
where they remained terror stricken and almost
, insensible. Finding that the shot had missed
its mark, Molloy drew large sheath knife from
ms belt, and rushing upon the defenseless
woman, seized her by the hair, and bending
back her head plunged the blade into her
throat, completely seVering the wind'pipe and
= jugular vein. The dreadful deed was accom-
plished 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 barroom, where
a number of men were seated round the stove,
reached the door, and shouting ''Now / am
revenged,p fled from the house, and disappeared
in the adjacent woods.
So quietly was the thing done, and so com.
pletelY were the inmates OF the house taken by
surprise that no attempt was made to bar his
passage. Mrs. Molloy, as soon as she had re
ceiyed the fatal stab staggered out OF the room
and down the STAIRS, when she fell corpse on
the floor. Then scene of unparalleled excite
ment took place. The women and children
screamed, and the men rushed in all directions
in pursuit of the murderer. The telegraph and
hand cars were brought into use in endeavoring
10 intercept the assassin. On Thursday morning
a large party organized and secured the woods
in every direction, with the avowed determine
ton of bringing him In, dead or alive. In the
afternoon he was found dead within two miles
of the house, with his throat cut from ear L
ear. The instrument OF death was the same
knife with which he killed his wife. WheI
found the body was still warm and bleeding
freely, from which it is inferred that, fearful 0
being intercepted, he concealed himself anC
upon the approach OF the scouting party Gu
his throat