The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-14
THE WIFE MURDER IN NEWTOWH, VA.
A FIend In Human shape, Orazed by
Rum, Stamps HIS Wife to Death
Ghastly Appearance OF tho OOrpso-An
interview with tho Murderer. Etc


GhaBtIy Appearance of tho COrpse-Au
Interview with the Murderer, Etc.
On Monday night, between z and o'clock a
most brutal and outrageous murder was perpe-
trated on Sugar Hill IN Newtown, by Edward
Moore, who killed his wife, Joanna.
1t appears that Moore was q laborer In the
navy az IaIS aI m Spt sTaVe9 at Sol0e aid not
o'clock the attention of Mrs. Mccarthy, who
resides in the rear Of Moore's house, on the
same lot, heard q noise as IL q Ecuffie was tak-
ing place between Moore and his wife. Mrs.
Mccarthy went over TO the house, and found
and bleeding copiously from the head. She
tried 10 raise her and place her on the bed. but
All thIs Time Moore was sitting very compla-
Gently in a chair, with the baby, about six
weeks old, in his arms. All at once he turned
manner told her that If she didn't leave the
room and mind her own business. Cd DIN
her. he would cut her d-n throat" At these
threats Mrs Mccarthy left the room, and went
TO her own premises In the yard.
Shortly after. Mrs. McCarthy's husband re-
turned fIom the navy yard, and started to 90
into Moore's house, when he was met at the
door by Moore, Win kniie In his hand. who
After this occurrence 1t Is supposed that the
hend returned TO his prostrate wife, whom he
stamped and kicked TO death. In her effort TO
escape she struggled into the passage, where
her mangled body was subsequently found.
EtMr, Mccarthy becoming alarmed, went for the
police, and shortly returned with Ohicers
Lynch, Reed, and Mccoy, OF the nightwatch.
They effected an entrance into the house, and
was the corpse Of Mrs. Moore lying upon the
floor. with her head towards the back door.
and mangied and mutilated almost beyond
recognition.
Her face was kicked and bruited horribly the
back of her head crushed In, and the bones In
her breast broken, showing evidently that the
brutal mouster, in his blind rage and fury, had
kicked and stamped her until life was extinct.
The officers proceeded to the front room, which
presented q ghRstly and sick ening sight, the
hoor being literally covered with blood, and re.
sembling slaughter house.
IJDOn the bed Law The murderer. In dFunH0n
stupor. BY his side an innocent little babe
only six weeks DID, fast asleep, and too young
tOrealiZe thatits mothers life had been crushed
viously, by the heels of It's hendish and un-
natural father
Stained with gore, and showing paipabIy the
agency he had in the hSrriole butchrry, the
sleeping rufdan was aroused, and taken by the
police 10 the watch house, and the poor little
innocent was taken care OF by some kind
Yesterday, at IL O'Clock A. NJ Coroner Mat
theWs summoned q jury, who repaired to the
premises where the murder was perpetrated. /.
and viewed the body OF the victim The body
larly the heels of the boot and the nails therein
had torn the flesh in a dreadful manner, while
from the crown of ber head TO the sole OF her
foot she was perfectly blue from the kicks she
The principal evidence adduced before the
fury was that of Mrs. Mccarthy, whose testi-
mony was substantially what we have before
given. Dadiel Shea and his wife. who resided
above, in the upper portion OF the building
heard the scufning and quarrelling, but it was
such common occurrence between the pri-
sOner and his wife, the deceased, that they paid
no attention to IL.
Alter q careful examination OF all the tasti-
mOny offered, he jury returned verdict that
the deceased, Joanna Moore came TO her dealt IA
| by the bTui al treatment of her husband Ed ward
Moore who kicked and stamped her until she
died,