Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-25

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PUBLISHED AT 155 BROAD STREET, BY
J. MADISON DRAKE.
AN AGED NAN SHOT AND KILLED BY
ne .rs AIS INSANE SON.


PHILADELPHIA, Aug 24.--Early this
morning, Mr.. Thomas l.. Evans, aged
63 years, was killed by his son Marshal
Ell. Evans, at the house of Mrs. Bel
shaw, No. 306 South Tenth street. The
family were assembled at breakfast, and
had entered into general discussion
of the strange behavior of Marshal
Evans for some time past, and they had
determined that the father, after break
fast, should visit the family physician---
DIR. Van Dyke who had expressed his
conviction that the son was insane, and
should be sent to an asylum lin order
to procure from the doctor a certificate
of the sons mental condition. Just as
the conversation was concluded, Mar
shall came into the breakfast-room and
took his seat at the table. His father
babe him good morning, but he made
no reply to this salutation, and it was
suspected by all present that he had
overheard the conversation. He ate
heartily, and, while he was thus engag.
ed bis father left the room to change
his dressing-gown for coat, and, pro-
curing his hat, Mr.. Evans started down
the front stair way. In the meantime
Marshal had stepped out into the hall.
/ On his fathers reaching the hall
landing Marshall walked toward the
front door, and as his father was step
ping into the vestibule the son drew
revolver and fred three shots in rapid
succession. The father then retreated
through the saloons to the hall again
and back toward the dining room. In
passing the pantry he clutched at the
door, and then fell into the arms of
Mrs. Belshaw. She laid him on the
floor. Marshall followed his father all
the way back, and as the body was
lying on the floor he leaned over it, but
said nothing. Mrs. Belshaw remarked
to him, Marshall, see what you have
done p to which he made no answer.
The young ladies hearing the shots,
and seeing Marshall with pistol in his
hands, ran away shrieking, and the
alarm brought assistance from the
street, when Marshall was taken into
custody. On being questioned, he re-
piled +" I don't feel right" The father
died soon after the firing of the Shots
Young Evans is 26 years of age. He
has been afflicted with rheumatism for
many years. Recently he has behaved
in a frantic manner toward his wife
threatening her life. They were living
at Riverside, New Jersey. He came to
this city yesterday, followed by his
wife, and on reaching his fathers house
behaved strangely. During the night
be threatened his father with a knife.
After the father got up this morning
the son got possession of the pistol that
| the elder Mr. Evans had given to the
Young man as a present years ago.
This was the weapon used in the TRACE
dy. The scene of the homicide is very
near that Ct the Twitchell murder. Dr..
Shapleigh has just concluded the post
norton examination. He found five
balls in the body; one entered the body
three inches above and to the left of
the navel, passing through the stomach
and spleen, and was found under the
skin in the back; another entered
about an inch and half from the right
end Of the ensiform cartilage, passing
through the liver, and was found in the
back under the skin both of these
wounds were fatal another entered the
left side six inches below the arm pit
another entered the back one and a
half inches to the left of the spine, and
was found in the spinal column the
fifth entered the outer side of the left
foot, and was found embedded in the
bones of the foot.