The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-20
HOMICIDE AT srANDIsH.
MAN KILLED BY ANOTHER WHILE UNDER
THE INFLUENCE OF DRINK.
The Homicide Arreste d.


A shocking homicide took place at Standish
Friday last, the particulars of which are as fol-
lows. Two men by the names of John Macarty
and JamesJ. Berrigan employed as laborers on
the Portland & Ogdensburg road at that place,
paid visit to William Logan and wife who
occupy small house situated in the village
near the foot of the Lake. Quite Notification
took place during the afternoon and evening,
plenty of whiskey being used, and at a late
hour all concluded to go to bed. Logan and
his wife occupied one room connecting by
door with another which was given to Berri-
gan and Macarty. All the parties according to
accounts given were pretty thoroughly drunk
Shortly after going to bed Berrigan entered
the room occupied by Logan and wife and at
tempted to take indecent liberties with Mrs L.
Thereupon she awoke her husband and he
arose from the bed and gave Berrigan a sound
thrashing. Macarty heard the rumpus and
told Logan to give Berrigan a good beating for
he fully deserved it, The next morning Ber-
rigan left but Macarty remained in the house.
More liquor was procured and constant jam
boree was kept up all the morning. About dim
ner-time Logan and Macarty began discussing
the affair of the night previous, when they got
angry with each other and commenced a quar-
rel.
Finally, Logan. who is stout, strong man,
seized hold of Macarty, who was rather
small, and dragged him out of the house
and then knocked him down. Macarty,
recovering his feet, rushed into the next house
occupied by Mrs. Burke, seized the iron
handle used to lift the covers off the stove, and
running back made an attack with it on Lo-
gan, hitting him a blow over the head. A
struggle ensued, in which Logan, being by far
the most powerful of the two, wrenched the
iron handle away from Macarty and struck
him a tremendous blow over the right eye near
the temple, infcting cash some three inches
long. Mrs. Burke happened to come out of
her house and says she saw Logan pounding
Macarty over the head with a club of
wood. Macarty succeeded in crawling into
Logan's house, where he laid in much the
same state that Murray did who was killed in
this city short time ago, being unconscious
and evidently breathing as if from the stomach.
He laid in this condition till Saturday morn
ing when he died. Deputies Bolton and
Perry proceeded to Standish arrested Logan
and Berrigan and brought them to this city,
and they were safely lodged in the station
house.
Coroner Hall of this city went out to Stand
ish on Saturday, empannelled jury, and held
an inquest; and the jury brought in verdict
that the said James Macarty came to his death
from blows inflicted with an iron stove litter
at the hands of VIM. Logan.
Macarty was naturalized American, about
% years of age, and it is not known where he
originally belonged. Logan came from Fred
erickton, N. B., and is 81 years of age. Ber-
rigan, who is held for an attempt upon Mrs.
Logan with an attempt to rape, is quite young
man and comes from st. John, N. B. Drs.
Foster, Cobb and Gordon went out to Stand
ish yesterday noon to hold a postmortem ex
animation of the body. They found that there
were two fractures of the skull, one over the
right eye, and the other (the one that caused
his death) on the left side of the head, which
broke the anterior-meningital artery, causing
extravasation of blood upon the brain. They
also think that the fracture that caused his
death was from blows given by club of wood i,
and not from the iron litter.