Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-14


Early yesterday morning the little
town of Tompkinsville, Staten Island,
was aroused from it's wonted serenity
by a rumor that young girl had been
murdered, and that her murderer had
afterward put an end to his own exist
ence The rumor, upon investigation,
proved to be only too true. The facts
of the case are rs follows: Mr.. Charles
P. Harrington, boot and shoe manu-
facturer, whose residence and place of
business is in Griffin street, near the
first landing, had in his employ man
named Carrot Roach, who lived and
boarded In the house. About $50 a.
m. yesterday the two little daughters
of Mr.. Neutrality-suspicious., aged -,
and Ella, aged 6-were dressing them
selves in their bedroom on the third
floor, when this man Roach entered
with knife in his hand, such as is
used in cutting leather, and@ddressihg
the elder sister, asked her roughly
where their "money bank was. His
strange manner frightened the children
and they did not answer him, where
upon he seized Emma by the head and
cut two deep gashes in her throat from
ear to ear. Seeing him in the act of
perpetrating this barbarity, Ella ran
out of the room and down stairs,
screaming for help. On reaching the
hallway, she flew into the arms of a
servant girl, crying, 30, save me save
me! Roach is killing Emma up
stairs. Mr.. Harrington, who was in
the kitchen with his wife when he
heard the screams, rushed up stairs to
his daughters bedroom. Upon enter
ing the room he saw Emma lying on
the floor, with her throat cut, and well
tering in her blood, but not quite dead.
He picked her up, uttering at the
same time agonizing cries for assistance
which were repeated by the household.
Mr.. Ambrose, livery stable keeper,
living little further down the street,
heard these cries, and ran over to Har-
house. On entering he met
Mr.. Harrington on the first floor,
with his daughters body in
his arms, and his light clothes stained
with the blood which was yelling from
the wounds in the throat. Mr.. Har-
rington begged him to run for doctor,
but Ambrose remarked that the child
was dead, and asked who had done the
deed. Harrington antwered, the man
up stairs" Ambrose thereupon seized
a club and went up stairs. On reach
ing the third floor he entered the work
shop, which is upon the same floor as
the children's bedroom. On entering
he saw Roach lying on his face on the
floor with his throat cut, and almost
dead. A lool1ing-glass on the wall was
all despatched with blood, as if the
wretched man had stood up in front Of
It to commit the deed. Meantime the
attracted by the cries, gath
cred around the house and sent for Co.
roner Harcourt, who Immediately i'm
panneled jury to hold an inquest over
the bodies Testimony was given ac-
cording to the above account, and the
jury returned the following verdicts
That Emma Harrington came to her
death by shoe-knife in the hand of
Carrot Roach, while laboring under q
temporary fit of insanity" and "That
Roach came to his death by committing
suicide" The poor young girl thus
cut off in her budding youth, was a
general favorite with the community,
and was just beginning to be useful to
her parents around the house and in
the store.
Lying in her untimely coffin, her
face wore serene expression, as
though she had not few hours previ
ously been snatched from a life of
earthly happiness by the most violent
and revolving means. The murderer
and suicide, Roach, was native of Ire,
land, but had been in this for some
years. He is said to have had a wife
and children in Ireland, and children
also living with another shoemaker in
Brooklyn. He was q well built man,
about five feet seven inches high, dark
hair and dark complexion, and appar-
emily between IS and As years of age.
He was a confirmed drunkard, and had
taken and broken the pledge two OF
three times within the last twelve
months. He had also been locked up
several times for being found drunk in
the streets. He had been almost con
tinually drunk, but on that day he be-
haved pretty well, and did some work.
On the same evening he borrowed nine
cents of Mr.. Harrington, and stayed
out the greater part Of the night Early
in the morning Mr.. Harrington was
lying in his bed, when Roach entered
the room. There was an uneasy glare
in his owe nnl Mr. Aarrin otnn asL ed