Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-16
HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER IN BAL.
TIMORE.
Death From Starvation and T0rfu re-

On the 18th OF October Robert Mckay, living
on Battery avenue, in Baltimore, was arrested,
charged with cruelty beating his wife, and sf-
forwards released on bail for court. On Tues
Gay last Mrs. Mckay became suddenly i'll, and
her husband was rearrested, and on "Wednesday
night the unfortunate woman expired. She
Gied at the house Of VIM. Armstrong, a relative
living at 10. Battery avenue, and on Friday
night OF last week she gave birth 10 a child
which Is still living. An Inque was held over
me BODY OIL the deee ased, and the testimony, as
published in the Baltimore papers, contains
"details OF brutality which are sickening 10 read.
captain Delanty, of the Southern Station tes-
tilted that on the night of the 18th of October,
MrS. Mckay was brought into the station by
Sergeant Clipper. who had found her upon the
street. Her eyes were blackened and her nose
beaten out OF shape. She stated to Captain De-
lanty that she had been beaten by her husband
and that il was her desire that she be sent 20
The almshouse. she being fearful that III she re-
turned home she would be murdered. She also
stated that her husband would. after reading
me newspaper accounts of where men had been
arrested for wife murder, comment upon them
and declare that he would at some time kill her
ana that he knew how 70 evade the law, &c.
She also told the witness that in addition TO
heating her, her husband would thrust her in
me stomach with stick, she being eRcieRt> al
the time.
DIR. Webster testified that the Inflammation OF
which she died might have been superinduced
by bad treatment or starvation. When he saw
the deceased she was emaciated and delicate
and looked like q brOken-down woman.
VIM. Armstrong, a relative Of the deceased,
testified TO repeated ill-treatment of the de-
ceased by her husband. The deceased had said
that IL was not anything for her to be without
food for day and half at q time. Her hus
band told her that he intended to kill her he
would not provide clothing for her, and said She
would not need any; that he intended 20 get a
comm for her. When she requested him 70 pet
some clothing for the child expected soon 10 be
born, he said she would not need any. he in
tended to get her shroud before that time. He
had kicked her with his boot, and struck her in
the breast with his fist, and witness UNDERWOOD
tnat RIB Of the dece 2sed had been broken.
Justin Bsne testified that she said she had
gone three or four days with nothing to eat,
only what abe could get from the neighbors; her
husband worked constantly, but would not give
her any money; the deceased, Notwithstanding
her harsh treatment at the hands OF her hus-
band, evinced the warmest sympathy for him:
the was IN pitiful case Of distress whom he saw
her at the statiou-h0use, her arms being bruised
and seemed a. IL she was half star we'd; he never
had met such kind hearted woman g she ap-
peared to be; her husband, the deceased tofd
witness, said he intended to kill her before the
first Of January, And that her child should never
Amer hearing other testimony OF q similar
character te the above, the jury rendered 4
verdict that "the deceased came to her death
from puerperal fever, believed to have been
auperinduced by i'll treatment and starvation on
the part Of her husband, Robert MCKAY,