The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-08

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nearly 80 much crime if drinking was free and no
Excise law existed. He said he knew people on
Saturday evening to lay in store of whislzey and
make beasts of themselves on Sunday. He re-
commended the introduction of cheap places Of
Amusement, such as crystal palaces, where ladies
could go with their husbands. and thought the
influence OF female society would eventually show
ITSELF This system, he says, has been very sue
cessful in Denmark.
JAMES WOOD.
On Monday night. August 80, 1869, James Wood
ana his wife Bridget, occupying one Of the shan
ties, drank to excess and got into a quarrel.
lated several hundred dollars, which she had de-
posted in bank Her husband wanted to get
possession OF this money, and while grossly inc
Driated assaulted her while she was lying on a
throat and knocked her head against the timbers
and otherwise beat and kicked her most brutaly.
He exclaimed, on hearing his wife was dead
MAY the devil die with her. and may she never
see the lace OF paving stone again."
THOMAS SHERIDAN.
On the 9th Of last February Thomas Sheridan
shot his wife, Margaret Sheridan. He went to her
house, in Forty first street, and fired two shots
He accused her of infdelity with man named
Powers, with whom he had had frequent alterca
tons. Sheridan says that he went to the war;
sent his wife his pay, and when he returned found
his wife along with Powers. Sheridan seems to
have been demoralized by the war and to have
nvsa an irregular sort of life, but was not at all
dissipated.
- MICHAEL MARTIN. a
This was st. Patrick's Day tragedy, and Pat
rick WEIGH, of No. 523 Second avenue was fatally
stabbed in the groin by Michael Martin. II seems
the deceased had returned from his work under
the influence Of liquor and Martin challenged him
to fight. Mrs. WEIGH pursued Martin after he had
stabbed her husband and the assassin threatened
to kill her also The quarrel originated between
the two men on account Of disturbance Martin
had with his wife, who lived on the floor above
WEIGH, and shook the floor to such an extent that
colI .x..
WEIGH. Martin declined to say whether he had
been drinking on that day.
JOHN PURCELL,
who is now under sentence of death, and, unless
he obtains reprieve, will be hanged on the 18th
inst. Purcell met William Herman in front of a
lager beer saloon No. 1903 Sheriff street, on the
evening of May a. 1859. Arrangements were
made for prize fight between William Purcell
brother of John, and one of the gang of which
Herman was chief A fracas occurred, and in il
John Purcell drew revolver and instantly killed
Herman. When arrested he replied to the officers
question if he had shot man. yes if l did not
tried to shoot hog thief, and am willing to
swing for it, They licked me and shot him. u
The prisoner said he was "pretty well drunk on
| the occasion"
RECENT CASES,
There have been an alarming number Of fights
| murders and shooting ARRAYS within the past few
kdays. On Sunday, for example, William Melledy
stabbed John Wray, of No. 274 Bowery; Patrick
| Cusick fatally stabbed John Campbell; fight &C.
CURED ON 1erryDoat and JOhn MORMON was
nearly drowned; August Danach, of l6 Monroe
street, and Mary Clark, of No. 40 New Chambers
street, cut on the head; Patrick Dooey, of No
| 426 East Eighteenth street, was shot by his son;
| party consisting of James Fingeton, Patrick and
| Joseph Kelley and Thomas Sands entered the ba
ker shop of Adam Langfeld, No. 5l4 East Four
| teenth street. on drunken frolic and Fingleton
was killed with bayonet; Dominick Brennan
Peter Haley, John Reed and Mary Chunan entered
the tenement house No. 500 Second avenue and
! fatally stabbed q man named Mclaughlin; all
the parties were in liquor. Ellen Trainor or
Saturday stabbed Thomas Dodd, of No. % Batavia
street; Edward Eppler was stabbed by william
Erchenfeld, of No. $40 avenue A; Eusebius Martin
| mia stabbed Martha Drake at No. 95 Bowery
| George Cedell, of No. 1l6 Ludlow street, stabbed
| Jacob Schneider, of No. 254 East Houston street
| Counsellor Higginbothem on Saturday nigh
stabbed Alderman M. Healy; two men, on Tues
| day evening, named Gardiner and Sullivan had 9
| quarrel in which Sullivan severely stabbed Gardi
| ner; Richard Holm, Of No. 1852 West Thirty-sxtt
street, was found badly bruised and beaten. Ado
to this list large number of suicides, fights and
assaults and burglares, and the fact is abundantly
| apparent that New York city Is at present revel
ling in carnival of crime, and rum and sultr,
weather is filling the prisons and keeping the
| ners busy.