Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-02-18
GRIN. COW. AND nURDEE.

-HiIIs His wife In the Presence Of
Her Paramount ana UnIIdren-A ssa
TaIe OF Female IBfideIlty.
Another murder 10 chronicle A WHO'S
lnldellty, a quarrel and murder by shoot,
ing al the hands Of frsnEisd husband
occurred about 8 O'Clock last evening. "
The facts, as near as could be hurtlsdly
CLEANED last night from various sources, are
these: When the war broke out, and patriots
rushed 10 arms, Thomas Sheridan, an Indus
triohs manufacturer and dealer In pIclllos, at
| los East Twenty-thlrd Atreet, felt hatit was
his duty to enter the fray aud assist In. the
defence Of the cause OF the Union. Selling
| out his establishment and providing for BIS
wife Margaret and four children, ,he entered
the service with the Seventy ninth (fIIgh-
through the three years term or service ,i and
left the army in 1894, with good record
for sobrlety and bravery. Returning to bis
family, who at that time resided In South
Yonkers, there was no wifs's kiss or vel
| come to greet him, no expression OF Joy al
his escape from the perils of.war. Hefound
TO bis dlsmay that the wife he had len Gov
loved him. II his absence her father, Mr.
0'Bren, Of Youkers, had died ana Be-
queathed 10 her children property worth
sSQ, 600 or $4,000, over which she exercised
control. On presenting himself at the home,
tho children ran TO greet and cares him,
but the wife turned away Id aporn aud loath,
Ing at the appearances Of his uniform Rpd
sun-browned features .''A' ~
Thomas Sheridan Tainiy etideayofdd 70
Induce bis wife TO receive lhm, II only for
the sake Of their children, bat Margaret Vas
lneTorable. She drove INN frou her house,
an outcast, sorroEinE father aud husband.
Leaving the city, after bidding bis on.
spring an hdleu; he proceeded 10 the Plains,
where for several years he has been follow,
Ing various occupations, most OF the time 10
teamster IN supply trains. RgtufnjnK homo
month ago, he sought for his family OF
Yonkers, but found them not. He ascer-
and were living at No. SIT West Forty. firsi
street. He also learned that the wife mad
obtained control OF the childreu's Inheritance
and had sold q portion OF II for ts5. 600
Pushing his1nvestlgations further, Sheridan
discovered that during his absence IN the
West his wife had giVen birth to child IN
Eighth street, the result OF unlicensed love,
which died, and that she had another at tho
breast, the oflsprinG OF shame.
He sought her out and made further ef-
forts at yreconelllation, promising II she
would put away the child and her paramour,
who was said TO be one Michael Powers,
then living with her, he would. fofgiyo and
forget the past, q This proposition was
ScoTned by the woman, who retained the
evidences OF her shame-+POwell aud the
ehild-RlWays With her. ssyoral tlmes he
vain. ..rr ma srg ta,'tT. ID n -
A few days ago sheridan again yISItsd The
woman at her house, but did not meet the
destroyerof his happiness. Again he begRod
OF her to reform-to discard her guilty lover
and become a lVlTtponS Wife The woman
could not DO moved In her resolution, and
threatsned 10 have him beaten by her para
mour, Ahould he Teturn. IL 10 charged that
on;that occasion he showed revolver and
Threatened her, but this be denies 5slI "a 4
! Last evening about eight o'clock he en-
tered the rooms, WhiehGa are on the fourth
HoOr ola fouI-atOrJ wooden tenement h0uAs,
settling back from the street. At abe time a
graHn up nleeo Of The wife, Miss, JAno Webb,
the children, three boys and Q Rlrl, and Pow
org weTelin The Kitchen Tbs wife md the
baby we're In the scar bed room. On his an.
psaranGs the gill Webb entered she bed
room and awakened MargRret, who came
out and sat on a chair. She found Sheridan
sitting near tho windows aud Powers, who
was standing opposite BheridaR, bads her
good evening, cast . glance at PoRepsI a
tromor ran through his framej and \ quarrel
eppued. She Hpraldqd him f0renterlnE The
house, and asked him II he had COME 20 put
hlA threat Into execution. He asked, 'sWhat
threat ~, HThe threat you made to- hOOt |
me the other day. Sheridan denied having |
Threatened her, when she became very abuS- |
I've, and driven 70 desperation, ! he quickly |
drew . smlLh 4 Wess09 revolver and d6 |
charged two Shots Al her In rapid success
sion. Both,took eiieet--One Ia theTight aide |
Of the mouth, Tie other In the chin, and |
both taking an upward direction, The NO. |
man had strength enough 10 walk across to |
the chair from which her husband had
arlsen, and remaTklpg, "You have Killed
nc, sank down and Immediately expired.
The giTl Webb, seeing tho tragedy, rushed
70 the street and gave the alarm. Oni00r
Halliday, Of the Twentieth precinct, raa In
and found the woman dead, with the hus,,
band and pRIamour AtandlnR over her.
They were both takeH 10 the Elatlon7house,
and Sheridan was REIaigned before Sergeant
who, AftsF hearing his Siate-
ment4 aud those Of Powers, locked him up
WsBtOVeT hurried 10 the hpuSs,
and, by the aid Of Ofle6E William Coffee,
llsp0rlOd tho crowd, Or, EldcnbenF, the
Iamlly physician, 10 the meantime had been
allied, and pronounced life eKtlpet,lJ 8tuli
When taken from the room Sheridan was
lot aware that the woman Wes dead. QnrI
Exporter, who VlsiLed him In his cell subse-
luenuy, was tho hTst peTson 10 break the
Jews to him, and hs lsAAk down overcome