The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-01
A WIFE KICKED TO DEATH.
a DRUNKEN HUsBAND's work INA
GREENWICH ST. BAsBMEyT.

Curs:ps and Growiips until Midnisht-
Stihed Cry-Thc Duli sound Of Hn MINER
iBs-Tbc Unfortunate wife LyS~x Uncon-
sciees on the Floor The Fatal fstck. d,
George Nelson lived with his wife Mary In the
wretcbed basement Of a wretched house AZ Green.
wich and Dcsbrosses streets. At about O'clock on
Wednesday night the two cams home from the pea.
nut stand they had been tending They Ind bot beer
drinking, and shortly after their arrival begau quar-.
rclling The people who lived In the house over
heard the wffcs drunken voice o. II cursed Nelson.
and hurled brutal eptlcts Mt him The gro wiling
and cursing lasted until near midnight: then ot a
sudden
sTIyLnD chr
t1ss rsssmbisd an agonzed moan more than .
shriek was heard, and after that all was STILL ex-
cept dull sound Of bammerng which continues
for about quarter OF an hour Nelson had little
daughter Of 10 or 10 years whom he had sent
away to friend or relative shortly after coming
home that night. Yesterday morning the little girl;
returned she found her father absent, but her,
mother was
LYING cS IHE FLOOR
In nearly unconscious condition. her face beaten
end swollen beyond recognition. her body frigh,fuly
bruised II trampled uron By heavy boots and her,
clothes torn 10 iaters The little yirl at once called
tile women OF the house TO her aid, and by them her
Rc% 8 bed The Wa
the woman's injuries and round that she had ro
rKuRIBLs KICK IN Tue STOMACH,
and had otherwise been so frchtfnl,y abused that.
her recovery was hoIt to impossible. TIE marks
Of ber husbands fingers we're plainly discernibe on
her throat. II wns In this way that he had sienced
her cries OF agony; and AZ Tor the dull sound OF
hannlering that had BEEN hepr the preceding night
II had evidently come from the neavy boots Of the
wretch as he sprang repeatedly upon his wife's un.
conscious body.
The woman was yesterday afternoon taken 70
bellevue HOSPITAL aud her little gir went with her
when Coroner Keenan, called upon her she was un.
able TO give utterance 10 single word. and there
fore The actual way In which the crime was com
mitted Is not yet known. Dat they cannot differ is
any essential respect from the hypothesis made
NELSON'S PREVIOUS LIFE.
Nelson was fo'merly an engineer In the q. g.
navy he Ia roodlooking man, OF avoraesn
two hands the rest having been frozen on on Bit
tor cold night. when he had drank ferceiy and
mken pap on country road in New Jersey.
ever. he siill cOntrlved TO throttle bis wife =.
sire struggled to call the neghbors TO her assisb.
nnee on Wednesday night; Nelson has beon pro.
the last two years, while his wife has done busiaess
al a ruit staud in the ZANE reighborhood. Both
have drank very hard. and both might have been in
toxicated on Wednesday night This is not the arst
hvht the couple have had. Some three weeks ayo
Nelson found his wife in
BEAsrLI DRUNKEN sTAIR,
and IN fury sot to work beating her mercilessIy
snd demoshing III the furniture ~jthjn his resc,
U9op this she len his bed an board but retnrnaa
week ago Neither, however, had learnt any,
thing by the affair
NELSON'S WHEREABOUTS.
Nelson has not yet been arrested. Yesterday
morning he wIs seen taking his breakfast 10 the
Sp ring street Market but since then Las not been
card OF Last night IN of1cer wus watching fop
ing thought possible that le might venture tors 70,
u moment.