The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-11
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New York withsssll sits wealth, like
other grsas cities, has its daily horrors.
as will be sasb from the SoiISwins. which
constitutes tho ssnsasiops of 3 single
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For several years pass Christian wal.
ters and his wife, Mary Jane, both Ger
mans. have kept @ saloon OF No. 1853
Division street. The place has for O
long time been known to the police as
one of the vilest dens in that section of
the city. Characters of the lowest type
have made it their headquarters, some of
them living as boarders with the Wal
terses. Walters has served four years'
term in the State prison. A. warrant is
nov in the hands Of an officer for his
arrest, on n charge of felonious assault.
Tuesday morning Mrs. Walters arose as
usual and commenced preparing break
fast. She suddenly left the kitchen and
went down stairs. AS she did not re-
turn, Charles Smith, frequenter- of the
place, went to the basement, and there
found the woman hanging by the neck
to staple in the wall. She was quite
dead. She had formed moose out of O
ted selfdestruction. Coroner Scbirmer
held IN inquest, and verdict of suicide
was rendered. The only motive for the
act is supposed to have been the fear
that Walters would be sent to Sing Sing
again; by which his wife would be left in
destitute circumstances.
The police were notified Tuesday that
Mrs. Richard Conlin had died suddenly
on Monday night at the dwelling No. 72
North Third street, williamsburg, and
the coroner was informed of the fact.
The woman's name was before the public
several weeks ago. Her husband being
suspicious of her having frequent crimi-
nal intercourse with Patrick Cunning
ham, went off to Albany for several days
and left q friend to watch his wife's
course. Returning to his home ut a late
hour on Sunday night, Conlin found his
wife and Cunningham asleep in the same
bed. Furious at the sight, Conlin seized
club and assaulted his wife's paramour,
breaking his arm and inflicting several
cuts on his head. Conlin was arrested
the same night and Cunningham was
taken to the city hospital. The guilty
wife, soon after this occurred, took up
her residence ut the house where her
body was found Tuesday A few hours
before she expired, physician was
called in, bat he was unable to positively
determine the cause of her death, he
handed the case over to Coroner White
BILL Is is believed by many that the
woman died from the effects of poison
administered by herself.
The grave closed over one of the vic
Tins of the Elizabeth street tragedy,
Tuesday. The coroner's inquest was
held in the morning. A sister OF Mrs.
Allemego, Mrs. Beck. the keeper of the
assignation den, and the police officer
who broke in the door of the fatal cham
Der, were examined, but no new develop
ments. further than the public now have,
were elected The verdict of the Jury
wns in accordance with the facts, and the
body of Mrs. Allemego was delivered to
her relatives for interment. That of the
murderer and suicide lies rotting at the
Morgne, no one having como forward to
claim it.
| In one of the most elegant mansions
on Fifth avenue, few doors from Twen-
tysixth street. Tuesday night, young
man named James B. Pell, son of r. l..
Pell, ESD, committed suicide by cutting
his throat from ear to ear with razor.
The alleged cause of this dreadful deed
was grief for the death of q fuvorite
brother, who died more than q year ago
Further investigations may develop other
reasons.
Julia Fenton died Tuesday, at 81 Ma
olson street, having been kicked by hel
husband, John Fenton, who, on New
Years Day, returned home in state oi
drunken frenzy. Tho poor woman, fol
n time, bore his violent language without
reply, but at length, she retorted, and
|, L., yal l. A ,.l,
to become q mother, the assault proved
fatal. The husband is locked up in the
Oak street police station.
Bedford, in the Court of General SEES
sions, yesterday, delivered charge te
the grand jury, which touches the righ
spot, in these days when half-a- dozer
murders or murderous assaults are re
ported every twenty-four hours, and only
three convictions have resulted out O
forty-two murders. committed in tht
year just closed. He charged the jury
that they must give strong aid to the of
ficers of the law, in order that crime may
no longer be committed with impunity
and that the laws must be enforced, bt
the consequences what they may. Will
the record of only the past few days be
fore us, the timeliness of this charg,
will be readily appreciated.
IMPORTANT RUMoRs FROM SpAIN.-The
Washington correspondent of the Nov
York Herald says:
A letter recently received in this city
from Madrid. affords some important in
formation. The writer states, among
other things, that our Minister in Ma
drid hos sounded both Serrano and Prin
as to their willingness to sell Cuba to til,
United States, and that he has the high
est assurance that both these prominent
statesmen are favorable to the projec