The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-07-26
BRUTAL BUTCHERY.
A CARNIVA OF BLOOD
The Frenzied Husband Murders
HIS Sleeping Wife.

T.
Inquest on the Body-Report Of The Tee
fimony-Ihs Murderer Committed Il
Jail.
Yesterday morning, July IA, a
about five O'Clock, n horrible murder
was committed in Sligo, Monongahela
Borough The murderer is an old
man named Patrick Barry, an Irish
man, who was employed as a laborer
at the blast furnace of Croft, Bennett
& Co., and the victim was his wife,
Catharine Barry. They lived togeth.
er in house in "Clinton Row." a se-
ries of frame tenements just above
the Clinton Mill. 1t appears that al
the time mentioned, the husband took
a Ratchet that lay. in the room, and
with the pole of it struck his wife on
the head as she lay sleeping in the bed.
He delivered a number of blows, crush,
ing the skull in a most frightful man,
ner, scattering the brains against the
wall at the head of the bed, and throw
ing some of the blood against the wall
on the opposite side of The room. The
first blow, it is probable, produced
death, and the victim was spared all
suffering. The Ratchet was subse-
%quently found lying on the stand neal
the head of the bed.
With his hands dripping with blood
and only a part of his clothes on, the
murderer went out into the street and
asked a neighbor for a chew of tobac-
CO.. Then he went en- until he met
Mr.. Herman, foreman of the mill
To him he said, "Ive killed her and
want to hang for IT," Mr.. Herman
did not believe him, but he took him
to the house and showed him the hor-
rible corpse. Then he vas taken into
custody by some of the mill hands,
and stayed in the Office until the au-
thorities took possession of him. DIR.
McCord was summoned to look at the
ccrpse, and sent at once for the Cor
oner.
The Coroner empannelled Jury in
the case.
THE VERDICT.
The iury returned the following
verdict: That the said Catharine
Barry came to her death IN the morn
ing of July 18th, 1871, in the borough
of Monongahela, from wounds made
with a Ratchet by her husband, Pat
rick Barry.
The deceased was about sixty years
of age. but had the appearance of be-
ing considerably younger. They have
n family of children, some Of them
grown up. One daughter is married.
Barry was taken in custody by the
officers, John Stemler and VIM. Corns
and taken before Justice Barker, and
information for murder vas lodged
against him by officer Davis.
The prevailing opinion among the
prisoners neighbors is, that he As crazy,
and has been for some time past, ever
since the difficulty about the money.
Others, however, are of the opinion
that the murder was not the result of
insanity at all /; but was the deliberate
act of revenge for what his wife. had
done. DIR. McCord, when called on
for his opinion, by the coroner, de-
clined to give any opinion, saying that
at present he was not prepared to ex-
press himself on a point to which Sc
much importance would be attached
in court.
The room in which the crime was
committed, presented a horrible APP
pearance. The bloody body lay upon
the bed, OF its left side, and the wo-
man had apparently not moved when
struck. The head was a mass of
bruised flesh, crushed bones and scat
tered brains. A piece OF the skull
with some Of the brains had been
thrown against the wall and it stuck
there. A bronze cruciix hung upon
the wall, and on this the blood from
the corpse had spirited, and the red
drops gradually dried into rust there.
A branch of green palm was attached
to the crucifx and it, also, was wet
with the terrible dew. A portrait of
Bishop Domenec which hung near,
was also wet with some drops O blood
while a stream of gore leaked through
the mattress, dripped to the floor, and
ran out from under the bed. The
hatchet with which the deed was COM
mitted was found with the handle
nearly broken out, and was identified
as n that had been stolen from the
house of the neighbor.-PiHS5uryA
Post.