Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-05-23
A TERRIBLE PASSION.

and she dreaded he would kill them, as he
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A TERRIBLE PASSION.
The Sergeant sent Officer Finnegan
with the woman, desiring him to render
her all the assistance in his power When
Mrs. Lively and thc policeman bad. left
the station. house the Sergeant, fearing
they might want some further assistance,
rang the bell for one of the reserve force
on duty at the station house. Officer
! Leslie answered the summons, and the
Sergeant desired him to follow Officer
Finnegan and Mrs. Lively and give the
policeman any help he might be in want
o.. Leslie followed them to Willett street,
and on arriving at the house found they
could not gain admission to the room, as
Lively had barricaded himself in 49,.
l. WITH THE CHILDREN.
The police al first cndeavored to get
him to open the door by entreaties, but
be turned a deaf ear upon them, and only
| answered when he heard the voice of his
wife. He then swore at them, and threat
ened if they did not leave the place they
would all suffer for their rashness, Leslie
seeing that nothing could be gained by
fair means, determined to get into the
room by some other way and take the
man. He was further determined to this
line of action by the fears of Mrs. Lively
her children, for she wrung her. hands
and tore her hair in the widest manner,
fearing every moment to hear her children
CRYING FOR MERCY -
to their father. Leslie went down again
into the street, leaving Officer Finnegan
at the door of the room, and. going through
the hallway of the tenement house into
the yard. assembled by the fire escape on
the rear side and got on the window sill of
the room in which Lively was shut up. To
enable him to climb to this place the Off
GER was compelled to put his club into the
belt, and when he got on the window sill
be had no available weapon ready against
attack Lively-inding the noise at the
door had ccased-for Officer Finnegan,
knowing that Leslie, who was most de-
termined man, would get into the room by
some means, waited at the door to give
him what assistance would be necessary
stole around the place like a cat watching
moment Of attack He huddled the
the children into a corner and made kind
of defence for them with the chairs and
as the officer lifted the window sash and
jumped into the room
HE DASHED AT HIM, ...rsirf5
cleaver in hand, from one vf the corners
of the room near the window, and drove
the Ratchet into his skull with powerful
I. IL.
ate aim, for, he struck the unsuspecting |
policeman just over the left temple and
made frightful wound. Almost on the 1
moment Leslie returned the attack with
his club, telling Lively, who soon jumped
to his feet and struck the officer second
time with the clease Leslie, who had
not for some time felt the effect of the
blood flowing in streams from his opened !
skull, piled his club vigorously and for |
several minutes terrible beating out of |
brains was carried on. The officer finally |
subdued his assailant, but before the in
furiated man had quite give up the battle
Officer Finnegan had burst in the door, |
and his arrival upon the scene of. action
brought the fight to close. Both Leslie
and Lively were so beaten and weak from
the loss of blood that Finnegan was COM
relied to send to the station house for as
sistance to remove them; stretchers we're
sent to the house by the captain of the
precinct and both men were taken to the
station house. DIR. White was sent for |
but he pronounced both men fatally in
jured. Leslie's head was in a most awful
condition, and his antagonist was in no
better state. The room in which the fight
took place looked more like
A MINIATURE SLAUGHTER HOUSE
than a compartment in the home of
poor family. Blood. brains, tufts of hair
and shreds of garments were literally
plastered all over the place, and the moan
ing of the children at the dreadful sight,
rs they refused to come out of the hole
where their father had shut them in, made
The scene ii terrible one to behold. Lively
was ragpicker and his neighbors say al
.hough hard working man, was some
.imes so violent that they wero all afraid
of him. Mrs. Lively made some such
statement to the Sergeant in charge of the
lesk at the station, and that was one of
he reasons he sent a second officer to ar
-est the man. When the men were
brought inty Bellevue Hospital the physi-
ian in charge made careful examina-
ion of both, and after doing all that lay
n his power for them was obliged to con-
,ess he did not think either could live
through the night. This time, from all
appearances, the reign of bloodshed has
let in.