Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-30
The Williamsburg Homicide.

WAS MRS. HYDE JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING
WATSON?
The shooting Of George W. Watson, a wealthy
manufacturer, at his factory, corner of South
Eleventh and First streets on Friday last by one
OF his operatives is still the topic of conversation
in the eastern district. The facts of the case are
now gradually coming to light, and reveal a
state OF immortality in Williamsburg society
heretofore unheard of. Watson, a wealthy man
ufacturer, originally from Massachusetts, whose
wife and children, one daughter of Is years.
are now living in luxury at Hartford, Conn,
carries on Illicit intercourse with young girl OF
IL, whom he forced, through threats of exposure
and otherwise. to become his mistress, having
b. en- the first to ruin her when she was only four
months in his employ. Even after her marriage
this libertine sought to continue his Iiaisons
with her. He went to her house in her hus-
bands absence and, as was sworn to before
the coroner, was told by her not to come
there, that she did not want him to do So
that she was a married woman and did not
wish to see him except at his factory, on bust
ness. Watson threatened her with exposure,
called her the vilcst names he could think or,
ard made her a perfect slave to his passions.
Finally her husband, who knew Watson well,
hears Of the indignities heaped upon his wife,
and demands an explanation. Watson now beys
the man whom he has wronged not to expose
them; goes on his knees and prays, for the sake
Of bis family in Connecticut, that the matter
may NOT Oe TAKEN 70 court ana promises never
willing to expose his own family, believes Wat
son, and lets him 60. But Watson fails to keep
his promise, and In a short time renews his i'm
proper proposals to Mrs. Hyde. She, suffering
and weak from the effects of medicire which
Watson had previously procured for her, posi-
lively refused to have anything further to do
with him. He threatens her, abuses her, tells
her he Ii not afraid of a woman of her charac-
ter; and this the day before he was shot. When
she left his factory that evening it was after a
quarrel, and fearing that It would be renewed
the next day, she takes with her pistol which
she had presented to her husband a few DAYS
before. Not with the intention of shooting him,
a. she says, but merely to protect herself and
brighten him in case he renewed the attack of
the day before. He did renew it, and that, too,
in most brutal manner, and she, in the heat Of
passion, ii is alleged, fired the pistol. and Wat
son fell dead on the stairs.-NH 7. World.
CURIOSITY OF MuRpERER.-The female
sex is credited with exhibiting more curiosity
New Jersey, on Thursday, which places the NOR
bid curiosity Of man far beyond that of woman
On the night Ia question George Bolts (who was
lows from which his body was to dangle the next
morning. His request was granted by the
warden of the Jail, and at midnight the iron
bolt OF his cell shot back with a dismal clang,
there was moments pause, and then Bolts
stepped into the hall way Of the Jail. He
turned his face at once to where the gallows
doomed up, light upon the floor casting weird
and Pickering shadows Gift on the walls behind.
Slowly and steadily, with his hands In his pocket
and a lolling gait, the murderer drew near the
hOTrid object. At last he stood directly under
eyelash Quivering, as any one would survey a
curious model or picture he intended purchas-
ing, 80 did George Bolts gaze at the gallOws.
He even nonchalantly reached forth his hand
and pulled upon the rope to which his neck
would be attached on the morrow. Then he
turned away, put his hands In his pockets again
and commenced to promenade the hall never
again raising his eyes to where the object stood
whose form, no doubt, was scared in his brain.
ENGINEERING PRoGREss.-The Scientific
American thinks that during the past Elk
months good, solid, healthy progress has been
made in engineering. The Brooklyn pier of the
East river bridge now stands ~ feet above mean
high tide, while the casson on the New York
side has been sunk to the bottom of the river.
The tunnelling at He'll Gate is going on rapidly,
and the completion Of the HOosac tunnel will
be reached much sooner than would have been
the case but for recent additions to our means
of blasting and drilling rock. In marine engi-
neering the compound engine system has been
largely extended. New applications of electri-
city to regulating large and actuating small en-
giDes have been made, and devices for increas-
ing safety in the use of steam have been nu-
merous. Many inventions seeking to solve the
problem of canal boat propulsion have been
called existence. Concrete building is winning
way to public favor, and important improve
ments have been made in the means for protect
ing property from ire.