The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-05-07
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Elderry street between Garoline and Rona
streets was yesterday the scene OF great er.
aeement incident to the discovery, at un earIr
hour IN the morning, of n most cruel and ter.
tiole homicide Of n wife by her husband. and
enc attempted suicide Of the man. AT aho,,t
O'Clock In the morning Emma T.. Wilkin.
son, ut No. SO McElderry street was
found dead in her bed, horribly hacked
with clearer, showing ten ebastly
wounds about her head, face, and neck.
IL was supposed TINT the homicide was
committed after the husband and wife had
retired for the night, the horrible affair grow
ing out OF Jealousy on the part of the h,1s-
oand, who is almost wholly blind from
disease. 1t seems that Wilkinson il about
t"cnty-cight years Of age, wood-caryer by
trade but for two or three years being I'M.
able to work at his trade engaged in huck-
sterlng fish, fruit, and vegetables, until he
became so incapacitated that he was Obliged
10 give that up also. The business then do
vowed upon Mrs. Wilkinson, who was about
Mchtf.'our years Of age, employed William
HslsWo!d, Young man about twentv.siy
years OF age. who had formerly assisted her
husband 10 attend to the business. she fi1r
nishlns the horse, wagon, and capital needed.
and after paying all expenses, dividing equal.
~ with him each evening. It is alleged that
Wilkinson has for some time past been very
Jealous OF Griswold, and that is furnished ns
the motive for the violent deed. Living
with the husband and wife were Mrs. Clark,
the mother CT Mrs. Wilkinson the deceased
aged about siyty-fve years, and q little
daughter about three years old, the child of
the accused and his wife. Griswold took his
meals with the family, but bad lodgings else
where. ." '''o
Mrs. Clark, who rose early for the p,rnose
OIL preparing breakfast for the family. dis
covered that her daughter had met with
violent death some time during the night
She at once gave the alarm, and the neigh.
Dorh0od was aroused It was then found
mat Wilkinson was absent, having left Gun
III The easement with drcgS in the bottom
supposed TO be poison. 1t was learned that
WILKINSON had left the house before mid
hlSht, after having committed the deed, and
proceeded to the dwelling of his mother, ON
Gay street near Broadway, where he was ar
rcstcd by policeman Samuel Barton. of the
eaSIerl police station, and taken to tile lock-
UP. when found. Wilkinson was sitting on
rocking char, with Il basin between his
hliees, 'omltlhg, and evidently suffering from
tue eilcct OF poison, which was subsequently
ascertaliied 10 he arsenic, and which he had
TAKEN previous to leaving his own house,
Grlswold was also arrested during the morn.
ing on Chew street near Cav whilst in the
act OF changing his clothes, he having been
informed that the police were in search of
MN. Meanwhile the street in the vicinity of
the house became thronecd with people.
THE VERDICT.
The case was given to the jury about hall.
past 6 O'Clock, and after Il consultation of
nearly IN hour, the following verdict was
rendered:
"Tlut Emma Ella Wilkinson came TO her
death by blows with cleaver inflicted bv
the hands Of her husband, John w. WiIkin-
son, superinduced BY jealousy caused by the
intimacy between his wife. Emma Ella Will
kinson, and William Griswold, thereby
c:.usinSa partial arrangement in the mind of
John w. Wilkinson when the fatal deed was
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