The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-15

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| covered with blood, with which the bed was satu
rated. The top OF her skull and both sides Of hey
but was quite inscnsS Ss and died in twenty MIN
utes At the foot Of the same bed lay the dead BODY
had ben Sa her o. brains sdS na
about her face and on the bed. She was pretty,
fair-hared Child with blue eyes. ID corner Of the
sff Is Ess
stantiy sent for Dr.. cuoahan. OF the Orange road,
and In few minutes he arrived and ordered the
removal e Of the lad to the inarmary Of ST. oaye's
he was dying. The doctor and the police then care
fully examined the room in order to discover
THE INSTRUMENT wIrH WHICH TIE TERRIBLE
CRIMES HAD BEEN COMMITTED,
and they found two weapons-ono o bar of iron ten
weight and smeared with blood and brains ana q
clasp knife stained with blood, with which, appa-
e ns IN e
and found that he had cut the windpipe completely
through and some Of the small arteries in such q
Hospital. DR.. Cuoahan then carefully examined
that s s ns sRe tom
Of her skull while she was sitting up In bed. On the
floor near the bed and In pool Of blood, lay an
been upset, and the whole room presented an ap-
pearance as II a fearful struggle had taken place.
1t s stated that on being brought to the hospital
he was unable to speak, though he made great ef
% ana on S s %SSs avn Ss w ana psno
wrote his name, "Wfiam Tayer,n and other rather
1neoanectea sentences among Which were,
was put to bed About this time his brother called
surgeon ala not deem wise 70 permit nsT
view FOR fear Of acceIerating the DEATH Wv ''''
A BRoTHER's STATEMENT
The brother made the following STRANGE state.
ment:-"He was very quiet man at times, but he
frequently became violent; ! have to caution you
told me that he Would kin q man whom he has has
named; II he gets the slightest chance he
That he sSouG be careuy watsSsa 1t viii Se
better for him to die than to be executed On last
Monday t he was very quiet and he took Mrs Taylor
they spent the day. He had latterly believed that
people wanted to kill him. and he has carried the
Iron bar with which he killed Mrs. Taylor about
always carrfad the iron bar II his cart when he was
driving through the street. He also had the bed
might hide underneath it. He ordered the boy
Samuel and the little girl to lie on the floor by night
to enter the room while he was asleep, the cries Of
the children might wake him up
q; the brother Of Taylor was afterwards shown to
have been very necessary. Although be was CLOSELY
:" "A managed to make ,..,9~ T'f"--rH
SUDDEN SPRING OUT OF BED, ,
and, making bolt, darted right through tne VII
Here he ran along one Of the corridors, and took or
the weights or the clocks, threatening by attltude
ran into one of the women's wards, and selling
hold of the tOngs lOurished them IN such le9rIui
t that for e S0spy re wa 10
prevented iY&n' The blood was now again stream
sS sss' Ts n ss' E XIII on H y N.Y. ny
to srae with 3 @ns Sa
with broonisticks to ward or the blows he
made with the tongs, and In the sculfie a fearful
sticks with violence so great as to SILVER them to
pieces. He was eventually secured and again
placed in bed and strapped down, and now lies In
very precarious state.
ANOTHER MURDER IN BEnMoNDsEY.
But few days previous to this murder, and IN
the same district OF BermOndsey, barber had
murdered his wife and then attempted to cut hls
p'per-taa 3 Sa,igas'a 5sas5x OF MURDERS
appears to have act in. Last week 1t was our palm
full duty to report Aye, and this week has COM tn
shocking murder of woman and child In Ber-
mondsey, and to-day news reaches us OF another
S SSuSv SSnSa T1 s S S pSs saea
seventeen, was reading IN the barrack newsroom,
when James Tooth, aged forty.twoo, private, came
had been some slight previous difference between
them. The murderer was taken before the magis
trateS yesterday ana cOmmltteu LOT Trial."
PRESS COMMENTS ON THE TAYLOR TRAGEDY.
The Times which very rarely comments upon
murder cases, finds the circumstances Of Taylor's
crime so horrible that it Is obliged to devote the
following observations to the subject
This extraordinary scene indicates no doubt,
tremens, and the crime seems the anal issue Of q
career OF drunkenness The police have twice had
@ in 10 @ his
the head with his flsts. She refused afterwards to
return to him. and he persuaded the unhappy app
They have had constant quarres, and only
last Thursday he rushed out Of the house drunk,
exclaiming that he had stabbed his wife. The
woman was found insensiole from blow on the
head which Taylor had given her, but she was not
court. where the magistrate fined him five shillings
for being drunk, and discharged him. One cannot
but wonder whether this magistrate acted on the
ought not to be too hard on men for beating their
wives provided they abstain from the use OF deadly
ished as he deserved for the brutality Of Thursday
he would not have been able to commit the crime
al aS e On said n eaVe Srank p aud
q half Of rum. He then became furious,
and the murders were probably committed In o
parOXysm Of rage. He must have beaten his wife
and his two children to deatlfwith bar Of iron.
The strangest circumstance Is that his ownskui Is
said to be fractured by blow which must havo
been given with some weapon like an iron bar In
his rage he may have endeavored to kill himself
which he cut his throat. Or since the room pre-.
scented the appearance OF struggle, 1t may be that
the unhappy woman tried to defend herself Tay-
lOr volunteered statement In the hospital that he
had had struggle with man named Coe; and 1t Is
possible this may be OF the decisions which are
Characteristic Of dclirium tremens This, however,
was the tragedy which was being perpetrated in
Taylor's house while two policemen were standing
outside listening to screams and doubling whether
they had any right to prevent man from " chaS-
Using his own boy" and while neghbors could
overhear piteous appeals for mercy. There were
two deaf people up stairs in the very house where
the crime was being committed, who heard
nothing, and three Of Taylors children, clearing
the row." had run up stairs and locked themselves
in another room. We would not condemn conduct
which has not yet been explained, but, In any
case it Is dreadful to think that man may commit
th9 wholesale and furious butchery within the very
hearing of policemen and ncighbors, and that no
one should deem 1t a duty to interfere. Whatever
the law on the subject may be such non-interven.
ton Is absurd. An Englishmans house Is not his
castle for purposes OF violence and cruelty, and
policemen ought to be empowered, IL they are not