Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-06
Horrible Murder I'm baltimore.

THE RAGE OF A JEALOUS HUsBAND-A WIPE
BRUTALLY BUTCHRRED.
Tn Saturday night q most horrible tragedy
was enacted in East Baltimore. The victim
was Mrs. Emma Laura Wilkinson, and the m an
who dealt the murderous blows was John W. b.
Wilkinson, her husband. They resided i'm a
small but quite neat and comfortable house on
McElderTy street, between Caroline and Dallas
streets. Wilkinson is young man, aged about
twenty eight years, and has been married five
years. He il a wood turner by trade but O wing
10 failing health he has not worked at this bus-
ness for year or more. Some months since he
was Frustrated by a severe spell of sickness
which seriously affected his eyesight. although
he is very far from being blind. As has been re-
ported. He can distinguish objects very well
handsome young woman. in her twenty-third
year. She was the daughter of the late Benja-
min y. Clarke. a gentleman well known and
much respected in East Baltimore. At the time
of his death he was one of the state inspector,
of wood. His widow Mrs. Mary Jane Clarke
resided with her daughter, and was sleeping in
the house at the time of the murder.
THE AWFUL DISCOVERY.
AFTER seven o clock yesterday morning Mrs.
Clarke, after having prepared breakfast, went
up to her daughters room to waken her and her
husband, as was her custom. When she opened
the door horrid spectacle met her gaze. Her
daughter was lying on the bed, but the light had
gone out from her eyes, and she was a cold
gnasi.y eorrse. There were frightfui gashes in
her cheeks and on both sides of her head, and
her throat was cut from ear to ear. A subse
quent examination showed tn at she had twenty
uiSllnCJ wounds on her person, and that at least
tour of them were mortal. The murder
seemed to have continues his blows long after
he had struck vital part, and very probably
The cutting OF the throat was simply the mutila
ton OF a body out OF which the life had tlei.
THE MURDERER.
There was dreadful CONSERVATION in the house.
hold; but there " as no doubt a. to the murderer
The husband was gone; he had stolen out quietly
IN the night, leaving the most conclusive proofs
OF his guilt behind him. A butchers cieaver
covered with blood and arazOr were found under
no oil loIl .,lz.
late Mr. Clarke (whO at one time kept a meat
stand-) 1t was kept in the basement, and it is
supposed that when Wilkinson went down stairs
under the pretext of getting drink. about II
O'Clock p M, that he got the cleaver and carried
II up to his room. The razor was his own. He
Is supposed to have left the house about mid
on North Gay street, where he was arrested on
ern district police.
JEALOUSY THE PROBABLE CAUSE
AS has already been stated, Wilkinson had
been In bad health for some time, and had not
been able 30 work at his trade. He formed
went into the huckstering business. Wilkinson
found the horse and wagon and Griswold at
tended to the buying and selling. The hclse
was kept at Wilkinson's stable. This partner
ship was the beginning of an intimacy between
GTiswold and WilkinsOn's family, which, it is
said, brought much unhappiness to the house
hold. Her friends say that he had no cause
whatever for his suspicious, and they further
ailege that he was cross and often treated her
harshly; they never separated, however, and on
the night he murdered her she was sleeping in
his bed Griswoid came to the house in the
morning, and on hearing of the murder was
greatly affected. woman who passed him, a
he was CRYING, accused him of being the cause
OF Mrs. Wilkinson death.
Cur CONTAINING POISON.
There was a cup on the mantel, i'll the room N
which the murder was committed, containing
arsenic. 1t II not known whether Wilkinson
TOOK any OF II or not. Some persons think that
IL was put there to suggest the intention of sui
eide, and TO give rise to the presumption that
the murderer is insane. Ii this be the fact
there was great deal of method in his ins anitv
The coiOners jury rendered a verdict THAT
Lmma Ella Wilkinson came to her death bv
blows with cleaver. inflicted by the hand of
her husband, John Wilkinson, supernduced b.
Jealousy caus5 ID by the intimacy hetween his
vile Emma Ella Wilkinson and William Girls
void, thereby causing partial arrangement in
the mind OF John Wilkinson when the fatal
decd was perpetrated"
Wilkinson was committed to Jail, to await the
action of the grand iury.-BrU. 4 "a Ticdn Str