, 1873-05-18
TERRIBLE AFFRAY:.
Fatal Quarrel Between a Man and
~~ -. His Wife.
The Former Stabbed by the Latter With
a Dnk-Knife.

4ue seHhlpI1t1eH' 'o1 our bunaay morning reAd-
e1s must be shocked by the relation OF the de-
tails OF q stabbing affray, which occurred at Il
o'clock last night, and which, at an early hour
this morning, promised to become 8 terrible
murder. > - -
About the hour named Officer Daniel Hogan
was patro11ing his beat, on Jefferson street,
near Carroll, when he was startled by loud cries
:" Polioel police!"; which seemed to proceed
from the Intersection of THO the two streets
above referred to. fastening thither he found
q large and excited crowd Of persons collected
in front Of q two:story frame house, sit
uated at the south side Of Carroll
street. three doors from Jefferson. Upon in
quiring the cause Of the excitement, he was,in-
formed that q woman named Ellen Harrison had
fatally stabbed her husband, Louis Harrison,
Slals, %hlis' the two were engaged in drunken
The officer demanded adnlittance to the house,
but: was refused He, however, was
not to be thwa1ted, and, was finally
admitted. When he got inside, sight
Khlch beggars description waa presented. On
the floor of small, squalid-lookins apartment,
ia pool Of blood. He was .unconscious, and
supposed to be dead His shirt, over the breast,
vas saturated with blood. which flowed
from 9, gaping cut in the stomach:
The maddened woman who made it raved
acted as if her anger WAS not yet appeased.
The officer at once took her under arrest, and,
fearing that the crowd outside would endeavor
to rescue her from his custody, made off With
her by back door to the Union Street Station.
By this time Officer Tom Maloney arrived at tho
acene Of the afray, and took charge OF the wound
ed man. Doctor William G. Frazier was dis
patched for: and but for his timely arrival the
man would doubtless have Immediately died, as
he WAS sinking rapidly. The physician at first
said that he would die within few hours, but !
after the wound had been dressed, the pulse |
OF the injured man Increased, and slight
1pc f. O'clock sSs mc4ans waa s
dition was unchanged and there seemed little
hope Of his recovery. The weapon used was a !,
large dirk knife, the blade Of which penetrated
the stomaeh, and cut through the lower portions
!: Several persons, who lived in the same house
with The quazelsome couple, we're interviewed By
our reporter. The circumstances which attended
the stabbing seem to be as follows:
La1rison. WHO is employed in some capacity BY
the Chicago, Burlington d Quincy Railroad
came home att o'clock last night, somewhat in
ebriated, and asked his wife to getanpper. She !
refused, and the refusal resulted IN ., Eight. It
seems they agreed to buy their & difficulty
harrison says they drank together, Their !
difficulty was renewed, and Mrs. Harrison tried |
70 settle it by laying poker heavily on her
husbands head. Hethen called her some very un-
liquor, hnatched the dirk-knife from q table,
and thrust it into her husbands intestines.
he fell over, with an oath in his mouth,
and Was motionless for few moments after he /
fell He then tried to get up, when she forced
him down, and, from her own account, held him
to the aoor- All this time the wound was bleed
Ing freely, and whe1 the woman WAS
brought into the station, her hands were
covered with blood. In the station she raved
md cursed, and said she would hang for La1rie
Harrison any day When told that he Was dead, j.
she laughed aloud, and demanded that
Ehe be hung at once. She is. we'll
known to the police as an old offender, and
more brutal-looking woman can hardly be imag-
med. Her husband is Norwegian, and is said
to be more respectable than bis wife, though
neither Of then have borne good characters.
She is Irish, and is his second wife. They have
three children, the Oldest being but years Of
age, and the youngest g..