The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-13
THE CINCINNATI HORROR.

| FURTHER DEvELoPMENTs-A LIFE OF MS
| sIPATIoN AND PRoFLIGACY AND ITS RESULT
THE TRUE CAUSES OF THE UNNATURAL
CRIMES.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the End
inst, contains further developments in the
strange crime already mentioned in that
city. 1t says: The heart of the Ninth street
| murder mystery was not plucked out at the
| coroner's inquest over the slau entered ipno-
| cent, nor will it be in ali probability until
the case shall be investigated in the courts
Further developments shroud it in the dark
ness OF husbands infideiity and long-suf-
| ferlng womans deep despair. Ii is unpleas-
ant To probe the domestic secrets of house
] holds and reveal them to the public. but il
is essential that it should be done in this
case, In order TO show, il possible, the real
cause of this horrible butchery. 1t is detin-
ltely known that Mr.. Perkins was not true
to his wife. 1t Is known that on herIleav-
ing the city on protracfed visit in the
summer or fall of 1873, he engaged a suite
of rooms on the third floor of
the building at the southeast cor
ner of Fourth and Central avenue.
then occupied by G. B. Evans d Co. the
marble mantel manufacturers, the Atlantic
and Great Western railroad general freight
| office aud several other parties. The rooms
| were handsomely furnished, and contained
among other attractive features, a sidebOard
furnished forth with an abundance of all
kinds of liquors. Part Of the furniture and
one OF the beds (for. there were two of them)
were put in by friend of Mr.. Perkins and
it was thought he would room there also.
But it was blind" of some sort; the
| friend seldom showed himself about the
place, unless it was to help Perkins out of
| his numerous scrapes. Shortly after Per-
| klns had taken up his quarters there the
gentleman who had charge of the building
received intimations that loose women were
going to the rooms and as he roomed there
1 himself 00VOtQd liffla TO hot
part of the house. He saw nothing ofan I'M
| satisfactory nature, however, until one
night in the month of September, when a
well dressed and comedy young woman
came to his door and demanded that Per-
kins' door be broken in, giving a reason
that she was Perkins wife, and he had
| WOMAN IN THE ROOM
with him. She said that she had heard that
Perkins had gone out to the Mlllcreek
House in hack with Belle Boyd. the keeper
of a house of prostitution on Third street:
that she had followed him out there and ar
rived just few minutes after the couple
had started back to town. She was highly
excited and smelt strongly of beer. She said
her mother was down stairs, and they were
determined to stay until they got Perkins
out if it took all night. The gentleman in
charge refused the privilege of breaking
in the door, but the woman max
ing great TODD about the troubles
she said Perkins had heaped upon her, and
her determination to STAY at the door until
Perkins came out, he gave her an easy chair
at Perkins door and returned TO his own
apartment. This led Miro mention the
subject to a young friend of Mr.. Perkins,
who had good laugh over it. He said the
woman's nams was Payne, and that she and
her mother lived in Covington. He had
picked her up and kept her himself while
about year before, but had tired of her
and introduced her to Perkins, in
1 Or to- frsa fNfh or l,,l t.l-
her up eagerly, and had kept her ever SINCE
but was anxious now 10 get her off his
hands. Perkins then called in his friend
his partner, in fact-to assist him out of the
scrape he found himself in; and one night,
when Miss Payne was at her tantrums
and Fox to arrest her. Perkins was not
willing to have her arrested, however, and
finally allowed himself to be coaxed away
by her, Notwithstanding the partners indig-
couple had disappeared the partner
explained matters to the policemen.
After Mrs. Perkins return to the city, it
seems the resolute mistress, refusing TO be
cast off, grated" the unfaithful husband
every opportunity she got, and finally hunt
| ing him up at home, acquainted Mrs. Per-
kins with the whole story of her husbands
Inconsistency, if, indeed, she had not heard it
| long before. Those who know the family,
and are familiar with the facts, are settled in
the conviction that Perkins shocking inf
Gelity was tls principal, it not the only
cause of the Tuesday night quarrel, and
to his door they lay the tragic and I'M
timely taking off of his little child. They
have little faith in the story that Mr. Clare
was the cause of the difficulty. That gem
tleman always stopped at Perkins house
when he came to the city. was almost like
one of the family, and Perkins, far as
known, has never before breathed sus-
picion against his wife's chastity with him
or any other man. They are firm in the be-
lief that it was the husbands gross immo-
ralities, and the heart-searingivisits of his
brazen concubine, that drove her to des-
peration, that so preyed upon and diseased
her mind that she could deliberately take
the life of her offspring and attempt her
own destruction.
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