Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-03-21
TERRIBLE ATTEMPT At MURDER
4 Mother and SON Terribly Gut by
an Intoxicated Man.

4 Mother and Som Terribly Cut by
an Intoxicated Man.
from the san Francisco Alta of March eth.
Mrs. O'Connor. the mother of three
SONS and IL daughter, keeps Il lodging
house on Front street, between Howard
and Mission. For IL long time past.
William lIaElon, IL long -shorpman, of
unsteady habits. has been paving his
attentions to her, and has repeatedly
proposed marriage. Mrs. O'Connor.
on account of his ullSteadinesS, has
constantly diScountenanced his ad-
vanceS. The man, so often put off.
failing 10 ascribe his rejection TO its
true cause. and fired by the bloody
passion of jealousy, finally worked
himself up to il most sanguinary state
of naddcned passion and determined
to have the lady accede to his proposal
or Slay her.
Last night. about ten o'clock. having
prilled his WaVering resolve with fiery
liquors until he was in Il state Gf crazy
intoNication. and divesting himself of
all his wearing apparel, With the cX-
ccption OF his pants. he Went where
Mrs. O'Connor WAS engaged. and with
suppressed passion i'll every tone of
his voice. demanded her final answer
to his request to marry him. She rca
soned with him quietly and i'll soothing
language on he impo>siblity of their
living happily together, and again gave
her refusal to his suit. y second time
in voice of eraZcd frenzy, he de-
mandcu her acceptance of him. Again
she refused. Then DRAWN" Il butchers
knife, about eight inches i'll length.
with the blade ground down to the
sharpness of Il razor, he threw himself
at her and SlaShcd the knife ACROSS her
throat. With Il piercing scream the
woman threw up her hand to protect
herself. and as she did so he struck
again at her. THIS time cutting the VEINS.
arteries and tcndonS Of her left wrist,
inilictinw Il serious wound. Again the
murderou> wretch threw up his hand
to strike Il mortal blow. when Mrs.
o'Connor'S son. Il boy of sixteen. drawn
to the tragic scene by the sounds Of the
struggle and the cries of his mother,
intcrpoScd his body to shield her and
WAS stabbed in the left breast. the point
of the knife entering his lung. Both
mother and son now turned to flee.
and succeeded in escaping the further
attacks of llanlon. Calling i'll piteous
tones for help. they staggered down
the stairs and into the street, where, on
the clrbStonc. overcome by exhaustion
from the loss Of blood, they fell SENSE
less. Meantime Il man named Lewis
had flown into the house to secure the
supposed double murderer. He met
Hnnlon in the dining-roon. and. rum
ming toward him to seize and di>arm
him. he received 4 severe cut across
the hand.
An immense and excited crowd had
now gathered around the house. and
almost immediately officer Casey and
locals Peterson and oNeil came up
and entered the dinin@-room to arrest
the homicide. on seeing the officers
Uanlon became inl'uriatcd. saying that
he would rip open the tir.t man who
attempted to lay hands on him. en-
phaSiziny his remarks 10y .iahhing the
knife into the deal top OF the table >ev-
eral times. The crowd, NOW sur@ing
into the room, proposed shooting him
down where he stood; but before tins
sanwuinary method of arrest was ear
red into effect, Ilanlon darted over
from behind his defense and ran up
stairs. the officers i'll full pursuit. They
followed him from room to room, until
he disappeared for Il moment. Hear
ing the sound of Il window being
pushed up in Il room fronting on First
street, the officers entered it just as
Hanlon, who had been deferred from
jumping out hv the sight OF an inturi-
atel crowd Just beneath him, had
turned and was diving under bed.
Casey and Peterson threw themselves
on the man. In ran Il detachment of
the crowd, and lIanlon Was struck
over the head with Il sharp weapon by
some unknown person, and became
Immediately deluged i'll blood. An aN
was subsequently found i'll the room,
which is believed to have been the in
strument with which the wound was
inflicted.
bringing their man down on the
street the crowd began to move omin-
ouSlv. as if they We're about to seize
Uanlon and lynch him there and then.
The officers and their prisoner were
tossed to and tro like corks, the former
receiving some quite serious blows.
They, however, succeeded in getting
Hanlon safely to the City Prison,
where his wounds were dressed. No
charuo has been made against him, nor
will there be any until the actual con
dition of the o'Connors Is a>cert alncd.
our reporter visited the scene of the
terrible tragedy at , o'clock this morn
mo Mrs. o'Connor'S wound is not in
the tl,roat, as AT tirs. reported. III
seems that Uanion dashed the knife III
her mouth while speaking, and draw
ing it upward between the JAWS cu' Inc
cheek aSunder i'll u terrible manner.
The wound on the wrist IS rs al iir>t