The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-13
A WOMAN SERIOUSLY CUT.
A Mysterious Affair.


heard cries Of murder "watch p and
help r and others just as near declare that
they heard no cries at ell. Bnt any way.
shortly after - o'clock yesterday it became
known to all the neighbors that woman had
been stabbed in the large four story brick
building at the corner OF Triton Walk Ode.
lord street, and Baronne street.
As may be supposed, the neighbors were
excited and there was hurrying to and fro for
a police officer, and at last one was found,
who refused, it is said, because he was not
granted admission, to enter the premises, al
though summoned and tod that woman had
been stabbed and probable murder COM
mitted
He said he must have warrant before
he would go in. and when citizen asked the
loan Of his Ghe ohicer's) revolver, promising
to discharge the duty of the officer if he could
obtain it, the officer declined to loan it, not
knowing what might happen.
Then, it is said, citizen without a revolver
in the presence of the wounded woman.
The assertion that the citizen broke open
the door, and, indeed, the assertion that the
citizen, who is said to have broken open the
door, entered at all, has not been corrobora.
ted; but be that as 1t may, at about l2:45
O'Clock, quite number of the neighbors,
mostly women, were in the front room on
the second floor Of the four-story brick build
ing at the corner of Triton Walk and Baronne
streets, all very laxative, all very busy, and
all gazing with pity and horror at the bloody
form that lay on bed in corner of the
room.
The form was that of Johanna Sullivan, a
young woman of fine build, but not very pre-
possessing face. She was bleeding from
CHASTITY wound in the neck and seemed to be
rapidly sinking. Somebody with more fore
thought than others present dispatched some
body else for doctor, and this somebody else in
q short time returned with DR.. T. Fl. Dennis,
who went to work and after great exertions
succeeded in stopping the flow of blood and
quieting his patient.
When the excitement subsidized it was found
possible to obtain some Of the particulars of
the affair. The house in which it took place
belongs to the Mcdonnell estate and is under
the control of Alex. Mcconnell, Esq, the
we'll known Lumber merchant, who had placed
in charge OF it Mrs. Delaney, o married wo-
man, and woman of family to the extent of
being the mother Of one son. 1t is related
that Johanna Sullivan, the victim, had been
excepting company" with this son, much
against the ad vice and wishes of her friel DIS,
who declared and assert that they told heI
that Mike Delaney was married man.
Yesterday Johanna Sullivan came to the
house-the four story brick building - for
some clothes she had left there. Why she
left them there, or why she went after them
yesterday, is not known.
She went in the back gate, and went in the
room where her clothes were. This is the
room in which the stebbing was done. To
from the brick pavement, and these couple of
steps land you on little side gallery. You
take couple of steps-walking steps-and
you are stared in the face by narrow and
abrupt stair with a very short turn. You
go up these stairs, and the first room to your
right, looking from the head of the staircase
and off the little gallery which leads to il. is
the room.
1t was a small room about ten feet by ten.
with very disordered appearance, and con-
sprinkled with red.
b In the far corner was an iron bedstead with
the remnant of a mattress on it-that is, there
was on it the moss that once was in mattress,
but there was no sign of ticking. t
On the floor beneath the bedstead and the
moss was large pool of blood, clotted blood,
which went to show that the woman had been
thrown on the bed by her assallant and held
there and stabbed.
There was trail of blood to puddle of
blood near the door, which showed that the
woman had risen from the bed and tried to
reach the gallery and had fallen.
Between the door which opened against
the wall that divided the room from thu stair
case and the puddle there was no blood, but
On the door itself and on the casing
there was splash of blood, which had spread |
out in spots, and which showed that the as |
his hand in the direction of it, either casting
down his knife or in an effort to dash off the |
crimson fluid.
The railing of the gallery bore in blood the |
marks of his hand as in his wild flight be |
rushed against it, and the post at the short |
turn in the staircase bore the marks of his |
hand also, where he had caught to keep him
self from falling
The latch on the back gate had no blood on |
t, and this indicates one of two things
either that the gate was open or the man,
whoever he was. went out another way.
Circumstances point to Mike Delaney as |
he man who did the deed. In the first place,
Johanna Sullivan, the victim, declares he did |
L; in the second place Delaney was seen |
going in the direction of the house about half |
IN hour previous to the commission of the |
rhine, and has not been seen since, aud in |
he third place Mrs. Delaney was too OF
treperous, too non-committal. knew too lit
lie, and told too many tales regarding the
flair.
The wound received by the woman is pro-
,ounced by DR.. Dennis dangerous, but not
fatal It was made either with
lirk or long bladed pen-knife. 1t pene-
rated the neck about two inches below the
ar, on line with the shoulder blade-it
vas probed to the depth of an inch and
one of the large arteries near
nd connecting with the carotid artery.
At late hour last night the woman was
LONG WELL and the only thing to be feared
vas another hemmorrage
The police were last night looking for De-
aney, but up to a late hour had net sue
eeded in finding him.
Andrew JOhnsOn's Widow.
Mrs Johnson, wife of the late ex Presi-