The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-27

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was substantially what stated At the trial.
HIS MANIA ron KILLING.
dow lie answered y nsy est d Ha' the WIN
J asked "pid you know Mabel Young - and
j asked him " he had ever seen the child be-
fore. He said he could not remember N he had,
although he could not say that he had not.
he did not know that he went do WIN ana waited
there, with determination to take some child
that should come along that on the Sunday be-
by the name Of Hook came out OF the sabbath
school into the large yestipule, and remained
utes, and that he felt sure she would come out
again that day.
TO inJure that child He said he aid not know ;
that he could not tell that be was under tho
influence Of a sort Of mania e XIII some child,
larry what child IL was.
j asked him & be had ever had such feeling.
before. He said he had several times. lie said
he felt 50 on the Sunday before, and had felt so
during the week.
asked him for how long period he bad been
subject to this feeling. lie said ever since he
went to the sea.
! asked him II 1t was possible for him to tell
what could have Influenced his mind to commit
such deed. He said he could not, unless II
was the effect Of the opium and whiskey which
form he had inhaled the day before,
askedlhim u he had been in the habit Of TAX
II for several years ut different times to relieve
his pain.
opium and whiskey bv him at the church. He
said II was that he had taken some, as near ae
he could recollect, on that day. lie then told
me that he had great trouble with mis- head (;
that he had suffered great pain In his head, and
also In bis kidneys, as the result OF disease
which had affected him since he was child.
asked him for how long time he had been
accustomed to taking stimulants and he said he
had done SO very frequently since his return
from sea.
MS OTHER MURDERS
lie then turned to me and asked II supposed
IL was possible for him to be forgiven unless he
should make a confession OF all the crimes that
he had committed. said that IL was impossl.
to believe that II he expected To b. happy In the
future he ought to make a complete disclosure
OF everything which seemed " interfere with
He then said that he should not hesitate to
tell everything except for the effect 1t might
have on his mother; that she always trusted
him and placed most implicit confidence ia him,
and II lie should disclose all II would surely Kill
her. said, Thomas, u there Ia anything else
which you have done, which now burdens your
mind, YOU can tell me, and | will then judge
what course should be pursued In regard to IT,"
not do anything more for mel" l said, " Ii is
impossible for me to do anything for you to
save your life but n IL Is ssible for me to do
anything which would comfort you during the
remainder OF your life, should do IL, for | pity
you beyond all power OF expression. Tell me
freely everything. Have you ever been connect
ed with any other homicide?"
Tie then proceeded to give the circumstances
OF his killing Bridget Landregan, and Of the
murderous assault he made upon Mary lyman.
The murder Of Bridget Landregan was the first
Of lipers capital crimes. She was a domestic
In the employ OF Sheldon Barry on bellevue
avenue, IN the Dorchester district, and was
beaten TO death with cluh made from the end
Of wagon shaft, on the highway, near Column
bia street, on the evening OF Dec. 7, 1873. Piper
was arrested at the time, but afterward re-
leased, and shortly afterward Thomas Cahil
the girls lover, WIS extradited from Ireland for
the crime, out never brought to trial, and the
murder was added TO the long list OF unsolyed
crimes, until Piper confessed to being the per-
petrator. Mary lyman, ayoung woman OF qles-
ton bic character. his second victim, was found
In her room ON oxford street ON July 2, 1874
terribly m ngled about the head, and she was
not expected to survive That she did was
almost miraculous; but fully as strange as her
recovery was the fact that she stead lastly re-
fused to say anything regarding her asssilant,
aud the affair renamed a deep mystery until
confessed and explained by the aendish Piper.
This woman Is now In the Taunton Insane Asy-
lum. She Is now violently and hopelessly IN
sane.