The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-19
AN AWFUL DEED.

Inhumsn Hatchery OF . Woman In New
York by Her Husband - Nitric Acid
Poured Down Her Throat by the Mon
ster-suicids of the Murderer.
A horrible crime was that of Launce-
lot Fogarty, of New York, who MUIR
dered his wife and then committed sui
eide, besides attempting the lives of his
three children. We CLEAN from the New
York papers the following particulars of
the blood-curdling tragedy Fogarty
went home in the evening and quarreled
with his wife. He left, and returned
about o'clock in the morning. He had
key to the kitchen. His children were
sleeping in the room next to the grocery,
and his wife was asleep in the room be-
tween that and the kitchen. He had q
book binders knife, with a long, keen
blade, also a vial Of laudanum, and one
of nitric acid. He Lit the lamp. removed
his coat and collar, rolled up his sleeves,
and took off his shoes. He then poured
the liquids into small glasses and went
through his wife's room toward the chill
dren. She awoke and he seized her. He
had both the laudanum and acid, and
it is thought he intended to use the
lardanum on the children to keep them
asleep. Holding the woman, when she
opened her mouth to scream he poured
/, the nitric acid down her throat. It went
to her stomach, eating through her inter
nal organs and tearing her intestines
into threads. The little she forced out
OF her mouth ran trickli down heI
cheek and back, burning off the flesh all
along it's course, and eating holes though
the pillow into the mattress. The woman
in fearful agony threw the murderer from
her. He ran to the kitchen and brought
in the knife. Seeing his wife standing in
the middle OF the floor he went up and
plunged the long, thin, keen blade into
her left breast up to the handle, the
blade penetrating the lung. At this
the children awoke and ran into the
street, shriekiDg. Fogarty, satisfying
himself his wife was dead, laid her or
the floor, put pillow under her head
and went into the kitchen. Going ur
to ths small mirror on the wall, he
stretched his neck and plunged the
bloody knife into it on the right side
The knife went through toward the
front, coming out through the windpipe
He made a similar wound on the lef
side of his neck, the knife coming ou
without severing the artery. He ther
staggered to the table on the opposite
side of the room and fell to the floor
Fogarty was found lying on his face in
pool of blood, dead. His wife was dead
lying with her body in her bedroom an(
her head on the pillow just across thu
kitchen door-sill. The kitchen floor wa
covered with tracks of blood. Under
meath the mirror was large pool o
blood. Mrs. Fogarty's body was GOV
cred with blood, which could not be &C
counted for by the presence of tn
wounds on the body. Her flesh wa
charred on the right cheek and down he
neck and back. Her right eve wa
burned out, the right ear burned almos
off, and part of her clothes and part O
the bed-clothes burned to powder
Fogarty left a letter, in which he signe,
himself "a broken-hearted man."
The troubles of the family began il
1868. The wife was an educated woman
and Fogarty was worth G13, 900 in 1856
when he married her in Australia. Drinl
brought him down. He ruined hi
wife's business after deserving her twice
once going to Chicago and squanderin
81 500 there.