New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-10-30
HORRIBLE MURDER IN MIeH1g4Y

Detroit Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer.I - Z i $3.50
| At 8 o'clock this morning Mrs. Corkin.
woman living in the Potomac quarter, came
to the Central police station and reported
that murder had been committed at 142
franklin street. Two officers went to the
| house and found that Mrs Matte Farrell,
aged nearly 20, was lying dead on her bed,
where she had evidently been placed. Her
son, Henry Language, said that at o'clock
he went into his mothers room to look at
the clock, and found her dead on the floor,
and at once ran to Mrs. Corkin's house and
tod her. Beyond lat he knew nothing.
Mrs. Corkin and Mrs. Ann Hanley,
who had been called in by Lam
guage, agreed IN saying they found
the body on the floor, wrapped
IN the quilt and coverings of the bed, as
though she had rolled in the agony of death,
her hands clutching the coverings firmly.
Her neck was broken, her face was bralsed
badly, and over her right eye was an ugly
cash about three inches long and a quarter
OF an inch In depth. They washed the blood
from the dead woman's face, cut off her
gray hair matted with blood, and laid her
out as well as they could. There was blood
on the floor, Dashboard, and on trunk at the
head Of the bed.
Besides Language and his mother, the
family consisted of his four year-old daugh-
| ter Matte, and Willie Clark, an eight-year-
old cousin Of Matte, who lived with Mrs.
Farrell and called her grandma The boy
says that at o'clock yesterday afternoon
Language kicked at him, and drove him
down stairs, when he wanted to enter the
room occupied by the family.
Mrs. Farrell came to the win
dow and told him to go for a policeman, and
Language jerked her away from the window.
After that he was afraid to go upstairs, ard
the woman who lives down stairs let him stay
all night in her room. Matte, who is
pretty little blonde, persistently refused to
answer any questions, saying, "Papa tole me
not to say anythin';' but J. Lloyd Breeze,
reporter of one of the evening papers, man
aged to gain her confid nee, and gives the
following graphic and dramatic report of the
Representatives, there anyone here with
you and grandma and pap "a z2%.s4
Baby--''No; dess pa and danma and me.''
R.-"What did pa do?" 5.-.
Bile pull danma and puss (push)
her, rs &
R.-Did grandma cry?'' $S-
B.-"No; SO hollered-hollered murder,
murder!''
R.-"Did your pa have knife?''
B.-"No; pa didn't tut danma; he licked
(kicked) and pound her. .----.=---..
Rand there was no one else here at
all?'' e@&-
B.-"Pa locked door, -
R.-"Did pa kick grandma this way2'
(llustrating.) --,a -....--.
B.-"No iss way and the little one
stamped her heel square down upon the
floor. At this the women in the room,
hardened cases though ther were, used to ali
sorts of crime, turned away with shudder.
The sight of that innocent little girl picturing
how her father had undoubtedly crushed the
life out of his own mother was too awful
even for their natures.
R.-"What did pa do when it got dark2"
Bile made me hole lamp while no
wass (wash) tanma's face.''
Matties mother is in the house of correc-
ton, and Willie says his mother has gone off
on boat somewhere, but both children will
now be taken care of by the authorities.
Henry Language, who is in the Central sta
ton, is the son of Mrs. Farrell by her first
husband, and works at whatever be can get
to do. Mrs. Farrell took in washing and
went out scrubbing.
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