The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-01-17
LED ASTRAY AND MURDERED
THE KILLING or 4 WOMiN and THE
SUICIDE or HER LOTER.
A Wifo Deserving her Chicago Husband TO
Journey with Another Msu TO New York
and Europc-From Anfuence to Poverty.

About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
neatly dressed and rather prcposscssing wo-
man was admitted to the rooms occupied by
James W. johnson In the tenement at tho rear
Of 10i Orchard street She had been there often
before. aud now and then two childron, said to
be- hers, went when she wns not there. She had
been there not longer than half an hour before
! other tenants heard screams. George Borst,
the landlady's son. listened at tho door and
| heard s'ullng, and then ran for an officer.
! Whom he returned with one. the tenants said
| they had heard pistol shots, and Ofcer Gibson,
| after Knocking at the door, burst 1t open. The
| hall door opened into n kitchen, and back Of
| that was Il small room filed with pow
| der smoke. Across the threshold Of the
door leading from the kitchen into the
rear room lay the body of woman. her
waist on the threshold, and the upper part Of
the body in the rear room. She was dead.
and her head lay in n pool Of blood that
nearly covered the floor OF the rear room. Be
yond her and close by the wall. there was an
| other body. The hand IA tho officer felt of ii.
was still warm. but there was no pulse Tho
| features Of neither one could be seen ;the man.
| ncr In which they had died prevented that, and
| for the same reason the clothing was oil of one
| color. as were the weapons which lay on the
| floor. By the woman lay an object which proved
| when wiped to bc a new and very sharp shoe
| tha man a rn1or and rnz,r atror
Before the ambulance. surgeon arrived the
' in ths torehend whieh heS piainIy been mads
| by the litter, and two slight cuts on the neck;
| the surgeon said he must have died within two
minutes after the cut But when the bodies
| snvrntecn ,v'unds ton ~ witch mis-, no~h hnve
| been moral Resi5es the nne on The hend and
| two on tho mock there wore twclyr on the hodV
Tho rest were ON the thigh. Just over the all
| dumen there were four cuts that must have been
marked an exact square.
| There were two bullet holes in the abdomen
of tn" man, anl the cut inthc throat, The posi-
| il hnd an been done The woman had been
struck first with the litter. and the blow was a
seilpd the shoe knife. and the number Of
wounds showed how iufnriitcd he was She
was cNideu,ly going from the rear room 10 the
asro.s the SS'h 'thrnshSil Iohnson iinn ,' 'eyideniy
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