The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-18
AN AWFUL DEED.

Inhuman Butchery of q Woman in New
York by Her Husband Nitric Acid
Poured Down Her Throat by the Mon
ster-Suicide 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 a
book-binders' knife, with long. keen
blade, also 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
laudanum 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 fricklirg down her
cheek and back, burning off the flesh all
along it's course, and eating holesthough
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, shrieking. Fogarty, satisfying
himself his wife was dead, laid her on
the f1eor, put pillow under her head,
and went into the kitchen. Going up
to tbs 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 similar wound on the left
aide of his neck, the knife coming out
without severing the artery. He then
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 and
her head on the pillow just across the
kitchen door-sill. The kitchen floor was
covered with tracks of blood. Under
meath the mirror was a large pool of
blood. Mrs. Fogarty's body was COW
cred with blood, which could not be ac-
counted for by the presence of the
wounds on the body. Her flesh was
eharred on the right cheek and down her
neck and back. Her right eve was
burned out, the right ear burned almost
off, and part of her clothes and part of
the bed-clothes burned to powder.
Fogarty left a letter, in which he signed
himself "a broken-hearted man."
The troubles of the family began in
1868. The wife was an educated woman,
and Fogarty was worth 913, 900 in 1850
when he married her in Australia. Drink
brought him down. He ruined his
wife's business after DESERVING her twice,
once going to Chicago and squandering
| 81, 500 there.