Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-04

| the case comes up. Durante was comfortab
dressed, with heavy watch and chain, an
looks as if he enjoyed life. AT the static
nearly one hundred dollars IN gold and greer
backs were found upon HIM. Mr.. DeMaral
states that he will use his best endeavors
break the padrone system up as far as lies
his power. He says the boys were badly an
cruelty treated. They were each require
every day to return one dollar as the result {
their labors, and if they fell below this SUI
were beaten. One of the boys, in answer !
a question from the magistrate, What di
| be do when he made over dollar?" replied
'Me makee dollar and quarter, mo Aeepe
quarter for some oder day when me nc
| nakee SO much The police officers VIII
made the arrest describe the house On Caro-
line street as in filthy condition, and an eye
sore to the neighborhood. The six boys wer
huddled together at night on two straw-bed
on the third floor. Durante remained a
home, a gentleman of leisure, and receives
daily the results of the labors of the boys
The cooking for the household was done by
woman, about forty years of age. who, in tn
intervals between meals, went out on tn
streets with a baby carriage, in which sh,
placed an organ. Mr.. DeMeralla says tina
he has information from his government tina
there are In this country at least two hundred
and fifty boys in the hands of these padrones
who have been stolen from their parents IL
Italy.
Murders His Wife and Child.
Philadelphia correspondent Cincinnati En-
quirer: George w. Stiles, his wife and
little daughter were taken to hospital in
this city to-day, each of them apparently in a
dying condition. Stiles is a wharf-buildel
and seaman. Early yesterday morning he
sho. bis wife in the breast, cut his daughter &
throat and then tried to kill himself Rough,
uncultured and besotted as the murderer is,
jealousy was the cause of his crime. His
wife has no personal charms. In her youth
she may have possessed robust beauty, but
vice, drink and association have obliterated
its traces, and at tine age of thirty-three her
face is wrinkled, her skin yellow, her eyes
bleared and her figure gaunt and bony." The
victims have died.
A Sch0Olmaster Murdered by Boys.
Special from East st. Louis to the Cincin-
natl ENQUIRER: About half past nine o'clock,
Dr. Gus Bedioux, living on Illinois avenue, be-
weenSeventh and Eighth streets, heard noise
in the hall, and opening the door of the par
Tor in which he had been sitting he was horri-
fed by seeing the form of a man lying In the
hallway in a pool of blood. STOPPING down
he examined the man, and to his amazement
learned that it was Driscroll. 1t took but a
moment to place him on the sofa, and the
wounds were examined. Driscoll was I'M
conscious In the right cheek was terrible
cut, which extended from the upper portion
of the ear to the corner of his mouth, and
was three quarters of an inch deep. His
clothing were saturated with his life blood,
and an ensanguined current ran down his
body to the floor, where it formed in little
pools. His face was CHASTITY white and had a
deadly appearance. The pallor had extended
over his entire body, and he looked as if
dead. All this was seen at glance by DR..
Bedioux, who hurriedly summoned help and
dressed the wound. Driscoll soon regained
and mohoning for pencil
and paper, it was giving him, and he wrote
as follows: ARREST Fix for murder. Driscoll. !"
Fix was arrested and with him four other
boys. Driscoll is dead.
A Shocking Domestic Drama.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 22d: Last
evening, about FIVE o'clock, domestic drama,
which had been ripening for some weeks,
and threw the neighborhood into fever of
excitement. Edmund Hanrahan, laborer,
residing at No 1921 Clara street, possessed
by demon of jealousy, murdered his wife,
Mary, with an ak, and hacked the reputed
cause of the trouble, one Michael Sheehan,
to within an inch of his life. The Hanrahan
family numbered, with the vindictive head
and his faithless helpmate, three children, a
girl just budding into womanhood. and two
DOyS dRou respectively 6WClfO dno oONOA
years. The family owned the house where
they resided, and which was the scene of the
murder. It is a small two-story structure,
divided into three or four dwellings. The
Hanrahans occupied the upper portion, and
let the lower floor to two families. The
family which lived in the two rear
rooms abandoned the apartment a
few 4 days ago, and In one OF
mitted. A Chronicle reporter interviewed
Hanrahan in his cell last evening, shortly
after his arrest. He was at first unwilling to
talk of the affair, but subsequently related
the particulars without reservation. He said
that he had been married in Philadelphia
twenty-five years ago, and that his wife had
always been a good woman until lately.
They had three children now and had buried
four When he discovered his wife and
sheehan in bed, yesterday morning, he called
Mrs. Barry, his wife's sister, who lives next
door, and thus secured witness to his Vifes
In the afternoon, when he dis
covered them in the vacant apartment down
stairs, he had summoned Mr.. Dunning, a
neighbor residing across the street, and
pointed out his shame to him. He was very
anxious to learn the condition of Sheehan,
who was lying on his death bed on the other
side of partition, but he was not informed.
He was charged with murder.
bctfdycu anu ukncus
New York Mercury, June 23l: After some
time, during which the youthful lovers were
almost inseparable, Neal finally induced the
young lady to accompany him to Flushing.
There, as the young lady swears, without
her knowledge, he took room at a hotel and
registered as man and wife, while he told the
young lady he had engaged room for each.
This was about the thirteenth of last April.
To Miss Billiards. parents he represented that
l. - Sol~
bath. The time for retiring arrived, and
Neal, as further alleged in the legal docu-
ments, accompanied Miss Ballard to her
room, where, after chatting for some time he
told her that there was no need for her be-
ing alarmed; that being engaged to be mar
ried they were man and wife In everything
but fact. Miss Ballard protested, but he
Gained her fears. She was far from home,
and there was no harm after all in their oc-
spent In pleading and promising, until, at
length. Miss Ballard fell victim to mis-
placed confidence. Upon her return home
Miss Billiards. disposition underwent such
marked change that the suspicious of her
parents were aroused, and, after being sub
jected to a searching lnqulsition on the part OF
her father, she reluctantly acknowledged ev-
Thereupon Mr.. Ballard consulted
his counsel, Messrs. Gardner & Goodhardt, of
No. II Warren street, and the result was the
institution of a suit by Miss Billiards. father
against Neal, in which damages for the loss
of services of his daughter were laid at fifty
dollars. The letter and affidavits
upon which the warrant of arrest was grant
ed presented such a sad history that Judge
Donohue, In supreme court chambers, fixed
the bail at twenty thousand dollars. An ap-
plication was made to vacate the order of
arrest or to reduce the bail, on the ground
that it was excessive, and that the defendant
was wholly unable to find that amount.
but Ought to have bee Shot
New York Times, 29th: There was much
excitement yesterday among the numerous
guests at the Grand Central hotel, growing
out of the public cowhiding of Mr.. j. Fl.
Taylor, a guest, by an elderly gentleman and
his son, who also live at the hotel. 1t was
learned that Taylor, who is over fifty years of
age, is connected with the Brooklyn insurance
and had been living at the hotel
for some time. The assailant and his family
have also been living at the house for several
years. The cause for the cowhiding of Tay-
lor was, as is alleged, his grossly indecent
and Infamous conduct toward a little g,rl
aged ten years, the youngest member of the
assailants' family. To Captain Byrne the
child's father said that Taylor often played
Familiarity with her In the corridors of the
hotel and about the parlors, but no attention
was paid to this, as she was favorite with
all the boarders in the house. At about ten
o'clock Friday night Taylor, it is alleged, met
the child on the parlor floor. He asked her