The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-12-26

plead guilty. Assistant District Attorney Lyon
refused to accept any plea less than assault
with intent TO KILL and the plea was rendered.
Col. Fellows, who defended the prisoner, plead
ed 1ntoXication in eXtenuation. Judge Glider
sleeve said drunkenness was no excuse for
crime, and sentenced the prisoner to eight
years in the State Prison.
This is from the Tribune:
Alta meeting of the Medico-Legal Society
Wednesday evening, infantigide in New York
was the subject OF a paper. by Dr.: simeon y.
eide in New York ranks far ahead of the cities
of the Old World. Statistics from the Coroner's
Office show that in 1873 there were llS case @ OF
l02; in 1876 lOl, and in 1917, 95-rnaking to- i
OF 52S cases IN tye years 1t is generally belIey,
than one-filth of the actual number, and the
need for more stringent iegislatiSn IS apparehf
practices of the day. Another cause ofdeath to
infants is the opium or some narcotic which is
given to the baDe by its beegar parent to excite
pity in the passer-by for the little one who is
asleep. One case has fallen under my observa,;
from tae effects of opium which had been given
to it.''
In the discussion that followed it was urged
that the society use every means in is power
10 break un the bushes of physicians guilty
of criminal malpractice, and iilegitimate lying
in hospitals. and to secure better enactment
| of the laws IN regard to infanticide. The diff
| Guilty with framing and executing laws the
subject was that It We almost impossible to
prove from examination whether a child was
born alive or not.
| IuIS IS IEOLn LIS N. lines
| On the second floor of the rear tenement at
| 454 West Nineteenth street, occupying two mar
| row. ill-ventilated rooms, lived John and Mar
| garet Downing The husband, a tall, powerful
| is a shoemaker. Since he moved into the
house in Nineteenth street, in May last, the
| neighborS have been awakened at all hours OF
| the night and startled in the day by the wo-
mans screams.
Margaret Downing visited yesterday neigh
| Dor, Mrs. Mary Robinson, and said that her
| husband, who was on spree, had beat L2r cru
| oil I, nirrt,f iph
! yet talking to Mrs. Robson, Mrs. Downing
heard her husbands IS voice in the yard. He was
| very drunk. She trembled with fear, Ind said
| that she was afraid to go down, as he had
threate ned to kin her.
| Downing screaming. Then there was crash
and the noise of fall; Mrs Dow ming was
killed mel" Downing staggered out of the
house at 6 o'clock to neghboring groggery-
then pToposed to the others that they Should
| call on Mrs. Downing, take her cup of tea
The proposition was carried, and Mrs. Hol-
land, Mr7. Irving and l., Mrs. Robison went yen to TO
ceSed fS no ansWer Then Ms Holland turned
| the door knob. The 'front.' room was empty
aney Sg s0 th the rear BEDROOM Naked her
| head pounded into a jelly, lay Mis-. Downing,
| cold in death. She had claspcl little wooden
cruelty.
Officer Johnson found Downing in drunk
en- stupor in a saloon. He denied any knoWl-
edge OF his wife's death. To Sergeant Taylor
he said he had not been home, and on being
told that he had been seen in the house he ours
ed and swore. He was locked up.
Coroner Woltman at midnight examined sew
era, of the inmates of the house, and, satisfied
that Downing had beaten his vile TO death,
| ordered his formal commitment
The Cincinnati Gazette has this:
| Yesterday morning, the community of Cum
minsville was startled by the rumors of a no
rible tragedy that had been enacted in her linn
its but q few hours before. About half past
O'Clock, q messenger rushed post haste into the
Tenth District Station, and in a few hurried
IIInr farrihIp told.
Immediately detached to the scene OF horror
For the past si1> years, Peter MorSeheuser mas
occupied two rooms in Grammer's building, on
Spring Grove avenue, opposite Mad Anthony
street, and during that whole period he lived in
wife. The poor wife never Complained, and
| th ough he, in his periodical drunken sprees,
ualIy foTgave him. At last she fell a victim to
his cowardly blows. On Thursday night Morse
Dor, went on at fearful rate, claiming that he
was crazy, and threatening herwho supported
| thought no more of it; retired, and alter sleep
had closed her eyes, knew no more until she
| by her lusbadd, who was doing all in his pow
| er to end the life that to him was life 1udeed-
| teen year old son, who slept in the other room,
who, rushing in, caught nis father by the CYL
lar, anu Xerting all his strength, pulled him
away. The father broke away, rushed from the
house and when discovered by Lieut.. Emery
was hanging by the neck in pigpen in the
| bac.1 yard, dead, his hands stained with the
blood of his victim. DIR. Hochstetter called
in, and found the woman's body literally COW
the hands, one on the forehead, one in the
mouth, which forced out several OF her teeth,
and one on the bridge of her nose, smashing
| that member badly. Last night Gazette re-
porter visited her. Although too weak to talk
| much, she stated that she felt little better
| than She had before. The suicide has lived for
| the best part part of his life in Cumminsvllle,
nnd IVES tnrtynve years obo ne el1 nca h0t doGn i
| the room next to the one in which his victim
| 2iUht fat
| covered with blood and hair, Constable Eek
erie found it, Although severely hurt, the IN
The verdict of the Coroner, after holding an
! inquest on the body of the husband, was death
from suicide by hanging"
Philadelphia is called the city of Broth
erly Love-" yet the Times gives an ac-
count of trouble in a church of colored
brethren, from which make an extract ::
Thus matters rested until last Sunday, when
the Rev. Chambers, accompanied by strange
young colored man, found the church door
| open, and walked in to officiate, and when the
Rev. Chambers walked toward the pulpit
id'' old man, stepped before him and warned
him. The Rev. chambers, however, a ;ended
throughout the church. LET US pray" the
preacher began, a3 he clasped his hands, raised
mighty God" bnt iarther utterance was
checked by the iron grasp of Brother Patterson
| o
whole congregation were on their feet in an in
Stant. Brother Patterson's IS collar VIZ seized by
Brother William Edward Frame simultaneous,
y with the delivery of a stunning blow upon
Brother Frames ear from the fist of Josephine
Carpenter, a miss of twenty summers. Brother
Matthew Williams, who had assisted the ReV
Chambers into the pulpit, came in for a 9oodIy
share of humping Ifom old men and Old wo-
men, youths and damselS Indeed, according
to the tcGtimony of the young sister, Pauline
Disberry, the damsels did the heaviest part o
the fighting. The row became general There
Yves nothing but hair pulling, ear boxing, yell
ing, punching and kicking, the poltlv body o.
the Rev. Chambers meeting no small number
of the hard knocks, in spite of the sturdy de-
fence of the pastor maln:ainet by the young
STRANGER whom he had brought in and the few
frienus that still were left him. Meantime
Brother Harris had run off for the police, bni
upon his return with two officers, the Rev
Chambers and his little band had been pushed
out of the church and the row was oVe1.
In some of the New York churches, the
preachers have to carry their revolvers.
A drunken man recently went into the
church of the Mediator protestant
EpiscopaD, and here is an extract from
one of the dailies:
| Last Sunday evening the church was crowd
ed. MI. Bache had finished the re ding of the
| service and had stepped to the front of the rail
| a make announcement of the meeting of
| the Literary A ociation founded by the yourG
men of the church. One clause of the announce
| ment was: Cali young men are cordially in
| vited to attend"
"How about the old men q" yelled a rough
| looking and shabbily-drcsSc ! man in pew
| near the centre of the church, who had risen
to give emphasis to his custom How about
know"
..Tne old men are welcome, too" replied Mr..
Bache, thinking that he had to deal with a lu-
matte, and hoping to quiet him by pacific
answer.
"Ye're ali welcome! ! Ye're all weIcomeW'
By this time two or three members nf 5, OF til the
| L., al