The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-07-30
. A CANADIAN CRIME.
A Thrilling and obviously Interesting
Story.
How the Authorities Were Baffied for
Years.

boston Special to the GIobe-Democrat.l
Seldom is one called upon to chronicle
more curiously interesting story. even
though the story is one of crime, than that
the circumstances of which are narrated
below. Happening as 1t did, nearly two
years ago, and in one of the neighboring
British provinces, yet the slight publicity
heretofore given the event by the press to
this day is inexpiicable.
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
On the 18th of October 1877, one Timothy
Mccarthy, a saloon-keeper, at Moncton, N.
Chene, for the purpose of joining girl
named McInnes. bound for Prince Edwards
Island, Poi1te du Chene being the nearest
point of departure for the same. Owing to
storm which prevailed that night, the packet
for Prince Edwards Island did not start,
and McCarthy-the Mclnnes girl having
gone on by an earlier bost-went to Shediac,
some two and a half miles from
Pointe du Chene. He then proceeded to
the Waverlyl House kept by one
John Osborne. There he made himself at
home, taking several drinks and having
jolly time. Soon after midnight having al
roundings, he was given powder or drug of
some kind in one of his Hbations, which
rendered him unconscious He was then
approached by one of the delectable family
with whom he had been carousing and
struck q heavy blow, which must have re-
suited IN almost instant death. He was hit
with the pole of a Ratchet behind the right
ear. His lifeless body was then rified of all
vsluables including over 81 600 in money,
and taken, it is claimed, in wagon by
YOUNG SON OF osBoRNE's
to Shedlac river, a mile and half away,
where it was dumped with stone tied to its
neck Considerable stir was made over the
disappearance of Mccarthy. No one seemed
to know what had become Of him. In the
meantime a girl of French extraction. by
the name of Annie Parker, who had been
employed as a domestic in the Waverly
House at the time Mccarthy visited that
hosiery, and where it is asserted he lost his
life, came to Moncton to live in family of
respectable people of that place; shortly af-
ter her arrival she let fall some indis-
Greet remarks, which led to her
being questioned; she thereupon acknowl-
edged that she had seen Mccarthy made
away with; that he was murdered at the
Waverly House, Shediac, and that she was
present at the time in the very room-bar-
room-in which the tragedy occurred. She
fully confirmed the statement which has
been made of the manner in which the
crime was committed, and gave other i'm
portant details bearing upon the case, which
served to impress her hearers with belief
in her truthfulness. Among other things,
!, she stated that after the blow had been dealt
Mccarthy, which deprived him of life, and
his money and other valuables taken from
him, she was offered
PORTION OF THE PLUMBER,
which she declined to accept, to keep her
mouth shut. Her refusal alarmed the o.
borns, and they then obliged her, under fear
for her own life, to swear on Bible that she
would never reveal what had taken place.
The girls story having been related to the
district Judge, he was called upon to act,
but for some nnaccountable reason he de-
clined to until positively ordered by the
prosecuting attorney of the county to take
the needed action. The girls deposition was
thereupon taken, and John Osborne,
his wife, Martha; his daughter,
Eliza, and son, Edward,
were taken in custody and committed to
jail. 1t is now proven that when the fact of
at least two of the interested parties pro-
4ceeded with the horse and carriage referred
to to the spot were the body was originally
deposited, and invested the same with the
overcoat, replaced the watch, chain etc., the
amount of money advertised $157, and the
pistol, which latter had usually been carried
by the deceased In his hip pocket, IN the
clothing of the corpse, and then took it and
carried it half mile further up the river
TO A DEEP POOL
made by the current of the river in the
bank, where they threw it in, the intention
being, as there was a railroad bridge near by,
to give the impression that. Mccarthy had
fallen off the same and drowned. The de-
tense was to that very effect; that is, that
Pointe du Chene, as he intended, attempted
to cross from Moncton Shediac over the
railroad bridge IN question, and that he fell
of, striking his head against the abutments
of the bridge, and drifted down the river
to the place where his body was found
when the ice, which shortly after
formed, had broken up in the spring. 1t
was clearly proven at the c0roner's inquest
that Mccarthy had died from CONCLUSION of
the brain, made by blow from a blunt
instrument at the base of the skull behind
the right ear, IN precisely the place men,
with which she had said the deed was done.
in the hotel at the time Nc.
Carthy disappeared. A rope was found in
the river answering the description of that
given by Annie Parker. as was also stone,
adhering to which was
HUMAN HAIR
exactly of the same shape and size as that
spoken of by her as being attached by q rope
to the neck of Mccarthy. A long, patient
and careful investigation, lasting 81 days,
was held by the coroner, in the course OF
which, IN addition to the facts related above,
many others of interest were brought out.
Then followed a trial for murder, which re-
suited in disagreement of the jury-11 for
conviction and one for acquittal. A second
trial was ordered, and this time the
jury stood eight to four for conviction,
whereupon the Osbornes, aided by their
friends caused the arrest OF Annie Parker,
the principal witness for the Government
on charge of perjury. On the. 18th inst.
Annie Parker was released from custody by
order of ] Judge Fisher, the crown having de-
cided not to prosecute the charge of. perjury
made against her by the Osbornes. The end
of the remarkable case is not yet, however
and more important developments may be
expected in the near future.
LIGHTNING.
Some Results of Its Terrible Power-Hint.