, 1879-06-29
Details Of Most Horrible Muir
der Case in Mon.
tFeal.:
One Woman Butchers AMI Mu-
=. tilates Another with a
Ratchet.
The Head and One Hand Completely
Severed from the Body.
The Magda1en Island Fisheries
---State OF General
Trade,
4 HORRIBLE CRIME.
tXt,ecfdI Utsn1fch Ia The Tf.{h1knx

| Special DISPATCH to The Ts4buns.
| MoNTREAI4 June 28.-A woman Of the town
named Mrs. Connolly, mas found murdered in
! low den on William street, Grldintown, las
night. The place wae kept by Jacob Myers ant
| his wife. Whisky ky-1rinking and fighting hat
been going:on all day, and late last night ttt
police, learning that a1} was not right, visitei
| the place. On entering the house they saN
lying upon the floor the body OF woman. The
head was completely severed from the body
and was placed In bucket in q corner OF ths
room. In the bucket also was the right han6
of the unfortunate woman. The whole o.
the neck had been removed from the. trunk
| and jagged wounds extending almost from
shoulder to shoulder. The irregularities of the
surface OF the wounded part we're filled with
clotted blood, and the large arteries leading to
the head were also c1ogged with congeacd
BLOOD, The manned arm Was underneath the
body, which was attircd in nly-looking
liusey-woolseJ dress. Owing to the unevenness
Of the floor the blood had run for some distance
and then collected 10 pool. The contents OF
the bucket constituted horrible scene. The
mutilated face, the matted gray hair,-which
showed that the woman must have been ad-
vanced in years,-the besmeared and wounded
hand, sent those who looked at them away shud-
dering.
When the police entered the house Mrs. Ny
ers was in bed, aud although she was not very
drunk, she Was not sober. She professed igpo-
rance Of the crime, but further Investigation and
search of her person showed her undercloth-
ing to be saturated with blood. The Ak was
found on trunk, and the police fix Mrs. Myers
as the murderess. A man named Flanagan had
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jealousy between the two women. The family
living on the flat below heard heavy thud and
the sound OF chopping during the afternoon, at
which time 1t is supposed the murder Was COM
n,Itted.
The murdered woman's maiden name was
Mary Gallagher, and she was the wife OF James
Connolly, maltster in the employ Of the Mon
treal Brewing Company. He married her si1
years ago, but was obliged to separate from her
over year since, on account OF her dissoluts
habits. She has since been leading the life OF
common character. Connolly is respectable
man. Both he and his late wife are natives of
Ireland.
The murdercss is tall and powerfully Y-buHt
girl, Is "a years OF age, md before her
marriage to Myers, si1 Years ago, was
servant in merchants family in this city. She
is native OF Leeds, Ont, and descended from
Scotch-Americau parentage. Although exceed
ing1y attractive before her marriage, she Is said
to hare been loose in her conduct, and only
married Myers, au imbecile, as cloak for her
iniquitics. The police records Of the city give
the number Of times she has been arrested for
druiikeuness and assaults at twenty.
- The theory OF the murderis, that after Flanagan
and Mrs. Myers had retired Yesterday morning
1.-The deceased, aroused by jealousy,
attempted to i force herself U.s., into
the room, when! Mrs. Myers attached
her like tigress, forced her back into the ad-
joining room, and Completed the murder with
the hatchct which was lying in the corner"
= The affair has created profound sensatfouoin
the city, and crowds Of people have visited the
scene Of the murder to-day.