The daily gazette., 1879-05-08
FIRST EDITION.
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PHILADELPHIA, May GA crime 10
unnatural that II b almost without q
parallel In the annals of crime in this
city was committed here about noon to-
day. The facts of the case seem to be
% rsvoltlng that 1t Is difkcult to accept
them ~ the truth. Unfortunately, how
ever, there Is - yet found no reason to
doubt the story which the neighbors and
friends Of the murderer and his victim
have TO tell. A father, man Of sixty-
one years of age, In the most cold blood
ed and deliberate manner, killed his own
daughter, woman Of thirty four years,
and who, revolving % It 10 to toll, was,
according to the teNlmony OF tue neigh
bors, the mother Of child by her un-
natural parent. 1t does not appear that
the murdered woman consented to live
In incest with her father. On the con.
tragy the evidence points to the fat that
she struggled against his adva ces and
fed from him and kept away from him
as much as possible. She was a mar
ried woman and sought the protection Of
her husband, which, under ordinary CIR
cumstances, would have sufficed to shield
her from the assaults Of the inhuman
wretch who has at length been the means
Of her death a. we'll a. her dishon0r.
But the history Of the case shows that
the unnatural father persistently follow
ed up and persecuted bis sou In law un-
I'll be succeeded in getting him in Jail,
where he now lies. This he seems 10
have done with the tho object of COM
p.lling his daughter once more TO live
with him, and when she refused he
sought her ont and killed her. such, in
a few words, is the history Of this awful
crime. III ltbft bf.itt w
THE MURDERER.
The murderer's name is Edward Parr.
he is sixty-one years old, and for yean
has borne very bad character. He has
lived for long time in the Fourth ward
the central part of the city, corresponding
very much to the Fourth ward in New
York. Five years ago his incestuous
conduct toward his daughter becamc
known, when the girl had Child by him
1t is said. The nelghbors were so indig-
nant that they sought to hang him, and
rounded the wretch's house with the In
tention of lynching him. He escaped,
however, and fed the city, turning up
out west somewhere. f ff
SENT TO PRISON.
About three years ago his daughter
married young man named Ellwood
Irwin. The father soon sought an occa-
sion to quarrel with him and made an
attempt TO kill him. For this he was
arrested, tried and convicted, and served
two years and halfin prison. Since he
bas been out he has tried steadily and
persistently oget Mrs. Irwin join with
him In having her husband sent to prison
20 that he could compel her to live with
him once more. The daughter has al
ways refused, the neighbors say, and this
has led to many quarrels, and within
three months the old man had been
lodged IN prison three times for disorder
ly aud threatening conduct. Mr.. Irwin |
Is now In Jail on q charge of robbery,
largely through the instrumentality ofhjs
father-iD-law. Recently the daughter |
who was thirty -four years Of age, and |
was q decent, respectable woman, had
lived with her husband at No. LOOP Car
penter street. She has manifested much
fear of her father, who has skulked about |
The alleys near Alaska street, in the low
est quarter of the Fourth ward. That
bis crime was premeditated there can be
10 doubt. Mrs. Irwin had a friend, Mrs.
Margaret johnson, living in the rear of
No. 831 Fitzwater street, about three
squares from where she and her husband |
lived. She frequently called on her.
This the father knew, and he has prowl-
Cd around the neighborhood for some |
time, lying in walt for his daughter, her |
husband having forbidden him to come
to her home to see her. iA .lJ
'i THH MURDER.
Last night Parr went TO the house next |
to Mr., Johnson's and said he would walt |
for his daughter. She did not come,
however But this morning Mrs. Irwin |
left her house and went to see Mrs. john |
son. Her father must have followed her |
for she had scarcely entered the house |
before he hal made his Appearance
The moment she saw him the daughter
screamed with fear aud ran up stairs
He called to her to come down as he |
wanted to talk 70 her. She refused, and
said she would talk to him out of the |
window. This incensed the wretched |
man and be. ran up stairs. Thedaughter
had locked the room door. He speedily |
broke IL open and rushed at her. Mrs
johnson, who was down stairs, heard his |
very heavy tread overhead and the noise |
OF Q struggle, with which the screams OF |
Mrs. Irwin mingled. Mrs. Johnson's
baby was lying In cradle In the upper |
ROOM and with motherly instinct she |
ran up and snatched 1t to her breast
Glancing around she was horror stricken |
to see that the infuriated man had push /
ed his daughter against closet and was |
plungiuR Knife repeatedly into her
breast. Mrs. johnson ran down stairs
ID alright and shouted for help. A few
moments after, when assistance arrived
Mrs. Irwin was found lying dead In
pool of blood on the landing at the head
OF the stairs.
f THE MURDERER ARRESTED.
The murderer walked down stairs
calmly, then down the alley to Fitzwater
street, throwing his weapon, an ugly |
shOemaker's knife, into an areaway. He
was speedily arrested and lockedup He
pfetends not to know for what crime ne
Is locked up. The Indignation Of the
residents of the neighborhood was SO
great against Parr that he would have
been lynched had it not been for police