Daily Republican., 1879-06-23
WILMINGTON, DEL, MONDAY, JUNE %, 1879
A aEooss OF csInE..

=, A RECORD OF sCRIME.
A philadelphia Husbsna Cats
His Wife's ThYoat-Three Child.
res Shot by Their Father-seven
Men Murdered by . Rotten steam
BOiler and q Drunken Engineer
-Sulcide-A hoy Kicked 10 Death
Sentences for Murder.
Between 2 and 3 O'Clock on Saturday
afternoon most revolving murder oc-
Cured at No. 1914, 4Ls,thgow street,
which runs north from Berks street,
between Fourth and Fifth streets, Phil
adelphia. The victim was Mrs. Ann
O'Sullivan, the mother of eight child
rem, the oldest of whom is a girl of 10
years, and the youngest an infans Of
twelve months. The murderer was
her hus band, Dennis O'Sullivan, a hat
ter, employed in Stetscn's factory, At
Fourth and Berks streets. He Is about
40 years old, and his wife was about
five years younger.
Both of the parties were incorporate
in their habits and of violent temper,
their frequent quarrels and bad Ian
gauge causing much annoyance totheir
neighbors. Only recently O'Sullivan
is said to have given his wife terrible
beating, breaking one Of her limbs,
and on Wednesday night he was ar
rested for grossly indecent language
and conduct toward the wife Of aneigh-
bor, for which he was bound over to
Court.
There we're no witnesses to the mur-
der except the principal actor in it.,
who told Policeman Storey, who ar
rested him, and two of the neighbors,
how it occurred. He said he was
shaving himself up stairs, and came
down and asked his wife for towel.
Instead of handing it to him, she threw
it at him striking him in the face,
whereupon he hurled it back, with the
rem ark that she would have to hand 1t
to him like lady. ...
This she refused to do, and angry
words ensuing, he went back up stairs,
and, from bureau drawer, got an old
ragged edged razor, and descending to
the room where she was sitting, cut her
throat, making a wound severa! inches
long, and severing the jugular vein.
He also cut terrible gashes across the
left arm, below the elbow, laying open
the flesh to the bone.
MURDERED BY THEIR FATHER.
John Kemmler murdered his three
little daughters at South Holyoke,
Mass, on Saturday. He began by at
tempting to poison them in their moth
pr's absence, but the eldest, to whom
the poison was first given, threw it up,
| it being an overdose. He then shot
them dead, one after the other. He was
subsequently arrested, and confessed
the crime, saying that poverty induced
the deed, and he wanted to die him,
self. Kemmler is 4S years of age.
When Kemmler was told that one
child was yet alive he raved, trying to
tear down the bars of his cell and get
out, that he might finish his hellish
work. He quieted down when told that
the child could not live, and slept
soundly all night till s A. M, when he
ate heartily. He seemed satisfied wher
h. heard that the child was dead, anG
the police had his picture taken.
A FEARFUL BOILER EXPLOSION.
A despatch from Allentown, Pa.
states that on Saturday morning abou
six O'Clock an explosion OF a uoiler tool
place at which seven men were killed
and six seriously injured. The boile
runs an ore mine near East Texas il
Lehigh county.
The cause of the explosion is not ye
determined The Coroner's inqurs
has been postponed until Tuesday
when searching inquiry will be in
stituted. sad feauture of the disas
ter is that all the dead and injured
men have families i'll needy circum
stances.
1t is reported that the engineer wa
drunk yesterday and that the eXp!O
sion was in a measure due to his care
lessness and recklessness. The engi
neer, in his dying statement, said tina
he informed one of the contractors thre
months ago that the boiler was in
dangerous condition. The contracto
to whom he told this is one Of the me
killed this morning.
SUICIDE OF a CONVICT.
On Saturday afternoon Thomas Tay
mon, aged 2S years, who was serving
term Of eighteen months on tn
charge of embezzlement, in the Easter
Pennsylvania Penitentiary, committed
suicide in his cell some time durin
Saturday afternoon, by cutting hi
throat from ear to ear with shOena
ker's knife he had been in the habit o
using in the prison work assigned him
KICKED TO DEATH.
A white boy, named Tennis, eigh
years old, was kicked and beaten t.
death by colored youth named Harley
aged il. at Highspire, near Harrisburg
on Fri4ay. Harley was lodged in jal
at Harris burg, in default of $4,000 bail
MURDERER's $ SENTENCE.
James Afford, convicted of the mur
der of David Shuler, was sentenced a
Atlanta, on Saturday, to be hanged
The murder was committed year ago
schuler being drunk, teased Afford
and was stabbed twice. He exclaimed
"Jim don't cut me to pieces.' Alror'
then stabbed him four times more, AM
he died soon afterward.
, Edward Thickpenny, convicted O
the murder of Catharine Thompson
was sentenced, at Toronto, on Satur
day, to be hanged on Friday, septem
ber 18th.
Prescott, the murderer, was senten
ced at Portland, Me-, on Saturday, t
, imprisonment for life. When asked
, he had anything to say, he said hi