Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-01-06
KILLED By e Rejected lover

as domestic ia private residence in Brook
Ism, was stabbed Monday evening By James
Walsh, rejected lover. The vo:im WAS 9
rather progressing German girl between six.
teen AID seventeen years of age. It appears
that the girl had bseo for The pas: three CT four
months receiving the addresses OF Walsh, who
was couple Of years her senior. Walsh lived
With his mother. and worked at mixing paints.
On New Years E'o, Friday last, the uafortu.
nsto girl weut home TO see her mother, aud she
vas ms. by Walsh. who passed the evening ia
her society. and remained at the house cf Mrs.
Groennthnl uutil Ssturdsy morning. When
she returned 10 Der employers honse, about six
o'clock that morning, Walsh accompanied her.
He theu took his departure. Ga Sunday eve.
ping he called at her mothers rasiderce. erd
aftcr remaoing there few moutes remarked
that he Was going 10 attend wake" but it
would appear that after leaving Mis-. Groom
thai be went straight 10 the house where her
daughter was employed. srd at about eight
O'Clock knocked OF the door and c,llod tor her.
She went out 10 tho railing 10 front Of the area
and remained 10 conversation with him for some
time, after which be vent away. Monday
night. Walsh again called ct Mr. Carlisle 8
house and asked for Barbara. She responded
to his call, aud, going out TO the cato 10 The
rear. she remained 10 conversation With him
for several minutes. Upon reeuleripg The
house attcr parting with Walsh the girl vas
requested by young nan who lived there, 10
hold light for him while be went out in the
areo, 10 plac, under the front stoop, to gel q
bucket of coal fJr his fire., Shc did as request.
| ed, aud tho you0g man then noticed Walsh,
whom he old not know ct the time, standing
near the railing.
Alter Leaving the light 10 tue kitchen tie
unfortunate girl went out again to talk with her
imDoItunste and cruel lover. This tino she
went 10 her death. Sho had not been absent
but few moments from The kitchen whero two
members OF the household were seated, when
she was heard to cry GU, | am stabbed |"
Barbara tuen staggered aorcs3 tho basement
hallway and toto the kthoo, whore she fell,
bleeding from q gh2ttly wound 10 The Left
breast, loto the ares Of lady. and in fes
moments she expired. The alarm was imme'
diattly glVe3, aud q doctor was summoned,
who lonnd that tho blado Of o knlte bad cut the
aosts causiog internal benorrhage and deGh.
The examination showed that the deadly blow
had been dealt with groat force.
IHb "oSpSu VIII WuiOH tue MuIueG Was
c,mulitted was found. tutscqlin y. 10 q heap
Of snow. 1t was krile with broad blade,
four l6ches 10 length, which was bloody to the
baDdle, 1t having baeu thrust to tie hllt il The
victim. Tho blade bod rcccally been around
Up add was very sharp.
Barbara Groennthal. it Appears recently took
| dislike to Walsh and objected to his annoying
her any longer with his attentions She told n
young girl in Mr.. Csrlisle's household that she
did not like Wsleh, but that he WAS friend Of
| tho itmlly and that her mother liked him. Sac
DID not want him ID accompany her home, she
sold, nor did she want him to be calling at her
employers house.
Inquiries IN various quarters about the fugitive
were made bat without avail. It was from
quito an unexpected quarter that word of him
was TO come. a driver on tho Court street line
OF GERS while driving over Ninth street bridge
Where 1t crosses the Gowanus Canal in South
Brooklyn heard cry seemingly from beneath
him. Ho stopped his horses and listened. The
sound was again repeated, this time coming from
the canal, and from the suffering and the
| smothered EXPLANATIONS be concluded that q
man had fallen into the canal. BE left the car and
| saw That the black, noisome water WAS closing
over human being. aud hurrying to his assist.
| ance he pulled him out. The rescued man was
| quite exhausted, and it YVES deemed necessary to
remove him 10 the Long Island College Hospital
to apply restorativss. From there description
Vi ING patent was telegraphed to poilco head.
quarters, and the chief Wal struck with its re-
| semb snce to the fugitive. At onco he sum
monad detective and sent him post haste to tho
| hospital. There his Suspicious were com lrmed
| In the msn who had been taken from the canal
ha recognized the ono he hed been in quest Of
Walsh himself. AS he had sufficiently rocov-
erod TO be removed he was taken 10 police head
| quarters. and therce sent to the first precinct
station house. Thore he becama quito sick and
doctor being seat foz it was found that he had
tHk sd p Siso9. The proper ANECDOTES were sp.
p,ieU anu ne Was iockoo up in the station house
Herald. A.