Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-12-06

home Of Maggie, little one-sto.y
house near the corner Of Vaudeville
and Victory streets. The picture
presented at Maggie's abode was
heartrending ID the extreme. Mag
gie's mother had just been brought
back from the bedside Of her dying
daughter in one Of the wards of the
Hospital, and lay fainting upon the
bed.
Around her bedside six children
(fonr girls and twoboys) stood wiring
ing their hands and sobbing the name
of their murdered sister, beseecling
the while to be told Of her condition.
The oldest daughter was questioned
',y the reporter and said that Meilhe
had been counting her sister fo q
year, aud as they loved one another,
they desired to marry, but their moth
or would never consent to The match,
and had refused MEME the hospitaii
ties Of the house. Her reasons we've
that she did not think Meme would
make a good husband.
Leaving this sad picture, the re-
porter went to the bar-room at the
corner of Greatman and Vaudeville
streets, where, between four and five
o'clock in the afternoon, MEME had
been working himself up with liquor
to the commission of the terrible
deed which he meditated.
At that time Meme walked into
the bar-room, and throwing a half
dollar on the counter. called on some
friends who were present to take a
last drink with him, saying: 81 have
had hard luck, and want to drown
my sorrows.'
care you out with the old man ?"
one of them asked.
"No.n he replied, something worse
than that
During the time the reporter was
in the drinking Observation-Disclosures
father came in, but he was so drunk
nothing intelligent could be obtained
from him.
Visiting the Fifth Precinct station
the pistol that was used to send two
souls into eternity was seen. 1t was
a silver-mounted Htna revolver, 81
calibre, with % gutta-percha handle.
Three chambers were loaded and two
empty.
The girl Maggie was the youngest
of seven children, aid her father aud
mother are honest, hard working
people. MEME was q blacksmith
and q years of age.
Mr.. Hopkins stated that Maggie
had been in his employ for Is months,
and was an excellent and well be-
haved girl.
Meme first came into notoIiety
about two years ago, when he was
badly cut during the difficulty on
board of one of the Spanish Fort
trains, and lay at the hospital tor
several months at the point of death.
His assailant at that time was Ed
ward Doyle.
Two years ago his mother was sus-
pected of insanity, and on due proof
was sent to the City Insane Asylum.
She had been for many months on
the verge Of insanity, and friends, in
| order to secure her and themselves
and Others from harm, had her placed
in the asylum. The nervous disease
from which she suffered after a spell
OF sew months soon brought her
the peace Of death.
Singular to say, the double homi-
eide oflast night is the fifth which has
| occurred in the Third District of our
city within the past 10 years, and all
of tliem under circumstances most
peculiar-morbid love being the sug-
gestive demon.
Last night a representative of the
Democrat paid visit to the hospital,
and entering the wards, dimly lit,
first saw MEME, who was lying on
one of the cots in an almost comatose
condition, from the effects of opiates.
In the female ward was the victim
oil Menne's mania breathing sterto-
rously and apparently with but a few