New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-28

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winch was taken from HIM by the steward. Main
-auo tucn took his knf ana sta bed Williams with
it under The left car The negro sJI not liu- Wu"h
stabbed. but raj eel In, han s.. hhme dldteiN h'tL
Tie blow Was struck ..aU-auO wIpct tine uladc oi
the knife on his sleeve. an. then went back 10 his
work OF pec.lng Dn dtoc5 win II.
The Court adjourned untiI TINS morning
BURNING HIS WIFE WITH A RED HOT POKER.
Two poorIy furnished rooms on the second nuor
OF the tenement house, No. fjl IhrI-avc- have
been occupied Tor about two months ny Jam -
NurIock, q JOurucyman carp htri' ahd ms fanny
NulducE Is an Eugisbuan b. b.rth. ne - "r-
.cIlsI rs fOrty years OH, OF mculum hciRht ana
well bult, with black hair and UcdrI ha1el eyes
and dark complexion. Ills wilr Margaret - a
fragile iuukng woman OF thirty. she was porn IN
this city and has brothers AMI sisters, All IN ureuy
circumstance, living here. She las three clnidi%D'
nlrl eleven years Old. who IL CmpI Yycd in dry
good, st0.e IN SIXth-ayc boy four years ola, ana
an infant OF about four months he grl was sent
10 the house OF q SISTER OF Mrs. Muidock 10 hVe
several weeks and the boy ~ sent 10 I'VE WIN
au uncle. MuraocA has been out o. employ me NJ
Tor several weeks and has been drunk much oil the
tlmc. The Older VhIIurrn were sent away from
no,up hy the mother because the father beat them
and would not get them enough food. Mrs Mur-
dock has been too Ill to work. and her husband has
beaten hel IA brutal manner several ln's LATELY:
Mis- lIInrgJn, who occupies rooms on inc second
floor If tn, buIldiug. heard NurdO. ScCldlnE NS
wife Ia.t Thu.s afternoon. She ALSO heard Mr.,
MurlOrk scream several times \ lew minutes
aitrrward MuilOrh let the house and ne has not
leading 10 Mrs MuraocEs rooms remained locked
during IrIdav and Saturday. On Chs inla- Day
Mrs MurdOck went mo the hJll and asoed a IittIe
grl who i've, IN the b"usc 10 gee her a pint oi mix
ion he baby. The woman looked very III and
Iimpei badly The baby was crying most ol the
day but mono of the other inmates ui the building
went INTO Mrs MurdOck's rooms To uicr any assist
MR.. Freely, the hous',ceUcr, heard the baby
crying and Mrs hurdock roaming on Monday even
ing she knocked and heard MIS-. Murd"ck -l''
" Come in Mrs. Freely found Mrs Nnrpnck lying
in bed IN "A room which served lor Kitchen, eating
and sleeping apartment The baby was IN the bed
bc-Iu, hr and evidently WAS su!frtI.g from hunger
Mr. Murdoch weak hat she could not rise
from the bed. She sad That she mad not eaten any
thing Tor two DAYS Her husband, .hr aid, liad
deserted her on Thursday alter beating .cr with a
icu- hot poker. She showed - MIS- Freely horrible
burn, ON her limbs. The icsh bal been scared with
th. hat nokrr in several places. and the limbs were
swollen and Iuhamcd badly. Mrs. Freely gave
Mrs Mug.ock srmr tea and toast ana also FED the
baby BandagcS saturated with OIL Wri" wrapped
ahaut Mrs MhrdockS limbs The other inmate, "i
the building waited upon Inc inlulc" woman unliI
Yesterday, when the police Of the Ninctecnin
Precinct were informed OF the case Nr-. Murdncb
and her b;rby were sent To bellevue Hospital.
The SURGEONS san that the wOman's burn, had be-
come dangerous from lack of proper treatment
The woman was much cHirrnlrd also from lack OF
food. The police were searching Tor Maidock last
night.
SMALLPOX AND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES.
The Boar} of Health yesterday received com
mInicau.n fr m the New-forN, Lake Enc and
Western Railroad Company So ting forth hat on
December ~ the bodies oI two mon
Who had died from smallpox IN the
B,ooIyn pest-hoqao IN ia" town OF Now
York undertaken. and carried through THIS cit, IN
ordinary WUo.en collins IN violation of law. and
shipped on the Enc road as freight 10 NclsbnTg.
Chcmung County, without the shipper taking
the prccauli ION ordered by law Of en-
casing them in -calcd metallic boxes.
The permits of the New-l0t- town clerk that &C.
Il "a ,.I,t al Il L..
been tempered with. The daic OF death bad been
changed IRON March and ., 1881, to 1870. but 80
ciuInsy tlat the fraud WAS easily detected.
The dead mems names were George and Ere lcucl
Cunningham. + cy had been wcl,-kuowu IN Wells
burg, and when their bodies sent home the ma
fr ,y,s iii covered lt once by nrr,ous familiar tL
the date, of their death well "a ia the cause.
Great cXcicmcn was ,,lc result ol The discovery o!
the manner IN which Ir bodies hal been shipped,
and the railroad officials, 10 allay the public
Indignation and fear, sent tic con lamuatcd car
to ElmrI, had 10 switched of 10 the lair ground
track and dsiufcctcd there. The bodies 4 the two
men were buried in haste one of them at midnight
The Board directed H. tt1rucy To pru,ccut, Frdi-
nand Brown, the undertaken, for violating the law.
Application was made ny the Congregation Chaari
ZIdck ioI permission To remove ihr boulc, buried IL
an Old unused cemetery n Eishty-cigh hist, be-
tween Madison ana FOuIt h-aycs., which - To bc
turned into building lots. The PERMISSION was
granted. Among fourteen bc.atcd certificates of
marriage thai were sent IN 10 DO registered twelve
were from the Rev. Robert Colycr Among
these wa, the certificate OF the marriage. on
October |, OF OF Walter X. Chase, OF Chicago, 10
Alice r.. McLlrOy, Ia the pre- euce of he minister
family. Chase Is at present prisoner charged with
bIgany. The excuse advanced 10y the itcv. Mr..
COllycr for sending the certificate late was that
~ had 10 be kept Tor Tia. grand jury.
The sanitary superintendent reported that there
were % smallpox paticnt- III Inc Riverside Ilospi-
tai, an increase of q la the week. ) ven died last
week The request va, made by The Comm ssioner-
Of Charities ana Correction that no bodies OF
dead smallpox patients be sent to be buried on
Harris Island on visitors days. Wednesdays and
saturdays.