Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-23
THE LATEST NEWS:
THE soRoRIClDE OUT OF DURANGO.

LIE LAlEOl NEWO:
THE sORORICIDE OUT OF DURANGO.
A Young Man Who kiIled His Sister Ne
leased From the Insano Asyium.
The facts of the killing of his sister Mol
lie, by Thomas ]. De Jarnette, in house |
Of ill-fame at Danville, Va. are fresh In |
tho public mind, the crime having Gre ,
country. Dc Jarnette, whose home was |
in Rockingham county, n. c., found his
sister in tho house and shot her with a
pistol, causing her death slmost instantly.
This was in the autumn of 1890. In Feb
ruary, 1881, he was tried for murder and
acquitted or the ground Of insanity. ln
June, 1881. he was brought to tho insane
asylum at Raleigh. Since his confinement
in the asylum no has conducted himself
we'll and was allowed certain privileges
accorded to those whose mental improve.
ment is plain. An application was made .
few days since for his release from tho
asylum, while habeas corpus was sued
out in his behalf, returnable before Chief
Justice Smith, at Chambers, to-day. The
prisoner was accordingly brought before
his homer. Counsel appeared for him, and
Drs. GrissOm, Mckee. Knox and Sexton
testified IL to his present sanity. De Jar
nette is quite handsome man, and looks
in much better health than when he
was confined in 1881. He was ~
years old last August. He stated before
the court that his physical health gavc
way in 1879, aud following that Came
mental troubles. lis family was consid.
cring the idea Of placing him in AL asy-
lum for months before ho killed his sister.
AS to tho Staying Of his sister he says at
the time he was unconscious that he was
committing any Otfense for which any
body would blame him and thought
that he was doing right he was
dead to every moral impulse and
was in this state OF mind for several
months after he was placed in the asylum,
but then began to realize his crime and
look at it as other people did. De Jarnette
made this statement in matter of fact
way and without hesitation. He said fur
ther that for months before he killed his
sister he slept little, alto little and was
physically and mentally wreck that he
had often contemplated suicide, and once
had nearly completed preparations for TAX
ing his own life. Chief Justice Smith dis.
charged the prisoner, vino left for his
homo at Mayfeid, Rockingham county.
Miners Crushed to Death.
4 platform, containing large quantity
of ice, last evening tumbled down into
the bottom of the new air shaft of the Ok
ford colliery at Scranton. It fell dis
tance Of 125 feet, among a number Of
sinkers, who were working at tho bottom
of the pit. Hopkins, Hughes and Patrick
ROchfOrt were killed, and James Roberts,
William Hayes and Thomas Watkins, the
contractor, were probably fatally injured
Neglect Of Duty.
Captain Alfred Hopkins, commandant
Of tho navy yard at Pensacola, has been
dismissed from the service as the result of
an inquiry by court martial into tho charge
that he deserted his post of duty during
the yellow fever epidemic. Captain Hop
kins had been more than thirty years in
| the navy, and was recently promoted to
the rank of captain for g long and mer;to'
riOus service.'
A Bishops Imposing Obsequies.
| The body Of the late Bishop dc Heilan
Gierc, brought from France, where he
died, was yesterday morning buried IN
thu crypt Of the Roman Catholic Cathe-
dral at VincsEnss, Indiana. Four bishops
aad great concourse of priests and laity
| wGlC DiCSClS ACcCASSu Wto GiL oCOOuS
bishop of Vincennes. He resigned in 1841
Oh account of i'll health and died in France
last May, at the ago Of "a years.
Increasing its Facilities.
Vico President Thomson, Of tho Penn
sylvania railroad, yesterday ordered Al
locomotives from the Grant locomotive
works at Paterson, New Jersey, and Il
locomotives from the Pittsburgh lOcono
IL, Ia
struction of 5000 more cars for tho RAILROAD
lines cast and west of Pittsburgh.
Mexicos SeW Railway.
The opening Of the branch Of the Mex
ican Central railway, which places tn
mining region of tho state Of Guanajuatt
in communication with the city of Mexico
was celebrated yesterday with grea
splendor' and enthusiasm in GuanajuatO
Among the participants were members o
the presidents cabinet and Congress AMI
the Italian, Spanish and Guatemalan min
isters.
Tie Now Industrial KefOrmatory.
Governor Hoyt, accompanied by tn
building commissioners of the state indus
trial reiormatory at Huntington, arrived a
Altoona last night on his way to ilspsc
tho work. The school building is alread,
under roof, and IA cells have been erected
The building will DO pushed to compile
ton as rapidly as possibly.
An Actress Suit for Damage.
The suit of Mrs. Hannah Dougherty
actress, IN Now York. against the Penn
sylvania RAILROAD, 70: $50, 900 damages, TO
personal iDjuries received while going frOn
Newark to Jersey City in June last, re
suited last night in verdict for l,OOC
Sho fell Off a gang plank, which she al!ege
was ':insuticieatly lighted and ncgligcntl
placed"
, Extssstvc Check Raising.
4 check for s32 on the Merchants ban
OF Buffalo, n. Y. was raised to SO, 20(
and another for s27 to 50. 700 on the Man
ufacture,s' and Trades bank, few day
ago. Tho bank officials have endeavore
to keep tho matter secret in each case, j
hopes Of furthering tho detection Of til
check rsisers.