The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-09-20
The Pistol and the Knife.
A DAYS RECORD OF CRIME FROM 4 SINGL
ISSUE OF TIE n v HERALD

A DAYS RECORD OF CRIME FROM A SINGLE
ISSUE OF TIE n. V HERALD.
At Cleveland, Ohio, James Donohue. aged
twenty-five, deliberately, and without apparent
provocation, shot and killed his stepfather,
Michael O'Connell, aged tifty-tive A short time
before the tragedy Donohue went to his trunk
and took from it Il revolver. His mother urged
hm to put the weapon back, but he threatened
to shoot her if she interfered. Then he sat on
lounge In the sitting room, revolver in hand
Presently his stepfather, a large man, came in
to the room. saw Donohue, and walking up to
him. said james, give me the pistol" Dono-
hue Immediately rose to his feet and fired ball
through OCOnnelfs heart. He then lay down
ON thy lounge, seemingly unrcpentant and un-
concerned. OConnel walked a few steps and
fell dead. Mrs. OConnell ran screaming out
DOORS and her outcries soon brought police
man, but D0nohue Stoutly resisted and had to
be dubbed severely before he could be arrested
At Des MOlnes. Iowa. two r0Ommates. NAM
ed n. ii. Lewis and Arthur Pagan, got into an
alteration about one O'Clock in the morning
in which Pagan received a wound in the region
of the heart, which resulted i'll his immediate
death. Pagan had asked Lewis to temporarily
give up bis room for the accommodation of a
friend. This he refused to do, although ac-
commodation was offered him elsewhere in the
house. Lewis had concealed upon his person
sharp pointed shoe knife and when Pagan
and his friend appeared and asked him to vacae
he jumped up and fatally stabbed him. After
which he fled to Police Headquarters and gave
himself up to the police. Both parties to the
murder were employed in a wholesale leather
house, Pagan being chief clerk.
Early in the morning G. c. Monday came to
Stanford, ky., and reported to Judge Brown
that his wife had been murdered. Monday
was suspected of the crime and arrested. The
woman was found with her head nearly sever
ed from her body the deed evidently having
been done with a hatchet. There is no direct
evidence, but the general character of Monday,
coupled with threats made against his wife, led
the t0roners jury to charge him with the muir
der.
At Bath, Me, William Lawrence, u night
watchman, was shot and killed by one of three
burglars whom he detected in the act of break
ing into Gould's grocery store on Commercial
street. The robbers fled, but one man has since
been arrested on suspicion of being one of
them.
At Taylorsyile, Muskingum county, Ohio,
Jacob IL. Hadley, Il stone cutter, shot and killed
his son Charles, aged twenty years. Hadley
was drunk at the time and tried to drown him
self after the shooting
Edward j. BrOOkeS, cOlOred was shot in the
left breast and killed by Patrick j. Malone in a
tavern on the Germantown Pa, road. Malone
Is in custody
In fight at Cincinnati Henry Schultz hit
Edward Purcell on the head with club. Pur-
cell died at the hospital, and Schultz has been
arrested and charged with murder.
Dr.. J. X. Ritchey, of Mendoza. H., shot and
mortaly wounded his wife and then fled. Off
GERS are now in search of him. The crime is
attributed to jealousy.
NeWlin Gibbs was attacked at Morehead, Ky,
by two brothers named Gillespie, with whom
he had quarreled. and fatally shot. The Gil
lespies escaped.
Manuel Montairo who stabbed Policeman Hill
at Norwich, Conn, and was himself shot before
he could be arrested, is still alive, but the doc
tors say there is no chance for his recovery.
Policeman Hill is alive and may recover.
Dr.. W. Chalfant, the murderer of Dr. Bacon.
who escaped from the San Quentin Prison, COL,
was rccaptured at Winnemucca, New.