Daily globe., 1883-08-08
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
DERS HER HUSBAND NEAR
BALTIMORE
Their Relations Always of the Tenderest
Observation-Disclosures Picture of the
Distracted Wife-Other Criminal Mat
tiers.
MURDERED HER HUSBAND.

lawyer prominent in professional and So
cial life here,wa shot and killed last night
by his wife near GIyndon, Baltimore coun-
ty. Mrs. Conrad has been suffering from
illness for some time accompanied by evil
dences of insanity. Conrad was a native
of New Orleans, and a son of Hon. VIM
H. Conrad, secretary of war in Fillmore's
administration.
Conrad and wife, the latter confirmed
in valid for years, came to Bloomfield where
her mother, Mrs. Mary G. Worthington,
and her brother, John Foley Worthington
live, on Saturday, to spend the summer.
Mrs. Conrad has for years suffered excess
lively from neuralgia of the stomach, which
has produced nervousness and insomnia
Worthington brought Conrad's mail to him
from Baltimore last evening, and when he
got home Mrs. Conrad was almost frantic
with pain. While Conrad was reading his
letters Worthington held his sister in his
arms. She frequently called her husband
to come to her, and said she could
not bear him to leave her. When
tea was announced Mrs. Conrad said she
was so nervous she could not set down, and
she walked up and down the room. She
took little cream and then held her
bowed face in her hands saying it made
her pain even more intense. Mr.. Conrad
asked her several times how she felt, "Oh
my love-" she answered, my nerves are
setting me wild.' Shortly after that Con-
rad gave her an inhalation of oxygen rec
commended by Philadelphia doctors. This
was given her for five minutes. About 10
o'clock he gathered up the things he used
for her comfort during the night and start
edup stairs, carrying light, while his broth
er-in-law followed carrying Mrs. Conrad
in his arms. He then left the room and
Mrs. Worthington ard Conrad prepared
the invalid for bed. Between 10 and IL
Worthington went to the dor of the sick
chamber to get a lamp to set in the hall
door. Conrad gave it to him, and this was
the last time he saw Conrad alive. About
1920 Mrs. Conrad ran screaming into her
mothers room, which adjoins the one oc-
cupied by herself and husband. She was
terribly excited, and cried out: "Oh, my
God, have hurt Mr.. Conrad" Mrs.
Worthington, who is old and inirm, got
out of bed, and followed by her daughter,
proceeded to the other room. Here, to her
horror she found her son -in-law dead.
Blood was trickIing from wound in his
head, back of his left ear. and
A Remington revolver of thirty-two caliber
was on the bed. Death had been instanta-
neous. The relations between Conrad and
wife had always been of the most tender
and friendly character. They had been
married for fourteen years.
A special to-day from Reisterstown, Nd,
gives the following particulars of the trag
edy: At the Bloomfield Worthington
homestead in Worthington valley, two
miles from this place, one of the most
frightful tragedies was enacted last night
that ever shocked the community. The in
valid wife of Louis Lawrence Conrad,
well-known Baltimore lawyer, in a fit of
insanity caused by disease, shot her hus
band sleeping by her side through the
head, killing him instantly. The affair in
all its details is sad and shocking. Mrs.
Conrad is cousin of Samuel Hason, who
recently killed Charles Rldgely while in
Howard county. She is also a cousin of
John Folly Johns and Richard Johns,
brothers who committed suicide. All were
suffering from insanity at the time of the
tragedies.
HUNG BY vIGILANTEs.
OWALLAwALLA, Washington Territory,
Aug 7.-McPherson, the murderer of Cum
Minis at New York, was hung by vigilantes
in the Jail yard at Dayton, July 80. He
protested his innocence.
SHOT AND INSTANTLY KILLED.
ST.. LOUIS, Ang. Anton SemaD, a
farm laborer, while on a drunken spree
last evening, entered the little town of
FIorissant, in st. Louis county, sixteen
miles from here, and with drawn knife
virtually took possession of the place
Coming to the store of II. Herbst he at
tackled the latter with his knife, whereupon
Herbst drew revolver and fired three
shots and Seman0 fell dead. Herbst was
arrested and an inquest IS now being held.
FATALLY INJURED BY A BRUTAL ATTENDANT.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. THE coroner's
jury in the inquest at the asylum for the
insane at Norristown in the case of W. A.
J. Fiss, an insane patient from Philadel-
phia, rendered a verdict that Fiss' death
was caused by py@mia, resulting from
injuries received July ), at the hands of
James Gaffey, attendant. The trustees of
the asylum authorize the steward to take
out warrant for the arrest of Gaffey,
wherever he can be found and also author
ize him to offer reward of $500 for his
apprehension.
FATAL INJURIES
New YORK, Aug 7.-Charles Wolff aged
twenty three, found his wife, aged seven
teen, in company with strange man in
Central park. He followed the pair to his
rooms, where he attacked the man with a
knife. The strange man fed and Wolff
then attacked his wife, iniicGing probably
fatal wounds.
SUICIDE BECAUSE Of POOR HEALTH.
Major Beebe, who committed suicide
last night, held commission in the army
during the war and served with Gen
Hazen. He was mustered out at the close
of the war and has since been attached to
the Office of the chief signal officer as a
private IN the general service, He was a
native of OHIO, about forty-one years OF
age and unmarried. He was member OF
the First Greely relief party, and his health
was impaired by the hardships to which he
was exposed.
Saw Mill Burned