Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-01-25
A GASLIGHT COMPANY'S
SACK IN CONGRESS.
HORRIBLE WORK OF A
; RELIGIOUS FANATIC.
THE PARK CITY ASSASSINS
CONFESS.
A Siekening Piece Of Work.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. GA terrible
crime was discovered yesterday
in Milwaukee. The wife of John
Zimbrick, a laborer living on Sixth
street, killed her three children-the
oldest seven years and the youngest is
mon ths-in a most brutal manner, lit
orally cutting them to pieces and com.
| ple,ely disemboweling them. The
neighbors' attention was attracted to
the scene by the woman's attempt to
! hang her herself in an clubhouse. They
cut her down and took her inside, when
the horrible spectacle was discovered.
Mrs. Z'mbrick was at once arrested.
She took arrest very calmly, stating
that she had to sacrifice her children In
the Good Book. The woman is dou b5.
less suffering from religious insanity.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE INSANE
MOTHERS AWFUL DEED.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 24.-The name of
the Bohemian woman VINO butchered
her three young children is not Zm-
brick, bnt Z :mpirek. She is the wife
of machinist, % years old, and has
been married five years, and came here
a little over two years ago. The chill
dren are all three girls, the eldest four
years, the next twenty months. and
the youngest four months old, respect.
lively. The dingy apartment where the
deed was committed is a terrible sight.
On the low bed and on the scanty, dirty
bedclothes lay the Frustrated forms Of
the three girls, forming CHASTITY group.
The little bodies were nude and cut up
in a terrible manner. The oldest had q
large number of gashes all over the
body, and the arms of the second were
cut off near the shoulders. The lower
extremities hung to the body by thin
pletely disemboweled. The body of
the baby was cut into six pieces, and
the head and extremities were com
pletely severed from the trunk. Near
the foot of the bed the young woman.
partially dressed and with dIsheveled
hair, crouched on the floor, held down by
strong men. Upon the table the re-
mains of frugal breakfast lay, and,
ca.elessly thrust among the cups aud
saucers, lay an ugly looking butcher
knife, the blood dripping from its
blade, and c,oper's knife or scraper,
the handle of which was also smeared
with blood. The woman was caught in
the act of hanging herself to the knob
ola door, The blood dripped from the
bed on the uncarpeted floor, forming
large pool. The whole surroundings
were exceedingly squalid. The hands of
the murderess were smeared with blood,
and the front of her DIR. s, was dyed in
gore. A smile played about her moAth,
and her VIII lie appearance WIS that Of
an insane person. She is fair haired.
and features not bad. At the station
she told the story in broken German,
and said the children cried but little. as
she made quick work of the butchery.
She smiled as she pronounced the last
words. She used saw and two small
carving knivee. With the former che
sawed the children's bodies and with
the latter she disembOweled them.
While the bodies are shockingly mutt
lated the heads are untouched. When
asked what caused her to do the fearful
deed, she replied: I" read it in the
ooph. IlCl Is VI d lCliSAouS
form. She thinks she made great sac
rifice. She keeps smoothing back her
hair with her bloody hands. She looked
at the crimson stains and smiled. Her
eyes have wild look. The sight was
SO terrible that the officers turned away,
sick at heart.
The Utah Assassina:iOn.
SALT LAKE, Jan. ola Park City,
yesterday, three men were arrested for
the assassination of William Walker
on Monday morning. The cause of the
murder. as reported at Park City, is
that Walker, whu was a visionary in
miniag matters, had induced an old and
wealthy citizen to put up money for
him amounting to $40, O00, and in order
tn stop il an assassin was hired to kill
Walker, and thus stop the mining
scheme. james Kilfoyle, John Moore
aud a teamster named Davis are now
under arrest on suspicion of having par
ticipated in the murder. Walker was
alb ut seveuty years of age and iuuff5n-
sive
\ dispatch from Park City last night
says that one of the assassins of Walker
has confessed. duplicating others. This
Is the fifteenth murder committed In
this place, all of the murderers escap-
ins punishment, aud the feeling among
citlz ms against tine perpetrators Of this
last crime Is growing more intense.
SANTA FE, Jan. 24.-Major George
Coolbach, at one time connected with
Governor Hunt and others in railroad
and other enterprises in Texas and
Mexico, died in an old stable in San
Antoine, Texas, on Suud " night, un-
attended by any one except poor
woman and two little children, who
lived in the howell. Papers among his
effects show him to have been Major
on General McPherson's staff during
the war.
EVANSTON, Wy, Jan. ;, "a. = Last
Monday night Mr.. Waterman, propri.
etor Of the Mountain Front House, as
shot by tramp whom he found ia his
stable and ordered out. The tramp re.
fused to leave, and pulled, his revolver
on the proprietor and fired. The ball
passed through the left arm, INJECTING
= severe wound.
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