Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-01
SATAN'S WORK ON EARTH.
A HUSBAND MURDERS HIS WIFE
WITH AN AXE.

WITH AN AXE.
His Capture Effected Only After He Hod
Ohered Desperate Resistance and
Been Half Killed-A Discharged Luna.
TIC Cuts His Mothers Head Omen in
Several Places.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 31.-Patrick Hartuet
aged 80 years, living at No. % Walker
street, Mt. Auburn, brutally killed his
VIE this morning, and endeayored IA
chop her body to pieces and hide it under
the moor. He has been addicted to drink.
ana was very quarrelsome. This morn.
ing he ordered his wife to lie i'm bed while
ne went into another room. Fearing vio-
lence, she was attempting to escape
through window, when he entered with
an axe and struck her blow
on the head, causing instant death.
An alarm was given bv the chill
dren, and patrol wagon was
called, but Hartnet, entrenched within
the house with an axe for weaDOn. de-
ned the police. They obtained a heavy
scantllng and jammed him against the
wall, and after fierce fight disarmed
hlm. He was so badly injured that he
was taken to hospital. Mrs. Hartnet
was the mother of five children and would
soon have given birth to the sixth, She
was an estImable woman. An fnauirv as
10 ms lunacY was had on Hartnet last
spring, put upon the testimony of some of
MS nelgnoors he was pronounced sane.
ACQUITTED FOR KILLING HIS wIFE's Sc
DUCER.
BATAVIA, n. Y, Jan. 31.-The sensa-
tlonai murder trial of ROwell for killing
his wife's seducer, ended TODAY with q
VefdlcL OIL not guilty on the ground of
self-defense. Palmer, who was ROwelps
business partner and the chief witness
lOr the defense, and who has gained un-
ehVlaDle notorlety by the nature of his
testimony, was hanged in efigy to-day,
Inc verdict was received with wild en-
thuslasm, and ROwell became the re-
clplent OF Ovations at the court house and
Washburn House, where he received the
congratulations of his friends. Bonfres
were lighted along the Main street.
Falmer went to his hotel, and escaped
being mobbed by getting out through a
window while the crowd was in front of
the hotel.
RASCALLY ENGLISH BROKERS.
LONDON, Jan. 31.-P. W. Thomas. Sons
Co., stock brokers, have been declared
deIaulters. They were carrying large
speculative accounts in Grand Trunk and
Mexican ordinary securities. One MEM
Der of the firm has absconded. The fail
ure has caused the greatest CONSERVATION
on the Stock Exchange, and business is
almost at standstill. The losses inside
Ine seock exchange amount to f35, 600.
Inc nrm owes 100000 to clients who had
entrusted the custody of their bonds to the
firm. The assets are believed TO be nil,
A Cornish bank and an insurance COM
pany are heavy sufferers.
FOLLOWING UP RUGG's CONFESSION.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3I.-The iewelrv
which Rugg, the murderer, in his con-
tesslon stated was taken from the Nav
pees when they were murdered on Long
Island, has been found where Rugg
stated 1t was, and it has been fully identi-
fed. The jewelry belonging to the
IoWnsends, Which was stolen from them
when they were assaulted, has also been
found and identified. This removes all
DOUBT OF Kugg's guilt, and confirms his
confession as being the murderer of Mrs.
Maybee and her daughter, the assailant of
the aged Townsend couple, and would-be
murderer OF Selah Sprague and his wife.
A MURDEROUs YOUNG CRACKsMAN.
BOSTON, Jan. 31.-James A. Price. aged
Is years, was early this morning discOy-
cred attempting to open a safe ina store at
Hyde Park. When arrested he fired re-
volver at the officer, the ball striking a
rib, Just over the heart, but glancing
Off. Price duplicates G. j. Russell, man
ager of the Hyde Park Telephone Ex-
change, who. he says, was hiding ip the
and the pistol belonged to Russell. who
has been arrested.
ASSAULTED BY A DISCHARGED LUNATIC.
SAYVILLE, L. l., Jan. 31.-Dayid Swa-
zeey, VINO was recently discharged from
an insane asylum, to-day brutalIv as
saulted bis mother at her home at Lake
iand, Long Island, cutting her head omen
in several places. He then escaped to
the woods. Citizens are searching for
him. Mrs. Swazeey is in a critical con-
dition.
A COUNTY TREASURER FLEEs.
LYNCHBURG, VA, Jan. 31.-It is re-
ported from Liberty that Col. John G..
Kasey, ex-Treasurer of Bedford county
has fed from the State, leaving an in
debtedness of $780, 900 for his bondsmen to
meet hasey was a late candidate for
the State Senate on the Coalition ticket.
1t is suspected that he has gone to
Canada.
MUTILATED MAIL BAGS RIFLED.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31.-A special
from Huntingdon saws: EsThe pouches
containing the eastern mail matter for
that place, when thrown from the fast
mail yesterday. struck large snow bank
in front of the depot, and falling back un-
der the train were caught by the wheels
and carried distance of II miles. The
pouches, together with the principal part
of their contents, were destroyed. Regis
tered letters and other valuable packages
were found in various places along the
track, which had been rifed of their CON
tents"
THE BARROwsiMURDER TRIAL.
SACO, Me-, Jan. 31.-To-day's proceed
ings in the Barrows murder trial were
highly sensational. Oscar e. Blaney and
Mrs. Barrows were jointly indicted for
the murder of Thomas Barrows, but were
granted separate trials, Mrs Barrows'
case now being under consideration. This
afternoon Blaney took the stand and made
a complete confession of the crime, giving
its minute details. Blaney killed BarrOws
at Mrs. Barrows' instigation.