Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-17
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
A Drunken and Jealous Husband Outs
His Wife's Throat With Razor.


His Wife's Throat With Razor.
A B,oody AFFAIR on the "Hiil' Yesterday
Ar,.ru.u-The Offender Tries Z" Give
Himself Up with III sueee~s-Ar-
rested Thi. Morning.
About five o'clock last evening Dr. russell
was called To a surgical case, jn house e>
| longing Ia Charles Sullivan. On the corner
! of Kenton street and Central avenue. Inc
| house is a dingy. shackley. old frame, ana
/ is known as one of the worst holes i'll that
notorious quarter known as the "Hili.
| This house had been the scene ot
a row between Pat Hughes ana
a woman who calls herself Mrs. Hughes,
but the neighbors allege that they nave
never been married. They say she Is mar
ried 10 another man named Coleman, from
whom she has never been divorced, and
that she has several children in the Childrens
| Home at Cincinnati. At any rate she came
here TO live with Hughes last spring. and
! since that time both Of them have been IN
the station house more than once for
drunken rows they have indulged in at the
house.
When the physician arrived he entered
dirty, low-ceiled room. filled with addressed,
unwashed women and men. talking and
auarreling among themselves. On chair
near the center Of the room sat Mrs. Cole
man, OF Mrs. Hughes, as she chooses to call
herself. trying to stay the stream of blood
that was squirting from terrible cash
across the front of the throat. Her dress
and hands We're covered with blood. while
dark blotches Of it were scattered about the
floor and furniture. The room was so
smoky and dingy that the feeble rays of a
sickly oil lamp made but a faint struggle
against the gathering gloom of night The
surgeon sent for better light and proceeded
at once TO dress the wound. The cash was
three inches long and so deep that
the instrument had entered the wind
pipe. An Irish woman among the crowd
told the physician that the cash had been
made by razor in the hand of the wo-
mans husband. As nearly As could be
learned. Hughes came home about half
h.
to find his wife in the room with several
men and women. fight at
once arose between Hughes and his woman,
in the course of which he drew razor and
attempted To cut her throut. Several Of the
crowd interfered and saved her life after
severe struggle with the would-be murderer
In confirmation of her assertion she showed
the surgeon cuts on her hand which
she said she received in the struggle
with Hughes The doctor sewed up the
cut in the woman's throat and re-
turned home Among the crowd in the
room was young lrishman. unknown to
the physician. who did his best 10 quiet the
crowd by begging them not to give them
selves away and tell no more than they
could help about the affair When the
work of dressing the wound was finished.
he took off his coat and began 10 clean up
the room.
} When the police begun to gather at head
quarters shortly before o'clock, Pat
Hughes appeared evidently intoxicated.
He accosted Officer DeLacy and asked him
if he was the chief. DeLacy replied that
, he was not but that the chief would be
there shortly '.Well'' said Hughes. Il am
under arrest and l want two other
,, fellows arrested" So saying he
> took chair. and sat down to
wait for the chief. When Chief
Walker appeared he accosted him in
E the same manner and told him the same
: thing The chief had several other people
I to talk to and paid no attention to him. A
few minutes later. a reporter who had heard
that a Mrs. Coleman. residing on Central
avenue had her threat cut. asked the CHIEF
n about the matter. He also asked Officer
Nicklas about IL but that officer ayerreo
+ that he had been in that neighborhood al
D o'clock and everything was quiet As the
b men were departing the chief gave Nickla'
q instructions to look into that row on Cen
trail avenue. Hughes went out, as he camt
4 in. without molestati"n.
: At midnight Officer Nicklas re
= ported that he had learned from
Chuck Sullivan that the woman living witt
5 Pat Hughes had her throat cut. and tina
z was all he knew about it.
e HUGHES ARRESTED.
This morning Officers Norton and Mas
l, hustled up on the hill to look up the case
and after long search they found Pa
Hughes and the woman both at Mike Kelly
y house. No. 25 Taylor street, where the.
make their headquarters. Both were takei
r. to Jail in the patrol wagon. Mrs. Coleman
said that her husbands name is Mike Cole
man, and that he left her in Cincinnati fou
wears ago She has six children in Cincln
t. natl still. She is cousin of Hughes. am
came here at first 10 keep house for him
' They had trouble and she left him. goin
out to work. but they have since live
= together again Her maiden nam
was Kate Carney. She was put Il
a cell upstairs at the jail and seems yer
weak from the effects of her ghaStl
II wounds. 1t is questionable whether sh
will live. unless she gets constant care an
ID attention. Her person is unSempt. and sh
ST even wants for clean handages. Thi
he woman in her miserable condition is anothe
c crying plea for city hospital. Not onl
re her life but her soul might be saved coul
he she once taste the milk of human kindness
NJ Hughes himself has nothing more to say G
the affair than that he had come in froI
n husking corn and was drunk at the time h
le did it. He seems to have no conception c
y the enormity of his crime.
e THE CUTTING.
!" This morning reporter interviewed Mr.:
rs Harris. who occupies the house where tn
u bloody affair occurred She told he
- story very straight as follows: -
III was sitting in the room here pointin
io to a side room used As kitchen, an
'e Mrs. Coleman had come in to get her wasl
p ing to take home My daughter, Mrs. Mar
!! Schroeder. was here, as were also I'll
aS Leonard and Owen Gaffney. Pat Hughe