Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-20
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ard a half in Sing Sing on December
~. 1881, FOR having, on the 18th OF No
ysmber Of that year, killed his brother
John 10 drunken quarrel over
ratttn pear In liauor-storc on the
northeast corner Of Avenue u and
Fourteenth street. When he was
taken away FROM New York to servo
his sentence he threatened vengeance
on witnesses against him +; his wife Mar
esret. nee Korch'; her brother William,
and several other persons. Last night
following the example Of John Carpen-
Ter. who. after his release from prison,
where be had been sent for stabbing a
woman he thought was his wife in 81.
Francis xayie S church, killed his wife
and stabbed her sister at Twenty-sixth
street and Third avenue, Carney way
laid his wife 400 feet from where he
saw his brother in death. ARMED. aad
made desperate attempt to take her
life. II is possible, however, that she
may survive the FIVE wounds that he
inflicted.
Margaret Carney appears to have
acted nobly by her husband, and to
have been true to herself and her child,
boy who was little more than two
years old when his father went to
prison. She visited the convict when
Che rules Of the prison permitted it. and
did not avail herself Of the opportunity
TIC law afforded her for divorce. She
said that after all the death Of John
Carney was brought about by liquor
and hasty act, and she would
like to aid in her husbands reforma-
ton. II he had reformed when he once
more donned the clothes of an honest
man she would help him to regain most
that he had lost. She toiled early and
late at dressmaking, and was not dis
couraged by sneers and hints from her
husband when she visited him. Al
though Carney says that she was UNI
faithful to him while he was in prison,
he does not cite fact that establishes
his accusation, while there is abundant
proof that during his incarceration she
often went without necessary clothing
to care for her boy, and was constantly
employed.
Carney was released from Sing Sing
on August %, 1884, having by good
conduct earned his Communication, which
reduced his sentence to two years and
eight months. His wife had saved
enough in that time so that, with the
aid Of her brother William, respecta-
bic mechanic, she had furnished two
rooms in east Thirteenth street and
had prepared clothing and other neces-
saries for him. She met him at the
Forty Street station and took
him TO the home she had provided.
He treated her strangely, talked
vaguely of discoveries he had made of
her conduct, and three hours after he
went to the place, where, according to
his wife's programme, he was to begin
a new life, he went away abruptly and
passed the night in debauch.
On the next day, when he called on
his wife and hinted at reconciliation,
she told him her eyes were opened and
that be could go where he had passed
the night. He left her with curses and
threats, and week later she sold the
furniture for which she had toiled,
sought refuge with her brother at No.
Sic east Fourteenth street, and. deter
mining to live down her disappointment.
went to work for Mrs. Siebert, Of No.
COG east Fourteenth street. Her hus-
band, the police say, went immediate
ly TO work at his trade--that Of a
plumber--and prospered, owing to
friends, who represented him as re-
formed man. His wife and his friends
say that he often followed her and her
brother at night and made threats, and
that he frequented liquor-saloons in the
Eighteenth ward. A few days after he
came out OF prison he took his boy
from his wiie's brother, where he had
been sent until Mrs. Carney could OBJ
tain home for him, under the pretence
that she had abandoned the child. Five
weeks later Mrs. Carney got him back
again, while Bernard was absent from
his lodgings. and he is now with her
sister in west Seventeenth street. This
did not tend TO narrow the breach be-
tween the ex-convict and his wife, and
last November she became so fright
cned at threats she heard he had made
that she had him arrested, but Justice
White thought the evidence insufficient
and discharged him. He then threat
cred Mrs. Carney's brother for harbor.
ing her. and the latter was so appre-
hensiye that il he had 10 go out at night
he made his wife follow him TO warn
him il Carney logged him. Several
times Mrs. Korch saw Carney following
her husband, but when she went to
warn her husband Carney skunk away.
Recently Carney has been lodging a,
No. coz east Fifteenth street, and he
kept his tools at Hickmsn's second
hand lumber-ofhce, No. Gal east Seven
teenth street. He was doing so well
that he was able TO purchase quantity
Of material to finish job that would
have been so profitable that he could
have opened a shop. Last night a
about O'Clock he dressed himself t
call on friend in east Sixteenth street
ard was talking to two girls a
Fifteenth street and Avenue
when his wife passed. Mrs. Car
ney said that she had to fit on
waist for young woman in sixteenth
street, and was passing Fifteenth stree
and Avenue b, when her husband strucl
her on the shoulder with cane, ant
said: SNOW I'm going to let you hay
it, Thomas ByrDcs, Of No. $50 Ave
nue. d, witness Of the trouble, de
scribes the blow Of the cane as tap
and adds that Carney and his wit
walked ard talked till they came to tn
southeast corner Of Sixteenth stree
and Avenue d. Here there was a
angry alteration, lasting but q few sec
onds, when Carney seized his wife b
The neck and stabbed at her with wins
appeared to be . small white-handle
pen.knife.
0fisoer Bernard Herman came u
Just % Carney let his wife 60, and sh
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