Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-12
A DRUrkARD,s CRIME.
Domestic Tragedy On LincoIn street,
Portlnnd-Terence O'Hare Brutally
Murders His Wiie-The Guilty Man in
the Hands Of the Officers.

nouncement of a terrible domestic tragedy,
occurring in that icinity Friday evening at
No. 33 Lincoln street. Terence O'Hare, ss-
tensibly peddle, but by common reputation
q smuggler has lived with bis wife for num-
Der of years, having n comfortable and even
luxuriously furnished home. Botn O'Hare
and his wife are said to have been in the habit
of drinking to excess at times and especially
when O'Hare was home from one of his ex-
peditions across the Canadian boundary,
from which expeditions he returned flush
with money. Furthermore, it is said by the
neighbors that Mrs. O'Hare was custodian of
the money that O'Hare earned and took good
care of it..
Saturday morning about l. 80 o'clock Mrs.
Kilfeather, who lives at No. A. across the
street from OHare's house. was called up by
O'Hsre and asked her to 60 over and at
tend his wife, O'Hare telling her his wife
was dead. Mrs. Kilfeather hastily dressed
and went across the street, supposing that
O'Hare had preceded her. and expected to
meet him at his house. When she got there,
however, she found the street door open and
no one abont the house. She called for
O'Hare, but no answer came. Everything
order, the furniture thrown around in inde-
scribe confusion. She WAS appalled, at the
condition in which she found the house, and
did not dare to go up stairs, where she knew
tbo of
located She returned home therefore in
great agitation, and called Mrs. Hagan, who
lived in another part of the same house she
occupied, and then, accompanied by Mrs.
Hagan, returned to the scene.
The two women entered and went up stairs
where they found the same state of disorder
as found on the first floor. Entering Mrs.
O'Hare's sleeping apartment cry of horror
in the middle of the floor, surrounded on
every hand ty the wreckage of furniture, lay
the naked body of Mrs. O'Hare. The two
women hastily covered the dead body of their
unfortunate neighbor with blanket and ran
out of the house wild with terror and excite
ment.
The sheriff was quickly informed, the
county Jail being but 4 short distance from
where the tragedy took place, and commuri-
cation vas Immediately opened with the po-
lice station. Deputy Sheriff Black and Off
Ger Hanson went at once in search Of O'Hare,
Deputy Black telephoning for team before
he put on his clothes.
BY the time the officer was present. the
team was ready and they set out in quest of
the missing man. He was encountered only
a little way from his home. He was in an
intoxicated condition and disposed to resist
capture, but finally accompanied the officers
to the station, though with bad grace. He
would not say much about the affair but ad
mltted that he had had fight with his wife
O'Hare is a stout built man about As years
of age and has been in the clutches of the
law several times before, having served terms
in Jail and the work house.
Later in the afternoon, the coroner being
the remains and the scene of the tragedy. An
inquest was held soon afterward.
At the coroner's inquest on the murder of
Mrs. O'Hare, the neighbors testified that
and he was drunk Saturday morning when
arrested.
Michael Hanlon, shoemaker on Washing
ton street, has been with O'Hare for two or
thraa 5ays hnf ba had L
house. He was with O'Hare Saturday MORN
ing, drinking, and was with him when ar
rested
DR.. w. II. True testified that he was called
the side of the head and large swelling. The
lip was cut and blood was oozing from the
nose. Black and blue places were on each
arm and shoulder, but there were no signs
visible how the wound was inflicted. The
wounds, apparently. were not such a. to have
caused d. ath.
Ot'sre, Saturday morning, when arrested,
said he had had a quarrel with his wife. He
was cross when arrested and had to be ironed
He was so drunk at the inquest that he was
not in condition to talk and the inquest was
adjourned until further testimony could be
obtained.
PORTLAND, July ii.
Terence O'Hare, who was arrested Satur
day for numbering his wife, says he put $40
on the table and his wife took it and hid it.
He afterwards demanded it and she refused
to give it up. They had a struggle and tore
up the furniture. His wife, he says, was
drunk and after disrobing for bed she fell
over. He felt of her heart and finding il did
not beat he summoned the neighbors.
O'Hare has retained W. H. Loouey and
Col. A. W. Bradbury as counsel and refuses
to say anything more about the murder.
A daughter of O'Hare, who was sbsent at the
time of the murder, says she has known her
father to demand money of her mother but
never knew him to beat her.
DR.. Cummings says he has been called sew
eral times to sew up wounds of Mrs. O'Hare,
received at the hands of her husband. He
says O'Hare for long time has been getting
more and more brutal
Drs. Cummings and Gerrish discovered
several wounds from blows on her head. sew
eral of them not being apparent until the
scalp was removed. The doctors will not