The evening world., 1888-01-17

Although Nellie was 30 badly cut, she
ran to the stairs screaming, and just as she
got to the top I saw Sam make o last lunge
and drive the dagger into her back near the
neck.
1.-THE whole business did not take two
minutes. It was the quickest work I ever
saw. l had stuck there ON the landing, par
alyzed, but when I saw Nellie rushing out
and her husband after her, I got sense
enough to run. I jumped downstairs pretty
lively. But I heard Nellie fall with an awful
thump ON the stairs, and let o deep groan out
of her.
II thought Sam would be after me and I
didn't stop till l got a good way along on
Roosevelt street. That is all I know about
the story"
It wasn't necessary to know much more.
Chin had supplied everything except the
motive which had led Sam into such bloody
violence. 1t was not hard to get to that.
He had come up from the Sarah Will
loughby, the bark on which he had served as
cook, in q melancholy, vicious frame of mind.
I learned on the ship that no had been sub
ject to fits Of ,..brooding on the return voyage
from Rio.
When he heard the parrot say Yang
likee Nellie, ~ and follow it up with the con-
temptuous laugh, he had been stung doubt
less as if his wife and the lodger had been
amusing themselves at his expense. He
would naturally reflect that the parrot, who
was q slow bird to learn phrases, could not
have picked up any expression that he had
not heard many times. Then the laugh,
though the bird had really learned it from
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he would not recognize it easily as hers, and
may have thought Yang used to laugh at him
behind his,back. He had not improved his
temper a bit by going out and filling up with
bad whiskey. He was pretty savage, doubt
less, at night, and when he heard the laugh
come from his wife after some remark of
Yang's which he did not catch, the ~recollec-
ton of the bird probably came over him and
his rage made a mailman of him. He rushed
to his quick deed of wholesale slaughter.
The murder Of Yang, of his wife and his
own suicide could not have consumed five
minutes. Chin saw the first two murders.
The patrolman was not three minute in find
ing the house and getting to the scene of the
slaughter. and when ne arrived all were lone
for, although Nellie was still breathing.
The dagger thrust in the.back was the last
stroke he gaye'her. But If Chin's account Is
correct, he must have glutted his wrath on
Yang after che had fallen down the stairs,
for his body was found with seventeen dag
ger thrusts in it, two of which were through
the heart. The others were scattered all over
the body.
he had rushed into his room then and
jabbed the creese into himself thirteen times.
Four or five of these wounds were mortal.
He must have struck himself with incredible
rapidity. His heartland belly wererfull OF
the thrusts.
Nellie received only five. Only iveN But
it seemed quite a moderate share compared to
his thirteen and Yang's seventeen.
Sam had probably struck himself until the
dagger fell from his hand, and he turned for
ward ON the bed, where he weltered in his
gore.
He was a strong, healthy man and both
Nellie and Yang were in. their prime, full OF
vigor and life. At the autopsy the hearts OF
both men were discovered to be of unusual
size.
As horrible a spectacle as that afforded
by those three small rooms in Cherry street,
with floor, bed, walls and stairs dripping
with blood. and the sickening smell of it on
the foul hot air of thel close summer night,
and the three corpses riddled with dagger
holes is not often presented. l have mo-
seen in war or peace a ghastlier sight.