The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
CUT HIS WIFFS THROAT.
ALBERT MoREA's TERRIBLE DEED
OF BLOOD.

q Frolic at a supper-The Murderer
Rifles His Victims Clothing, Locks
Up the House and Escapes-Jealousy
Supposed to Have Been the Cause
for the Crime.
Albert Morea, an ex-convict cut his wife's
throat from ear to ear at their home in Hall
street lane, IN the rear of No. 6S Gwinnett
street, yesterday morning. After the muir
der he took the woman's pocketbook and
contents, broke open an organ in search
for valuables, and, after fastening the win
dows of the house, went out, locking the
door, and made his escape.
Rhena Morea, the victim, was about 81
years OF age, and had been for the last two
years nurse in Maj. ]. F. Brooks family.
As she was not up yesterday morning as
usual, Maj. Brooks went to see what was
the matter. He found the house where she
lived fastened, and receiving no response to
his repeated knocks, he went to the window
10 look in.
DISCOVERY OF THE MURDER
A pane of glass was broken out, and a
chastity spectacle met his view. The woman
Law on a bed covered with blood, where
she had been thrown. Mortified by the
sight Major Brooks turned away and sent
messenger for Coroner Dixon. The coroner
reached the house shortly after o'clock
and forced an entrance through the window.
An investigation showed that the victim Of
her husbands frenzy had been dead for
some hours The room bore evil
dence of violent struggle. The
chairs were overturned and glass had
been broken out of each of the two windows.
The woman had evidently begun to I'M
dress when the deadly assault was made
upon her, as her night dress was on the bed
upon which she lay, and all of her clothing
but skirt had been removed
DRIPPING WITH BLOOD.
The bed was so saturated with blood
which flowed from the CHASTITY wound that
it had soaked through the bedding, and,
dropping to the floor, had formed a pool.
The wound was evidently inflicted with
razor. 1t began near the right
ear and extended around the
throat to the left ear. The jugular vein
had been cleft, and the instrument had sew
cred the wind-pipe and grazed the bony
part Of the neck. 1t was the work OF a
strong hand driven with all the force of
Infatuated and demoniacal passion.
The murderer. after having silenced his
victim, whose cries were heard by neigh
bors, who could not locate them, deliber-
ately rifled the house, and carried of the
pocketbook containing the little savings Of
his wife.
THE TELL-TALE RAZOR CASE.
The empty razor case lying on the bureau
showed plainly the agency he employed to
deal the murderous blow.
Coroner Dixon impaneled jury to in
vestigate the killing, and the verdict was
that "Rhena Morea came to her death from
a wound in the neck inflicted by some sharp
instrument in the hands of some person,
supposed to be Albert Morea, and we con-
slider it murder
Mrs. Brooks said that she heard sound
early in the morning as of breaking glass,
and in short time, very few minutes
afterward, she heard two shrill screams
She could not locate the direction from
which the screams came, but she thought
they were from the front and not from the
rear of the house.
HEARD THE STRUGGLE.
w. w. Taylor, a colored man living in a
tenement house on an adjoining lot in the
lane said that about o'clock, and before
he got up, he heard some one screaming.
He jumped out of bed and went out on the
stoop to see if he could locate the place
where the screams came from, but he heard
nothing further 1t was bright moon
light night, but he neither saw nor heard
ANYTHING more, and went back to bed. He
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person about the place who was said to be
the husband of the dead woman, and the
man had been sleeping at the house where
the killing took place. He was said to have
just returned from the penitentiary.
Josephine MacKay, a sister of the dead
woman, said that Albert Morea married her
sister about three years ago. In her testi-
mony at the inquest she said:
RHENA'S SISTERS STORY.
"About $50 o'clock last night, Rhena
and left home to go to the hall on Harris
street to a supper. We left Morea at home.
We had been laughing and talking, and all
Morea if he had any objection to Rhena's
going. He said no. laughingly. We
left. said we would be back be-
fore morning. He replied, You
had better be back before morning. We
left the hall about 80 o'clock in company
with a young man with whom my sister was
acquainted. We all walked home to Mrs.
Jordan's, just opposite which was the last
/ saw of them. They left there together
for home. Albert was very jealous. He
has been back from the penitentiary Just
three weeks. He was sent up for two years.
never knew him to strike my sister. He
was to have gone with us, but came home
wet and said he felt like having chill, and
went to bed. l thought he was perfectly
satisfied about Rhena's going"
THE wIFE's LAST CARE.
The coat. hat, vest and pantaloons which
Morea had worn when he ime home from
work, were identified by the murdered
womans sister. it appears that Morea.
who worked at the turpentine wharves
came home wet and chilly, and his wife, be-
fore going to the supper, bathed his feet
and did all that she could to make him COM
Portable, and it was only upon the solicita-
ton of her sister and after the apparently
cheerful consent of her husband, that she
agreed to go to the supper, promising to
bring her husband something from the
the hall, and there were some nicknacks
found in the room, which showed that she
had not forgotten her promise.
JEALOUSY THE SUPPOSED CAUSE.
The presumption is that Morea, who was
violently jealous, saw that his wife had an
escort home, or she had confessed as much
to her husband, and he quarreled with her.
and the quarrel led to the commission of
the crime.
There was a report that Morea had
mutilated the body after death after the
manner OF Jack the Ripper but there
was no evidence upon which to base the
rumor
The dead woman's sister gave the author
iGles a picture of the murderer to aid IN
hunting him down, and the matter has been
placed In the hands of Detective Basch.
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