The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-10

thompson SUreeJ WIN MS wire ana uOuner-In-
law. The wife, fragile and very pretty
little creature, was only IL years old and
looked even younger than she was, although
she was a mother. Pasquale, filthy, lazy,
drunken, quarrelsome, brutal lout, affected
jealousy-for which, as was clearly shown,
he had not the slightest reason. 1t was prob
ably only an excuse for beating the poor girl
Her mother, against whom he was already
prejudiced because of her antagonism to his
laziness and worthlessness, interfered to pro-
tect her daughter. He shot his wife, then
Ler mother-killing both-and making big
superficial cash in his throat ran out to the
street, where an officer promptly took charge
of him and sent him to the cage in Bellevue
hospital When his neck got well there he
was taken down to the Tombs, where it was
permanently and fatally disarranged on
March 9, 1872.
Little if any better than Majone's case ap-
pears that of Pat Packenham, who was to
have been hanged on the 4th of January,
1889, but who las an appeal pending. Pats
chief claim to consideration seems to be that
he is a man of his word When his wife had
him sent up to the Island for brutaily beat
ing her be said that he would kill her for it
as soon as he got out, and he did. He carved
her with g butcher knife.
OTHER CAUSES FOR WOMAN KILLING
Women sometimes cause TO men grievous
disappoHtmcnts otherwise than by unfaith-
fitness or nCn-reciprocity of affection, as,
per example, when they cease to be reliable
sources Of revenue or domestic conveniences
to which the men have become accustomed
Emma Buck came TO grief in that way on
the 2Sth of last November She had been
keeping her lover, James Nolan, until she got
tired of supporting such an expensive and
questionable luxury when she turned him
out on the cold world to shift for himself. In
his sudden emotion of sad surprise he shot
and killed her.
Jack Lewis, q coloTed man, was as mex
cusably violent as Nolan and with much the
same impelling reason. He had been living
with Alice jackson, also colored, up at Sing
Sing for several years. The arrangement be
came monotonouS to Alice and she came
down to New York, sought employment as a
domestic servant, and found it. he followed
her to the house where she worried, on West
Third street, asked her to go back to Sing
Sing and resume living with him, and when
sh9 refused to do so shot her dead Immediate
". Fer this he was sentenced to be hanged,
but there was some interference and be still
lives.
Now and then men murder their wives for
little other apparent reason than i'll temper,
slaughter seeming to be for them a sort of
safety valve for their internal pressure of
anger, just as others find swearing serve in
lesser degree. That appears to have been the
way that Michael Shelby came to kill his
wife last autumn, an ebullition of Ill humor
that has secured for him ten years residence
in state prison, if he lives so long. He was
sent up to Sing Sing on Nov. 2S, 1883. The
circumstance of his having killed her by jab-
bling q red hot poker almost through her
body might be viewed as justly emitting
him to severer penalties, had it not appeared
that she was the sort of woman for whose
correction that sort Of husband might natur-
ally resort to a poker, without pausing to
note its temperature. A domestic quarrel as
the immediate excitant upon temper norm
ally none of the best is also supposed to have
led Mr.. Frederick Shilling to thrust one of
his hugo butcher knives with fatal effect into
his wife's body. But doubts were raised on
his trial 1t was claimed for him that he
was jealous Of his assistant in the butcher
shop, who was much younger man; also,
that his wife might have accidentally run
against the knife in the dark room where the
deed was done. So Mr.. Shilling got off with
a sentence of twelve years in state prison and
was sent to Sing Sing on Oct. 81, 1883
The reckless, brutal disregard of decency,
morality and law common in a gang of
crooks, inebriates and prostitutes seems to
have induced as an incident the murder by
Joseph Ford of Nellie Conner on Dec IA,
1888. As there was no special feature of deep
emotion or passion in that particular crime,
il does not seem worthy of more than mere
mention here.