The evening world., 1889-09-21
MAD JEALOUSY
II Leads 10 Horrible Tragedy in
East ThIrN-fifth Street.
Well-to-Do Peter Reynolds Slain by
Ex-D Detective Donohue.
Five HOrrld Slabs With a Carving
Knife a Foot Long.
The Murderer Thought His Wife Was
In Reynolds's Rooms.

encircling his head.
His unshaven face was streaked with blood,
SO that his features we're barely discernible.
His breast was partly exposed.
There also could be seen patches of clothed
blood.
Evidently he had not killed his victim
without a struggle.
Around him we're other prisoners. held on
petty charges, When they heard the grave
nature Of the crime Of which he was charged,
they seemed to feel 20 'itively, happy:
The murderer appeared to DO utterly for
saken, completely beyond the pale of human
"Of what are you thinking now ?" an
EVENING WORLD reporter asked.
He hesitated for a moment before he re-
piled:
He was then summoned before Police
Justice Murray, who ordered him to be taken
downtown and arraigned before the Coroner.
TIL prisoners name is Florence J. Douo-
hue. He.had killed Peter Reynolds. whom
he suspected of undue intimacy with his
wife.
Reynolds was a widower. his wife having
died about two years ago.
He was q cooper by trade, but amassed a
fortune and retired from business some
years ago.
He owned the two big tenement houses,
$50 and 34l East Thirty fifth street. He
lived on the ground floor of No. 31 with his
six motherless children, four boys and two
girls.
He was much respected in the neighbor-
hood.
Donohue. his wife and their four children
moved into S4l last March. occupying apart
ments right over Reynolds. Donohue is q
florist by trade, but became a Pinkerton
detective last April.
He In q stout, sturdy Irishman below the
medium height, and is about thirty-eight
Lately tales camo to him Of an intimacy
between his wife md Landlord Reynolds.
He didn't believe the stories at first, but
they came to him faster and faster.
A week ago last Wednesday he left the
Pinkertons, rs they had no moro work for him..
He went home and looked for work at his
trade. He secured employment with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company to go 10
laying out of flower beds along the line of
their rohd running ont of Philadelphia. lie
was to have started for the City Of Brotherly
Love to-day.
His wife was intoxicated when he went to
bed about 0 o'clock last night.
He dozed away in s,eep. and when he
opened his eyes again the children we're III
bed and the oil lamp burned dimly on the
The clock licked loudly, and looking at it
Donohue saw II was a few minutes after IL
o'clock.
The demon jealousy entered his breast. and
getting noiseless!y out of bed, so as not to
wake his little children, he went out in the
hall in his underclothing.
He heard voices downstairs.
he went to the head of the fight and saw
his wife advancing through the lower hall.
He also claims that the door leading into
Reynolds'S front room was open, AS If she had
Just left there.
He returned to his rooms in a towering
rage. When his wife entered he accused her
Of loving Widower Reynolds.
Hiu rNaaainp had an np,prlatalv Ynootnral
him that the woman feared bodily injury and
fled out of the room. Donohue waited TO
pull on his clothes, but could not fnd them
III his excitement.
he dashed out in his undertaking dc VIII
stairs. but could not see q trace of her.
He rushed into the street. Some one
locked the hall door behind him. EXerting
his great strength he burst IL open and then
banged at the door leading into Reyuolds's
front room.
" want my wife. Send out that cursed
woman" be. shouted. but everything re.
NAMED as silent as the grave inside. Be
lieving thar the woman was inside Donohne
once more displayed his great strength and
burst the door open.
Just inside Mr.. Reynolds stood, his trem-
bling children in their nightclothes about
him. and a club uplifted in his hands.
AS Donohue sprang into the room Reynolds
brought the club down with great force ON
his head. Donohue staggered out in the hall
blood squirting from u big cash in the head.
He sped upstairs. muttering savagely: I'll
FIX you"
In his kitchen on the table there lay a long
keen-edged knife.
Aiming himself with this he ran down.
stairs again and demanded that his wife
should be sent out.
Reynolds struck him again with his club
and made another long cash in his head.
Donohue fell and Reynolds retreated to q
table between the two front windows OF the
room.
When Donohue got MP he rushed at Rev,
nolds. and there. while the latter's children
looked Oh in alright. he stabbed Reynolds &c
death by plnnsInG the long; biadod knife five
times III various portions of his victims body.
The first stab took effect III the right col.
lar hone; a second stroke sent the blade &c
the hilt in the left side; another, and II wa,
ripping its way through the intestine on the
right side.
The eve witnesses say that Donohut
dragged the blade mp as he might if he was
a butcher stripping q sheep. X ynold'
pulled himself out of the mudman's graST
Donohue followed him and plunged hi,
knife a fourth time in his back and a fifth
time in his shoulder.
The wounded man reeled out on the aide,
walk and there fell on his face and hands
Donohue ran upstairs. His children,
aroused by the rumpus, were huddled to
Rether crying. The small ormolu clock still
licked mostly and the hands marked IL. On.
Policeman Mirhnussr, of the East Thirty
tfth street station. saw Reynolds fall deaf II
front of the house and rushed in to captur,
the murderer.
He Iound him covered with blood trying tC
comfort his little children, who were crying
Justify.
He had his arms around all four of them,
telling them not to mind. that " Papa was no
hurt much"
The prisoner admitted the killing, saying
Il did 1t IN defense of my life and honor"
He was locked up.
,Mllhauser shortly after arrested Mrs. Don
ohue, but she was released later SO that she
could go home and attend to her children.
When an EVENING WORLD reporter called
at the house this morning Mrs. Donohue wa
not there.
A sturdy old Irishman sat At one Eide of 1