New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-27
A Murderous Brute.

A heavy butcher knife with a blade ten
inches long was the weapon with which Dem
mis- Hurley tried to murder his paramour at
210 East Tenth street St. Paul, MINI. Heheld
her with one hand with the other he hacked
at her face and head, using the knife as he
would aceaver. At every blow the blade
sank into the woman's flesh, clean to the bone.
In the back OF herhead he cut two three-inch
gashes, running diagonally across each other.
He smote her across the right cheek, laying
the jaw bone bare from the ear to the chin,
and when she raised her right arm in the eff
fort to shield her head the blade fell on her
wrist, severing the arteries. Another blow
chopped a huge chunk of flesh off her left ell
bow
Six young men, who board in the house.
came to the wOman's rescue before the BUTCH
er had done fatal job, and he turned on
Manford G. Rogers an employee in the gen.
eral Offices of the Northern Pacific railroad
Hurley swung the knife and caught Rogers in
the back of the head just behind the left oar
cutting into the bone and laying open four
inches of the skull Rogers stag.
again, leaving a three-inch wound horizon
tally across the forehead Charles Leggo
another of the boarders, who is a printer re-
Gently arrived from Canada, had a piece
clipped off one of the knuckles of his right
hand The six men soon overpowered Hur-
ley and he ceased to resist. Policeman Nc
Elllstrum came in moment later and took
him off to the central station.
The deed was that of a frenzied man thirst
ing for revenge. Hurley is a powerful six
footer, with the marks OF a brute and bully
In his face. He is forty-two years of age, and
brushmaker by trade. He came to St.
Paul from Chicago in June last with his
woman victim, who has passed as his wife.
OF their previous history she would not
talI hT1f ha fCr ,,roo fad
restaurant at 745 Indiana street, Chicago,
where he met her first a year ago. She was
then known as Mrs. Martin, and had just
buried a man named Martin, with whom she
had lived for seven years. After boarding at
the restaurant for two weeks Hurley assumed
trouble to get out a marriage license.
They have never lived pleasantly, but the
woman says she feared to leave Hurley
When not in good humor he has been in the
habit of beating her. She was wearied of his
domineering and made up her mind to be rid
of him. The boarding house was her prop
erty and she consulted r. K Nafus, a lawyer
the house yesterday and notified Hurley that
he must leave her. That is what enraged
5 Hurley and prompted him to assault her as
he did
The affair was witnessed by Miss Dunno,
one OF the boarders, who is employed in a
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lawyer had not gone, and the other boarders
had eaton supper and retired to their rooms
upstairs Miss Dunno sat in the dining
room. Hurley came out of the parlor in
front, where he had the interview with Nafus,
leaving the woman in there. For five min.
utes he paced through the dining room, back
to the kitchen and QUITE the parlor in silence.
His face was white with suppressed passion
Suddenly he turned toward table in the
kitchen, grabbed the big butcher knife and
rushed toward the parlor. The woman saw
him coming, and she ran out into the hall to.
ward the street door. There, just at the
foot of the stairs he caught her and began
Ills dreadful work.
The house presented the appearance of o
slaughter pen when it was all over. The car.
pets in the hallway and on the stairs were
soaked with blood. On through the dining
room and kitchen, where Hurley ran after the
boarders came to her rescue was trail OF
blood The dishes and the white cloth on the
supper table were smeared with blood. In the
parlor where Mrs. Hurley lay on a folding
bed was more blood, and up stairs in the
room of Rodgers, the wounded boarder, there
was blood galore. Doctors Murphy anG
Briggs, who were called Immediately after the
ARRAY, dressed the wounds, none OF which ar.