The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-02-28
4 Murderous Brute,

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"a heavy butcher knife with q blade ten
inches long was the weapon with which Dem
mis- Hurley tried to murder his paramour at
her with one hand with the other he hacked
at her face and head, using the knife as he
would ac!eaver. At every blow the blade
sank into the woman flesh, clean to the bone.
In the back OF her head 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 ef-
fort to shield her head the blnde fell on her
wrist, s~evering the arteries. Another blow
chopped a huge chunk Of flesh off her left ell
bow. 'rt H. :.
4 Six young men, who board in tho house,
came to the woman's rescue before the butch
them. The first to grapple with Hurley was
Man ord G, Rogers an employe in the gen.
eral offices of the Northern Pacific railroad.
Hurley swung the knife and caught Rogersin
the back of the head just behind the left oar.
cutting into the bone and laying open four
gered and the knife caught him
again, leaving q three-inch wound horizon
tally across the forehead - Charles Leggo,.
another Of the boarders, who is a printer re-
Gently arrived from Canada, had q 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
Ellistrum anne in. O moment later and took
him off to the central station.
The deed was that of a frenzied man hirst-
ing for revenge. Hurley is q powerful six
footer, with the marks Of brute and bully
in his face. He is forty-two years OF age, and
O brushmaker by trade. He came to St,
Paul from Chicago. in June last with his
woman victim, who has passed as his wife.
nf fhoir rrcyiouc hiHforu oho would not
talk, but Hurley says she formerly conducted
a restaurant at 745 Indiana street, Chicago,
where he met her first o year ago.. She was
then known as Mrs. Martin, Ind 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
O husbands functions without taking the
trouble to get out a marriage license.
They have never lived pleasantly, but the
woman says che 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
at 1O5 East Seventh street. who came to
the house yesterday and notified Hurley that
he must leave her. That is what Aenragcd
Hurley andtprompted him to assault her as
he did. ~ ~
The affair, was Witnessed by Miss Dunno,
l ,olS vi uIo pOdTuSIb, WIZ IS cu0plOyeu Nj d
millinery store on East Seventh street. The
lawyer had not gone, and the other boarders
had eaton supper and RETIRED to- their roo ms
upstairs, Miss Dunno sat in the dining
room. Hurley came ont Of the parlor in
front, where he had the interview withNafus,
leaving the woman in there. For Ave min
utes he paced through the dining room. back
to the kitchen and outtoth parlorin silence.
His face was white with suppressed passion.
Suddenly he turned toward o 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
his dreadful work.
slaughter pen swhen[it was, all ovcr. The car-
lpets in the hallway and on the stairs were
soaked with blood. On thronghsthe dining
room and kitchen, where Hurley ran after the
boarders. came to her rescue, was a trail oil
blood. The dishss and the white cloth on the
supper table were smearad with blood. IN the
pnrlor whore Mrs. Hurley iii. on folding
bed was blood, and Up stairs III the
room OF Rodgers, h WOunded boarder, there
was blood galore Doctors MURPHY and
Briggs, who were called immediately after the
ARRAY, dressed the wounds. none 81 which IN
fatal.