Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-06
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IA MANAGES FRENZY.
Horrible Work of a Mad
man i'm North Adams.
KEMMLER PROBABLY DIES TODAY.
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WORK of AN INSANE MAN.

Two servant Girls in a Hotel Serb
ousIy Stabbed-Ons Found Lying I'm
a Pool of Blood-Tse Madman At
tempts to Jump from Window
His Rescuer Attacked and Set Upon
with a X nife-The MANAGES Strange
Actions.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, Aug. 5.-The
deed of an evidently insane man startled
the occupants of the Mansion house this
afternoon, when two of the chambermaids
were seriously stabbed by man who had
stopped in the house over night. Screams
were heard by those down stairs issuing
from the second and ehird stories. Those
WOO were below, upon rushing up found
Rosanna Cain, aged twenty-one years, 9
chambermaid, lying in pool Of blood on
the secand floor. Joseph Ryan, the pro
prietor of the Mansion house, rushed up to
thv third floor, only to find anothsr Guam
bermaid-Carrie Halberg, aged nineteen, a
victim to the maniac's frenzy, while the
perpetrator s4ood at an open window pre-
pairing to jump.
Ryan Immediately sprang forward to
prevene him, when he was set upon with a
large open knife. A fierce struggle en-
sued, the ODD man making several terrible
but Intellectual lunges on Ryan's breast.
Officer Barrow was soon on hand and his
appearance quieted the maniac and he
Immediately consented to go
with him, saying, You're an
officer, now I'm safe" DR.. Stafford was
called to attend the girls. On examination
he found Rosanna Cain severely and dan
gerously gashed about the lower limbs, one
cut being four inches long and three inches
in depth She lies in a critical condition.
Carrie Halberg was cut about the legs and
arms, but not dot dangerously, although
she was badly slashed.
The perpetrator of the bloody deed is
Frank Tiffany, aged ifty-seven years, OF
the firm of Tiffany Brothers, large knitted
goods manufacturers of Bennington, VT,
and member of one of the wealthiest
families in Bennington. His wife and two
children, aged nine and eleven years, re
side in Bennington. He arrived in tow
last evening from Onset Bay, where HI
had been attending spiritualist meeting
| which doctrine he processes. He OBJ
| tanned room at the Mansion house
| nothing out of the way being noticed
| about him. He retired about 8 o'clock
but Joseph Ryan, the proprietor, who slep
| in the room under him, claims to hav
| heard him yelling and walking the foo
| during the night, although he though
| nothing of it. This morning the porte
| tried to wake him, but without avail an,
/ nothing more was heard till the fraca
| this afternoon. He had eaten nothing il
| the house.
| Tiffany claims that they locked him in
| dark room; would give him nothing to eat
| and guarded him with a revolver, and ha,
also built scaffold outside the window o.
| which they were going to hang him. II
said he was obliged to use the knife as h
was entirely surrounded and had to figh
his way out or be killed. He wa
sorry if he had hurt anyone. He sal
| they also tried to shoot him. In
quiry shows that previous to going t
the hotel, he had been to stores asking pei
mission to sleep, as he was afraid to go
hotel as the girls wanted to shoot hin
The weapon with which the deed was con
mitted is large new, two-bladed carper
ter's knife. Over $40 was found on hin
Tiffany is a respectable appearing, we
dressed man, about five feet ten inches |
height, with beard and moustache. e
will be brought before the district court
l tho ,ooypinu