The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-06-16
FOURTH EDITION
HE CUT HIS THROAT.
William Butcher, Tired OF Miserable
Life, Kinds 1t with q Razor.

William Butcher, Tired OF Miserable
Life. ENDS 1t with a Razor.
William Butcher, residing in Porter's
Alley running back from Orange
street, between Second and Third, cut
his throat. this morning, 1t Is supposed,
between and O'Clock, with an oh,
razor, and about 3 o'clock his lifeless
corpse was found wallowing In his
own blood. Butcherwas only about
25 years of age, and had wife and one
child, little girl about four years
old.
The cause which led to Butchers sad
end was that fruitful source Of crime
intemperance. His intempefate habits
made him veryiabusive to his wife, who
often had to leave her home with her
little girl to escape his brutality.
Butcher had been on a prolonged spree
for several days past and for two daye
past his wife and child had been away
amongst neighbors. Yesterday he fell
In with his brother Edward Butcher,
and when he came home about noon
they said they had been out In the
Forty Acres" and all around.
The two brothers remained at home
all afternoon. In the evening Edward
Butcher lay In the front doorway with
bis feet out on the pavement while
William his brother lay on the lounge.
The latter got up during the forepart
of the night and called on Mrs. james
Schoen, widow who lives next door
for bottle of landanum which she
did not have. Mrs. Schoen is employed
In the saloon of Mrs. Perregoy, also
| fronting on Orange street.
Whor cka want hnfft n a hnt,f N, III nj. tt
she passed the Butchers, one lying in
the doorway, and looking In she could
sec the other lying on the lounge.
Edward Butcher kept up such noise
that Mrs. Schoen could not sleep after
she had retired. Sometime about i
o'clock Mrs. Schoen heard two or three
awful moans, but thought they were
just the freaks OF the drunken men.
This morning, short time before S
O'Clock, O little boy named James
Murphey, living with n Mrs. Darrell,
up the alley, was sent on an errand,
and looking in the open door of the
Butcher residence he was horrifled to
see William Butcher lying In his blood
on the floor whore he had fallen from
the lounge. He hurried back and
spread the alarm and soon the neigh.
bors gathered. Little Jimmy" Muir.
pucg ldu diiu HOliucu OulCtr blerer,
who was in the neighborhood. The
officer found razor without handle,
and an empty laudanum bottle lying
beside the dead man, whose throat was
cut, the stroke sevoring the carotid
artery.
The blood was in clots like liver, in.
dlcating that the man had been dead
several hours. In the back kitchen sal
Edward Butcher In dazed drunken
stupor. He had got up on his hands
and knees from the doorway and had
crawled back to the kitchen through
his brothers blood and was 80 smeared
with IL that he was pitiable object to
look at.
Officer Sherer Immediately arrested
and took him to the city cells and word
being sent to Coroner Sparks, he had
the body OF William Butcher removed
to the morgue. When Mrs. Butcher
and her little girl came home this
morning, their grief was pltlable to
behold. Butcher has been threatening
to take his life for some time past, and
even yesterday he said he would soon
he gone. There Is no suspicion that
his brother Edward committed the
deed. An Inquest will be held this at,
ternoon at 3 o'clock.