The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-28
CRIME IN THE METROPOLIS.
An Unusual Number of clones Com
mitted Within Few Days.

An Unusual Number OF Felones Com
mitted Within a Few Days.
NEW YORK, April 26.-During the cur
rent month seven deaths have occurred
from self-inficted wounds, and each suicide
was suffering from deliriun caused by the
grip. II this mysterious disease is capable
Of driving its victims to frenzy which
leads to suicide it would require no stretch
Of imagination to suppose that 1t may be in
some measure accountable for tho abnormal
prevalence OF horrible crime, which has
shscked the city for ten days. The news
papers arc really sckening with the tales Of
horror, which, as a part Of the news, must
be told. The pistol, the bludgeon. the
knife, poison and suffOcation by gas are
some Of the means adopted.
Three murders have occurred within as
many days, which are sensational and
mysterious in the highest degree. A woman
was found staggering along the streets with
the veins Ia her throat cut by some I'M
known assassin. She was supported to
drug store, and a moment later was dead in
the chair in which they seated her. They
have arrested a man who had been her
intimate, and they have found q
razor with which the shocking wound
was made. Curiously enough it is
the identical razor with which the woman's
husband committed suicide two years ago,
when he was driven to distraction by the
proof that his wife was unfathful. Her
lover tse1 is believed TO be her murderer
now, and he is under lock aud key, but the
evidence against him is incomplete, aud
there seems TO be no adequate motive which
! led him to commit this murder, unless he
! was driven by the frenzy of rum ADD sick
ness into a state Of semi-irresponsibility.
In Brooklyn the community Is startled by
al 1nk hgJ hot ad
the police and upon whica PiDkerton's de-
tectives have been engaged in searching for
a clue so far without any success. A switch
| man employed in one of tine block signal
| to wers was discovered with a crushed head
! and a pistol shot would, which Of itself was
sufficient 10 cause death. His body was sup
| ported by the switch levers, and the signals
! had been put at danger. so that approach
! ing trains were stopped. The employees
| Of these trains, surprised that the signal
was 50 long set against them. mounted the
! to yer and made the shocking discovery. So
| far as is known the switchman had not an
enemy. He was a young married man OF
! exemplary habits. and was a general favor
| tie. The motive is incomprehensible, and
some Of the police are inclined to believe
| that the murderer made a mistake and
killed one man, when his malice wa,
directed at another whom be supposed to
| be in the tower.
But the most extraordinary of all thess
developments is the number Of suicides and
murders in which lovers have been involved
Ga Saturday, April IS, a remorseful
woman, who had eloped with German,
undertook to return to her home and hei
husband in Germany She even got to the
cabin Of the steamship, and she was fol
lowed by her lover who pleaded with tears
in his eyes that she should return with him
and when she still refused. aud just as the
ship was about TO sail, the lover drew g
revolver, fired two shots, and in less tim'
than it takes 10 write it they both
laid dead upon the floor Of the cabin.
The next day young man and young
woman registered at one Of the uptown
hotels as mau and wife-perhaps they were
no one knows-but they were lovers. aud
they ought TO have been married, II they
were not The following day they were dis
covered in an embrace which was affection
ate when they we're alive, but was taen thu