The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-05-10

shocking details OF which SAVIOR more
of uncivilized butchery than has oc-
CURED for years, was committed about
8 o'clock last evening in the home OF
Michael Walsh at 334 Washburne
avenue. His wife, Bridget Elizabeth
Walsh, met death in a manner that
rivals for cruelty and horror the fates
of numerous victims of the Whitechapel
fiend.
Within four hours after the murder
Mrs. Walsh's self-confessed murderer
was arrested. He was Thomas Walsh
of lab Washington avenue, the dead
woman's nephew.
When he was taken to the STATEN
house he acknowledged that he was
guilty. He said that they had been
drinking beer and that he had made
improper proposals to Mrs Walsh.
whereupon she slapped his face. He
drew . knife and stabbed her and the
sight of blood suddenly drove him in
sane.
Were there not evidences of human
skill in the mutilation of the remains
1t would be difficult to believe that the
crime was the work of q man. Not
slayer had so horribly dis6gured the
corpse that even her husband himself
could hardly realize at first that he
was gazing on the dead body of his
own wife.
From the crown of the woman's
head to her feet there were cuts in
every conceivable direction. The
wounds were most numerous on her
breast and lower limbs. where the
flesh was ripped in places and hacked
until the skin was in shreds-
On her right leg was a cash over q
foot in length from which the blood
oozed in little streams Along either
side of this wound was a row of small
err gashes, that had been made with an
idea of regularity. They were of uni
form length and evenly arranged as il
to give horribly artistic finish to the
work. Over each eye was a deep cut,
another beneath the right ear, another
along the left cheek and still another
on the neck under the chin.
In the left breast Immediately over
the heart was pair of long bladed
scissors that had been driven into the
flesh. Immediately under them was
Q small round hole resembling very
closely such Q one as would have been
made by q bullet, but there was no
trace OF powder burns
Spitted op . Broom Handle.
A broom that had been carried from
the kitchen into the bedroom had been
broken and the handle was thrust
through the entire length of the
trunk from the lower portion
to the throat. Pieces of vital organs
had been torn of and carried along
by the blunt end of the wood and the
was filed with a mass of blood
and flesh. The broom handle had
been thrust up with terrible force, for
the woman's body was fearfully torn
and portions Of organs were left lying
On the floor. All the wounds, it was
evident had been inflicted by the uss
Of the scissors. The edges Of the
gashes were rough and notched, as If
the body had been cut by forward
strokes. At the lower part of tho
trunk was this especially manifest
where the flesh was cut and torn.
For moment the sight of his wife's
body so unnerved her husband that he
was unable to act Recovering himself,
he notified the police. In the room
where the remains Were was q narrow
bed and on this there were three pillows
covered by blood. On the wall, too,
we're great splotches and the bed cloth
ng was stained. The rags that
,ad covered the body, which was
she had worn in the morning, /!
or her body was nude when found.
we're also dripping with blood.