The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-12
The TYRRELL TRIAL.
A Number Of Witnesses Report
Confessions of Guilt.
BRANFORD, THE MAN HE SHOT,
The Prisoner IL Placed on the Stand. and
Tells Of His Relations with Mary
Elsie and the Events OF the Day Of
Her Murder.

In the Tyrrell murder trial DIR. Palmer
completed his testimony at o'clock yes
terday afternoon, an account of which
appeared in yesterdays last edition.
DIR. Jay Perkins, ambulance surgeon at
the RHODE ISLAND Hospital, was next
called, and testified that he went to the
house on Byron street on the afternoon Of
the assault aud found the woman lying in
a pool of blood.
NAMED there until May %, when she
was taken home to die. She was never
con scious from the time she was brought
into the hospital, aud took but little
nourishment. The whole lower part Of
her body was lifeless.
Capt. Costine testified that on the day
Of the assault he went to the house on
Byron street and found the woman on the
floor In n pool Of blood, and blood tracks
in the dining-room and kitchen. A fiat
iron, knife and portions OF glass plate
were found.
He saw the prisoner on the morning
after the assault and he pleaded guilty to
assaulting her with intent to kill.
Officer Joseph B. Curtis testified that
he was attracted by cries as he was going
along the street and was told man had
been shot by Tyrrell. He found him hid
ing in the American House under the
bar.
On the way to the station he said he had
not only shot man but woman, and
that he did it out of revenge. Next morn
ing he asked IL the woman was dead, and
hoped he had killed her He said he had
hit her three times in the head with u
fatiron and cut her with plate. He sub
sequently shot her with revolver to put
her put OF her misery. He also affirmed
that IL he had escaped he would have
shot another woman. The prisoner made
no resistance when arrested.
Lieut.. O'Neill said that when Tyrrell
was brought to the station he said he
mad shot man who had robbed him Sun
day. He wished to make statement
and then said he had shot a woman too.
He was shown the pistol and stated that
he bought it for the purpose OF killing
William Branford.
He also stated that he took her pocket
book after knocking her down and
bought the revolver with the money.
The cross examination aimed to show
that Tyrrell was insane at the time or his
arrest, but did not succeed in that en-
deavor.
Deputy Eagan and Sergt- William ii.
Rowe were called, but added nothing
new, simply corroborating the testimony
of the other officers.
Josephine Cowder testified that she had
heard the defendant threaten to shoot
Mary Elsey last October. and once after
wards.
Mrs. Ester f. Hyde, the mother of the
murdered woman, said she had known
Tyrrell eight years, and had heard him
threaten her daughter. About week
before the assault she heard him say to
her during q quarrel, II will do 1t, at the
risk Of my life" -,
morning.
William Branford was called, and testi-
fed that he was stove mounter at
Flint a. Co.'S. He had known May Elsey
for fourteen years. lie was at the house
of the woman on the night before the as
sault, making n friendly call. He was
an old friend Of the family.
The testimony as TO what passed therc
that night was not allowed to be intro
duced bv the court
A letter was then read by the Alto rney-
General, written by the prisoner to May
Elsey, while in Jail, asking for mercy and
praying for forgiveness for the wrong he
had done her, and asking her not to ap-
pear against him.
This completed the case for the State,
aud Gecrge A. Littlefield, counsel for the
defense addressed the jury. He said that
ne intended to show that the man COM
mitted the assault I'm ft Of passion,
aroused by jealousy. and without any
had always considered the woman rs his
wife; that In n case before the court n
shore time ago I'm which man was
charged with an assault with dangerous
weapon upon the woman with whom he
had been living, aud by whom he had