The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-11


CHICAGO, May 3.-A murder, the shock
ing details OF which SAVIOR more of un-
civilized butcherY than has been known
for years in Chicago was committed be-
tween and o'clock this evening
in the home of Michael Walsh at
344 Washburn-ave. His vile, Bridget
Elizabeth Welsh met death in man
ner that rivals for cruelty and horror
the fates of numerous victims in the Lon
don White chapel district. Her SLAYER,
who, from the evidence so far in the hands
of the police must have man, succeeded
in covering his crime long enough
to make his escape without leaving
a single clew by which his identity
could be established. at the usual time
yesteaday morning Walsh left home to 60
TO work. He is teamster in the employ
of J. V. Farwell & Co., and as usual went
out early in order to have his team in
readiness. As he passed through the
kitchen where his wife was wash
ing dishes he bade her goodbye
in accordance with a custom he had,
for long time followed. In the same
kitchen where he had hidden her happy
good bye but few hours before he beheld
the terrible evidence oil her death and in
an adjoining bedroom found her re-
mains mutilated and torn as though
that fend of fends, Jack-the-ripper,
had changed his scene of operations
from London to Chicago With the
intention perhaps of carrying out the
same line of horrible murders, adding
victim after victim, and carrying terror to
the heart OF the community. The re-
mains were hidden under a pile of rags.
Contrary TO expectations Walsh re-
turned home a few minutes after 6
o'clock. He tried the front door,
but found it locked. He went arouad
the house to a rear door leading to the
kitchen. There was fire burning in the
stove, the evening mea! had been partial
ly prepared and the cooking utensils were
in their accustomed places. But scattered
over the floor were little scraps of paper
and Walsh stopped to examine
them. They were pieces OF news
matter a second thought he started in
search Of his wife, going to the front of
the house, where he expected to find her.
For fifteen minutes he had searched for
his wife in vain, and he began TO fear that
some harm had befallen her. The
preparations had been made foT supper,
the fire in the kitchen stove, the gen.
oral appearance of the house seemed
to indicate he argued to himself, that she
had not been away long and that she had
not gone with the intention of abandoning
her work. Suddenly it occurred to him
that there was no reason for such a strong
and disagreeable odor in the bedroom.
Not satisfied with what he had
seen there he returned, only TO
be horrified at discovering what he
had not seen when he was in the place
the first time. The room was partly dark
ened, as the window curtains had been
lowered. lie raised them and examined
the first object that had met his gaze when
he entered quarter of an hour before
the pile of rags. The first piece OF cloth
ne lifted was stained with blood and it was
then that suspicious OF his wife's death
crept into his mind.
The Body Found.
With one hand he threw the pile aside
and there on tho blood stained carpet was
the body OF his wife. Sixty-fve gashes
varying in length from half an inch to
foot, told the story OF a death that had
come only after violent struggle as was
shown by the disarrangement of
the furniture and the spatter-
ing of blood. Were there not
evidences of human skill in the mutia-
tion of the remains il would be difficult to
believe that the crime was the work of
man. Not satisfied with killing his vic
tim, the slayer had so horribly disfgured
the corpse that even Walsh himself could
hardly realize at first that he was gazing on
the dead body of his wife. From the crown
of the woman's head TO her feet there
were cuts IN every conceivable direct
ton. The wounds were most numerous
on her breast and lower limb, where the
flesh was ripped in places and hacked un-
Ill the skin hung in threads. Along the
upper part of her right leg was "A cash
over foot in length, from which the
blood oozed in little streams. Along
either side of this wound was a row
of smaller gashes that had been
made with an idea of regu-
larity. They were of uniform length
and evenly arranged, as If to give horri-
bly, artistic finish TO the work. Over each
eye WAS a deep cut, another beneath the
right eve, another along the left cheek and
still another on the neck under the chin.
In the left breast, Immediately over the
heart, was a pair of long bladed sizzors that
had been driven into the flesh. Immediately
under them was a small round hole, re-
sembling very closely such one as would
have been made by bullet, but there
was no trace of powder burns. A broom
that bad been carried from the kitchen
into the bedroom had been broken, and
the handle was thrust through tho en-
tire length of the woman's trunk.
from lower portion to the throat,
pieces OF vital organs had been torn off
and carried along by the blunt end of the
wood, and the mouth was filed with q
mass of blood and flesh. The broom
handle had been thrust up with terrible
force, for the woman's body was fear
fully torn and porlious of organs