The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-01
MRS. DALEY DEAD,
But Her Husband Will PrOba-
bly, Recover Very Soon.
AMADMAN' BRUTAL ACT
Timothy Daley Assaulted His Wife
With a FIatron.
HE WAS ONCE BEFORE INSANE.
The Deed Was Done I'm an OineyviIIe Tene-
ment House Last Night-The Family
Had Previously Been "a Peaceful and
Happy One.

What nearly ended in double tragedy
was enacted yesterday afternoon about 4
o'clock. In the top story of a three-tene-
ment house on the corner of Kossuth aud
Florence streets Timoth Daley and wife,
with there two small children, have lived
for about year in comparative harmony.
However, for two or three days past the
husband had been showing signs of re-
turning insanity, having been previously
demented. just before Daley committed
the double deed he was seated in the
kitchen chatting merrily to his wife, who
was engaged in ironing. Without a mo-
ment's warning he jumped up in a terribly
excited condition, seized hot fatiron
from the stove and hurled it with all pos
sible force at her. lie was but a few feet
from his victim, the missile striking her on
the head, inilicting wound about one and
half inches in length of triangular shape.
The blow ielled the woman TO the floor,
where she lay for moment before she re-
allied her perilous condition.
Her husband made another rush for
her, but eluding him she ran TO gn adj
Joining room, he following in close pur-
suit. When he had got inside she evaded
him again by rushing from the place,
locking the door after her, the key hap
pening 10 be on the outside, thus closing
him in. She then quickly caught up an
infant babe of about four months old, and
ran down stairs to the family living on
the ground floor, where exhausted from
pain and fright, she tainted. Restora-
tives were applied, and she was brought
too.
In the meantime the husband was
thought of, aud on going TO the room
they found him lying in his own blood,
which was rapidly flowing from a fright
full cash in the throat, made with n razor
by the mans hand.
The police at the Sixth station were
notified and Capt. Leavitt, with all pos
sible expedition, summoned the ambu-
lance. which arrived short time after.
DIR. King was called in, and found the
larnyx severed, but the wound, he said,
was not dangerous, and unless the terrible
loss of blood might cause death the mans
chance for living was good.
So quiet has their household been that,
although thev have resided in that
vicinity for several months, the people
around them and in the same house had
never known loud word TO pass between
them.
Daley had worked until recently Mt the
Franklin Foundry on Charles street, but
was not an industrious man, while no more
diligent housewife could be found than
she. Daley is about 45 years of age and
Mrs. Daley perhaps 80 years.
The Oldest child, little girl, is about
years of age, who with the babe has
been sent to their aunts on Ives street,
both parents being confined to the Rhode
Island Hospital. Great excitement pre-
walls in the neighborhood.
At the Rhode Island Hospital il was
found that Mrs. Daley had "a compound
fracture of the skull and was not likely TO
recover. Daley rallied TO a considerable
extent and said that he did not know what
he was doing when he committed the
deed.
Mrs. Daley il Dead.
Mrs. Daley died at the hospital about Z
o'clock this morning She was not con-
scious previous TO her death. Mrs. Daley
was very respectable and energetic
woman. she was formerly employed in
the family of Mr.. Page on Bond street and
was very much respected by the family.
1t is stated that her husband was not in
clined to work and very much inclined to