The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-11
A MURDEROUS MANIAC.
The Many Grimes Charged Against
Lizzie Halliday,
A MANIA LIKE JACK THE RIPPER"


She Killed aud Mutilated Her first Hus-
band in the Same Manner as Her Sec
ond-The Mcouilian Women Murdered
Through Thirst for Blood.
MIDDLErowN, N. Y, Sept. 1.-THE solu-
Ion of the mystery surrounding Lizzie
Halliday's awful crimes will be found in
lhe history of her previous life and her re-
latons with her husband
Young Paul and Robert Halliday have
told their stories and when all this new
and old information is put together there
Is produced a story of very unusual, but
not Of unprecedented criminality..
Lizzie Halliday, herself type Of low
humanity, was merely an ignorant, mean,
cunning and revengeful woman, with the
belief that she possessed the power to de-
eeive everybody she chose.
This appears to have been her character
under ordinary circumstances, but at GER
tain periods she appears to have become
possessed of mania On each occasion
when she was in this wild mental con-
aition she was expecting to become a
kother
She never did however, so far as is
Known give birth to living child. This
mania which is not without numerous
precedents, assumed in Lizzie Halliday's
Ease a phase almost unbelevably shocking.
In fact, there is excellent reason to as
sumo that her case and that Of the
mysterious London assassin, known as
"Jack the Ripper, are very similar
In both the mania appears to have de-
geloped crimes of similar nature, the
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veloped in a man and in this last case in a
woman
Lizzie Halliday has killed two men in
her life, both of them husbands, and she
mutilated both.
It has just come out, through the stories
told by Paul Halliday's two sons, that the
woman confessed to old Paul soon after
her marriage to him that she had been
married before, and had killed and then
hacked her husband
! Old Paul professed not to believe this
Itory, and undoubtedly did not But it
now appears that she treated his body
after she had killed him rs she had that of
her first husband.
! Her two subsequent crimes, the killing
of the McQuillan women, must have been
committed in pure thirst for blood, il
! luced by her mania and probably whetted
| by her fearful crime of a few days before
She did not mutilate the bodies of the
women, which shows that it must have
been merely a thirst for blood which
prompted her to the deed.
In protracted interview with Robert
! Halliday, the eldest son of the murdered
man, he made the following statement;
| 'This woman came from the same county
m Ireland as my father He told me this
himself He first met her in an intelli-
geuce Office in Newburg, where he secured
her services as housekeeper, Some time
after he married her. None of the family
liked the woman. Her appearance was
against her. She did not conduct herself
rs a wife should. My father, however,
was infatuated with her. She held a pc
lmliar influence over him which nothing
could shake. Soon after his marriage to
The woman, who gave her name as Lizzie
Brown, there began the peculiar success
tion Of crimes which finally led to her be-
ng committed to the insane asylum.
First there was the burning of the
house. Then the burning of the barn, and
finally the burning of the old mill where
my father, his wife and my brother John
lived, in which fire my brother lost his
life
Following this at a stated period came
her theft of the team of Newburg livery.
man. She hired horse and buggy in
Newburg on the statement that she was a
poor Irish servant who wanted to visit her
Iick mother The man let her have a
horse and buggy. She drove out of town,
got an old man to go with her as she did
not know the country, and within twenty
tour hours had sold the rig and horse to
Tome gypsies.
"She was arrested, tried and found not
guilty on the ground of insanity.
1.-TWO fires in my fathers place occurred
IN quick succession. After longer period
llame the conflagration in which my young
brother perished. For this crime she was
arrested, but on the ground of insanity
was remanded to the insane asylum al
lMiddletown. She remained there awhile
was then sent to another asylum, and
finally was released as cured at my fathers
request
"My father told me subsequently to thest
lffairs that his wife, at the time of theil
commission, was in a condition peculiar Il
women. That when in that condition she
was subject to spells of insanity Will
.he disappearance Of the physical condition
there was disappearance of the crimina
! tendencies | begged my father TO leave
! the woman, but he would not listen t.
me-"
After a great deal of delberation tn,
soroner's jury arrived at this verdict' "W,
60 say upon our oath that Margaret j
4 McQuillan and Sarah y. McQuillau cam'
10 their deaths from bullets fired from 4
pistol in the hands of Lizzie Halliday
That said Margaret was killed on or abOu
Aug 30, and Sarah j. MCQuilau on o,
about Sept. g."
The inquest on the body OF Paul Halli
.day was resumed at @ o'clock this morn
mg. but nothing new, il is believed, viii
ua elected After that the c8se viii sinl
.0at sight until Mrs. Halliday is calle,
lvO answer at court some time next month
The Vatican win Investigate.
ROME, Sept 1.-THE Vatican is abou
10 open an inquiry of the most searching