The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-05
MURDERED HIS MOTHER.
A Boston Mans Awful Deed With a
Door as a Weapon.
A MOST HORRIBLE SPECTACLE
Presents Itself To the Discoverers OF the
Crime Rooms Drenched I'm Blood
The Murderer Was Angry and in
Liquor.

BosToN, April 5--One Of the most bru-
tai murders ever committed in this city
was discovered this morning at "A Broad
way, South Boston.
Thomas A. Brown and his mother,
Catherine O'Mealiy, kept small picture
store on Bro adway, and just over the
store Mrs. O'Meally makes her home.
1t WIS here that the awful deed was
committed. Thomas in fit of anger
tore board from the secretary and killed
his aged mother.
were called to tine scene was terrible
one. Stretched upon the bed with her
face and head badly mutilated Law the
body of Mrs. O'Meally, cold in death.
On the fl ,or of the Kitchen was piece of
black walnut wood about four feet in
length and three inches wide, with lock
on one side. This was covered with
blood and the gray hairs OF the MUIR
dered woman.
The rooms looked as II a free fight had
occurred, for beside the blood stained
floor of the kitchen, the bed upon which
Mrs. O'Meally lay was badly discolored,
the pillow being literally soaked II,
blood. and in smaller room leading off
the Kitchen barely large enough to con-
tain a single bed was another sickening
sight. The bed was covered with spots
of blood.
Over the bel upon which Mrs. O'Meally
lay was framed motto, God Bless Our
Home" Ihe appearance OF the furni-
ture showed that Mrs. o. 'Meally made a
hght for her life.
1t seems that the murdered WON an
tried TO quell "a fight which had started
in the kitchen between her son Thomas
and Patrick Sheridan. This so angered
him that turning upon her he seized a
door from the secretary which stood near
and with IL brutally beat her until death
ended her sufferings.
brown is a hard character and has
| several times attacked his mother i'm n
| like manner. but she has always refused
| to appear against him. He had been
| drinking heavily and as he came to his
| senses and realized the extent OF his
| deed he placed his mothers body in the
| position in which IL was found and at.
| tempted to cover the traces of his crime
by erasing the blood stains in the kitchen.
1t is the belief OF the police that the
blood stains on the bed in the little room
| oil the kitchen came from Snerdan's
| wounds, for he was badly used up when
found aud arrested by the police as a
| witness.
Brown has been arrested He is 35
| years or age and was married sometime
| ago, but nis wife is now dead. He has
one daughter. Laura. girl OF years.
The neighbors say that he ha d been
| drunk for u week. but that when he
came home last night he was drum ker
| than usual.
1t appears that the trouble which be-
gan tue fight between Sh ri dan and
Brown was over the price of glass of
beer
Ferdinarl Blake. machnist employed
in East Boston, says he saw Thomas
Brown and Sheridan together about 10
O'Clock ,st night.
They were just coming out of a saloon
hardly stones throw from the Brown
residence, and were in very excited
state of mind. He overheard some of
their conversation aud they were. lie
says. quarreling over "the price Of "a
heer" they had just taken.
SO loud were they taking, AMI so ex-
cilei were they, he says, that he, antici-
pating fight. followed them 20 their
nome, where he saw them eater, and
where he for some few moments listened
TO the continuance of the dispute, a
woman's voice now having been added.
Brown takes the matter very coolly.
He says he thinks his mother died from
hearC disease.