Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-09-09
6Y TELEGRAPH
aUR0EROUs ASSAULT
Made by Providence Man on Nj, Mia with
Hammer.

At Providence, Sept. s--A brutal and uu
PROVOKED assault which will withou
I Ao"0t result IN the death of the victim
|. was committed within the shadow of tb,
'ecnnd police station just before O'Clock
r last night.
In the rear Of IS Gladstone avenue. and
y irectly opposite the police station. is a
collection of tenement houses known as
ihe blue yard" On the upper floor Of
'ne OF these reside William McIntyre
Ills wlIe Kate and their son Eddie. who ia
nearly Is years of age
Mcintyre has been employed on the
Kew York, New Haven and Hartford rail
!oad as freight brakeman. but since
June 20 he bas been loafing and drinking
considerably He is well known to the
1oiee Tor his convivial and quarrelsome
habits.
Mrs. Mcintyre is about 35 wears Of aoe
and bears very good reputation. She bas
sister who frequently calls at the honsa
10 whom Mcintyre developed a strong dis
IKE, tie objected to her coming to the
housc' claiming that
His Wife Was Supporting Her.
His sister-in-law called Yesterday af..-.
neon. and when he came in tn snnrsr b.,
found fault with his wife and spoke in a
lisrespectful manner. Mrs. McIntyre re.
Piled, "Bill. | don't want you to talk tn
me any more.'
At this Mcintyre jumped from his chat,
and struck his wife in the face with hi.
fist. Then he seized her BY the tbroa,
and choked her until she thongb, b,
meant % kill her. She managed to tell |
Eddie to run to the police station and
bring assistance,
AS soon as the boy bad gone, McTntyre
et go his grip on her throat and she
'rarted to run out of the tenement to the
afu mcintyre now became furious. and
seizing Heavy Hammer
an after his wife and struck ber ~, a..
/, IN JUST as she reached the threshold.
Ms knocked her down, and then Nc
h'yre STOOD over her and pounded her over
le head with the hammer a score Of times.
r:"uie returned at this juncture, and,
Aeihg ms father hammering his mothers
cad again ran out for assistance
q little fellow ran back to the bopse /
lead Of the police, and when they ar. |
ved they found him erouched upod the Il
TRY floor in pool of blood and nestling C
: mothers battered head upon his
east
a physician was summoned without de. Fl
y, ana for two hours he was enuaged y
sewing her wounds. There were ~ 81
irfui gas hes on the left side of her head ol
d half doZen on the other side. wbile IL
e top was b.
One Mass of Puipy Flesh. 5.
ider this pulp were found two fracturss III
the skull. After her wounds had been
nporsrily dressed, Mrs McIntvre was ~ ~
1t to the Rhode Island hospital. the doc. u, ~
pronouncing her wounds fatal %
-homas Murphy, who occupies the tene- Ia "a
mt just across the entry from the Nc. -
yres, heard Mrs. McIntyre's screams. A.
went TO her assistance. After A strnc. -'
he wrenched the hammer out OF Ne a. a.
yre's grasp, and the latter then fed m u"
N the house Ih'
ne police sent out n general alarm. and -
CITY was secured for the fugitive He ca
traced AS far As North Min street IN
was then working his way toward tbs l..
ks, along which are numerous pro,,. NJ va.
es' and In one of these the police ex- ,ia.
To md him in short time T1