The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-16
Was Matte Nohair. Il YOUNG
negro Woman.
BY THE HANDS OF HER MAD LOVER
Who Then Made a Desperate 'ttempt pom
His own Lie.

An awful tragedy was enacted
Just before sunset yesterday evening
at house No. 30l in a row Of
cottages built for the laborers who
used 20 york a. the old B1stwick
grist mill, on the east side Of the
river, when 3 negro named John
War, alias John Ward, brick
moulder, repeatedly stabbed hlz
former mistress, negroes named
Matte VI chair, who had number
OF aliases, with sharp.bladed
pocket knife, inhictiug such fatal
wounds that the woman died within
few minutes after the fearful on.
slanght.
The relentless negro drove his
knife again and again into the NO
mans breast and body, and after his
deadly work was done on his un.
fortunate victim he turned his
murderous hands upon himself,
cutting his threat almost from car
to ear and stabbing himself about
the breast. In all be ntlicted nine
or ten wounds and he now lies in a
most precarious c. nditior, although
there is Glance for him to recover.
Tue bloody deed created the
most intense excitement in the
neignuorbood, where negroes live
almost exclusively.
The houses forming the group of
cottages are all numbered, but are
not situated on any street, being
three blocks north of Elm street,
near the Waco and Northwestern
railroad tracks.
Francis Whitney and her son
were the only eye witnesses to the
tragedy, SO far as known, and Fran
CHS tells an awful story of the crime.
She lives next door to the Mohair
woman's cottage, at No. 3O3 in the
row. They heard Matte Mohair
scream for help and cry out that
some one was killing her, when she
ran to the house and kicked open
the closed door, when she saw
Ward striking his knife into his
helpless victim, who struggled des-
perately and made wonderful exer-
tions to save her life.
When the Whitney woman en-
tered the house Matte Mohair
rushed by, ran into the Whitney
house, seized garment, wrapped it
about her bleeding head and fell to
the floor, expiring without groan.
The woman had three knife
wounds in the breast and one in the
neck. Those in the body all pene.
trated vital organs.
Francis Whitney said that Matte
Mohair was taking bath when
War, who had just returned from
work, forced an entrance and began
upbraiding her for persisting
in going over to the city, after he
had demanded that she should not
do SO. She was in the bath at the
time of the attack and could make
but feeble resistance. The floor
of the room was covered with
blood and so was the ground in
front of the cottage and the door
steps of Francis Whitney's house.
War made the attempt on his
life in the Mohair woman's house
and fell 20 the floor, presenting a
CHASTITY sight q. he rolled over and
over, gaspiug for breath.
Drs. Minnock, Caldwell, Consta-
bic Dee Cook and a number of de
pUties ard policemen crowded in
the house about tho wounded man,
while Jostice Gallagher made an
Official view
War refused aL@sthetics and said
be wished to die. His wounds were
examined ard the cash in his neck
sewed up on the ground before the
house, after which he was removed
to his home near by.
War, OF Ward, and mis- victim at
one time lived together, but the
woman had rejected him, which
made him angry and jealous of the
attentions OF Others.
A large number Of negroes gath,
cred at the scene of the tragedy
and discussed il until late he ur
last night.
The murderer and would.be sui.
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