Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-18
SHOT FROM A PISTOL
Caused The Death Of Mrs.
Carey Of Southbridge.
HUSBAND UNDER ARREST.
Police Think They Have Evidence That
He Is the Assassin.

SoUTHBRIDGE, Mass, Oct ls - This
community was startled yester ay by the
fact that it was but just made known
that murder was committed nearly a
week ago. The victim was Mrs. Mary
Carey, who was 20 years old, and kept
house for her three sous on Morris street.
Her hush nj is dissOluie character,
about five years o niger than the MUIR
dered woman. They lived apart.
Last Thur9day morning Mrs. Carey's
married daughter called TO see her mother,
and found her lying on the II lor in the
pantry uncon 'cious. Surprising the old
lady was in faint she lifted her from the
floor, placed her in bed AMI sent for DIR.
Edwards. When he arrived he found his
patient in very criti al condition.
She had bruise upon her forehead,
where she struck the floor in falling, and
another over the left ear. She was also
bleeding from he ear. This is not an un-
common sympt. III accompanying ac cerebral
hemorrhage caused hy apopleXy, and the
physician 80 dag Jsed the case.
Everything was done for the suffering
woman that could DE dole, but she re
mained unconscious, and died at o'clock
Saturday evening, not having spoken from
the time she was &, und On the pantry
floor.
Found to Be Murder
Deputy Sheriff Franklin Jacobs, whose
attention was drawn To the case, suspected
foul play, and, the local medical examiner
being away from home, sent for Medical
xtmir er k,efe. DR. Krefe received the
telephone summons Monday afternoon
and went To Southbridge yesterday.
He found the body ia the coffin ready
for burial and ordered il removed to an
undertaker's rooms, where, assisted by
Drs Edwards and Creedon, he performed
an autopsy. Its results verified the dag
nosis of the attending physician that
death was caused 10y cerebral hemorrhage,
but IL also developed the fact that this
hemorrhage was caused not 10y apoplexy
but by bullet which entered the woman's 9
left ear and lodged in her brain.
Had Threatened Her Life
The bullet was found and il now In pos
session of DIR. keete, as is the pistol from
which IL was evidently fired, a little six
chamber % caliber revolver Of the Defense
pattern. This pist oil. with one chamber
unloaded, was taken from Michael Carey,
husband of the murdered woman, by
Deputy Sheriff Jacobs last Friday, W hen
the former was arrested on a charge of
being common drunkard. Carey was
found guilty saturday and sentenced to
the state farm at Bridgewater
The only evidence against the old man,
so far as now appears, is the possession Of
the revolver, into whose empty chamber
the bullet found in the woman's brain fits
perfectly; the fact that he was seen drunk
about his wife's house on the morning the
murder was committed, and the further
fact that he was on bad terms with his
wife aud had frequently threatened her
life.
The woman was alone in the house with
her murderer when the desperate deed was
committed, and no one has yet been found
who heard the fatal shot. The evidence
against the husband is thus purely cir
cumstantial, but IL justifies his arrest, and
that has doubtless already been accom-
plished. Deputy Sheriff Jacobs came TO
this city yesterday, ami, after conference
with District Attorney Gaskill, procured
a warrant and started for Bridgewater.