Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-19
MURDER At SOUTHERlDGE.
A Pistol Shot Caused the Death Of Mrs. Carey
Husband arrested.

SouTHBETDGE, Mass, Oct. IS - This
fact that it was but just made known
that a murder was committed nearly a
week ago The victim was Mrs, Mary
Carey, who was 20 years old, and kept
house for her three sons on Morris street.
Her hush is n dissolute character,
about five years Younger than the muir
dered woman. They lived apart.
Last Thursday morning Mrs. Carey's
married daughter called to see her mother,
and found her lying on the floor in the
pantry unconscious, Surprising the old
lady was in faint she lifted her from the
floor, placed her in bed and sent for DIR.
Edwards. When he arrived he found his
patient in a very critical condition.
She had bguise upon her forehead,
where she struck the floor in falling, and
another over TIE left ear She was also
bleeding from the ear. This is not an I'M
common symptom accompanying cerebral
hemorrhage caused by apoplexy, and the
physician so diagnosed the case.
Everything was done for the suffering
woman that could be done, but she re
manned unconscious, and died at o'clock
Saturday evening, not having spoken from
the time she was found 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
bein. away from home. sent for Medical
Examiner keete DIR. keefe received the
telephone summons Monday afternoon
and went to Southbridge yesterday
lie found the body in the coffin ready
for burial and ordered it removed to an
undertaker's rooms, where, assisted by
Drs. Edwards and Creedon, he performed
an autopsy. It's results verified the dag
nosls Of the attending physician thnt
death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage,
but it also developed the fact that this
hcmorrha2e was caused not by apopleXy
but 10y "a bullet which entered the woman :
left ear ami lodged in her brain
Had Threatened Her Life
The bullet WIS found mud is now in pos
session of DIR. keetc, rs is the pistol from
which 1t was evidently fired. n little-six-
chamber 2! caibrr revolver of the Defeuse
pattern This pistol. with one chamber
was taken from Michael Carey,
husband Of the murdered woman, by
Deputy sheriff Jacobs last Friday. whcn
the former was arrested on charge of
being common drunksrd. Carey was
found guilty saturday and sentenced to
the state farm Mt 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 and had frequently threatened her
life.
The woman WIS alone in the house with |
her murderer when the desperate deed was
and no one has yet been found |
who heard the fatal shot. The evidence
against the husband is thus purely cir |
but it justifles his arrest. and I
that has doubtless already been accom-
plished. Deputy Sheriff Jacobs came to
his city yesterday, and, after conference
With District Attorney Gaskill, procured
a warrant and started for Bridgewater.