The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-26

~ - pel.ce are face to face with mys-
.sZ .e.ons and brutal murder committed In
tin - at the Monongahela house, corner
Ioy srC1erry street and Third avenue. Thurs
- - afternoon or evening. 1t rivals the
~ ,Nnnes case In brutality. the Bianiher
rss - 4 San Francisco in deliberate action
~ - ~ c<.ebrated Borden case Cor silent
Al 2xsstee.
al ~ victim was Mrs. Margaret
upearke. Of Milwaukee. an unattractive,
q - 1T Of a woman. crippled both as to
r. - ut and hands.
M body was discovered yesterday
A. 1tsx noon lying on the bed with a conf
2 1srss thrown over it. Tie cold. rigid
.SSsrn Was smeared with dried blood from
- - head 10 the shoulders. The hands ana
. .ssfn we're bathed IN gore. On her head
sas ave Horrible wounds. made with an
% = hammer which the murderer had
n Arswn under the bed.
1Asre we're pools of blood on the floor
s2 II tAs aide of the bed over which COM
IS k1sf had been thrown. In a wash bowl
- ~ tiood-stained water
~ NJ murderer committed his awful deed.
= oaeealed his work temporarily. locked
1NAs door. put the key in his pocket and
= Ssasd away.
- No one saw him enter the room or go
~ nay. There Is no trace of his identity.
Re detectives differ in opinions as to the
~ @assire for the foul deed. Possibly 1. may
II hive beer. robbery. but there are eircum-
81 aAAces which point TO the past When
nksSslk woman's life Is run down step by step
~ Mar may be a food OF light. She quar-
~ NED with her husband, James % Rourke,
- md obtained a divorce from him. but
here IL good reason TO believe him dead
10 Mrs oRourke appeared at the Monen-
n enheia house March IL and rented room
~ NO. 10 for one week. paying s. On March
". y she paid ~ more, which gave her the
ass OF the room up 10 yesterday. She d.d
not register. but simply gave her name
to the clerk as Mrs. O'RourSe. When
Hrs o'Rourke went to live at the Mo-
3 nongsheia house II was conducted by
0sferioh Murphy. two newcomers in
kaste. They sold cut to Nj. l.. A. Grif-
Ma who took charge last Monday. There
N vas an entire change In the working force
a Ms. T. II. Douglass assumed the duties
p. hcasekeeper As the number OF rooms
small she also attended to them,
II She Was n auiet Woman.
n Both Mr.. Griffith and Mrs. Douglass be-
= cane acquainted with Mrs. O'Rourke In
u A nal 49,.
q about her She was quiet little woman
sha did not go out nights so far as they
Her. or receive gentlemen callers.
81 Early Wednesday evening Mr. Griffith
II sae Mrs. Douglass saw her 60 UP the
h N1fs She was on the top stair when
saes saw her, and a rather stout. broad
hanldered man with black oyercaat ana
= s'ay hair had just turned 10 tho lef, and
vas going al0Eg tho hallway three or four
yet ahead Of her. The presumption was
II ne vas with Mrs. oRourke. hu; he WAS
~ seen to so into her room Neither
~ Griffith Dor Mrs Douglass has any
a'a sao he WAS. That was She on,y time
sse Ran was ever seen az the house r.
- AIRS. oRaurke's custom 10 20 ont
ssF anneF between and s o'clock. sh,
- - sometimes al the German bakery cor
as' OK Third avenue and james stree. hut
s@s waters there say she always came
n s'sss, Detective Bartee rcmeu7ers .,
hzse seen her last Friday evening waIk.
II as along Third avenue. between James
$50 caetry street. with a man. She had
Aea Of his arm.
~ Sssse could 40; aave been mistaken
@ase Ms. o'Roarke haa pseuliar4,ies
msfks3 her. She WAS very small
eesn WITH, perhaps tsiae over sva
'sa' and slender. She would 10,
SO nafs than uirets-flve re,,,,s.
'es' were crippled. asA sAa couse.
a'S walked wiki a sors e linlp phv-
LAS say that ler feet we're des,rrns.,
'1. Sac Woald ae spoken - 3
u .aa-' Footed. Hcg fingers were e,,,rae,a,,
81 certain extent her hands Kaxe her
appearance - Bang VITA, Same ,,s,-
Il = cal "a winS-arrned woman snA
81 nlodes'!y. IN dark e5i9~s
'esd Mrs neas.ass aha, ST. WAS
: sS&i'ao or Her way e A,.ska a., "a,
81 vas WITH party wnsch vas e..,s
10 .choouer S. -. vas ~@S ',, .
0e's She ala 10; give ,se s.,nas
as ss the peenla that were suppose,