Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-06-05
A WOMAN MURDERED.
BY Councilman VIM. c. McCor-
mick of UniontoWn.

LII Fit of Jealous Rage He Kills His
ParamOur's Mother - Though the
Fatal Result Seems to Have Been Ac-
eidentaI-A Rivals Presence in The
House Caused the Insane Act-Mc-
Cormick has Been Rather Promin
ent Man for Many Years-SOmething
of the story of the Lias0n With the
Daughter of the Murdered Woman.
UNIoNTowN, Pa. June g. Coun-
Gilman William G Mccormick, promin-
ent here as politician and contractor
early this morning killed Mrs. Minerva
Monaghan in her home on Jefferson
street, while she was trying to protect
her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude McGogan
from the attack of Mccormick. Nc
Cormick is in jail, together with
Richard Diffenderffer, a young man.
One of the strange things about
the crime is that Mccormick, who is
stone blind, found an open window
/ and stole to a second-Story room 0c-
cupied by Mrs. McGogan, and there
uioCONCICu lINdl was III UuC houoC
with her.
/ That jealousy is at the bottom of
| the murder is freely limited, but this
/ has not been brought out by the cor
oner's examination. Mrs Monaghan's
death was due to her endeavor to save
her daughter when Mccormick broke
! nto her room, and the fatal blow was
purely accidental.
There is a sensational story in the
matter leading to the tragedy and
the motive for the desperate assault
on Mrs. McGogan, which she seemed
/ inclined to conceal when brought be-
fore the coroner's jury this morning.
Mccormick has been blind about four
years, having lost his sight from some
disease. Not long before he went
blind he began paying attention to
Mrs. McGogan. They have not had
any trouble, and it was not known
that Mccormick was jealous of her.
Mrs. McGogan made her home with
her mother, having been deserted by
her husband shortly after they were
married five or six years ago. She is
young woman, prepossessing in APP
pearance and with pleasant manners.
CALLED TO SEE MRS. M'GoGAN.
Mccormick called at the Monaghan
house last night about 10 o'clock to
see Mrs. McGogan, and left in the
course of an hour, Mrs. McGogan &C
companying him to the door, and af-
ter seeing him started on the way
home locked up the house. McCor-
mick lives only few doors away on
the other side of Jefferson street.
Something seems to have aroused Nc
Cormick's suspicious, for he asked
Mrs. McGogan il anyone else was in
the house, but she assured him she
was alone with her mother.
Shortly after midnight he left his
home in his bare feet and found his
way to the Monaghan house alone,
where he opened parlor window
which he found unfastened and stole
cautiously to the second story, where
Mrs. McGogan has front room. He
found the door locked and all dark.
He demanded entrance, and with
out waiting for the door to be opened
threw himself against it and burst in
to the room. He was familiar with
the arrangements Of the room, and
grasping water pitcher on a stand
Just inside of the door ran to the bed,
exclaiming:
''Gert ! am going to kill you!"
He brought the pitcher down over
her head smashing it and cutting her
badly. He was still hammering her
with the remains of the pitcher when
young "Dick" Diffenderffer, who was
in the room with her, made an effort
to pass Mccormick and get through
the only door, before which Mrs. Nc
Gogan and Mccormick were strug-
Cling The latter struck DiffenderffeI
in the back with the pitcher, cutting
several gashes.
CUT HER IN THE NECK.
When Mccormick and Mrs. McGo-
gan fought their way into the hall he
holding her by one hand and the brok-
en- pitcher in the other, her mother
ran from her room, and catching hold
of Mccormick tried to quell the dis
turbance and free Mrs. McGogan.
Mccormick swung his loose hand
with the piece of pitcher, and the
ragged edges struck her in the neck,
cutting all the great arteries. She
exclaimed weakly as she fell, 'sOh, he
has cut my throat" Mccormick could
not see what he had done, and think
ing the woman was only stunned, he
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