The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-03-15
MAN
SPREADS DEATH.
His Wife and a Child Slain.
Another Woman Fa-
tall y Stabbed.

| Washington, March a. A crazy man
with muroorous knife ended two liyos
mere this afternoon, and a third vic i'm
Is at deaths door. 1t Is u tragedy I'M
oqnaled In Washington in years
The murderer is Oof PellcseD. IS years
| OF age, HIS victims wcro his wife, jose
phino, and Julia Hcnsbach, u mito of !,
yenrs, who was killed outright and Mrs.
JULIA HcnslacE, mother of the child, Mrs.
liensbach is still alive, but she has seven
stab wounds In various parts OF tie body,
Her recovery is impossible.
rTte butchsry occurred at the residence
Of The Ptllesels about O. clock in the al
ternoon. Mrs. Horseback, who IL the wifs
OF mail collector, had gone to tho Pei
lessen house to have u dress fitted The
work was bong don, by tho woman who
/, how dead. She took her daughter with
her. -g.s
Like tho acts OF most persons with de-
ranged minds, there il no exclamation for
this mnd crime, nor, up TO date, Is there a
coherent story OF details Obtainab All
thnt i, known by the ne!ghboys Is that ter.
rillc screams were heard coming from the
house. woman was srcn running Wild
ly up the street, followed by man with
big knife. The woman was Mrs Hons.
bach. A block further OH u bluwafrom the
knife, driven into her back, pros rated
her.
Then in rapid succession three moro
blows 10 lowed Each time the knife nnk
to the hit. Tho VICTIM attempted to rise
and this seemed to madden her aSsailaut
who was about to strike agai II, when no
was called to by DR.. Wrcnn, a druggist of
tho vicinity who implored him to leave,he
woman alone. For an answer the mad
man drove the knife thrice more INTO
tho prostrats body. Mr. Wrsnn seized
brick and struck tho murderer on the
head. Pe!!cson went down in II hsa p, un-
conscious.
This was what the public saw of tho
tragedy. Before beginning tho race after
Mrs Henstach. Pellesen had attacked
his wife She fed into 'he yard. whore
the knife was driven through her heart
killing her in an instant. Tho crazad bs-
ing then dashed into tho house and ,elzsd
Julia, tbs 3year-old daughter of Mrs.
lensbach There is every evidence that
tho mother struggled desperately to save
hcr child, but in vain. Tho knife was
driven into tho brain from a point Le-
tho cornar where she had boon thrown,
Seeing tho iute Of hor child, the mother
ilod. Tho race for life was Of short dura.
ton.
Thorc was ORC witness to the murder
GUS affair who was unhurmod This Ia
l'cllesfn : child, a girl about the ago Of
tho murdered child From her lips some
idea OF the struggle was gained
"Papa was SICK she slid. land mann
ma wan cd him to tako some medicine.
Then no struck,
TIL; Is all that is known of the tragedy
as it occurred in the house
When the man recovered from the blow
of the brick no was III tho hands of tho po-
lcN, Ito let 1t be known hat he had in
tended to kill himself He remembered
what no had done, but stated
that he had boon commanded to do his
bloody work by tho Almighty. He was
pressed for details OF tho trage iy, but de-
clined to talk, except IN u rambling way.
Tho interior Of the house whers the trag-
cdy occurred Was bespattored with blood
the lower apartlnont1, and
was broken and in disorder.
Pellesen Is Il painter by trade, lie is a
Norwegian by BIRTH but has been In this
country Twelve Years, seven of which he
lived in New York. 1t il thought that
his insanity was cHu-Jd by worrying over
lack Of employment.