The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-06
HID SLAIN WIFE
Whom He Had Beaten to Death,
in a Big Trunk,
AND THEN BAN,
The Brute of Husband, Who Too
Two Thousand Dollars of His Vic.
tins Money, Tells His Mife's
Mother That Fight Start.
ed About Whiskey.


Through confession OF his oW
mother, and uncle and brothsr-in. LAY
John Hammond now stands &C use
Of the murder Of bis wife, whose boo
vas found sques z2d into trunk il
she fireplace OF their home on Soutl
F-rry street, Albany, N. Y. The po
Lee learned Tuesday Light that Ham
mo: d 8as in NJ ntr, al and lis arrest j
IN nmlneDt.
Although Hammond showed extra
ordinary foresight in preventing to.
,vidences OF his alleged crime from at
5ractirg attention, he could not, &C
aordina to hi, relatives, bear the bur
den OF his guilt alcne. Before go!n:
to Montreal or Nov mber IA. be tclt
bis mother and brother.in.law thai
he had killed his wife and concealed
neE body IN trunk.
ames Mangini, Hanmond's broth
erin Law, was arrested Tuesday II
Cohoes and brcu ght to Albany. He
soid the police that on the night o1
4 >ve % esr Il Hammond called on him
al d induced him to accompany him tc
Buses Point. On tae way there both
men took a number OF drinks, ard
Hammond finally told Mangini that
on Sunday before ne and his wife had
gu .rreiled.
According to Mangipi's story, both
Hammond and his wife had been
drinking. Hamm ond wanted aoothsr
drink anG his wife would not let him
have it. In fit OF rage he picked up
an empty bottle and hit her on the
head. He left her lying on the floor
and went into the next room for more
i!q1or. When be came b3ck she was
dead.
Then Hammond, according to Man
gini's story, rcped her body and oat it
IL the trunk, taking pains to stop up
the doorsand windows and to sprinkle
chloride OF lime oyer the b1dy and the
room.
Mangini says that on the train
Hammond sho we'd him roll contain
ing $1,000 in bills. Il was learned
Tuesday that shortly before the crime
was Committed Hammond induced his
wife to draw large sums from several
banks. Oa Monday, the day follow
ing the murder, he bought 5000 fur
oVercoat.
Hammond's story OF the crime, as
6old by Manglni, does lot agree witt
the conclusions reached by the physi-
clans who examined Mrs. Hamnond'>
body and who found unmistsbie marks
Of strangulation and many bruises.
Mangini left his brother-in Law at
Rouse'SPoint, where Hammond tClS
him be WIS going into Canada. The
police axe searching in Montreal and
the v.ciniGy. The Hammonds are a Can.
adam French family and tits thought
that the husband OF the murdered
woman may be hiding with one OF his
Canadian relatives. Tue Cobo2s police
late Tu ssday night declared that they
nad definite information that Ham
uond is In or near Montreal.
Mangini sajs that Hammond was
on the Verge If nervous collapse on
tha trip toward Canada. At Rouse's
Pvint they went together to visit an
uncle OF Ham nond to who 10 the fugi
tive also col ;ssed that he had killed
his wife.
The autopsy upon the woman's body
has shown that she was strang!ed with
great violence, and that before death
she was brutally bsaten or kicked.
The stranger gripped her so tightly
chat the hyoid bone at the base Of
the tongue was fractured The cody
mas many bruises on the face, chest
and hips.
There seems to be little doubt that
the murder was committed on the
afternoon OF SUNDAY, November II,
for neighbors on thai day heard tbs
piano played as she often played it,
for she was a musician If considerable
ability. The neighbo1s say that tie
playing stopped abruptly, and THAI
afaer that no sound was heard from
che Hammond apartment, though
Hammond himself was seen about this
house later that day.
Hammond told womsn llVi2g on
the first floor Of the house, watch was
owned by Mrs. Hammond, that his
wife had gole down the river to buy
3 farm, and you'd be absent several
days.
It was learned Gu:siay that on No
Vember 10 Mis-. Hammond drew up
ward OF $500 from the savings
bank, at first receiving a New YjIk
draft, but next day exchanging it for
cash.
Important in this connection is the
fact than On Monday, Njvenoer 13,
a man declared to be Hammond or
dered from a leading clothing house
ali expensive fur overcoat They could
cot fit hin, and asked for deposit
on the crler. he left what vas su ?.
posed to be two ten dollar bills, bat
when the clerk examined them, after
H3mno2d had gene, he found the
bills were 500 each. At another
place the same man bought other
clothing ana left Lis name and ad
dress.
When the house was searched Mon.
day morning a new pocketb5ok was
found behind the piano. It had q
snall lock, but had been cut to pieces
1t is believed that this contained the
money drawn from the bank by Mrs
Hammond.
The house where the murder occur
red was form or]y used as police sta
5ioc, and at least three suicides ant
several fires are said to have occurred
there. The families now living there
are respectable folk.
a funeral IN the upper story OF ths
South Ferry street house Tuesday LEI
to the discovery OF the murder. 4
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