Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-06-11
VICTIMS OF MANIAC.
AGED BUTCHER WORKER GOES
CRAZY NEAR BOSTON.
Brandishing Bloody Weapon, John Muir
ply Throws Factory Into Confusion
by Traversing Seven Floors of Pack
ing Plant, slashing Employees as He
Goes-Hero Downs Crazed Man.

Boston, Mass, June 6.-The dead:
John Carter, negro; Michael Jencius.
William Alley, Edwin Nurse, Herbert
Smith, negro.
Fatally wounded: DR.. Daniel S.
Hayes, stabbed in neck and disem-
boweled; John Chevas, stabbed; arm
slashed nearly off; Joseph Chicosk, cash
in groin.
Eight men slashed to ribbons, five of
them dead and three dying, is the toll
which has followed a maniacal outbreak
of a workman at the North Packing
and Provision company in Somerville,
suburb of Boston.
Slayer Raves in Cell.
John Murphy of Somemville is the
slayer. He was captured and is raw
ing in cell at the police station.
Murphy, aged so, known for years
as morose and vindictive, was on the
seventh floor of the packing plant this
afternoon cutting heads off slaugh-
tered hogs with big knife when the
frenzy seized him. He turned on DR..
Daniel Hayes of Waltham, a govern
ment meat inspector, who stood by his
side, and, with a shrek, buried the
huge knife in the doctor.
He quickly withdrew it and with a
second thrust nearly disemboweled his
victim. Then, bowling in frenzy, dash
ed through the crowd of employees and
fed down the stairs to the sixth floor.
There was a panic on the seventh
floor, but a few of the drawer spirits
started after Murphy.
Through the terrified employees of the
sixth floor, then down to the fifth, the
fourth, the third, the second and then
to the ground floor the maniac ran,
his shrieks spreading terror, and
whenever man stood before him the
knife flashed and the victim fell.
Six Men Fall Victims.
In all, six men fell to the knife be-
fore the basement was reached, where
surrounded by desperate workmen, the
mailman turned to bay.
Hemmed in by furious crowds and
still shrieking wildly, Murphy dared
them to come on. His challenge was
accepted by one unknown italian, who
dashed in with roller and felled the
maniac to the floor with one sweeping
blow. But no sooner was Murphy
down than he sprang up again and
slashing right and left, broke through
the ring that surrounded him and fec
to another part of the basement.
Heart Split by Knife.
Beside him, grOaning ON the floor
lay. Jencius, his heart almost split will
a thrust of the huge knife, and Chevas
whose right arm was almost severed
and who, besides, was bleeding from
the side. Within a few minute
Jencius was still.
And then the crowd drew in again
But they dared not come close. Blood.
and furious, the mailman stood firm
the huge weapon, with which he Gu
the heads from hogs with single blow
clutched in his hand.
Unknown Hero Fells Him.
The crowd gave way-but before tn
police, who had been summoned, al
rived some unknown hero took hear
and just as the bluecoats appeare
he jumped in and fell Murphy agar
this time knocking the deadly knit
from his hand. :.
Before the maniac could regain pos
session of his weapon the police wer
upon him, and it was only after des
perate battle, during which he wa
dubbed almost into Inconsistencies
that Murphy was subdued.