Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-11-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MAN STABBBD TO DEATH IN A WARE.  HOUSE.  Newcastle was en Thdeedazot the scene of • terrible ' crime by which a waste paper dealer named Daniel O'Neil was cruelly done to death in the upper ' storey of a house in Low Friar street, Newcastle. , The deed was done so suddenly and secretly that the fact of its commital might even have escaped notice for a considerable time, had not the poLee been apprised of it in a most singular manner by a person who voluntarily surrendered himself to them as the author .A the crane. Until that time no one was aware of what had been done, but the man's self accusation caused enquiries to be made, and these resulted in the discovery of the victim's , body in the place indicated by the informer, who was, of coarse, detained whilst the matter is being en • quired into. It appears that on Thursday night about 9.30 a young man, who gave the name of George Walls, gaNe himself up to Police Constable Hewatt, who was standing at the corner of Bridgestreet, Sunderland, and said he had murdered a man in a warehouse in Low Friar. street, Newcastle. He was evidently the worse for drink. The constable took him to the police I station. A telephonic message was sent to the I Newcastle police, who at once instituted a search. I The astonishing news wan received at Westgate Police Station, Newcastle, about twenty minutes past ten o'clock. Inspector Spencer and Sergeant Armstrong went in company to the place indicated. There were sufficient indicathms to convince the police that something serious had taken place. The paper on the floor was covered with splashes of blood, and there was blood upon the walls and upon what little furniture there was in the room. There was no body at first visible, but in crossing the lower room Inspector Spencer stumbled across something, and, stooping down, discovered the feet of a man protruding from beneath some bags of paper that had been piled upon each other in the corner of the room, right at the foot of the staircase. Inspector Spencer and Sergeant Armstrong together pulled down the bags, and the body of a man was found lying, quite dead. I . . .  . . The fact that a tragedy bad occurred became known to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood soon after the body was discovered, and created much sensation. It was stated that the door of the warehouse had been open all day, and it is quite possible that several people may have looked in during the day, and may have called for O'Neil, without, of course, receiving any answer. Even if the body bad been uncovered it would have been difficult for anybody to see it. The warehouse, situated at the foot of an archway, is, even in the day time, very dark. O'Neil was well known to the people who lived round about h'm, and many were heard to utter words of regret at his terrible death. He had a brother, Patrick O'Neil, living in Joint Stock Entry, Sandhi% but had no other relatives in Newcastle. O'Neil is commonly regarded as being eccentric, and it is stated that he was some time ago for a while in Coxlodge Asylum. Although Irish by birth, be had lived so many years in Newcastle that he had lost nearly all trace of his nat'onality—even its dialect. His most noticeable features were his extremely bushy eyebrows and keen eyes.