The Daily Times. — 1860-11-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—There is no large city in the Union where the crime of murder is less frequently committed than in Boston, and whenever a bloody deed resulting in the death of one human being at the hands of another occurs, the community is startled, and the matter becomes subject for long-continued and eager public discussion. At noonday, not only in broad daylight, but in the vicinity of one of the principal avenues of the city—where thousands pass and repass at all hours of the day—the life of a young woman, as well as that of a male companion was, attempted by one who almost succeeded in terminating his own feverish existence. The bare facts of the case, as at first revealed, are as follow :—Miss Fanny may, of prepossessing appearance, and about seventeen years of age, met her former employer and the husband of her cousin, Mr. Joseph Hernandez, at the store of Reynolds, Mollendy, & Co., No. 43, Hanoverstreet, having engaged to meet him there, as we are informed, to look over with him some disputed accounts between him and a Mr. Pratt, of whom he had bought goods. Miss May was employed by Hernandez to take charge of his business, and, as is said, was supposed to know something about the accounts. The bills and other papers were scattered over the desk at which Miss May was sitting, and Mr. Hernandez appeared to be engaged with her in lookißg them over. Some time was occupied in this way, and nothing unusual attracted the attention of the other persons in the store, until Mr. Hernandez, without a particle of warning, drew a six-barrelled revolver, .and, aiming at Miss May's head, fired it. The screams of the woman and the discharge of the ,pistol were heard in the adjotning store, which is kept by Messrs. Wilson, Fairbank, and Co., and Mr. Wilson at once went in to ascertain the trouble. Miss May, who was sitting in a chair when Hernandez first fired, threw herself into the arms of her brother-in-law, Mr. C. H. Hall. A second ball was then fired at Mr. Hall, who had a narrow escape, the ball passing over and in close proximity to his head, and lodging in the wall. Hernandez, finding that he had failed in his attempt, suddenly turned the pistol round, aiming at his abdomen, and fired. Afterwards he swallowed a dose of arsenic, and, calmly divesting himself of his coat and vest, lay down upon a box, remarking to some one who desired him to go to a carriage which had been procured to carry him home, "Let me die in peace." He was eventually conveyed to his home, No. 32, Leverett-street, in a dying condition. Miss May was taken to her home in Aliston-street, in a. carriage, by Mr. Wilson, when it was soon ascertained that she had fortunately escaped all serious injury. The ball, after striking the forehead, glanced off without inflicting any wound of a serious character. In his pocket was found a letter, in which he expressed the wish that Fanny and himself should be buried tozether. This shows that his intention was to kill-her and then himself. The parties had been quite intimate, notwithstanding the man was the possessor of a wife and two children. The wife of Hernandez states that she some time since discovered the infatuation of her husband for Miss May, and informed him of it, at the same time stating that she forgave him. His wife in wired of him whether he killed himself on account of Lanny,l or on account of his business. In reply he stated that it was on account of hia:bnaiuess. While he was sensible, he asked for a minister to be sent for.—Boston (U.S) Post,