THE SLAYER SLAIN.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 237, 13 March 1875, Page 3

THE SLAYER SLAIN.

{From the Pall3l all Gazette.) A Manchester man has lately died at Mazatlan, in Mexico, known as Tom Adams, having amassed a considerable sum, amounting to about 18,000 dols, by the most persevering industry, in a quiet, unostentatious manner. It appears by the account given of Adams in the Toronto Weekly Globe (furnished by a correspondent at Mazatlan of the New York Times) that just before his death on the 15th of October he sent for Captain Verplank, the American commercial agent, and confided to him that he had committed fourteen murders. His real name, he stated, was George Worley, and he was a native of Manchester. His first murder was that of the second mate of the American ship Cultivator, in the Liverpool Hocks, about the year 1854. In the year 1855 he was known by the now illustrious name of Orton, and murdered a painter at Oswego by striking him down with a slung shot and then throwing him over a bridge. After this he assumed the name of Townsend, and murdered four persons at Toronto, in Canada, including a sheriff, a few miles west of Niagara River. A reward having been offered for his arrest, Adams found it convenient to leave the country, and proceeding by way of Toledo to Chicago, he murdered three persons in one summer in that city—namely, the captain of a vessel whom he followed from a saloon, a German saloonkeeper whom he killed in his bed, and a man unknown to him. After these murders he was arrested for burglary, and served a term of three years in the Illinois State Prison. He then went to New York, where he remained about one year, and committed two murders during that period, both his victims being unknown to him—one of them being a countryman whom he enticed to the outskirts of the city, and on whose body he found about 2000 dols. After leaving New York he seems to have made an attempt to conquer his murderous inclinations, and was for some little time engaged in simple robberies in the Southern States. The old passion, however, was too strong for him, for, returning to Baltimore, he murdered a woman in that city, and subsequently committed one murder in Louisville and another in Memphis. He ultimately settled at Mazatlan about ten years ago, where he kept a tavern and dance house. His end was sad. He was shot by a Spanish gambler named Gonzales in a drunken quarrel over a throw of dice, and died from the effects of the wound.