A Horrible Crime.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 21 June 1890, Page 2

A Horrible Crime.

The Amerioan newspapers to,hand Mmail bring partioaiars of afiendiah ii ; crime committed by a young farmer ~. at St. Albans,'" a village midway % between Montreal, and Quebec. Although hard-working, he had an ungovernable temper, and he was madly, but unjustly; jealous of hia some HiifamifyWsisiji Ifc" of his wife, his wife's mother, andilra two chtldren. Nothing is' known of the immediate dispute which led to the tragedy, whioh was discovered on Sunday morning by some neighbors, who, failing to obtain. admission, forced open the door , of the house. The place resembled a slaughterhouse. In the little parlor lay the body df the unfortunate wife, the skull pleft in twain, and the head / partly, severed from the body, . evidently by a Btrong . blow from a sharp axe. Both the 1 woman's breasts had been out off a^L' placed ! alongside-the , and baby had been disembowelled in the' same awful fashion as that adopted : by the Wliiteobapel fiend. Near the wife ldy the corpse of her mother; , the skiill split open, the faoe battered out of 'all recognition, and the body , sliockiiigly mutilated. In an adjoining bedroom were found the .bodies of the two children, also hacked and : torn in a brutal manner. The baby was completely beheaded, and its body partly cut open. The ' appeared to have died in great agony, 1 and m Addition'to oth'er wounds hia» legsf yere almost hacked to pieces. 1 iparties were at once organised. The man was tracked to a wood and ■ ' there 'arrested,, after a t desperato v - f = , strugglb,| Anjattejnjifc tjij t\, ' lynch liim,"but he was safely lodged ' in gaol. .