ATROCIOUS MURDERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3563, 16 July 1890, Page 2

ATROCIOUS MURDERS.

A terrible murder was committed at Stockton-on-Tees early on May 11, thomurderorbeing caughtred-handefl, though not in time to save his victim's life. The criminal is a young man n'araed Frederick Terry, aged twentyone, who till a few weeks ago was employed under his father, who is a gasmanager at Croft.near Darlington. On tbo previous night Terry and a. young woman named Sarah Merry.

weather took lodgings in Stockton under the representation that they were mau and wife. Merryweather, whose parents live at Northallerton, had been in domestic service at Stockton until a few weeks ago, Early in the morning loud screams from the room where the two had passed the night aroused the neighbors. A man named Lockwood rushed

Into the apartment and found Terry slashing furiously at the girl's throat. Without waiting to investigate tbo terrible affair, Lockwood dragged Merryweather from the room, locked the door on ; Terry, and ran with all speed for the police. On returning with- the. officer it was found that Terry lrad-made no attempt to escape. The young woman was dead. She had been slashed m a demoniacal manner, her throat, chest, breasts, cheeks, and the lower part of her face being scored with deep cuts, The room presented the appearance of aslaughter bouse from the quantity of blood that had flowed from the victim's wounds, Terry was of course placei under drrest, but he exhibits the coolest indifference with regard to his awful crimo, ■

Early on May 13th a brutal mur

derwds committed at Bradford, the victim being a woman about thirty years of age, named Annie Harrisoa, residing in Lord street, and her husband James Harrison, a man well-known to the police, wis the person who committed the deed. It appears that shortly after five o'clock. Harrisou went up to his wife's bedroom, and without saying a- word to her, dragged her out of bed and stabbed her with a largo oarving knife,. Ho then seized her by the hair, and afterwards dragged her downstairs into the kitchen, beating in her skull witii a poker. The horrible deed was : perpetrated in the presence'of. the murderer's threo

, children. ■■ Sdmo of the neighbors hearing tho scroams broke into tha house, but Mrs Harrison was then lying dead on the flood, and presented a fearful appearance. The murderer seemed perfectly indifferent to what had taken place, and when the policeman arrived on the sceno he calmly gave himself up. As he passed along the street he cqolty bade bis acceptances good mqrning. It is stated that the two people have led very unhappy lives,' an,d, that ho has on many occasions threatened to kill his wife.. His reputation for violence was sueh that none of the neighbors fared to. iuterfore, Harrison ha 3 been employed as a dyer, but he was discharged two months ago for .drunkenness. Since then he has-lived oil his wife, who, by working at a mill, has supported him and. three little children, He had got another place, and was to have rosumed work tho morning ho committed the mur-

der, but seems to Jiayo tabu umbrage when she": roused him, and when be , had dressed deliberately fetohed a i knife from .downstairs, and commenced bis terrible attaok upon her.