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Show ACT OF A FIEND. The Terrible Manner in Which. a Chicago Woman Met Death. Chicago, May 4. A murder that rivals for cruelty and horror the fates of the numerous victims in the London White chapel district was committed between 5 and 0 o'clock last evening in the home of Michael Walsh at :44 Washburne avenue. The victim was Mrs. Bridget Elizabeth Walsh. Walsh left home for work in the morning, leaving his wife following her customary cus-tomary occupations. Walsh returned home a few minutes after 6 o'clock, found the front door locked and gained an entrance to the house through the kitchen. A lire was burning in the stove and the evening meal was partially prepared. The appearance of the room attracted Walsh's attention as bing peculiar, and he started in search of his wife. Noticing a strong and disagreeable odor from the bedroom, he returned there and made a more minute examination. The room was partially darkened, as the window curtains were lowered. He raised them and a pile of rags met his gaze. The first piece of cloth he lifted was stained with blood. He then threw the pile aside, and there on the blood-stained carpet was the nude body of his wife. Sixty-five gashes, varying in length from a half inch to a foot, told the story of death that came only alter a violent struggle, as shown by the disarrangement disar-rangement of the furniture and the spattering spatter-ing of the blood. Not satisfied with killing his victim the slayer so horribly dis' rured i the corpse that even Walsh could hardlv reiilize that he w s gazing on the dead body of his own wife. p From the crown of the woman's head to her feet were cuts in every conceivable direction. di-rection. The wounds were most numerous on the breast and lower limits, where the llesh was ripped and hacked in places until the skin hung in shreds. Along the upper part of the right leg was a gash over a foot in length. Along either side of this wound was a row of small gashes, made with uniform uni-form length and evenly arranged, as if to give a horribly artistic finish to the work. ; Over each eye was a deep gash, another beneath be-neath the right eye, another along the left cheek and still another on the neck under the chin. In the left breast, immediately oyer the heart, was a pair of long-bladed shears that had been driven into the tlesh. L'nder them was a small round hole resembling resem-bling a bullet wound, but there was no trace of powder burns. A broom, that evidently evi-dently had been carried from the kitchen into the bedroom had been broken, and the handle was thrust through the entire length of the trunk, from the lower portion to her throat. Pieces of the - ital organs were torn off and carried along by the blunt wood and the mouth was filled with a mass of blood and llesh. The broom handle had been thrust up with terrible force, for the woman's body was terribly torn, and portions of the organs were left lying on the floor. All the wounds were evidently inflicted by the shears. The cuts are rough and notched. At the lower part of the trunk was this especially es-pecially manifest, where the flesh was cut and torn. For a moment the sight of his wife's body so unnerved Walsh that he was unable to act. Recovering himself, he notified the police. Upon arriving, the police examined the room where the body was found, and on a narrow bed three pillows were covered with blood. On the wall also were great splotches, and the bed clothing was stained. The rags which covered the body, among which was also Mrs. Walsh's clothing, were saturated with blood. The police made a hasty survey of the situation and started to search for the perpetrator of the outrage. They were rewarded, for within four hours the self-confessed murderer was arrested in the person of Thos. AValsh of 143 Washburne avenue, the dead woman's nephew. When the prisoner was taken to the station sta-tion he acknowledged that he was the guilty part', and said that he and Mrs. Walsh had been drinking together, and he made an improper im-proper proposal to her. whereupon she slapped his face. He 3rew aknife'ariu' stabbed her. The sight of blood suddenly drove him Insane, with the result that he mangled and tore the woman a; related above. |