Show GROUND OUT BY GIN MILLS A great arlt of blur murder der and other th r crime crimes among the regular grist of suicides murders and other crimea crime a aroun ground d outa out by y the rum ruin mills of new york city nud and vicinity during the last few days several cues are worthy of special note one was that of ex Congress maii hopkins who was found dead in a ditch one morning on the new jersey meadows his friends say that he undoubtedly committed suicide in a fit of des cy caused by drink flo had been on oil the down grade for several years and was a physical and mental wreck another case WAS that of a wife ekk sick with consumption and near to death who was set upon and pounded and kicked into unconsciousness by her drunken husband because shedid ehe did not comply with his demands for money this same fiend also took his five year old child and held it against a hot stove until one of its limbs was literally roasted A third case was that of a woman in Brool brooklyn clyn who stabbed her brother to the heart in a wrangle over a keg of beer another was that of a woman who was found by a policeman bleeding and unconscious hanging by her clothes from a fire escape where she had been thrown by her husband after a beating ho ile was found drunk on the floor inside still another case was that of a man who cabile came home drunk and in a fit of jealous and causeless rage threw a it lighted lamp at his young wife it knocked lier her down and the tile lighted oil flew flow over her whole who lobody body in Ina a moment she was a blazing bundle and regaining her feet ran shrieking to the street where ehe she was caught and carried to a neighboring house the flames having been quenched she was however horribly burned on every part of her body and six hours later died in terrible agony before she died her husband was arrested and taken to her cot in the hospital she looked at him and said 1 I saw him raise the lamp but I 1 see him throw it then she turned liei her face away and wailed oh dick I 1 never was unfaithful do we need to look for savaged savages in africa or fiends in hell bell wito are capable of more awful deeds than these christian at work |