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IA Terrible Murder71mm.Polished.oncvIcosvtc..Hill.York 110111. ndelt;lk. ro-?ndly lOticcRE.k. roan dl y loticeg.The following is an account of the Kiunear Murder, continued from last week’s Liberal:“ McDermott stated that ‘in the morning after the night that my heart failed me in carrying out my intentions to murder the housekeeper, 1 was coining into the kitchen to light the tire, and met Grace Marks with the pail in her hand.t'uint' to milk the cows. As she passed me she gave me a poke with the pail in the ribs, and whispered with a sneer: ‘Aien t you a coward ! ’ As she uttered these words, the devil, against whom I had fought all night, entered into my heart, and transformed me into a demon. All feelings ol remorse and mercy forsook me trmn that instant, and darker and deeper plans of mnruer and theft flashed through my mind. ‘Go and feed the cows,’ said I with a bitter laugh, ‘you j-hall soon see if I am the coward you take me for.’ She went out to milk, and I went in to murder the unsuspicious housekeeper I found her at the sink in the kitchen, washing her face in a basin.DOM I IsToroiMommAli ej on the g displaye moved, will notTuesForm o’clock i ernor 0 3 p. iiMonum to His 1 Speed in Enter! a All the hibitinii partmei Garden; ic Wontepecialtdiers.- - — — — — —— — — — - — ——• - — —• - — _. i ^I had the fatal axe in my hand,and with- t 6.30 p.out pausing or an instant to change my mind. 1 struck her a heavy blow on the top of the head with the axe. She fell to the floor at my feet without uttering a word; and opening the trapdoor that led from the kitchen into the cellar, I hurled her dow n, closed the door, and wiped away the perspiration that was streaming down my face.*• A few urnutes later Grace Marks came in with her pails, looking as innocent and demure as the milk they conWbdn:Great under tteui Atstacle a etc., coi ting in in front and Inc Band oMasseyvv.f V uu VHV ii# i i i\ VIIVJ voir /tamed. McDermott told her what he I l)en rYark t rea-ork.itySEtorrnifch-ve the clientloomsn cod-ELion of Brtully [ublic. sjutive wuiei-uptelGood;iou ;oOP.1, §1.00Cl’S,} * oile more it any-lital not Both i. Laree tfit alul nothingyou u 5T A t o.wsTERwill£had done, and demanded that she accompany him down into the cellar to dispose of the body of the murdered woman. She obeyed, and they went into the cellar, which presented a dreadful spec*• tacle. Nancy Montgomery was not dead: she nad only been stunned by the blow. She had partly recovered her senses, and was kneeling on one knee as the hideous pair descended the ladder with a ligli**i don’t know if she saw us,’ said McDermott, ‘for she must have been blinded with the blood that was flowing from her tace; but she certainly heard us, and raised her clasped hands, as if to implore uiercy. 1 turned to Grace. The expression of her livid face was even more dreadful than that of the unfortunate woman. She uttered no cry, but she put her hand to her head and said: ‘Godiuis damned me lor tnis ’ Then you have nothing now to fear said 1; give me that handkerchief off your neck. She ga7« it without a word. 1 threw myself upon the body of the housekeeper, and, planting my knee on her heart, I tied the hand kerchief around her throat in a single tie, giving Grace one end to hold, while I drew the other tight enough to finish my tumble work.*“:Vlr. Km near returned next day, not oil horseback, as he had departed, but driving a light one horse wagon. He was informed that the housekeeper^ had gone to Toronto by the stage, to which iie replied: ‘That is strange, as I passedthe stage and did not see her in it.’ Af*,er tea Kinnear was inveigled by McDermott into the harness-house or back kitchen,and there shot through the heart. He staggered forward and fell, exclaiming as fie did so: ‘O God, I am shot.’The body wao then thrown into the cellar. McDermott and Grace Marks then commenced packing up all the valuables they could find. They both went iuto the cellar, and McDermott took the keys and some money from the murdered man’s pockets. About 11 o’clock p. in. the murderers harnessed the horse; put the boxes in the wagon and started for Toronto, where they breakfasted about 5 o’clock. They then went by boat to Lewiston, where they were to be married, but were arrested the next morning a-bout 6 o’clock by the bailiff and brought back to Toronto. At the trial which followed both were found guilty of muider and were sentenced to be hanged, the female with a recommendation to mercy . McDermott suffered the penalty of the law on the 21st of November, and lus body was hunded over to the Medical School,The younger criminal whs forwarded to the Provincial Penitentiary at Kingston, iter sentence having been commuted toimprisonment for life. For a short timesince her imprisonment site occupied a ceil in the ii.saiie Asylum, Toronto, it haviug been thought she was a maniac. She was soon sent back to the Penitentiary as it was said by the keeper of the Asylum her insanity was feigued. After several petitions to the Government she was liberated, and it is said she afterwards changed her uaiue and man ltd. Though the surroundings have much changed during the last 40 tears, the house still stands, and shows the trapdoor where the uufoi tuuate victims were thrown afrer the murder. The place is owned aud occupied by Mr. E. 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Richmond Hill Liberal
Richmond Hill, Ontario, CA
Thu, Sep 01, 1887
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