PITTSBURG, Sept. 9—A peculiarly distressing accident occurred about 7 o’clock this morning at the suburban residence of James T. McIntosh, a well known merchant, located about five miles from the city. A son of Mr. McIntosh, aged about twenty-three years, was in the act of shooting a cat, when his mother stepped in front of the animal. The bullet struck her on the back of the head, and she fell to the ground unconscious. The wound is considered fatal, although she was still living at noon. The young man was crazed with grief, and attempted to commit suicide.
The Old Gentleman Struck His Wife and the Young Man Killed Him.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb 2.—David Porter, Deputy Collector of Customs at Savannah, was shot and killed by his sixteen-year-old son at one o’clock this morning at Porter’s residence. Porter went home late under the influence of liquor, and being chided by his wife, struck her. His daughter interfered, and then young Porter ran to a bureau, and pulling out a loaded revolver fired at his father. The father turned on the son and they fell on the floor together.
In the struggle for the pistol young Porter shot twice again, the last shot penetrating his father’s breast near the heart. He staggered to his feet and into the next room, and fell into a rocking-chair and died. The son ran into the street and called to a neighbor that he had shot his father. He then summoned the family physician, and after that walked to police headquarters and surrendered.
From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
(The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook)
SAULT STE MARIE, Mich., Jan.17—A year ago Silas Coulter, a wealthy farmer living near here, was murdered. Suspicion pointed to his son William, with whom he had not been on good terms for several years, and the young man was arrested and tried for the killing. The trial resulted in the acquittal of the son. Friday night the son at a revival meeting of the Free Methodists professed religion and confessed that he murdered his father. He was arrested.
WINCHESTER, Va., Sept. 8.—Rowland Reed, a colored boy 13 years of age, residing near Brucetown, this county, was placed in jail here to-day charged with the murder of his brother, only 10 years old. The parents were absent from home when the two boys, it is supposed, quarrelled, when Rowland took a gun loaded with slugs and fired the contents into the stomach of his brother, then dragging the body to a ditch near by covered it over..
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Charles McCarty, a northside rough, got into a quarrel with his brother James to-day, in the course of which he pulled a revolver and fired. The shot missing its intended victim, almost instantly killed Jeremiah McCarty, the young men’s father, who was standing near. The parricide was immediately arrested and jailed.
LAFAYETTE, Aug. 7.—William Hancock, aged 57, a farmer residing eight miles from here, quarrelled with his son William yesterday, over the division of crops. Both had shot guns and when the father raised his gun to fire, the son shot him dead. Another son then shot William in the eye when he in turn was shot in the side by William. William has been arrested.
SHE THROWS HER FIVE CHILDREN INTO A MILL POND AND THEN JUMPS IN HERSELF—THE MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN DROWNED.
READING, May 12.—Late this afternoon, Mrs. Hiram Pfantz, aged about 42 years, residing at Binkley’s Mill, near Lititz, took her five children to a millpond and threw them all into the stream and then jumped in herself and was drowned, together with two of her youngest children, aged one and three years respectively. The three other children, the eldest ten years old, were rescued and resuscitated with the greatest difficulty. The act was caused by religious excitement. The coroner will hold an inquest.
