Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 6 No. 161, Saturday, January 20, 1894

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Vol. 6, No. 161. WACO, TEXAS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1894. 50c. Per Month.
Corset
NGER ROTHERS
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Department e ilarged to double
its fo *mer size.
Grand Cle
This Week
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epartment!
aring up Sale.
We are throwing jut some makes and taking in
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close out this week.- We offer
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LOT I.
LOT 2.
LOT 3.
LOT 4.
Corsets wo *th up to
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Corsets woifth up to
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Corsets wo
$2.75 at
t th up to
Corsets woith up to
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50 cts
$1.00
$1.50
$1.95
LOT 5.
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ine French corsets, re-at
A TERRIBLE MURDER
Man and Wile Horribly Beaten
by Burglars.
MAN DEAD AND THE WOMAN MAY DIE
The Thieves Became Alarmed After Their
Bloody Deed and Left Without Booty.
L. Lipshitz, who kept a small
grocery on the corner of Tenth and
Ross avenue, was murdered in his
home at 2 o’clock this morning, and
his wife now lies unconscious with
a fractured skull, while friends and
physicians linger over her bed with
little hope of her recovery.
The perpetrators of the terrible
crime are unknown, and there is no
clue that seems likely to lead to their
disoovery. ,
Mr. and MrsALipshitz lived in a
cottage which was built onto the
back part of their store at Tenth
and Ross.
About 2 o’clock Mr. Frank Shum-way,
who lives two doors north of
the Lipshitz house, was awakened by
some one knocking on his door. He
opened the door and there stood
Mrs. Lipshitz, the blood streaming
from a terrible gash in her fore-head,
calling upon him to come and
save her husband from men who
were trying to murder him^
Hastily pulling on his trousers
and shoes, Mr. Shumway ran over
to the Lipshitz house. When he
•jot there a terrible sight met his
eye. Lying on the floor of the
dining-room, in a pool of his own
blood, was Mr. Lipshitz, with
brains oozing and blood streaming
from a terrible wound in the head.
Mrs. Lipshitz had immediately re
turned to the house from Shum-way’s,
but had by this time beoome
so weak from loss of blood and the
shock of the fearful blow she had
reoeived that she was incapable of
ooherent speech.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUSED.
Mr. Shumway immediately gave
the alarm, and in a few minutes the
whole neighborhood was aroused.
Men were running for officers and
phygicians, and kindly women were
arriving to do what they could for
the sufferers.
Dr. G. B. Foscue was the first
physician to whom word was eon-veyed,
and he arrived on the scene
within half an hour from the occur-rence
of the tragedy.
He Qfound Mr. Lipshitz beyond
human aid, the only question being
one of time, when his heart would
cease to beat. He had been struck
two fearful blows upon the right
side of the head, near the top, with
some heavy instrument, which had
out through the scalp and crushed
in the sknll. The two wounds
crossed almost at right angles, and
the edges of the skull about the
wound were crushed in so as to
make a horrible opening, through
which the brains, all mashed to
gether aad clotted with blood, were
freely oozing.
Seeing the hopelessness of doing
anything for Mr. Lipshi' z, all atten-tion
was turned towards his wife.
She had been struck on the right
side of the forehead, near the roots
of the hair, smashing in the upper
part of the frontal bone. From
this wound the blood was gashing
rapidly, and death must soon have
followed had the flow not been
stopped.
As it is, the great loss of blood,
the conoussion of the brain, and the
tremendous shock to the nervoas
system, added to the fact that she is
enciente, combine to render her con-dition
extremely doubtful, and put
her reoovery almost beyond hope.
Dr. H. C.. Blaok joined Dr.
Foscue about 5 o’clook, and every-thing
was done that skill could de-vise
or seience suggest, but the life
of Mr. Lipshitz flowed out at 9:30,
and Mrs. Lipshitz hovers between
the known and the unknown, with
the chanoes greatly against her.
THE OFFICERS INFORMED.
Within fifteen minutes from the
time the blows were struck, Officer
Berry, who was on duty at the M[
K T. depot, had been informed,
and had telephoned the news to po-lice
headquarters.
Five minutes later all the officers
in call were out and on liie way to
the scene of the tragedy. A runner
was sent to Officer Sam Hall’s house
to bring his blood hounds, but a
heavy rain began falling, and the
matter of trailing by scent was be-yond
possibility.
An examination of the premises
showed the manner of entrance of
the assassins, and gavi an undoubted
olue to the object of their visita-tion.
It also furnishes a most prob-able
theory as to the manner of
their*murderous enactment.
Entrance had been effected by un-covering
the strap hinges and taking
off one of the front shutters. Be-hind
this shutter a pane of glass
had previously been broken and the
putty scratched from the sash, pre-paratory
to putting in another pane.
With the shutter removed, entrance
was easy.
From the side of the store room,
almost at the baok end, a door leads
to an apartment used by Mr and
Mrs. Lipshitz as a bed room. Baok
of this is the dining room, in which
Mr. Lipshitz was found. When
found he had on bis night clothes
and his trowhers. ftr
He had evidentljCfeeen awakened
by a noise in the store, put on his
trowsers, and gone out to ee what
it was. When the burg’ars saw
him they pursued him through the
bed room into the dining room, and
there struck him down. It is thought
by those who have examined the
matter most closely that they de
manded money, and when he refus-ed
to give it them, killed him
Then, seeing that Mrs. Lipshitz was
awake, turned upon her also with
murderous intent, but, in their hur-ry
and fright, failed to do thorough
work.
Their efforts at robbery seem to
have been futile, for whatever
money was about the place was
probably in an iron safe whioh was
kept in the store. This showed no
signs of molestation, nor had any of
the goods in th8 store been dis
turbed.
The instrument used was evident
ly blunt, with square corners—like
bar iron, or a fisti plate. It cut the
scalp clean, like a knife, but did not
oleave the skull like a hatchet or
other sharp instrument.
SEARCH INSTITUTED.
Officers, both county and munici-pal,
at once began scouring the city
in every direction, arresting every
suspicious character,black or ^Jaite
whom they found. By 12 o’clook
forty arrests had been made, though
all who were able to give satisfac
tory accounts of their whereabouts
were promptly discharged. Fifteen
are still held as vagrants.
The last arrest made was that of
a negro named Henry Ellis. He is
a weak minded fellow, known to a
great many people in the city, and
the chief show of testimony against
him is the supposed presenoe of
blood drops on his shoes. He was
arrested at the instigation of
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away from the scene of the murder, has formed the chief topic of con-versation,
and every detail has been
Tommy Wolf, who alleges that
last night.
Many persons have been seen
by the officers wbo have noticed
others whose actions were suspi-cions.
Henry Strickel, a young boy, who
clerked in Lipshitz’s store, says he
noticed two strange men eying the
premises yesterday in a suspicious
manner. This may account for the
fact that the robbers seemed to
know the proper shatter to take off
to get to the window with the miss-ing
pane.
Mr. John Morgan says he was
returning home from the house of a
sick friend when he met two white
men hurrying along the street not
far from the Lipshitz plaoe. They
appeared to be exoited. Could they
have been the same men that
Strickel had noticed?
Three negroes who tried to get
into the Daughtrey residence, on
Cleveland street, were frightened
away. Could they have turned
their attention in another direction?
On the same lot with the Lipshitz
house stands the Holoomb meat
market, in which two negroes, a
few weeks ago assaulted,choked and
robbed the proptietor. Is there a
murderous gang of negro robbers
infesting that section of the city?
A POSSIBLE CLUB.
The only thing discovered so far
whioh it seems possible to convert
into a tangible clue is a white and
brown striped cap, whioh was
pioked np in the room where Lip-shitz
lay.
A hole in this cap had the appear-ance
of being made by a blunt
instrument, such as might have
oaused the wounds on Lipshitz’s
head. The ragged hole in the cap
was on the wrong side to have been
made by the blow that killed Lip-shitz,
provided he had it on in
exactly the right position. It is
covered with blood.
At first it was supposed to have
been worn by the murdered man,
but the boy Strickel says he is sure
no suoh cap belonged about the
house.
Could it have been worn by one
of the assassins, and a hole cut in it
by Lipshitz with a weapon caught
up at random?
The cap is in the possession of
the officers, and may one day tell an
interesting story in oourt.
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
The news of the dreadful assassi-nation
has created intense excite
ment in the city, and there has been
grave talk of summary justice in
ease the right man should be
caught.
eagerly caught up and thoroughly
discussed. A feeling of insecurity
prevades all nervous natures, for
each one knows itself unsafe from
the attack of the midnight assassin.
Among the business men of the
city this feeling has found 6xpres-sion
in the form of subscriptions to
a fund to bs offered as a reward for
the apprehension of the murderer.
It is intended to raise $2,000 in this
manner, and this, added to the $250
already offered by the city, and the
$50 offered by Sheriff Burke, will
probably get the best detective
effort directed towards working out
the ends of justice.
THE MURDERED MAN a
L. Lipshitz, the murdered man,
was about 45 years of a/e, and had
been a resident of Waco for many
years. He was an industrious,
economical man, who, beginning in
a small way was building up a good
business, and acquiring a compet-ance.
He was honest, upright,
conscientious, and had the respect
of all who knew him.
Mrs. Lipshitz is about 30 years
old, and has many friends who are
watohing anxiously at her bedside
hoping, almost against hope, for her
reoovery. Efforts have been made
to get from her some account of the
fearful ordeal through which she
passed last night, but the only
answer she makes to any question is
the moan of “money, money.”
A Bungling Attempt.
Toledo, O., Jan. 20.—An at-tempt
was made to wreck a passen-ger
train iast evening on the Lake
Erie and Western railroad at the
crossing of the Nickelplate, about
six miies west of Fostoria. The at-tempt
was so bungling as to show it
to be the work of amateur train
robbers. A split bar was welded
close to the rail, protruding about a
foot above the latter. Had it been
placed more firmly it would have
derailed the train; as it was it was
torn away by the engine, the latter
receiving some scratches. Road
detectives are at work on the case.
insurance.