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If You Are Not a Subscriber, This is a Sample Copy; Read It. If You Like It, Give Us Your Order MSBTA BL1BHEJD JULY 16, 1888. tUrtco <£ turning Wans. Entered at the PottoIJtce at Waco, Texat, at Second Clan Matter. Vol. 6, No. 161. WACO, TEXAS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1894. 50c. Per Month. Corset NGER ROTHERS SECOID FLOOR. Department e ilarged to double its fo *mer size. Grand Cle This Week we are going to them at half, in value. We’ll be in either lot. epartment! aring up Sale. We are throwing jut some makes and taking in others, and we have a lot of odd lots of corsets close out this week.- We offer many cases below half their ble to furnish almost any size LOT I. LOT 2. LOT 3. LOT 4. Corsets wo *th up to $1.00 at Corsets woifth up to $2.00, at Corsets wo $2.75 at t th up to Corsets woith up to $3.00, at I - 50 cts $1.00 $1.50 $1.95 LOT 5. Thompson’s satin corsets, black, cream, pink and blue. Black sitin corset: silk embroidery and other gular price up to $6.oo, all Venus back, all over 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 Should You Need! Ladies’ Patent tipped Opera toed Button shoes, All colored evening Slippers, Common sense, high and low shoes. Soft, stylish and handsome. Men’s tiful shell Cordovan, ble and fiine. Children’s Lace and Congiess. Beau- Pient Leather Shoes and Pumps, dura- They Have ar FINE DRE 5SSHOE3, SOLID SC -TOOL SHOES. Elegant Stock at Ellis, with three others, was after i The, people aTe horror stricken/- hk lather’s chickens at the corner j and on the streets, in the buisness of Ninth and Cleveland, two blocks j houses, at their homes, the murder 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.
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ID | tx-waco-nwp-wen_1894-01-20 |
Title | Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 6 No. 161, Saturday, January 20, 1894 |
Date | 1894-01-20 |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 161 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Publisher | J.B. Bennett |
Language | English |
Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 8 pages |
Collection Name | Baylor University - The Texas Collection - Historic Waco Newspapers |
Uniform Title | Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) |
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Title | tx-waco-nwp-wen_1894-01-20_01 |
OCR - Transcript | If You Are Not a Subscriber, This is a Sample Copy; Read It. If You Like It, Give Us Your Order MSBTA BL1BHEJD JULY 16, 1888. tUrtco <£ turning Wans. Entered at the PottoIJtce at Waco, Texat, at Second Clan Matter. Vol. 6, No. 161. WACO, TEXAS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1894. 50c. Per Month. Corset NGER ROTHERS SECOID FLOOR. Department e ilarged to double its fo *mer size. Grand Cle This Week we are going to them at half, in value. We’ll be in either lot. epartment! aring up Sale. We are throwing jut some makes and taking in others, and we have a lot of odd lots of corsets close out this week.- We offer many cases below half their ble to furnish almost any size LOT I. LOT 2. LOT 3. LOT 4. Corsets wo *th up to $1.00 at Corsets woifth up to $2.00, at Corsets wo $2.75 at t th up to Corsets woith up to $3.00, at I - 50 cts $1.00 $1.50 $1.95 LOT 5. Thompson’s satin corsets, black, cream, pink and blue. Black sitin corset: silk embroidery and other gular price up to $6.oo, all Venus back, all over 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 Should You Need! Ladies’ Patent tipped Opera toed Button shoes, All colored evening Slippers, Common sense, high and low shoes. Soft, stylish and handsome. Men’s tiful shell Cordovan, ble and fiine. Children’s Lace and Congiess. Beau- Pient Leather Shoes and Pumps, dura- They Have ar FINE DRE 5SSHOE3, SOLID SC -TOOL SHOES. Elegant Stock at Ellis, with three others, was after i The, people aTe horror stricken/- hk lather’s chickens at the corner j and on the streets, in the buisness of Ninth and Cleveland, two blocks j houses, at their homes, the murder 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. |