BLIND MAS KILLS HIS WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 17 March 1900, Page 5 (Supplement)

BLIND MAS KILLS HIS WIFE.

A EEVOLTING CBIMIi'

At Baltimore (U.S.A.), oft Boxing Day, Prank V>. Livingston, a^sHiid man, aged 5G years, choked his' wife, Rosie Livingston) to death, iimler the most terrible circumstances,'

The first knowledge the police had. of the crime was when Livingston walked into the Southwestern Police Station. Livingston gave his name and address and told the following story:—

".My wife and I have been sleeping hi separate rooms for several weeks, she occupying the second story front room and I the one in the rear, on the same iioor. She came into my room and called me. We had some" words, and she attempted to smother me with, a feather bed. I resisted and we had a tussle.

"She got my hand in her mouth and bit it 'with her teeth, which are false. I pushed her away, but she returned, and the struggle' continued; I found her throat with my hands and choked her. She fell to the floor. I felt' something wet on my vest and shirt, which I was wearing, and feelinoher body found it wet also. I took oil my clothes and hers also and burned them in the kitchen stove. I then went upstairs and dragged the body to the bath tub, where "I. left it after covering- it with a sheet. 1 had yelled 'murder' and 'police,' but had attracted no attention by the noise. I then went back to bed and slept until about 5.30 o'clock.

"I receive a pension of $72 a month' for the loss of my eyes, which happened at the battle of Fair Oaks in 1562 during the civil Avar, when a shell exploded, wounding- me in the head and feet. I served in Company A. Sixty-sixth New York Regiment. ..-.•■ Livingston was locked up and the police went to the house, where they found the nude body of the woman in the bath tub, as Livingston had said. -Both rooms gave evidence of a strusr-

Jealousy is thought to have been (ho motive for the crime.