A Demon Murder

One of the most extraordinary murders in all the annalB of crime wa recently committed at Auburn, a village ncar Worcester, Mass., the following particulars of which we glean from the local papers : In a little hut at Auburn there lived an aged Scotch couple named Campbell. The man has a pension as a soldier, and tills a small piece of land. The woman has been bed-ridden for some time with rheumatism. Between 6 and 7 on the morning of the tragedy, the old man went to work in his potato patch, leaving his wife helpless on the bed. A short time later he entered the house and found her on the bed in a horrible condition, mangled, bruiscd and bloeding, her skull fractured, all her limbs broken, and lying naked in a pool of blood and water which had been thrown over her. She was still alive and sensible, and said: "Frank, where were you while Jim Wilkins was murdering me ?" The old man is very deaf, which accounts for his not hearing the conflict. Before an hour had elapsed the murderer was in custody, and before 11 o'clock the victim was dead. Jim Wilkins, whose real name is Mulchaey, was walking down South Bridge street, with no coat on, when arrested. On being taken to the pólice station he told this horrible story. He says he spent the night at his father's house in New Worcester, and, risiüg in the moming, said his prayors, took a bath and went out to walk toward Auburn. While passing along he was accosted by a fiend, which was hid from mortal sight in the grass. In a loud voice he commandcd the fiend to be goue; butit appeared several times, till it dsisted. Af terward it came o him in the sliape of a dog. Thus inrassed by the evil spirit and oomrnisioned by the Lord to destroy, he went ;o the hut of tlio Oamnbells and entered. VTrs. Campbell, over 70 years of age, was n bed as ïisual, and, as Muchaey says, ie went up to her and asked lier winit líe would give to bc cured so that she could arise and walk to church next Sunday. He says the old lady threw up her arms in delight and exclaimed that she would give all the world. He then s lys he took off his coat and began rubbing her to dispossess lier of the evil spirit. He then grabbed one leg, bonding it across his own knee, and broke it in seveiul pieces. In the same way he broke the other leg and arms, and then seized the body and threw it on the floor, then jumped on it with his heavy shoes until, as lie says, not a joint in the body was left unbrokon. He then took pails of water and threw them over the mangled body, alleging that no evil spirit coiüd survive the cirowning process. He then took the body and laid it back on the bed, covering it up oarefully, and started for this city. He went on with a lot of cr,.zy talk, ealling himself the prophet of the Lord, and saying that he was ful ly aware of what he -was doing, but did not tliink it cruel or wrong, as the tiend whioli had possessed the woman had been so bad to him and his friends. He declared that the woman could not die, as he was not deiling with her, but only with the evil spirit. Mulchaey is 3'J years old, tías been a shiftless, drunken tramp, and bas been drinking very hard of late. Home time ago he was a lodger at the pólice station, and then showed some signa of insanity, so much so as to ittract the investigation of the officers, but was at lengMi allowed to go. Of the Generala commanding the thiiv columns ato which the Kurhííiu army iu Asia is divided, two --uunn'ly, (uu. Loris-Mrlikol'C, ooimmancfeig the Ab'x;iiiilro{)ol Oiirpw, and Gen. Tergu.lisB.ir, fclifcj eilief di ti Jíi-ivan Corps- ii]e Armenians: the third, Gou. Dcwel, tommautlips; tlio M'hnlik Coips, ir ?i Germaü,