Awful Butchery

Boston, July 15.- A horrible tragedy was enacted in Somerville shortly after midnight Friday. Tha victims are Mrs. Catherine Smith, aged 45 years, her eoa Thomas, aged 14 years, and the perpetrator of the terrible deed, Augustus Rosenberf, while two other childreu of Mrs. Stnith were injured, one oí whom will die. The murderer has been livin? with Mrs. Smith for about a year aa her husband, butit ia the general belief that they were not married. The cause of the tragedy is not known, although it is stated that Iiosenberg has coinplained about the way he has been treated in money matters by the woman. It is supposed that a recent quarrel over their finaneial affairs was the chief cause of the tragedy. The scène of the shooting was at the corner of Dane street and Dane conrt, Somerville. The ground Hoor ia used as a provisión and grocery store; the business having been carried on by Mrs. Smith since the disappearance of her husband (Charles Smith), who is supposod to have committed suicide by jumping from the Portland steamer about a ye ar ago. Eosenberg met hls death in a most peculiar and unintsntional manner, while attempting to escape from the sccne of his iiendUh work. In trying to scale a fence at the end of a lañe through which he ran, the doctor thinks he feil on a pile of railroad sleepers lying beside the Fitchburg tracks, and atruck his head on a spike, which fractured his skull and instautly killed hjm. Dr. Durrell says there i no doubt that he was crazy. The house where the murders occurred has been all day surrounded by a crowd of curioua people.