People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — TORTURES HIS HELPLESS WIFE. [ARTICLE]

TORTURES HIS HELPLESS WIFE.

Annie Lounlgan's Husband Locked Up for Fatally Burning Her. Brooklyn, N. Y., May 29.—Mrs. ‘Annie Lounigan, 34 years old, is lying at St. Peter's hospital suffering from burns and bruises, while her husband occupies a cell in the Butler street police station charged with inflicting the injuries, which will, in all probability, result in her death. From the statement which the woman made at the hospital it appears-that her husband, after severely beating her, set fire to her clothing. Her face and body are in a terrible condition from the burns. Notwithstanding this, however, she would not at first disclose the name of her assailant. she was told that death was imminent she gave the evidence against her husband, who was at once arrested. His only statement was that he had been too drunk to recollect anything that had occurred.