Litchfield Enquirer

Another Murder on Long Island.—A correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily News has furnished this paper with an account of another murder on Long Island, committed near Patchogue, Suffolk county, late on Friday night last, by a man named Samuel Johnson, upon his wife. The deed was committed about 11 o'clock at night, in the presence of the family, with a gun, and so fatal was the discharge that she died in 18 or 20 minutes. After he had committed the horrid act, he stepped out of the door and left his gun, when after remaining a few minutes he returned, and inquired of his wife's mother if she was dead! She said she believed she was. On learning this fact he made himself scarce: the News learns that he was afterwards found secreted in his own cellar.—N. Y. Express.