The Arkansas Advocate

Horrid deed.—A more extraordinary instance of sheer wickedness has never fallen under our observation, than is recorded in the Catskill (N. Y.) Recorder, of a man by the name of Morris Welsh. It proves how infinitely further human, or human nature goes, than the boldest writer of fiction dare invent and put in his book. This man came home one evening intoxicated, and commenced beating his sick wife. He then deliberately took his infant child, four days old, and one by one, broke the bones of its fingers and arms, struck it on its head with his fist, and at last threw it into the fire! The child was discovered to be missing, and the suspicions of the neighbors were excited. Search was made, and the mutilated, half burnt body of the child was found concealed under the floor of the house. Some difficulty was experienced in apprehending Welsh. When he found it was intended to arrest him, he armed himself with an axe and retreated, threatening to kill any person who came near him. He was pursued, however, by the whole neighborhood, and finally taken.

Such accounts are horrible; and yet it is right that such things should be known, were it only to show to what an extent the depravity of those may go, who are brutalized by intemperance.