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MURDER in NEWARK, N. 1.-The dead body
Of woman was discovered at No. 5, Durand
st., Newark, about sunset on Wednesday even
ing, which had evidently been lying there for
several days. The neighbors, noticing hor-
rible stencil from the premises, and having
missed the man and woman who usually were
there, broke into the house and discovered the
dead woman lying on the floor, her body far
gone in decay. The man, whose name is Pc
ter Mahan, and who met them at the door,
was horrid spectacle Of starvation and insa-
nifty Of spent intoxication, and had apparently
been lying for many days and nights on the
bed by the side of the corpse. From the testi-
mony elected on the coroner's inquest, it ap-
pears that the woman rented the basement
where they lived in Feb. last, for herselfand q
children, that Mahan came shortly after andtook
up his abode with her as her husband. 1t ap-
peared that he used to abuse her and beat her
most horribly, and that several times her life
had only been saved by the Intervention OF the
neighbors. The verdict Of the jury was that
the cause of the woman's death was unknown,
but that there were strong reasons for believ-
ing that Mahan was the murderer. Mahan is
Of course in custody.-Phl. Times.


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