Source: Daily National
Intelligencer (Washington (DC), District of Columbus) Vol:
XXXIII Issue: 10155 Page: 3
Dated: Sept. 6, 1845
CRIMES IN NEW YORK - It is astonishing (says the
Baltimore Patriot) to see the numerous accounts that have of
late been published of murders, suicides, robberies &c.,
committed in the city of New York. Scarecely a day that we
do not read an account of some tragedy of this sort occurring
there. The following is the latest catastrophe of this
description that has come under our notice, the history of which
we take from the New York Morning News:
ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS CASE - Great excitement prevailed in
the neighborhood of 37 Laurens street yesterday afternoon, about
2 o'clock, in consequence of a woman having been found with her
throat cut almost from ear to ear. Her name was Canning,
wife of Thomas Canning. She was about forty
years of age, and the mother of three or four bright and
intelligent-looking children. when first discovered she
was lying in an attic room, bleeding profusely from her throat.
In the fireplace of the adjoining apartment an open and bloody
razor was found, and upon the floor was spattered drops of
blood.. It was at first supposed that she had attempted to
commit suicide, in consequence of some altercation she had with
her husband, but she subsequently stated that a woman, who came
the other day to hire rooms in the house, returned yesterday,
and after some little conversation got into a quarrel, and she
cut her throat and immediately fled. Whether this story
was true or not cannot at present be ascertained. The
woman was taken to the City Hospital where her wounds will be
properly attended to.
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