2 Sep 1895 - Tyrone Daily Herald (Tyrone, Pennsylvania)

DESPERATE LIZZIE HALLIDAY - She Makes a Murderous Assault on an Attendant at Matteawan Asylum

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY - Sep 2 - The facts about a murderous assault committed on Friday last by Mrs. Lizzie Halliday, the Monticello murderess, on MIss Kate Ward, an attendant at the Matteawan State Asylum for Insane Criminals, where Mrs. Halliday is confined, have just leaked out. Mrs. Halliday was assisted in her assault on the attendant by Jane Shannon, another convict patient, who was committed to the asylum from St. Lawrence county about three years ago, and who is considered the most dangerous of the female patients in the institution. The assault was the result of a grudge which Mrs. Halliday had held against the attendant.

Miss Ward went into the bath room and was seized by the murderess and thrown to the floor. Mrs. Shannon then jumped on Miss Ward’s prostrate form, while Mrs. Halliday crammed a towel into Miss Ward’s mouth. Then the two crazy and revengeful women kicked and pounded the attendant, Mrs. Halliday tearing her hair and scratching her face with her finger nails. The attendant, when help reached her, was unconscious, and it was thought that she would die. She rallied, however, on Saturday, and though bruised quite badly was able to resume her duties today. Mrs. Halliday and Mrs. Shannon have been placed in solitary confinement.