German Attempts to Burn Alive Wife/Children of Irish Laborer; NY.

Remarkable Outrage.— Incredible as it may seem New York yesterday the scene of a deliberate attempt to burn a woman and her two children to death. The victims were the wife, son and infant child of an Irish laborer named Hanlan, living in a small building or shanty, between the First and Second Avenues, in Fifteenth street. Mr. Hanlan had in some trifling way given offence to Klem, a German, the occupant of a neighboring shanty; on Sunday he threw stones at her, while she was about the door, and yesterday he undertook and almost effected her murder and that of her children, after a manner of incredible barbarity. Hanlan, the husband, had gone early to his work, leaving his wife and children yet in bed. Mrs. Hanlan was waked by a noise of hammering at her door, and soon perceived that the room was becoming full of smoke. Starting up, and rushing to the door, she found that it was fastened from the outside. Klem had nailed it up, and was piling straw and other combustibles against it, to which he had set fire. In terror, she ran to the window and succeeded in pushing through it the boy, about twelve years old, but in her attempt to follow him, with the infant, she was encountered by Klem, who “jobbed” at her with a sort of lance which he had made by attaching a sharpened file to a pole, and with which he kept her back, and wounded her in several places. By this time some of the neighbors had perceived the fire and come up to assist. On their approach, Klem retreated to his own dwelling, where he fastened himself in. The door of the burning shanty was forced open, and the woman rescued, with the infant; both almost dead from suffocation, and the mother considerably burned. They were conveyed to the hospital. [N. Y. Commercial.