Cavan man murders wife out of jealousy
9 March 1915 - An inquest into the death of Rose Anne Gough of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, has found that the victim died from the effects of wounds willfully inflicted by her husband, William Gough.
The inquest heard evidence that Mr. Gough called at the police barracks in the town at 8.45am on Saturday morning last and said: ‘I’m after committing suicide on my wife.’ He then made a statement that he had cut his wife’s throat with a razor. Mr. Gough said: ‘I know I killed her’, and then said that he had been jealous of her for the previous two years. He continued: ‘This is her blood on me.’
Local police constables gave evidence of going to the house where the couple lived and finding Mrs. Gough’s body on the floor with the head almost severed at the neck. In a bed in a room off the kitchen, two small children - aged one and two - were crying, with the older child shouting ‘Mamma'.
[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]
