"A chance acquaintance in the back room of a saloon, a few moments of laughter and revelry over the cups, and Annie Walsh of 16 Elm Street walked out with her newfound friend last night to her death, for within an hour of the time when she and Captain Matroni of the barge, Snipe, moored at the City Coal Company's wharf; had left the place where they met, she lay in a bunk in the cabin, her body, terribly mutilated, the victim of one of the most vicious and brutal murders that New Bedford has ever known."