The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-06
CHARACTERISTIC GIN ROW,
KILLED IN a MELEE
WIN A COMA DGHTER.
u.v the sixteenth wnrders Spend sunday
TOO Much Gin aud Too Many Women Cor

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Too Much Gin aud Too Many Women Cor
one MANA Case for the Coroner.
On Sunday evening u laboring man named
pernnrl Ridcn was brought to the Twentieth street
nal co station by Officer Gch, suffering IRON So
Ger, cut In the wrist which bleeding prOfuscly.
pbl stefan was immediately summoned, but when
he arrived the wounded man was beyond medical
Md H. a very brief time lie expired. lie seemed
10 he COZ idcraby under the influence Of liquor at
nc use tie 5rc r sound him, thoI2h lying IN his
,wn resi- lence, 32j wcst Soyenieeu'h street, be-
,~ecu Eighth aud Ninth avenues The place Ia
wRSTongD HOLE IN AN ALLEY
unnine OIL West Seventeenth street
On inquiry, 1t was asccrtained that Roden, his
wife, aud a woman named Ann McEyoy, had had
roy iu this locality, and all had been drinking
Three " four wrotched houses face on tao alloy
way. In q room Of one Of these houses deceased
md his wife lived Mrs. M.Evoy aud her husband
ccupied another OF the tenemcnts. Tne two women
were arrested and brought before Justice STANDBY,
E jefferson Market Police Court, yesterday mora
Ing. Mrs. Roden was discharged, she being eu
icntly in no way implicated in the death OF nsr
husband. TITO other woman Ann McEyoy. was
held 10 await an Investigation into the cause OF
Rodon's death.
mrs. RopES's STATEMENT.
Mrs. Roden gives her version Of the az
hir as follows: 81 was sitting In my own
room when this damsel (meaning Ann McEvoJ)
came over and hit me through the open window
with bale stick. at the same timo she called me
oil sorts OF bad names. My husband, God rest his
sosl, who is dead now, was lying on the bed. lie
started up and ran out. What hSppened outside
DO not know but he came back with his wrist and
arm drcadiully cut Wien ! saw him I said, q
Je-us you'il bleed to death and Immediately ran
70 Mini avenue for q doctor, but he would not
some. then tied piece OF cloth round my hus
bands arm TO prevent 1t bleeding. l confess that
both he and myself lad been drinking little, Tut
We were all right"
The police a, the Twentieth street station have
AN AXE COVERED WITH BLOOD,
which was picked up where tho row took place
Mrs. Roden says, In relation TO this axe; at be
longs to me; was cracking wood with IL to boil
my dinner Of potatoes ana pigs cheek, and left IL
behind me outside when went into the houie
Whoever used It, suppose they got Il there" MIS-
Roden further that all the trouble between her
self and the woman McEvoy arose about nursing a
rhid of the latter, which at fret, Mrs. Roden says
she used to nurse and take care Of out OF mere kind
sese, when the mother would be out at work. Al
bet Mrs. MeEyoy concluded that Mrs Eoden ought
10 nurse II wntneycr aakcd. MY husband, Lord
have mercy on him" exclaimed Mr.. RIDDEN, "siii
Rave nlthng more TO do with that 30 rt.usel
70 nurse " any more
sR. H'EvoY's VERSION OF rue AFFAIR.
On the other hand, Mrs. McEvoys account Il this
al Twas going past Mrs. Roden's WINDOW whoa
sbe, halt drunk, called me the West OF names.
took no small bit Of stick and made stroke at
her tTou,h the window, hut nothing n huri her
then won't to ny own house and closed tie DOR.
Immediately aitrrward her husband came running
out toward my place with something in his hand
Tie upper pttt uf my door IS class-Our glts
panes. lie tired 10 opcn To door, hut could not
tnd then began pounding iurious.y ut It, Al length
h. dol erattly draws his fist and r,unCes II through
on OF The TanCs Of glass. never "a" q hltcJet or
m axe the WhOie time. Bot the deceased aid h.
vie
WE'RE ALWAYS Drunk,
md itsuitlns me and everybody. had not taste
crop ofuquur that dnY."
ine po-il Of l,oden was taken 10 the Norgue yes
erday morning, Y mere al Inquest will be held.
THE MEETING OF RxrREhts.
Mr. Rodcn added that tho prisoner, Ann mcEvay
ta tunrtLatt oman, bile her husband was IRON
TIE North Of ireland, hn' mo people call "tar
town md thsi Mrs. hcEvoy In Ter fury, crrI
~ tlat - there wouldn't be a Far-doNn, b. G--I
ths Hudu't xiii"
H.. roi'c hsvs ~ the station house the window
tlsn 70 nj z tie top Of Mir. Evo,'s door. Three
the four panc' OF gliss are snas led.