New-York tribune., 1871-07-08
RUINED BY Rum.

ANOTHER CONNOLLY TRAGEDY-A MOTHER s
SUSPENSE.
A well dressed lady of pleasant manners and
traces of much former beauty entered Police Head
quarters yesterday evidently under great agitation.
She gave her Mrs, Justin Carter Of No. 49 Ham
On-st and said that she looking without hope for
her husband and her little "Ally" who had been
missing the previous morning and whO she feared
with fearful calamity The history the
lady is curious and instructiye Born in Rochester OF
very respectable pareus she changed her maidenname
Of Bird and married gentleman deceased, whose
name she whshed kept out Of the papers his relations
live in this city. The issue Of this marriage little
boy named Harry-or "Ally," as she calls him-now
years old Three years ago she made the acquaintance
of Justin Carter, then man occupying good position
and possessed of handsome competence Shortly after
his marriage he commenced to drink and abuse his wife,
alternating his brutality, however with very kind treat
ment. His excesses lost him, few months ago, his
position as head bookkeeper in prominent dry goods
firm In this city, and since then he has vaciated be-
tween drunken exharaton and the lowest dependency
One of his idiOsyncracies while intoxicated was to
have either his stepsOn Ally his daughter Ellen,
age year, with him. He would either lock himself up
with the child it into the street, dragging
along endangering its fe At the time of the Con-
molly tragedy the neighbors of Mrs. Carter remarked
that ought to be warning to her. and that one day
her husband would do the thing.
On Wednesday Carter was drunk, and while In that
state took Ally out with him, and went to the Battery
where he tried 20 hire boat. The boatman, seeing
his condition, refused. Carter thereupon repaired
to the swimming bath, undressed, and got in,
taking Ally with him. In playing with
the boy he allowed him to fall in the water
In his drunken stupidity he did not notice this, and
had for the assistance Of the keeper the
lad would have been drowned. As ii was IL took
time for him The two got home late in the
evening and went to bed Carter getting up several times
in the night and getting drink At "A. III. Thursday
he rOse dressed his boy and sailed out with only 81 III
his pocket. .
He was seen In the afternoon, dragging the lad who
seemed be exhausted along Catharnest. Since then
nothing has been heard OF them. Mrs. Carter
has made up her mind 10 the worst She says that her
husband, a good enough man when sober has allowed
mania for drink TO creep him lately and she fears
that he may have waited till nightfa to put an end 10
himself and the boy.
Carter feet inch high and well built. He Ia an
cOmplished scholar and courteous to strangers even
when intoxicated. The lad "Aly," well dressed
when he went away, in Summer clothes. He bears on
his right a tattoed heart On his breast Is brown
birth Digent inquiries by the police have failed
TO elicit any clue the whereabouts of the pair Carter
has not been arrested, and he has friend In New
York at whose residence he could sleep.
He arrested last week and his wife got him out.
He put Of his house by his landlord Sunday
for dsOrdery Oucduc bn made up with him few hours
afterWard AS it is, the whole matter Is shrouded in
mn