The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-01
MURDER In A BROADWAY SHANTY.
A Man Charged with Beating His Wife to
Death-Both Parties Depraved and In
temperate Flight of tho Husband.

For years past Mrs. Cathariae Morgan, an Irish
woman forty-nve years OF age, has. owned and &C.
cupied tumble-d0wn shanty on the northeast
corner OF Broadway and Fifty-fi street. During
portion Of that time she was widow, bat
eventually she married Josiah Morgan, q man
nearly twenty-five years younger than herself
and owing partially to the great disparity OF years
between them they failed to live amicably to-
gether. Mrs. Morgan, who was depraved and In
temperate before her second marriage, afterwards
became more so, and her Incorporate habits drove
her young husband to similar excuses and fre
quent quarrels we're the result.
THE PRISONER AS A WIFE BEATER.
Morgan often beat his wife so severely that she
felt compelled to hand him to the police of the
Twenty-second precinct, and not unfrequently
within the last two years has he been lodged in the
station house charges of assaulting his wife. On
the 18th of last month Mrs. Morgan had her hus.
band arrested for beating her, and Justice Coulter
Of the Fiyseventh Street Police Court held him to
bail in $500 to keep the peace. This warning was
not sufficient for Morgan, and evidently had little
terror for him, inasmuoh as he beat his wife often
after that.
SOCIAL GLASS.
On Thursday evening he had been drinking as
usual, and while inebriated two young women OF
her acquaintance entered the shanty and joined
whskey. During the carousal that ensued Morgan,
In maudlin state, put in an appearance, and they
all drank together and repeated.
BEATEN WITH BUCKET
About eight O'Clock p. M. the young women left,
after which Morgan and his wife became involved
in quarrel during which, 1t IL alleged, he struck
and kicked her about the head and body In the
most brutal manner and concluded by beating her
with water pail or bucket. She became helpless
and insensible, and was watched over during the
night by Jane Brackett an old woman, living in the
shanty, she having been witness to the brutal
violence Of Morgan. No doctor was called to at
tend the injured woman, and Jane, who was far
from being sober herself, probably did the best she
Monday morning, when Mrs. Morgan died.
DISCOVERING THE MURDER.
Bracket she said nothing whatever about the
death OF Mrs. MOrgae till about four O'Clock IN
the afternoon, when Oficer Bernhez was in
shanty, found Mrs. Morgan lying dead on q miser
able excuse for q bed, evidently having marks OF
violence about the face, head and body. The
lea, OF the Twenty-second precinct who de-
spatched Officers In search OF Morgan, but 1t was
learned that he had disappeared early IN the
morning, and fears were entertained that he had
left the city. Captain killilea informed Coroner
Keenan, Of the murder and placed an officer IN
as he might be relieves by the Coroner. '''
Probably the remains OF Mrs. Morgan will be re-
moved TO the Morgue to-day and pOstmOrtem
made in order to definitely determine the cause Of
death.
THE ONLY WITNESS.
The only witness to the assault, the woman
Bracket, was taken TO the FOrty-seventh street
police station, and there detained to await the
Coroner's investigation, which may not take place
for two or three days Last evening Captain KILL
lea felt quite sanguine OF being able to trace Nor
gan to his hiding place, and no pains or expense
Will be spared to secure him. The deceased left no
children, at least by her last husband.
Ofncer Charles McDermOJt, OF the Twenty second
precinct, arrested Joshua Morgan at quarter past
nine O'Clock last night.