, 1873-12-25
Terrible Tragedy III Il New York Ton.
c1ncnt--A kEr0tIlcr and Sister NJur.

Terrible Tragedy in II New York Ten-
c1nealt--A kfrotIlcr u1ad Sister MIR.
lered.
tfnom The Nttp York Tribune, Dec. %.
On Nov. IS young lrishnlan and Ills sister
engaged q front room OH the fifth tloor Of No.
q laDorer, Who with lis wifo and family, rented
tho remainder Of tho floor, and who have since
occupied tho two back rooms. The new tonanta
wero Nicholas and Mary Ryan. The brother
was so years old and tho sister %. Nicholas
1ishmohIt at wa1ron and Church streets.
in what is known as q "team," and
alo worked as filter in f. c. Burts
slloe-factory. They both worried very indus
triously, and were absent from their room from
evening. and, being aober, respectable people,
thrifty and saving in their habits, had put by
money, as was commonly known to tue other oc-
cupanta Of tho houao, which is Il large tenement,
donaely populated. Tho Ryans received very
tiyos, aud on Sunday evening their brother
Patrick, living in Brooklyn, took tea with them,
sotting out for his homo at about q p. IN. Flo is
the last person who il known to havo aeen them
alive.
At twenty minutes Of 3 o'clock, yesterday
morning, Mr. Burke heard the alamning Of tue
outer door OF tho Isyaus' room, aud Was Just 60
ing to Hloep agnin when one Of his two children,
Jennie, ago IL, who slept il the noxt room,
whic', na5oineea those Of The hyaas, called out
then took light aud went out into tho pasaage-
way, whege ho saw that tho walls were bespat-
tered with blood. aud that tho floor was stniucd
with it. Following tho bloody trail, ho entered
tho hsans apartment, the door OF wlich was
ha Wow Was tho body Of Mary Ryas,, lying on d
mattress o., the iloor, her face purple, tue eyes
starting iron, their sockets, tue tongue pro-
trlldins, aud her throat cut: Tho horritied spec
wns repeated by ono of the persons on the lower
la,dIug. Policeman William Wilson, Of
the Thirteenth Precinct, hcaring tho cries Of
murder, run into tho house, accompanied by
nounds!ucn Tuto aud Smith and Patroln,au
shillard. and, OIL the second landing from tho
streot, stumbled over tho proatrato form Of
Nicholas Ryan, with ILLS threat cut as.d hls body
covered with blood. uo wore hiB night clothing.
aud after receiving lila terrible wound he had
evidently mauRged to mako lln way down from
bis room, two AoorH higher up, boforo l,o died
from exhaustion, aB tho walls, tue stops, md tho
bannistays wero covered With hia blood. The
nla!lgled body WIS takon upstairs and placed OIL
tho bed beside that OF liH sister, tho room wah
closed and guarded, to awais the arrival Of tho
Coronor, atd the police aud excited spectators
left tito place impressed with tho iuca tlnt q
murder auil suicide had hoan committed, aud
inclined to imnute tho unnAtnsal dnuble crilno
to Nicholas Ryan.
country, AMI bud lived togothor auco tho death
Of their mothor, about Hsx Months ago. Aftor
this event thoy lived ut No. 8 Caual etroet;
thonco they removed to No. $40 Delancoy street,
and tho,cc, OIL Nov. ~, to tho place where thoy
died. YAey had acyegal relatives III this city
and prooklyu, and their clothing and surround
llgs illdicato tllat thoy wero IN comfortable cir
c.llnstancos, They lived togothor l,oaceably and
quietly. and woro aevor known by any Of tllo o.
occaston when they Ind n triiling tiihpnte ubnnt
q tca-pnt, Tho brother who tooI toa with them
Oh Sunday night, md who last saw tlloln alive,
Guys lint Tho brother and sister laughed md
talkol together IN tho bent OF hnmors. liz ant!
other rclatiyoH OF the dead scout the iloa that
Ryan lnllcd Ills sister aud slon conllnlttod
suicide.
After daylight yesterday morning tho police,
unlor Capt. llodaen and scgrt. Salisbury. 70.
n!!n,ol their Investigations. aud discovered facts
tho Hako Of robbery by thief WHO eaBy
| escaped. II was fonlld tllat thoro woro tho la.
| tiuot bloody footprints Of Il snnl "o wont bare.
foot to tho top Of tho lou.e. and they wero care
fully traced, stop by stop, Up tho souttle"start
| to the roof, but mona woro found returning. On
| tue gravel with whtoh tho roof IL covered tbs