The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-06
4 WoMAN's rRTaL ron HER LIFE.
Mary GarIcy's Defence In the Trial for the
niurder Of ber Hurbnnd.

rbo .r;oi of No
Ihe trial ol S.,,y uanley In Freehold
N. j., for the alleged murder Of her husband lr
Marlborough township. near Freehold, Is moi
yet ended. Michael Ganley, a hard working
Irish laborer, had lived In Monmouth count,
for upward OF twenty-five years, and had ac.
quirsd little property, but had NJ late years
been addicted to drink, and left much OF the
burden Of keeping up their homo upon his wife
Wrangles appear to have been common between
them, and on several occasions the neiehbor,
interposed to save her from his drunken fury
Early on tho morning Of the I'd Of November
last Mrs. Ganley called several neighbors, say
ing that Michael was In a dan gerous condition,
and that she supposed he had cut himself with
his razor. They found him on the noor bleed
Ing, aud he died before daybreak.
Dr. ID. Mclean Forman, who conducted tho
post-fnortem examination. testified that Gan
ley's death resulted from conclusion OF the
brain, produced by two wounds on the top Of
the head, made evidently by blunt-edged in
strument, and that there were number OF other
contuslons upon the body. lie said the wounds
pine board shown him, which had been found
soaked with blood outside OF the kitchen door
on the morning after the murder. Some hairs
had been found adhcring to tho stick, and upon
microscopic examination he pronounced them
human hairs, some Of which had been torn out
by the roots. The Doctor said no had attended
Ganey within three wears before his death In
five or six different attacks Of delirium wemens,
but that he was never violent that AT such tim 8
he took to his bed and thought he was going TO
die.
james W. Holloway said he had passed tho
house at hnlf-p 81 seven the previous night, and
he lrd Gauicy shouting, " You --- - you've
got tho axe !" aud then he heard the sound Of
three or four blows like two pieces Of wood
Mrs. MARY Conrey testified thnt Away Gauley
came to her house, which was about quarter
OF milo from her own. about eight o'clock tn at
night to get her husband to endorse her name
on check for her. Witness went back home
with Mary. and saw the husband die.
Della Conrey, a child of the last witness. said
that when Mary was at her mothers house In
the evening. she was sitting At the table reading
her catechism, and Mary put her hand on her
head TO bless her, and there was blood on her
hand and also on her dress
George Van Doren, son OF n nelghboring farm
er, was aroused from his sleep. PROBABLY by
Marys loud lamenting and dressing himself,
found Mary IN the road ~ front OF the house,
and went In with her. lie said there was blood
everywhere, both In the kitchen ana ia the room
where Gancy lay. He found the bloody stick
near the well.
Bridget Morrissav. smother nesr neighbor.
while IN the kitcneu that morning noticed a tuft
81 hair IN one 81 ihe pools of blood and said.
g Mary. Is tht Mixes hair?" Mary turned upon
her with tie remark. Mrs. Mrrrissey, do ,c
name to sly Lilled himI" and, picking up tho
tuft OF haif said II wa some wool that she had
tcen spinning. aud plt ~ IN her pocket. A. that
time the plaid shirt Michael had worm was lying
on the wood BOX. soaked wiki blood she after
ward found u stuffed under the house.
Patrick Deylln testified to q Iarrels between
Mary and Michael about their property. lie
ucdrd ler say she would Ike to get her share
and leave him, and she threatened to take ais
life. He heard Mel iel say he won dn'L drink
tea because he was al. aid she would poison HIM
Several witnesses swure that she tried to roll
Micna ! IN pond as lie lay drunk near the sti l.
house on the Friday before bis death, and a little
boy said he heard her that day say she would
have his life before two weeks.
The defence, however, showed that the affair
at the pond wss In daylight and In the presence
OF mum Der Of people, and th-t her remark al
the time, that sac only wanted to cool him a
little, was probably true.
In her own defence the prisoner told plausl.
bic story that Michael had got into bad drinking
habits for hyo OF six years past, and when drunk
would abuse her and beat her. She had been
hard at work all day on Monday Nov. l. Nike
did not come home at supper hour, but she
hoard him coming, and she went out OF tho
back door as he c,ms In at the front
He was saying, I'm here TN hos. I"
He. went into tho kitchen after a while.
and she looked through the window and saw
him standing as she thought before the lookiug-
glass with razor In one band and bloody
towel In the other. IL was her habit to keep
out OF his way when he WAS drunk until he got
to sleep SO she went over tn Mrs. Conreys as
already stated. Upon her return an hour and
half Later she heard him still moving about, and
presently she heard him fall but he kept on
talking and makinga noise. Upon finding that
he was badly hurt sho went for tho neighbors.
One otthe witnesses having described her KILL
ing chicken and letting II bleed on the moor
the next morning, presumably to account for so
much blood, she saio sho killed and cooked IL
for breakfast. She denied having made any
MED that she killed hi n. The case will get TO