The New York herald., 1879-07-30
ADDIE ALLYN.

INVESTIGATING HER DEATH IN JERSEY CITY
TESTIMONY AT THE INQUEST.
An inquest was begun yesterday afternoon by
Coroner W. N. Parslow the body Of Addie Allyn.
the young woman who died on Friday night last al
the residence Of her aunt Mrs. Mary ]. Adridge. on
Fleet street. Jersey City Heights it was supposed
from malpractice.
DIR. Hornblower, the physician who attended tho
girl, testified that he called to visit her Sum
day. the Goth inst. the day after the child had been
born; lie suspected the cause OF her sickness and
questioned her in regard to it, but she refused to
give him any information; he told her she was in
danger of dying. but she would not tell anything;
he prescribed for her and visited her daily up to the
time of her death.
Mrs. Mary Jane Aldridge. the aunt with whom the
deceased lived. testified thai her niece to her
house Wednesday. the 10th inst; she complained
of feeling unwell, and announced her intention OF
staying for few days. on Thursday she was taken
to her bed and grew so much worse toward Satur-
day that on Saturday morning Mrs. Aldridge dressed
herself with tho intention of going for physican
she going out Addie called her. and going
to her room she saw that her niece had
given birth to child; she said, oh, Addie.
what trouble you've brought me!' and tho
deceased said, 'Aunt, I did not know it," the
witness wrapped the infant in cloth, aud in tho
evening when Adde'S brother Henry came home she
gave il to him in cigar box and told him to bury
it, He took 1t away and when he returned said that
he had thrown 1t into the river Adde had told her
that it six months babe. She knew of
young man who kept company with her niece but
had heard her speak OF meeting a young man
named Harry +. Reay. bookkeeper in the
employ of John Campbell Co., leather
merchants, at No. 164 william street, New York;
the day before her niece died letter received
by her from Harry, enclosing So; Addie gave 1t to
the witness. with instructions to spend it, that she
would soon receive moro; Addie never told her who
the cause of her trouble what had caused her
sickness just before her death Mrs. Aldridge asked
Addie If the baby Reay and the deceased mado
an indistnct answer which witness believed to bo
eyes,"
THE BRoTHERs STATEMENT.
Henry u. Allyn engineer the Pennsylvania
Railroad, testified that he The brother Of the de.
ceased; he knew his sister sick. but no did not
know the nature OF her illness until Saturday night.
when his aunt handed him the box telling him what
in 1t. and asked him to bury 1t; he threw IL In
the Hackensack River. at the loot Of West Newark
trouble and she volunteered him any informa-
tion.
Miss Ella Van Beuren, cousin OF tho deceased.
who lived Mt No. los Wilton street. Lafayette, tho
house adjoining that In which Addio was employed.
testified that she frequently went with her cousin
her aunt's house, and when witness went there Mrs.
Adridge said that Ella had got them into awful trou
Bile; witness told Addio what her aunt had said. and
Addie told her that she had given birth to baby;
Addie had never told her that she in any trouble
and she knew her to take any medicine; Addie
Munson at No. 162 West Thirteenth street. this city.
where Harry visited her and also corrcspondod with
her.
At this point Coroner Parslow adjourned the in-
quest until to-day. 1t Is probable that lteay Will De
taken into custody by tho Coroner rs witness to-