The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-11-28
THE MURDER OF HAYDEN.
MRs. ROC 4RTY W0N'r SACRIFICE HER
HONOR TO SAVE HER FATHEB.

CavaRagh's Daughter Makes an Ex-
piicit Deniat of Her Fathers Chnrg es
Against Her and Hnyden-Meddie-
some Neighbors She says Circulated
False Stories About Her-The --latest.
When Cavanagh surrendered himself
into the custody of the Second Precinct
police just after he had shot Pat Hayden,
his daughter, Mrs. Fogarty, who is the
wife of baker on Greenwich street, New
York, was sent for. When she presented
herself at his cell door he accused her of
having been the cause of all his misery, be-
cause she had been on too intimate terms
with Hayden before her marriage. Mrs.
Fogarty is woman of family with two
children, a1d these reflections upon her
early conduct have distressed her, as they
would any true woman. Last evening she
called at Police Headquarters in this city
and asked Chief of Police Murphy to assist
her in Strengthening herself out before tie
public. Chief Murphy summoned a Sun
DAY MORNING NEWS reporter, with other
newspaper meD, to Police Headquarters,
&Ilu dlkoF buSN DdI dStCAOlSd 1AbAOuuCSb
Mrs Fogarty to them. She veutured
among the newspaper scribss timidly, while
they scanned her-a rather long-faced,
sharp and prominent featured woman, but
not by any means unattractive in appear
ance. Her face was flushed with excite
ment as she began to speak.
81 did not. she said, understand my
father to say what the others who heard
him understood him to say He said that
l was In with Hayden, aud that had
brought him to ruin. didn't understand
him to say that Hayden had ruined me.
But Police Captain Edmondson put diff
ferent construction on what he said. My
father had never before accused me of
having been on intimate terms with MIR.
Hayden. HI never would have dared 10
do it. He never had any reason to do it.
"And wsnt to say right here, the woman
went on, as she brought her hand down
with emphasis on the arm of her chair,
"that ii he has started this excuse for his
crime te save his neck it will do him no
good. | will defend my honor and the
honor of my family no matter who suf-
fers.''
Mrs. Fogarty admitted, however, that her
father had suspected his second wife of un-
due intimacies, but never with Hayden.
1t was only because she drank, and Mrs.
Fogarty was warm in her assertion that her
stepmother was pure and virtuous women
whom the tongue of SANDER never could
affect
Gas for this story concerning me-" she
added, .'that was undoubtedly started by
meddlesome neighbors, who had made
trouble In the family before" She would
not mention names because she did not
want to get into any controversies; but
some one had said against her that he or
she had seen Haydca going out of the
house at an unseemly hour. She had, she
said, had scarcel y speaking acquaintance
with Hayden. He had, she was sorry to be
forced to admit, gone to Haydens saloon
to buy beer for her father, and so she had
got acquainted with him; but she knew
him well enough only to pass the time of
day with him and bow to HIM as she passed
him. She admitted that there had been
trouble between herself and her stepmoth-
er, and that three years ago she was forced
to leave home because of family discords.
For seven months she lived with lady
friend in New York. For five months
afterwards she earned her own living; and
during that time her father never con-
tributed cent towards her support. He
did not even take the trouble to make any
enquiry about her welfare. Nor, she said,
when the direct question was put to her,
had Mr.. Hayden sent her any money to
provide for herself. She waas reluctant to
tell the name Of the lady she had stopped
with, while away from home and unen-
gagged, and the reporter did not press her
to do it. She was married recently and has
two children now. Her stepmother sought
her out and made a reconciliation six weeks
afterwards; and they were On good terms
I'LL cha 6fan Sha had
her father since April, when her stepmoth-
er died, till she saw him behind the bars
on Thanksgiving night.