New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-21
living 1t No 2es west ForyaftA It., but inquiry
such person was found thors.
BREAKING Up A HOSPITAL FOE CATS
THE PoLIcE FIND THEM DEAD AND ALIVE BY THE
| DOzEN-AN ECCENTRIC WOMAN.

ihh foLLCk FIND THEM DEAD AND ALIVE BY THE
DozES-AN ECCENTRIC WOMAN.
Late IN Sunday night the tenants Of No. e HAM
ZIONIST informed the police that Mary Minor, an
ssoa woman who occupied the rear room the frs
moor OF the house, had been about the prem
iss snce Friday and that the emitted horrible
s'encn- Tho officers broke into the apartment and
'ouna it to be low square room. tho furniture Of
"noh consisted OF small cooking stove, two three
on" 10 In the last stages Of dapdati0n the posts Of
single bedstead leaning against q pile OF old boxes
In ono corner, and o number Of kitchen utensils old
.uos ana largo tin pans which scattered about
inc MOOR Everywhere the officers searched they
iounn ono or cats. but no traces Of missing
No"an' They reported the matter 10 the Health
DO artnent, AMI yesterday Officer Cullen. OF tho
sanitary squad was sent to drive away the cats and
sinirct Tho premises. The officer thought that II he
oIened the doors and windows thirty cats
VI ivory size and description would into the
street Instead OF doing So however, they winkcd
amer dersively at him and calmly maintained their
l"s'uons Then the officer proceeded to drive them
out oy force but they into the closets under the
stove and behind tho boxes. who of tho fcrcer
ones showed fight. Tho officer called two of the
h.shoofs 10 his assistance and the novel spectacle
OF night between the police and the cats drow
. graf crowd to tho spot: but the crowd did not
!eah ion-' for tho cate soon came scampering from
inc aPartment ght into the midst Of the spectators
scattering them in all directions. When at last the
room had been cleared It was found that at least
'"o"ty oeai cats enoumbercd the floor They were
prvmIty gathered up and removed by tho health
authorities
A search then made OF tho promises, and
veaied the former tenant to have boon person Of
tineular eccentrciues. Everything denoted tho
10 Do an asylum for cats. In the various tin pans
winch were scattered about tho room were tho rem
nants OF substance resembling hash, and numerous
neaps OF rags, which appeared though they had
Doeh Tho Tasting places OF tho cats, lay In various
places In one Of tho boxes, carefully covered up
with BIT Of old Garnet large cat preserved
py the txiicrmlst's art, whio under heap of rub
DISH one of the closets the bodies OF two CATS which
had evidently been dead some time, were carefully
wrapped In throe or four layers OF old papers.
Mrs Minor rented tho apartment In No. AZ Ham
nton-st. about six months ago from Joseph Ruiz OF
No ZIG Canal St, who IL the agent Of the premises.
and has paid her rent regularly since then. She was
about nifty old, ind Impressed the neighbors IA
being woman Of Intelligence and culture. She had
always pleasant word for every and was fast
friend OF the children Of the nelghborhood to whom
sho frequently gavo pennies. 6ho was strictly tenn
feraie in her habits. and she met Of the chill
drcn carrvin beer Into the house she would have
moth ne moro to do with the child Her sole aim IN
life seemed to be TO take OF cats, and whenever
he oEnt sick disabled she carried it home and
nursed e. sho would never permit any one to enter
was accustomed to beg scraps of meat from the res
tauian and eating houses, which she would make into
hash AMI feed to the animals She would often, the
neighh0s say, take this hash out into tho steet and
feed the vagrant cats OF the neighborhood Although
abe seem-d TO have enough TO live on, no ono knew
how sho obtained her means and ali sorts OF mysteri-
tiles told OF her wealthy relatives. On one
North Of Ireland and had brother living in this city
There OF her, and the general impression
among her ghbors is that she IL either dead or In
some hospital, she had complained of being ILL.,