New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-01
MURDERED FOR HER MONEY.
WOMAN KILLED WITH A COBBLE STONE.
urR AssAILANT UNKNowN-THE ONLY GLE"
sCARF-PIN AND LANTERN.

urR AssAILANT UNKNuwN-THE ONLY GLE"
sCARF-PIN AND LANTERN.
Bridget GarIity, age sixty, living alone IN Il
small house Cross-st, Harrison, W was iou III
her house murdered at o'clock yesterday aiternoon
The house has two stories and belonged 10 the "oan
There are rooms on the hrst hooT' w'h nave n''
beeu occupied and the second hoor4hcre are three
,,rnished rooms which formed the wonians habtaton
Tho house stands isolated on Cross between flith
ap1 Paterson sts Mrs. Garrity held only occasional
communication with her nelehbors. She cooked her
own food AMI had visitors Her Eeighbors believed
that she had considerable money
AT o'clock yesterday afternoon little boy named
John Met, whose parents live In Crossst was chas-
ing mis- goat Tho aumal ran across the street and DIS
appeared through boxlike iucosure about the front
door of Mrs Garrys house. The boy followed and found
the front open. He stepl cd into he hall, when
h.notced large POOL OF dried blood The boy became
frightened and home to tell his father. who went to
q house and entering the door, followed trail Of dried
Hood from the hall the Here ne found Mrs
Clarity her back with her arms stretched out The
back of her head crushed and red handkerchief
was knottod tightly around her throat Her bonnet lay
on the floor by. as II she had just returned home
sticking shawl was gold scarf pin with the letter
r." in black enamel. The pin is such one rs Is worr
by men and had evidently been dragged from the scarf
Of her murderer In the struggle Her hands were lacer
aIcd In the front room lay cobbe-stoue wrapped IL
copy OF Wednesdays World and piece of sha wi which
was saturated with blood
Mr.. Milliet. informed the neighbors, aud crowd
quickly gathered Word senytO.the County Phys-
can and tie house taken charge OF by constable
An investigation of Mrs. .Garry's living apartments
showed that everything turned upside down In the
search vsluables Bureau drawers were pulled out
and their contents scattered the floor and closets
were empted The woman last seen at o'clock on
wednes iay afternoon standing her house talking
10 neighbor she dressed in the clothes which she
rha fnuuG OsQ1
senee from the broken into by the murderer
The front door forced open with jimmy the locK
being broken and the tool used In forcing open
the doors on the second floor The murderer had prob
ably secured his booty when surprised by the return
of he woman Meeting her at the front door he feled
her with tue and then dragged her into the front
iroom, when a struggle took plac-. The woman was
weak and easily overcome aud second blow finished
lher The murderer carried his victim into the rear
room and escaped. lantern used 10y contractor who
is digging ditch Ia Cross-st. found in the house,
whittier It had evdently been taken by the murderer
Mrs. Garritys husband died few years ago. leaving
an estate divided between the wife, her daughter
and three stepchidren Mrs Garritys share about
500 and the affairs OF the estate were on the point of
being wound Up. TX Alderman Mulligan OF HARRISON
the executor and yesterday ho said to TRIBuNE re-
porter that ne thought the murderer believed the woman
had obtained this amount ana had in the house. What
other money aud vauabes the woman possessed Is not
known she has one sister living Bergen Point, and
another somewhere in Pennsylvania. Coroner John v
Burke OF Jersey city, will hold nes Ia the case to-
day. Word was sent to the police oi Newark and oher
cities of the murder but the onclew to iis PerPetraior
D. tie scari-pin found in tho victims shawl.
The bartender Of liquor shop IN the neighborhocd
said last night tina, Wednesday afternoon two sin
sier- looking Germans stopped in his place and got
druk. They were strangers and he is cOn1dest that
one OF them In his scarf the pin found sticking In
the murdered woman's shawl