The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-19
HE FINISHED THE JOB.
A Hoboken Bricklayer's Ter
rible Attack on an
Old Woman.
PROBABLY A MURDER.
Breaking Her Bones with a Stove
Lid, and Then Kicking Her and
Jumping ON Her.

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Thomas McNulty, burly bricklayer. IS
q prisoner in the Hoboken Police Station
on charge of atrociousiy beating Mary
Carroll, his mother-in-law. 1t is probable
that the charge will be changed to one Of
murder before the day is out, for the
woman was shockingiy hurt.
'Murderl Murderl'' was the cry which
startled Policeman Louis Weihe last
night as he passed the door of No. 116
Fourth street. He ran up stairs as
quickly as he could and was stopped by
some excited women who screamed that
murder had been committed and that the
murderer had got away.
Weihe ran around the block and saw
man being pursued by crowd, On
the corner of Sixth street the man
double on his pursuers. Weihe grabbed
him, subdued him after a tussle and had
ma nard work to protect him from the crowd.
The man was McNulty trying to escape.
SHOCKING SIGHT
The house is an old and dilapidated
frame tenement. The halls and corridors
are narrow and unlighted. On the top
hoor, in the kitchen, shocking sight pre-
sented itself to the policemen who started
TO investigate the case. Stretched on the
floor, with her face battered out of recog-
milton and her clothing stained with blood,
lay white haired woman. Only an
OCCASIONAL moan showed that she was still
alive. She was laid on a sofa, pending
the arrival of an ambulance. When DE-.
Simon and Sergeant Marnen got to the
house, her ante-mortem statement was
taken, as it was found that she could not
possibly live till morning. Under table
baby lay crying for its mother. She
was taken to st. Mary's Hospital.
McNulty had been nursing grudge
against Mrs. Carroll all day. In the after
noon he told his wife that he would have
nobody in the house except themselves.
His wife tried to soothe him by telling
him that her mother would move soon,
but she had not the heart to turn the
feeble old woman out on to the street pen
nilesS and without warning. This seemed
to satisfy McNulty and he went out mutt
tering.
1t was q few minutes after ten when he
returned. He had been drinking and
asked both his wife and his mother-in-law
for quarter. Neither had cent This
infuriated him and he made an attempt to
hit his wife with a poker. She ran out Of
the room and took refuge on the roof
McNulty, after striking little girl and
knocking the poor, feeble old woman
down, went out again.
THE WORK OF BRUTE.
Ten minutes later he rushed upstairs.
pushing everybody out of his way and
declaring that he had come to finish the
job. Mrs McNulty had come down from
the roof and was nursing her baby when
she heard him coming upstairs. As he
entered the room she handed the baby to
Mrs. Carroll, and again fed to the roof
for safety. isssssgRsts
Seeing nobody else, McNulty turned
upon Mrs Carroll and knocked her down.
The baby was in her arms, and when she
fell it rolled under table. McNulty then
picked up heavy stove lid, and began
pounding Mrs Carroll with it, fracturing
her jaw, her cheekbone and her wrist, and
inficting a severe scalp wound on the
back Of the head. Then he began kicking
her, dislocating her shoulder Still not
satisfied, he jumped on her.
All this time a group Of fright tened
women stood shuddering in the doorway,
not daring to interfere.
IN FLIGHT
McNulty suddenly stopped, bent down
and peered intently into the old woman's
CLASSY eyes, staring out of a mass of
bruises. He shuddered, picked up q
blnnket, covered the body with it and
made for the door.
McNulty fled down the stairs and into
the yard The fence is about twelve feet
high. After making three vain attempts
he reached the top, from which he sim-
mediately fell to the ground on the other
side. He ran about block and was
hurt himself in falling and tried to make
the police believe that the feeble old
woman inflicted the injuries, and that
she was hurt while he was acting in self
defense.
Dr. Simon, who attended the old
woman, said that she could not possibly
recover. 1t is suspected that besides the
wounds described she has internal in
juries.
When she made her statement before
the doctor, Sergeant Marnell and THE
JERSEY CRY News reporter, the prisoner
was taken into her presence and iden-
titled.