The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-08
Her TERRIBLE REVENGE.
Mamie EmmerSon Describes
Her Attack Upon Mich
ae1 Conroy.
SHE KEPT THE yITRlOL A MONTH,
Her Mother Was Deceived by a
Bogus Marriage Certificate.

OF all the vitriol throwers / ever saw,
the most innocent looking one is Miss
Mary Emmerson, of No. 1872 Ferry street,
Hoboken. She is pale faced, blue eyed,
and flaxen haired girl of seventeen, with
melancholy expression. Care and trouble
can be read in her eyes, and wasted
cheeks and the marks of suffering are but
too plainly visible
She was listless when I talked with her
last night, and her replies were given in
monotonous voice, without the slightest
interest being expressed on the topic that
eventually may send her to State prison.
She appeared not to care what the out
come might be, it was all the same to
her--she was lost.H
When | asked her how long she had
known Michael Conway, the young man
on whom she threw the vitrol, disfiguring
his face for life, she replied:-"We went
| to school together"
Eyes, but they have only kept company
for about year." said her mother, q
stout, good natured looking woman.
PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
"Did he ever promise to marry you ?"
I asked.
| ooh, yes, great many times"
Eyes, and the villain sent me mar
rage Certificate" calculated the mother.
"A certificate ; when did he do that 9''
| 'Well, you see, along in March, had
reason for believing that if Mamie was
| not married she ought to be, and Iasked her
| If it was true She told me the story and
| Mike told me the same. I believed them,
! but about the first of August heard so
much gossip that determined to procure
proof and asked Mike for it. He said he
| had the marriage certificate at home and
he would send it to me. A few days later
l received d certificate which stated that
on February they were married by the
| Rev. Chauncey Nichols, or Nicholas, of
| Brooklyn, and the witnesses were Agnes
Freederman and August Belhoft, of Ho-
| boken.
| 81 was not satisfied with this and to-
ward the last of the month I called at the
| Freederman house. Agnes was not at
home, but her sister was quite sure that
Mamie was not married l came home
| and told Mamie this, and she confessed
that she was single. When Mike came in
| told him | had found out all, and asked
! him to marry my daughter. He said he
| would do so that night and he left the
house, and have never seen him since
but once, when he was brazen enough to
| play ball beneath my windows
| The good woman was by this time out
| of breath, and the daughter said, in
| answer to my question, that she had met
Mike several times, and each time he
promised to marry her at a certain date,
but always postponed 1t.
He asked me to give him back the GER
tificate, and as / knew it was bogus, did
| So" said she, ''but am sorry now that /
did so''
SHE KEPT THE vITRIoL A MONTH.
| "What made yets- throw the vitFioI on
his face, and how did it happenY' asked.
about month before / did it / took
| the vitriol from q bottle we had in the
house and filed the bottle with water, so
! that no one would miss it. hid the stuff
under the washtubs until wanted it, for
/ wished to give Mike every chance to re-
pair the wrong he did me- Finally he re-
| fused absolutely to marry me, and then
! concluded 1t was time to act. | was crazy
| with shame and grief, and my companions
| Stunned me and talked about me. On
| August l sent word by girl that
| wanted to see Mike, and he said he would
see me for half an hour.
II sent word to him to meet me on JEFF
| ferson street and / would only keep him a
| minute. l went to the place and got be-
| hind wagon, and when he approached
said, Hello, Nike and he stopped.
asked him for the last time If he would
marry me and he replied No. and then
/ dashed the cupful of vitriol in his face
| and fed. AS ran heard him cry, My
God, Pm blind and burning went to
some friends and remained with them
| until / surrendered myself at the station
house Thursday night"
| Miss Emmerson said she did not know
yet whether she would cause the arrest Of
| Conroy and force him to marry her He
| is the son of Peter Conroy, builder, at
| No. 20 Jefferson street.
The home of the young vitrol thrower
is not luxurious one by any means, and
| shows that the inmates have hard
struggle. There were no carpets on the
| floors and the scanty furniture was
rickety and shabby The neighbors say
the family is poor, but thoroughly respect
| able.