The evening world., 1889-06-17
after A row
The Old Apple WOman'S Body Found In
the Cellar.
Her Daughter Kats Held on Suspi-
oion Of Murder.
She Says Her Mother Must Have Fallen
Down the Cellar Steps.

Kate Wood. an athletic-looking girl, n
locked mp In the East Sixty-seventh street
station on suspicion of causing her mothers
death.
Mrs. Wood wa' found dead in the cellar Of
her house, S3s East Seventeen street, yester-
day afternoon. She lived in three rear rooms
on the ground floor of that house with her
daughters Mary and Kate and her son Frank.
Mrs. Wood used to keep an apple-stand ON
Seventy-second street, near Fifth avenue,
and made money, but spent II all in drink.
Her children followed her example and spent
all they made in drink too.
About . week ago the family moved into
Seventieth streets.
Other tenants in the house say that they
were drunk all the time they were there.
hate went out Saturday night with two
Young men and did not return home until 10
o'clock Yesterday morning.
Then she was drunk. She went out and
bought beer and whiskey and shared it with
The events that followed were related
differently by the girl to THE EVENING womb
reporter this morning.
Mary said: Kate has got a bad tongue and
my mother 10 not much better.
My mother got very noisy with the drink
and Kate wanted her to go to bed. She
wouldn't.
Then Kate gave her q shove and threw
her on the lounge. and took fifty cents way
from her that she had given her in the
morning.
interfered and Kate slapped my face.
Then Invent out"
Did Kate strike or beat your motherp'
Not while / was there. aud 1 don't think
ahe did while / was away. either. l never saw
Kate strike my mother.
u got home about 4 O'Clock, and Kate was
in bed. ! asked her where my mother was,
and she said she had gone out for beer. I
vent out to look for her in the saloon on
First venue, but could not find her.
When / got back the little girl told me
there was an old woman dead in the cellar,
and then Kate and I and a young man lit
matches md went down in the cellar, whore
we fonnd mother dead at the foot Of the
STAIRS"
Kate tells q story somewhat different.
She admits pushing her mother on the
lounge and taking the half -dollar from her.
but she says Mary was drunk loo and left the
house with , young man.
After that, " she said. mother wanted to
go for moro beer. l wouldn't let her, and to
make sure she couldn't 60. threw the pitcher
into the yard and broke Il.
Then we went to bed. When Mary came
home again with the young man about 8
and then I missed my mother. The Young
man went out to look for her in the ~salOonS.
but couldn't hnd her.
when he cam back he went into the
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said she was sleeping on q drunk, and adj
vised MS to lot her lie there, and We did. I'M
til about dark, when we went down to wake
her mp TO get some money to buy kerosene.
Then We found she was dead. ri
- was 30 frightened that l ran away" she
concluded.
Detective Campbell found Kate with q man
called Dutch Nick at SiXty-eighth street and
Eleventh avenue about midnight and ar
rested her.
Her mothers body was sent to the Morgue.
There were no marks of violence upon IL n
the police think death was due to alcoholism.
They think she crawled into the cellar 10
sleep. and died there from the effects Of
whiskey. She has always been q hard
drinker, and was on the island at least forty
times.
Kate claims to be married to a man named
Mccarthy. but she claims that she does mot
know where he Is now. She does not live
with him.
She was committed to await the action OF
the Coroner at the Yorkville Police Court
this morning, and Mary was detained - .
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