Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-15
VERY QUEER ACTIONS
Jack McAulifSe Suspected of Causing
Katie Harris Death.
BROTHERHOOD OF ENGINEERS.
JACK M'AULIFFE ARRESTED.
He 10 Suspected of Having Caused
Katie Harris Death.

He IL Suspected of Having Causet
Katie Harris Death.
NEW YORK. Oct 15.-Jack McAuliffe. tn
champion lightweight pugilist Of America
was arrested in Brooklyn at o'clock thi
morning by Detective Hayes and Special Off
Ger 0'ConneD on suspicion Of having causeC
the death Of Katie Hart, the well-known sou
brette, in the West Side Hotel, at 18th stree
and sixty-eighth avenue, yesterday afternoon
McAulltfe was taken to tie 30th street station
and he was arraigned before Coroner
Hanly at tho coroners Office. 1t had been
known for some time past in the theatrical pro-
fession that McAuliffe was engaged to marry
Katie Hart. She was a young woman of re-
markable physical beauty, about nineteen
years old, and apparently deeply in love with
the boxer. 1t is said in some quarters that
they we're married few months ago in San
Francisco, after MoAulffe's fight with Carroll.
She was playing here in the Natural Gas
company.
AT THE HOTEL
The well-known boxer, according to the YER
sion given last night by the clerk at the hotel
desk, walked in the West Side Hotel about 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon accompanied BY
the young woman and called for a room. Nc
Auliffe had frequently lodged at the house be-
fore and he was assigned a room on the third
floor facing 9th avenue.
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stairs Of the hotel and told the clerk that ''his
wife" had just died, and begged him to send
for a physician.
McAuiiffs himself went for doctor. When
the latter arrived he found the young woman
lying dead on the bed.
The case was reported to the police, and
Mrs Gussis Hart OF SO Lexington avenue was
notified Of her daughters sudden death.
When Policeman Callihan Of the nineteenth
precinct viewed the body he noticed slight
wound on the nose and a swelling of the upper
lip of the dead woman and he SO reported to
Acting Capt. Schmittborger.
THE PHYSICIANS REPORT.
The cause Of death, as given by the ply
stefan in attendance, was heart failure and pre-
parations were made to remove the body to
McAuliffe's home in Williamsburg for burial.
As the details Of the circumstances leading
up to the tragedy were gradually brought
out it occurred to Acting Capt
Schmittberger to go down to the
hotel and view the body himself. He then
made an Investigation on his own account, and
concluding that the case looked suspicious he
detailed two officers to secure McAuliffe. The
latter was found IN the house of friend in
Brooklyn, and he was willing to accompany
the officers.
SOME VERY SUSPICIOUS FACTS.
Efforts were made in some official quarters
this morning to belittle McAuliffe's arrest on
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witness. 1t was learned, however that very
suspicious facts were in the possession of the
police. 1t appears from their stateme ntsstha
when the young woman died McAuliffe, instead
of giving notice at the hotel office, locked the
door and left the hotel without notifying the
police.
A tall, blonde-mustached young man. who
claimed to be physician. called at Mrs. Harris
house on Lexington avenue about o'clock
yesterday afternoon. He wanted to see Mrs.
Hart, and when she came into the paror he
told her that her daughter was dead. Mrs
Hart would not believe If, and on the invitation
of the man she went with him in a cab to the
hotel Here the alleged physician disappeared.
but when Mrs. Hart reached the room where
her daughters body lay the door was locked.
MAULIFFE COULD NOT BE FOUND.
McAuliffe was not to be found, and the grief
stricken woman hurried up to his saloon, in
west 10Th street, where she again met the same
physician, who told her that it was true that
Katie was dead and he insisted that she return
10 the hotel.
Mrs. Hart then rushed back to the hotel.
accompanying McAuliffe was dead. The door
OF the room was still locked and the boxer had
not returned. Finally it decided to burst
the door open. which was done, and there,
stretched upon the bed, was the dead body of
the actress.
HIS PECULIAR CONDUCT.
When McAuliffe had left his sweetheart dead
in the room, he hurried off to notify his
friends. His peculiar conduct in locking the
door and going away without giving notice
looked very suspicious, and Acting Captain
Schmithberger thought 1t a proper case for an
autopsy.
McAuliffe confined in the ante room
in the 30th street station house this morning
He declined to be interviewed by the reporter
Mrs. Hart, the mother of the deceased, spent
the entire night in lonely vigil beside the body
OF her daughter in the West Side Hotel Nc
Abilities mother came to the West Side Hotel
last night, where she has since remained with
Mrs. Hart
THEATRICAL PEOPLE SHOCKED.
theatrical people were greatly shocked this
morning when it became known that the little
Coincidence was no more. The fact that she
was engaged to McAullffe was known, but those
who knew her doubted that a marriage had
ever taken place.
At noon the body was lying in an ice box in
the hotel. Deputy Coroner Donelin was hourly
expected to perform an autopsy to determine
the cause Of death, which was stated by the
alleged physician yesterday to have been heart
disease.