Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-16
MUST MARRY OR DIE.
Alternatives Which Charles McCabe
Gave Hattie Alderdice.
HE FELLED HER WITH A sAND-BAG.
The Man Arrested BY Policemen, After Q
Desperate Struggle.
OFFICER MAHBR SLIGHTLY WOUNDED

the Pittsburg Steel Casting Company, was
arrested by Officers Miller and Maner, at
o'clock yesterday morning, in boarding
house kept by Mrs. Young, at the corner OF
Twenty-second street and Spring alley. He
resisted arrest and is confined In the IWeifth
ward station on five charges
Over year ago McCabe went to board
with the family of Samuel Alderdice, at No.
3OOS Smallman street. He is 26 years old,
tall stout and fairly good looking. Alder
dice is shoemaker, and has comely
daughter, Hattie, IS years old. McCaoe
paid marked attention to Miss Hattie, and
they often walked together in the evening.
After short time, McCabe one evening
asked Hattie to marry him. She said she
did not know whether she loved him we'll
enough, and she asked him to wait six
months. McCabe agreed, with reluctance.
During the time of probation he was often
in her company, and she apparently gave
herself fair chance to love him. About
two months ago the time was up. McCabe
renewed his suit and was refused. Miss
Alderdice said she was sure she could not be
happy with him. McCabe left her IN an
angry mood. He went to her fathers shoe
shop, at No. 1925 Smallman street, and SAID
he wanted Miss Hattie, that he was bound
to have her, and that if she did not consent
to marry him she should not live to be an
other mans wife.
SCARED INTO A SKELETON.
When Mr.. Alderdice told this at home. the
young lady was badly frightened. She had
not the courage to leave the house, fearing
that McCabe would shoot her. She knew
that he carried revolvers, and she considered
him a desperate man. McCabe moved al
once to another boarding house.
In few days the girl received from Nc
Cabe a letter, in which he asked her to meet
him or die. She, of course, did not go to
the place he named. She was so worried by
his threats that she became i'll and very
thin. Other letters cane and Increased ner
distress and that of her family.
A little more than two weeks ago Nc
Cabe called at the house one afternoon. He
asked for Hattie and she went to the door.
As she stepped forward, pale and agitated,
McCabe drew from under his coat sandbag
and struck the girl quick, strong blow on
the side of her head. She iell unconscious,
and McCabe then displayed revolver,
threatening to shoot the whole family.
Mrs. Alderdice ran out the back way,
screaming, and McCabe took to his heels.
Miss Hattie's face was scratched and
bruised by the blow, and she did not re-
cover consciousness for nearly two hours.
On the morning following Mr.. Alderdice
went to the office of Magistrate McKenna,
and complained against Charles McCabe for
felonious assault and battery and the wan
ton pointing of a firearm.
ADOPTED DISGUISE.
Warrants were issued and Officers Miller,
Brady and Thompson were sent to look for
McCabe They found that he had left his
boarding house and they could not find
him. 1t was learned yesterday that he had
dyed his mustache and changed his clothes,
so that the police did not recognize him on
the street. 1t was known that he was still
in the city, because tine letters, begging for
an interview and threatening death as the
alternative, continued 10 come TO Miss AL
derdice. In one letter McCabe wrote that
he knew that the police were seeking him.
The girl was advised by the police to keep
one of the appointments which he made,
when they expected to be able to catch the
culprit but she had too much fear OF him
TO do SO, even though she knew that officers
would be near.
Saturday night Officer Miller learned that
McCabe was boarding with Mrs. Young. At
2 o'clock in the morning Miller and Maher
went to Mrs Young's house and knocked.
When the landlady arose and opened the
door they told her they had warrant for
McCabe's arrest. She told them where his
room was and they assembled to it.
THE GAME IN A TRAP.
The door was locked and McCabe was
asleep in bed. Miller hammered on the
door, when McCabe called out, Who's
there? What's the matter7" The police
mau answered, "There's fire in the house.
Get out, quick" McCabe sprang from his
bed and unlocked the door hurriedly. The
officers pushed the door open and rushed in
side. The room was dark, and Miller said:
1--WE have a warrant for you. You are ar
rested"
McCaDe ran to his dressing case, and an
instant later a revolver was fired. Officer
Maher was slightly wounded in the leg.
Miller, who saw McCabe when the revolver
flashed, sprang upon the man, and desper
ate fight occurred. McCabe is a strong
man, and was subdue6 with difficulty by
the Two policemen. Handouts were put on
him, and, clad only in his night-clothes, he
was conveyed to the Twelfth ward police
station. An officer went to the house and
got McCabe's garments. In the pockets
were found two revolvers and q long dirk
knife. The revolvers are both of large cali
Der, one of them being a British bulldog.
The charges made against the prisoner are
felonious assault and battery, assault and
battery, felonious pointing of firearms, ag-
gravated assault and battery and threaten
ing to kill. The prisoner was arraigned be-
fore Magistrate McKenna yesterday fore
noon. He said that he would edo up'' the
officers who had arrested him. The time of
hearing was fixed for tomorrow morning,
the hail was nlaced at S5 600 and McCabe