Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-15
son OF HIS MOTHER
A chicagoan Whose Cussedness
Comes Honestly.
DlPRAv1TY BRED IN THE BONE

develops Itself In . Perfectly Natural
;tyle-A Wedding That Didn't Take
Place. and the why and wherefore-
Revenge OF the Young Tough because
His Mother Refused TO Put Up the Cash
Tor His Marriage.
CHICAGO, Dec. IA scene of ruin and
de Collation. more squalid than picturesque,
but complete in all its details, was pre-
selted yesterday TO the view Of all curious
ca Llers at the home of Mrs Ellen Norris
ser, on the second floor of a tumble-down
dwelling in the rear OF 13l Market street.
Young Patrick Sheehan had performed
ths work of q devastating cyclone because
his mother, forsooth, wouldn't give him
tia money necessary to proper celebra-
ton of his marriage with Mary Gallagher,
Western avenue belle, which was
to have come off with eclat-a barrel Of
be er and slashings of whisky yesterday.
Tie ceremony has been postponed. Fri
day young Sheehan, who Is q carpenter by
trade. made more emphatic appeal than
us ual for assistance. But it was no 60
H mother told him she would supply
m ,ney for his wake, but not for bis we'd
ding.
A Black Eye and Then Ruin.
Patrick contented himself ON that occa-
sion with giving his mother black eye,
ard Saturday morning Justice Kersten
lis tened to her appeal for protection, and
Issued warrant for her sons arrest for
disorderly conduct. The warrant was
served at O'Clock that evening, and two
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fir end and left his cell boiling with wrath.
Whisky administered at intervals stirred
up his anger way past the boiling mark,
ard at IL O'Clock he went back home and
pr oceeded to clean out the place Nothing
e capped except the carpets. Every chair
in the place was smashed and thrown out
of the windows, the windows going, too,
as the irate young man took no precau.
tons to raise them. Mrs. Morrissey es-
CO ped early in the struggle, fortunately
dodging loaded coal hod which Patrick
threw at her. She began yelling ''Policel'
The Cops Make a Flank Movement.
In the meantime Patrick smashed q
lounge into kindlingwood, tore down his
m other's bed and was engaged In clearing
crockery off the pantry shelves when he
| heard heavy footsteps on the stairs He
went to the head of the narrow stairway
with heavy iron poker in his hand and
remarked to Officer Barnes:
III you come up here I'll brain your
The officer was valiant but prudent and
retired for re-enforcements in the per
sons of Officers Casey and Slattery,
| and the three officers began the
siege. By a dexterous flank move
m emit Slattery and Barnes pushed Casey
in front, and he had most of the fun
| r 1sbiBg up the stairway with drawn re-
volver he lodged fat iron and dubbed
Sleehan on the head just as he was
smashed on the nose with the poker Ca
sey had to rap Sheehan on the head two or
three times before his fellow-officers could
pinion the arms of the young desperate
An Unsavory Record.
Eight years ago Mrs. Morrissey figured
at police station as defendant in charge
OF burglary, and bears an unsavory record
among the police At that time the police
were puzzled by long series of burglar
les aud il was months before
Mrs. Morrissey's connection with them
was discovered. She had posed in public
a washerwoman, and travelled about
with a big clothes basket nicely covered
Her plan sometimes was to knock at a
door, and if her rap was answered ask
for washing; if not answered, let herself in
W TIA false key and fill her basket with
the most valuable articles in sight. though
| she always filled it, if she had to fall back
Oh coal hods.
A Discovery of Sway.
Sometimes she would haunt the rear of
OF the house when she thought the family
would be out, put her bare-footed little
| daughter through the window, and have
her ransack the house. What first directed
Suspicion to her was the fact that an
elder daughter was wearing three or
four watches at time, and jewelry
in proportion, on festive occasions.
Her house ON Henry street was
Sc arched by Detectives Baer, Rohan, and
Stiff, who worked up the case, and
! q 600 worth of goods recovered and re-
| turned to the owners. In the collection
were some 1,500 towels and two dozen
bird-cages. Everything was fish that came
to Mrs. Morrissey's net then, but after
serving three years in the penitentiary she
| re tired from the profession.