The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-29
TELLS A STORY =. OF MURDER.
NARY CARrEB EXPLAINS A MYsTE-
RIOUs PARKYILLE CRIME


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Kelly wss Wayiata snd Knee, Brasil
Morrss. IN whose House She Lived
Brought Hose Keiiy's Bundle Of Ciothes
Police Superintendent Campbell Of Brooklyn
is pretty confident that the man who muir.
dered Patrick Kelly in Parkville. l. L. nearly
three years ago is under arrest. Kelly was a
gardener. and worked for florist short dis
lance from the Manhattan Beach Railroad
crossing at Parkville. On Saturday night,
Dec. I. 1888. he went to Brooklyn to make
some purchases with the wages he had saved
up for several weeks. and returned to Park
vile by the $3.50 train on the Culver road. On
arriving at Parkville he took a drink In a
saloon near the station. and about 1880
o'clock started for the house OF his employer.
He was sober. and he carried In his hand a
bundle OF underclothing and other articles he
had purchased in Brooklyn.
When he was seen alive last he was ap-
proaching the Manhattan Beach Railroad
track. along which he was in the habit OF walk
ing when returning to his employers resi-
dence. Next morning he was found dead along
aide the track. with abundant evidence that
he had been murdered and robbed. The front
and side Of his skull had been crushed in.
apparently with a hatchet and his bundle
as well as his pocketbook. supposed to have
contained from $40 to SIS. was missing. There
was no evidence Of struggle. Everything in
dictated that the poor gardener. who was q
strong. powerfully built man. was attacked In
the darkness and struck down with the first
blow.
Several persons were suspected Of the muir.
der at the time. among others negro farm
hand called Brazil Norris. who lived with his
wife In shanty near the scene Of the crime
Two days after the murder Kelly's bundle Of
underclothing was found under corn stack
couple Of hundred feet from Morris's shanty.
There was not sufficient evidence on which to
arrest Morris at the time but he IL the man
who is now in custody. Morris had lived In
Parkviile for o couple OF years. colored wo-
man named Mary Carter. who did chores
around the village. boarded with them. When
Morris's wife, died. a year ago. he moved to
truck driver for y furniture mover. The Car
ter woman also came to brooklyn. but recently
sequence OF stories she told that Morris was
arrested He was found by Detective Ser
geant Graham on his truck on Tuesday after
learned the cause Of his !. arrest He denied that
ter connecting him with tho murder. super
intendent Campbell heard from Detective Ora:
ham several days ago that Mary Carter had
intendent had her brought lin from Cnnev
Island. When the Superintendent heard her
story he ordered her to be locked up as a wit
ness. and told Detective Graham to arrest
Morris. Both prisoners will be arraigned be-
fore Justice Walsh to-day. Superintendent
Campbell said yesterday:
The woman has strongly impressed me
with the belief that she is telling the truth
about this matter, and that she has not in
object. They said she was living with Morris
and his wife at the time Of the Kelly murder
She remembered distinctly the night that
Kelly was killed. Morris came home late. His
clothing was drenched. his boots were muddy.
and he said In explanation that he had missed
the train and walked all the way from Brook
Ign, She noticed that he carried bundle. and
with blood; Morris opened the bundle the next
day and displayed quantity OF undercloth-
ing. She selected a pair OF stockings, but
his wife snatched them from him and threw
them into the stove. When Morris had left
the house his wife. SO Mary Carter says. told
her that Brazil had killed Kelly by breaking
in his head with q bale stick. and had then
robbed him OF his clothes and money. It
was the some bundle. she said, which Brazil
the cornstack; Morris stoutly protests his in
nocence, but see no reason to doubt that this
woman is telling the truth. I may have some
to reveal later. Under all the
We shall hold this man until
the matter Is fully Investigated"
Evidence it Is said; will be produced to
show that Morris net Kelly in the saloon soon
Mos I'D. a snar's IS very es
strongly built. Tho Carter woman is 40 years
old and unmarried