The sun., 1891-01-02
ALL WERE DRUNK TOGETHER.
MRS. MCGOWAN SEEN CLIE6JNG TO TEE
SILL OF hkR BISDOH.

mrs. m'0oWAN SEEN oLISeINe TO TEE
SILL OF HER bISDOn.
TIE. she Let 60 ana Fell sixty Feet-Me-
Husbnsd and Son Accuse Esch Other OF
Throwing Ber Ont hut Take u Sack.
Mrs. Martha McCcwan was thrown or fell
from tho nfh.story window Of tho tenement
house at 1Gl wost Sixty.socond street. at so
on Wednesday niRit. and was killed She lived
At the house with her hus' and Alexander. her
Rrown-up son Wiilnm and two little girls.
Fathor, mother. and son we're all drunk on
Wednesday night, and wero mo'e than usually
noisy. Mrs. MCGOWAN screamed louder than
usual soma time after ~ o'clock. and another
ter ant caiel up the stairs that N that Internal
racket didn't atop he would get n policeman.
There wasn't so much noise a'ter tnat. Samuel
McLauahl,n. who lIves on the floor 'elow. and
Mrs. Carr. who lives on the nth floor In tho
house adjoining. say, however, that the quar-
rolling went on.
1t sto. pod entirely a. 1lx o'clock and a few
minutes afterward Mrs. Carr heard what sho
describes as an awful eroan. sounding as
though 1t wero Just outside her window. Her
daughter Maggie raised the window, and, look
ing out saw Mrs. McGowan Enocling on the
coping OF tho fourth floor window OF the house
next door, hanging to the sill OF her own win
dow above With her hands
'Oh, mother" screamed Mss Carr. that
brute has thrown Mrs. MCGOWAN out OF the
window"
Mrs. Carr ran to the window and called to
Mrs.. McGowan and the woman lot 60 OF the
sill with one hand and waved the hand at Mrs.
Carr. She did not speak.
Mr.. Carr was sick and could not scream
be, self. and she told her daughter to call
Police" Tho young woman screamed
Help help." three or tour times. and o crowd
OF young men who were standing al ihe corner
b. ard her. II Was raining q little. Mrs. Carr
called 10 Mrs. McGowan TO hold tight for few
minutes and help would como. Then she and
her dausl ter drew their heads In and were
going to run down to tho street. They had
hardly reached tho door whom they heard q
crash. They ran back to tho window. Mrs.
MCGOWAN had fallen sixty feet to tho ground.
The young mon wore picking up her body.
Miss Carr tainted.
n.n vsn up .: ssps .S e, MN
'H hs Of ss "f SFsa sleFe
sndU" "a. nsss s.. Hse
n was az aslesp Ths % poiesmSD Shook tH him and h ho
,,}} You thrsw yons mother out Of tho window"
What are you giving us3" asked the young
0fs asnd dda 9s srs ID h:
iected. Ho acted as though he was very drunk
The policeman went into tho back room. and
BAD Il hEeauiFTsdh Th.n sooa deal q .SSsknK 70
ths street Ths man va. eppsrensE1 no ON more :
room there % were ret two little leg girls asleep M 'o0'nef
The smbulapee came ard the SURGEON off,
% %TSe %poceman took The father and sSn @ to oeiS sSs
Wess Forty.seventh street police station Both
: .cn aES Fl. The shsl hhs oa, &
.s:.Ss9 Both ws4s sss 0' accusing
said she had been asleep since early evening.
fS oher Masss Il yes od said sRss bsr
father and brother had both bsen drunk and
a sss en ssoas NS 6s as RSs ss shsS e
Isins M sisS Ssr noshsr SIS hsd Been stGsid aSsE
hef So. at 10 O'clock. She had cIswled raw o into
bed. She hadn't intended to 60 to sleep. but
T6s la her and son, were taken to- tho York
Tass danl aug s.:
sos ad d. sd
he4i hsd ID aes So H.n ei ~ Ss% @0Rs Years. vntey
said. and We drank most of the day. We
only friend I had. and didn't have anything
70 do with her death; was pretty drunk whom
! went to sleep In the front room where al
SsD tS;nt she r., sac n
10 in the New York Infant Asylum. scrcsS the
way from, our house Her room faces our
house, aud mother used always to 90 to the
sSG .na Sa ss ea e &nsn
came IN he and ! had had some words and
mothar had separated us. Mother and / were
not .QIarrslllER during tho day. We never
s1 60 ld S.T friend and
food whom he would have lot me stsrve"
been drinking gil day. He didn't have much
that the young man would throw % his mother
out OF tho window He Was asked why ho had
accused the son the night before, and he said
be lad been TOO drunk then to know what no
~, a, Ss.! IIa know @ ssythne about how she se!
his son was worthless. d!ssiEated fellow.
Moa"wan IS # 81 YEARS yssrs old His wife gas the
potter itaIked with the moi sh bors Of the family
Yesterday: They were al OF the opinion that
either iether or son hSd thrown Mrs; McGo owan
Sst on. q IN he ,nd WINDOW Man Mr. adcLauGhp oec.sed
beat h!s mother and throw her about the room.
on the sill Of the window below has rather
Sourss might h"ys climbed nte that e%sa posoa ..
hetseli When Mrs. MCGOWAN fell she struck
tho sast end o. the iron fence 10 front Of the
fouse and broke It to- pieces. The body bore
outward sign Of violence except what the
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