New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-02
HURLED FROM A WINDOW.
A WOMAN KILLED ON NEW.YEAR'S DAY.

HER son AND HUSBAND CHARGED WITH TIL
MURDER-EACH ACCUSING THE OTHER
A murder resulting from drunkenness is expected
BY the police of this city the beginning of each new
year. and one committed at the tenement hous
No I6l West Sixty-sccondst. only few minutes aite
The noisy welcome to 1871 had begun. II was crlm'
more brutal and shocking than the usual New YEAR
murder A woman hurled to her death from
fth.sOry window of the house, and later her drunken
husband and accused each other OF the uhha'ura
crime.
The blowing Of whistles and footing of horns which
had drowned all other sounds at midnight had no
ceased when q number of noisy young men IN Yves
sixty -irst-st heard woman soIeaih' iioi ~
piercing through the din, made them look up u tp
story window of the cnement-house III time " ~ ~"
crnciny TO the window ledge. Before an cnoi' 'ou'0
y, 800 q. ,o,,o nor she fell Down she went. dis
lance of over sixty feet, ana sruoA 'N0 ,r, ,,
g.. rou,rc In front Of the basement area Inc ran
ing was broken and her body was nlaisc' "' ~,
iron sn,kcs Her death was ins'al'a"eo"''
cornse dronncd from the railing and roileo OH "o ~
walk her face was turned TO the light OF s''ee'
and several men who ran 10 INC spo'
features Of Martha Mc"ow"h' . $500, la lived
Tho woman was ffty-two years old ana hao h
- tho efth floor of the house with her husband sun
and daughter long enough - be we'll known Ill '"'
ne;rhhorhood II was well known, too' that ncI "'7
hand and son were drunkards ana nan 'c'''u Nv
.uv Jobn Rouch, Charles Gilmsrtin ana Johh
TYSON who had seen Mrs MCGOWAN fal ran "is'"i' ,
to the top floor and found the door leaohs ~ ."s
rooms of the McGowans locked. They had pouhueu
=, the door and had got no answer whe'i 'i'H VIZ
ionad bv Policeman Newsam, of The west foiS
o.rth 81 souad lie put his shoulder aeains, 'iN
door and forced it open. ON the moor Oh o'io ~ ~"
,ooms Law Alexander MCGOWAN. the husoahu' "p
,,aren,lv in a drunken supor. on Guar J" INV
t.on, room was his son William who also was "ru"H
and prctendcd to be asleep. In 'o0u III I,,a
or, ,ras Maggie MCGOWAN. fourteen years olu' H"o
Rad bec, asleep without doubt, nut s''c WIS "'. ~
nr,sed greatly when she was informed vi nv, ,,
death The rooms looked like inc nome VI 1900
-. ~ noverty and neglect abounding. lheIe Neio
mo-" - - s,rucr,e in the front room, where the Few
s's - .rri,ure had been displaced, and the WINDOW
was open. A., .dor and bc
v,,iam MCGOWAN was accused OF the murder anu Hc
,,ro,ontlv Turned the accusation against MS i".',
- didn't throw the old woman ont OF Inc "i"uo"' W
crocled =. II ANYBODY did, il was Inc Ola man '
cbarce seemed 4, make his father SOBER alo hc "o
10 .ro, william must have committed the crime
,rte story helped 10 fix suspicion on her brother
co. aaId that william frequently had beaten 'hel
s.o.hor u.bcn he was drunk. Last night, inc tnri
lid nil came home drunk and ugly ana sIu a y,
bad words mother knew ne DRINK NIX 10 Stop him
FsbcT Iod him 10 shut mp but Bill kept on n, 2a%l ns
until vas scared and went to Deg ,on and didn,t
10 Sleep on the floor. ] got 10 Steep 'oo' "i" ''
hear what happened after that. .>or,s ,,rdor thoc
o.crnied Ia, the NctiOwauS. said he Icaiu 'Hcs, ="
,,,rder and sounds Of a fight upstairs just oclorc MIS-
MCGOWAN fell from the window on, ,oo,,od nm in
The Mc(owaus. father ard son. We're "eheu o. up -
.,o nolrc station They said they were gas n'trr'
The father i lift v-two years old and Ms son WI
,i~o Mrs MCtiowan'S body was carried 10 the PoIr
station 70 await examination 10y colOhci IL I5c
was placed the care Of the society ioi ,T Po
Cont the prisoners remanded unul tooay' WHICH,
they will have an cNdnnlndtl"A'