The Jersey City news., 1891-09-17
NANTES SAD STORY.
Betrayed by a Married Man
Who Lives in Newark.
A FAMILY With A RECORD
But it Seems to be a Pretty Bad
0ne-Recorder McDonough Says
It's the Worst He Ever
Knew.

Mamie McCarroll is very pretty nine
teen year old girl, with jet black hair and
brown eyes. Mamie was reared in an at
mosphere of vice in Hoboken tenement
house. Her father and mother, sisters
and brothers, have figured in the police
courts from time to time, and
Recorder McDonough says that everyone
in the family is wicked. Some months
ago the neighbors complained of the Nc
Carroll, and Mrs. McCarroll and Mamie
were ARE sted and arraigned before the
Recorder.
1t was the first time that Mamie figured
in police court, and her pretty face won
her great deal Of sympathy. 1t was ap-
parent that the young girl was soon to
become mother. The Judge asked her
who was the author of her ruin, bat she
positively refused to tell. Sne was taken
to the Penitentiary.
A few days ago the Recorder was in
formed that Mamie wanted to see him,
that she had confession to make. Yes
terday afternoon the judge visited the
Penitentiary and there received story
that duplicates q well known married
man.
ACCUSES A NEWARK MAN.
Mamie said that the father of her child
was John Kelly of Newark. Kelly met
her on First street, Hoboken. He repre-
sented himself as as Il single man. He
called on her at intervals. One day
Kelly induced her to drink
some whiskey. After that she
remembered little, but Kelly said he in
tended to marry her. aud Mamie intro
duced him to several Of her friends as her
intended husband, When her
condition become apparent. she
begged him to fulfil his promise, but
he coolly told her he was q married man
and had five children in Newark Then
his visits ceased. Mamie learned that
what he had told her was true, but she
did not want to punish him until her
mother induced her 10 do so
The Recorder promptly issued a war
rant for Kelly's arrest. Doorman Cap
Aldoretta went to Newark this morning
to serve 1t.
81 believe" said the Recorder. "that
the McCarroll family is the most vicious
family, as whole. that ever dealt with.
The father and mother are
bad and the children are following in
their footsteps. The husband and father
figured in innumerable bloody affrays,
and was placed on trial twice for man
slaughter, but he escaped punish
wife, has her name inscribed on the police
blotter more times than any other pri-
soner. She drinks, fights with the neigh
bors, and is thoroughly bad.
LIKE THEIR PARENTS.
"About ten years ago Bridget, the eld
est of the children. then only ten years
old, was arrested for theft. tried d'and found
guilty. Judge Garretson was on the
bench and the courtroom was crowded
when she was arraigned for sen
tence. Although but a tot she
was very vicious, and when she faced
the Judge she created sensation by call
ing him vile name. When the Jud ge
told her she would have to go to the Re-
form School. until she was twenty-one, she
laughed.
".Why.' she said. I can stand on my
head until that time.'
.Joe McCarroll is tine only SOD. He is
a wicked fellow and will have bad end
He was arrested several times for atroci-
GUS assault. He is in Jail now.
mamie was never in jail before. but
she seems to possess all the vicious traits
of the rest of the family.
"The youngest of the family Is Lizzie. a
very pretty child only twelve years old (.
Yesterday she came to me and said that
she had been driven from home by her
mother. 1t appears the little one
would not be blind to the mothers
one, and the mother, in fit of temper,
put her on the streets. I have sent for
the mother. but I think that the aims
house would be a palace 10 the child com.
pared to her mothers home"