New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-08

HE HAD THOUGHT HER UNFAITHFUL. BUT As
SHE DIED SHE AyOwED HER INNOCENCE.
Mrs. Catharnc scanlan rin of the tenement
house. No. I4l West SiXtcenthst. with her drss on
fire, half hour before mdn ght Sunday night, and
burned fatally. Her husband. Richard SCatian
his brother Michael arrested later on sus-
plcon. They were the house when she out, and
they did not attempt To her life. The police
told that Richard seaman had thrown lighted
lamp nj his wife In the presence of his brother.
Mr.. Seaman woman Of attractive appear
ancc and about twenty eight year, old. She had two
children, the Younger an infant born eight months
ago. The family lived I'm rooms the second floor
Il the tenement house. Michael seaman was M
married and boarded with his sister IN law He and
Richard wor,,d ia bakery at scvcntlIaVc. and
siXtNenth-st
When Mrs. seaman ran downstairs from her rooms
to the street her aroused other Inmates NJ
the house. Mrs Htaplc'ou, the h"uekeepeF "h'
lived on tie first floor, Mr.. Seaman run out or
the house. and followed her. James C"nkln. ba1
tender living TIE opposite side OF the street 81"
Ms seaman run along the Sidewalk short distance
and fall exhausted. She cnvclored In namcs. and
her long hair which strained loosely behind her
neck burned Hike torch. Conklin procured bod
quilt wrapped 1t about Mrs scanlan and carried her
into the rom Of Mr.. Klhmet. q; No. 80 West SIX
teentli-st He sad later that rS. seaman told nm 4"
lamp had cNplod ii IN her room. she vas bIr1icH
Mrs sapleton ran back tn the rooms occupied hv
the ,cnnlanS and found flames I'm tbe front room.
Michael Scanlan was holding the baby and other In
mates Of the house trying to "Ntngish the hr"
I'm the room Richard Seaman not Their then.
MIR, saplcon ran to the engine hcuse In West Seven.
te,lth.,t and called the frcmcn. who put ont The
fire I'm few minutes.
An ambulance carried MIR. Scauan 10 the New York
uo,pltal Her husband wa arrested early In IA"
morning and WIS taken ia the police station IN West
Twcnii,ih-,t Ills brother Michael taken to The
station also and wiz detained a witness. The
brother. Al first refused 70 talk but later they gave
Information which left no doubt In the minds OF the
police that the husband had set fire 10 his wiies
clothes.
Mrs. scanlan's sister Lad visited her on sunday
afternoon and had been escorted home In the evening
bv Michael. lie afcrwarf had gone 20 a liquor store
and had got partly INTOXICATED. When he returned
to TIE tenement house his brother was ont and his
.i.tcr.inlaw was lying on the bed with her children
I'm the front room Michael threw himself down
The foot Of the bed ana fell into drunken sleep.
Mrs, Scanlan did not disturb him. Half al hour before
midnight her husband entered the room. lie also was
under the influence Of liquor. At sight Of his brother
on the bed he flew into passion and began 10 cast
rcproachcs nj his WIFE, she tried reason with him.
but he became frantic with rage. Selling the lighted
kcru,,4r lamp. he hurled II I'm his Wlics face. The
lamp was broken and the burning oil was spilled over
the Hight wrapper which she After her flight
he escaped from The house, but be returned later ana
Early IN lie morning be was taken to the cot IN
the hospital where his wife lay dying III" looked
him and said " / saw HIM rai,e IN" mhl, bu'
didn't see hr throw it. Then N" turned her iarc
away anu "'ii'u a. il'" ~, ,, '',' ,I,
10 the jefferson Market Police Court and was com
mItted to await the result Of an gyc'iigailon BY
tention for Witness In Mulberry t.