Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-06
JACK KELLY UNDER ARREST.
The Sequel Of the Fire In His Rooms Last
Night.

The Sequel Of the Fire in His Rooms Last
Night.
HIS WIFE SO BADLY BURNED THAT SHE DIED
| HE WAS DRUNK AND MADE NO EXPORT TO
SAVE HER-THE CASE BEING INVESTIGATED
BY THE POLICE.
John Kelly, stonecutter by trade, who 10
more Familiarity known as Jack Kelly, 10
under arrest on q mere charge of suspicion,
but should the investigation warrant his hold
ing for the grand jury, the charge will assume
more serious aspect. He is held at the second
precinct station on suspicion that he is RESPONSE
BILE for the death Of his wife, which oc-
CURED at an early hour this morning.
nelly, who was good workman,
is thirty-seven years old and formerly lived
with his parents on + street northwest. Seven
years ago he was married, and for the past two
months he has lived in rooms on the third floor
OF NO. lll2 It'll street northwest. Thehppear-
ance OF the rooms this morning after a fre last
night indicated a degree of poverty that was
calculated to make life a burden to a woman
even II other surroundings were pleasant. &,
SHE WAS DANGEROUSLY ILL.
But in this particular case there was more
than one thing to make the poor woman I'M
happy. She was very sick, her two children
were away from her and her husband was
drunk. Such was the condition of affairs last
evening when one Of the neighbors called at
Geier's undertaking establishment to telephone
for doctor. The message was that the woman
was dangerously i'll and for the doctor to
hasten to her bedside. 1t is more than likely
that the woman received the services Of q ply
sician, although the neighbors who were seen
by STAR reporter had not seen the doctor.
And so the unhappy woman, Mrs. Dora Kelly,
was alone in her room at IL 20 o'clock last night
when her drunken husband returned. What
effect his appearance had on the poor woman Is
not known, but he had only been there q short
while before other residents of the fat heard
what appeared to them to be profane abuse and
this was followed by an agonizing scream for
assistance.
THE WOMAN ENvELoPED IN FLAMES.
Presently smoke was seen issuing from the
two little rooms occupied by the kellys and
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowenthal, as we'll as Moses
Hefner, were soon in the room lending their
assistance. The wife was on the bed enveloped
in flames. while the drunken husband stood not
far away watching her burn to death.
Mrs. Lowenthal succeeded in throwing some
water on Mrs. Kelly, while Mr.. Hefner got q
mattress and put over her to smother the
flames. The fire was spreading so rapidly oil
this time that the woman's rescuers were forced
to retreat in order to cave their own lives. In
iue uedHWuNe nelly naO also le1t the mouse,
and when he reached the sidewalk he was met
by Dir. Levingston, who inquired what was the
matter.
oh, nothing" replied Kelly, "the fire is all
OUT
An alarm Of fire soon brought No. FIRE COM
pany to the scene, and Foreman Brown has
tened upstairs to find the woman. Close be-
hind him were other members Of the company.
The smoke was so dense that the fremen had
some difficulty in vending their way up the
narrow stairway to reach the room. But
Foreman Brown went through the smoke until
he reached the fat which had been occupied by
the Kellys for nearly two months.
HER INJURIES WERE FATAL
Upon reaching there the firemen found the
woman. who had managed to get partly
through the door in her effort to get out of the
burning building. She was picked up and car
ried across the hall to the rooms Of another
tenant.
1t took but a few minutes to get the fire under
control, and the sufferer was sent to Emergency
Hospital as soon as possible. mere glance at
the patient satisfied the physicians that death
was sure to follow and they labored hard to re-
lieve her OF the intense suffering that naturally
followed such a severe burning.
KELLY ARRESTED.
Chief Paris called the attention Of the police
to the conduct Of the woman's husband and
"cous Soo oSAoSA ehio uioIhiitb IOiCeuau
Kopp of the sixth precinct had Kelly in CUSTODY
Early this morning word was sent to Assistant
District Attorney Clagett that the woman would
die. but owing to her condition he was unable
to get her ante morton statement.
This morning Inspector Hollinberger de-
tailed Detective Mattingly to work on the case
with Policeman Joseph Barnes.
The officers took the statements Of numerous
witnesses, who will be heard before the coro-
ner's jury tomorrow.
When a STAR reporter called at the police
station this morning Kelly was pacing the stone
floor OF his cell, and he anxious to know
what charge the officers had against him. He
appeared more anxious about his own incar-
ceration than to grieve over the horrible death
OF the mother OF his children, whose cold body
lay on the table in the hospital dead room.
His breath was evidence of his last evenings
debauch, and his nervous condition was attrib-
utable only to whisky.
WHAT THE PRISONER SAYS.
To STAR reporter he said that when he re-
turned home last night he found his wife filling
the coal oil lamp while the wick was lighted
Il had told her about it many times before"
he said, "but she would persist in doing it, and
so she set the house on fire.
~ went out into the street." he added,
'hoping to see policeman, but when reached
L street met friend and we walked down
the street together. When got down far
as home feel asleep on the sofa."
The deceased was a tailoress and it is said she
earned money enough to support herself.
The Kellys lived in two small rooms In the
front room was cooking stove and two or
three common chairs, while on the dining table
were some fragments of meat and bread. Sew
eral pictures adorned the walls.
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