The evening world., 1892-02-17
SLAIN. WITH An AXE HELVE.
Murdered John Reardon Found in
the Hallway Of His Home
His Roommate and Numssake c
Locked Up In the Toinbs.

What appears to be cold-blooded murder,
the result OF II drunken brawl, was COM
mitted in Harlem at an early hour this
morning.
John Reardon, the victim, laborer, thirty
flve years old, was found dead In the hallway
OF the rye.story nat at 222 East one Hun
dredth street at O'Clock with his nose
broken and deep cash n hts skull.
Michael Reardon, his roommate, but no
relative, is charged by the police with the
crime.
Tho dead man had kept bachelors hall with
Michael Reardon on the second floor OF the
house where his body was found since Jan.
3 last. They occupied bedroom and two
| other rooms and Michael Reardon paid the
| rent.
The men were schoolmates In Ireland, and
when Michael Reardons wife died about the
first Of the year they hired the apartments
from Janitor Ernest Meyer.
The men kept to themselves, cooked their
own meals. and were regarded as peaceful
| tenants.
Among the twenty families In the house Is
that OF William Ivory, Walking Delegate OF
Electrical Workers Union No. 5,64S. Ivory
attended lodye meeting and reached home
| shortly after o'clock this morning.
When he pushed oren the hail door he
stumbled across something on the floor. He
| 1T a match and found 1t was the body Of Q
man whose face was covered with blood.
Ivory went for an oflicer and found Police
man Woodbridge at Ninety-eighth stree, and
Third avenue. The oGIcer examined the
body and found that life was extinct.
Tho hnad drpSSph n hlua shirt
trousers and shoes. His nose appeared to be
broken and blood still trlcHled from a deep
cash on the LETT side OF the head.
On the flOor alongside the body was small
elbow OF gaspipe.
Janitor Meyer recognized the body as that
OF John Reardon and Policeman Woodbridge
made search OF the latter's apartments.
| He found Michael Reardon If bed, dressed,
but feigning sleep. He was somewhat under
the influence Of liquor, and told the oflicer
several conflicting stories about the dead
man.
he first admitted that he struck his name
sake with stick; then he said he threw q
pitcher at him.
Woodbridge searched the rooms and found
hat the pillow-case on the bed was blood
stained. Under the bedding lay the- -hdndie
OF an axe smeared with blood.
| The ofricer took Reardon TO the East Eighty
eighth street station. On the way the latter
showed that he was still Intoxicated.
Michael Reardon was locked up
In cell, and the officer
went back to the house to Investigate
further. No one had seen the men
quarrel, and the only person who
could throw any light on the murder
was william Ibenthaller, who said he heard a
loud noise in Reardon's apartments about
midnight.
The body OF the murdered man was re-
moved to the station-house.
Policeman Woodbridge took the prisoner,
Michael Reardon, to Harlem Court at o
O'Clock, and later before coroner Messcmer
AT the Coroner's ONCE.
Michael Reardon is a low-sized, beetle
browed man, with a brogue. lie was very
nervous.
He is blacksmith and last worked on the
Broadway Gable road. He denied all knowl.
edge OF the murder, and declared that the
last time he saw his roommate was yesterday
morning.
He said that neither OF them had beer
working for three weeks, and that they never
quarrelled.
on his shirt front were blood-stains, which
he said were caused by bleeding OF the nose
The policeman told the Coroner that h,
found s33 in the prisoners pockets, but the
latter claimed that he had drawn the money
out OF the bank yesterday.
Coroner Messemer committed Reardon u
the Tombs TO await the inquest.