The Penn's Grove record., 1893-09-15
TO THEIR DEATH
THE WOMAN FOUND IN HOLIDAYS
BARN IDENTIFIED.
EnticCd TO the Barn by False Promises
of Work.
A C0LDLY CALCULATED RIME.

NEWGURGu, \. Y.-There is no
doubt that the two nm found muir
dcrcd at the Holiday Place, Sullivan
County, are Margaret MeQuillan, wife
Of Thomas McQuillan, and theirdaugh-
ter Sarah, all of the town of Newburgh,
about mile west of this city. Mrs,
Halliday, the alleged murderess, has
recently made three visits to the Nc
Quillan home, the first Of which was
about ten days age. She represented
that She came from q Mr.. Smith, Oh
this city, and introduced herself as
a Mrs. smith. She said she lived at
Walden, and was looking for some n
to assist in housekeeping and would
Yccd them about two weeks. She said
,hc had heard Mrs. McQuillan
had a daughter who worked out and
wanted her to come and help. The
daughter, who is usually employed rs Il
domestic i'll a Newburgh family, vas at
home spending Il vacation at the time
of Mrs. Halliday's call, but wa indis-
posed and did not go, and Mrs. Halli-
day departed.
Mrs. Halliday called again and offer
ed 81 Il day and board for help. The
mother accepted the offer, and she her
self went away in the afternoon in a
wagon with Mrs. Halliday, who drove
the horse heading for Sullivan county.
Mrs. Halliday r~e-appeared at the
McQuillan home with the same horse
and wagon she had on her previous
visit, and alone. The daughter was
not at home, but returned soon after
Mrs. Halliday's arrival. The father
was not present when Mrs. Halliday
told that the mother had been injured
by falling from a step-ladder, and that
Mrs, Halliday wanted the daughter
Sarah to go back with her to care
for the injured mother, and offered
the girl a package of candy and some
lace.
On this visit Mrs. Halliday stated she
lived about seven miles back Of Walden.
Sarah accompanied her and the two
drove away.
The father set out to find his wife and
daughter, but was unable to do so, and
returned home.
The announcement was made in the
paper that the unidentified bodies were
those of women who had resided west
of this city, and it was Immediately
suspected that they were the remains
of Mrs. McQuillan and her daughter.
Charles W, Baker, who runs the
market wagon between Walker Valley
and Newburgh, had aided in re
moving the two bodies from the barn
and he stated here that he though
when he was carrying the younger o
the two women out he recognized the
face, hut where he had seen her h'
could not at the time remember.
In driving on the turnpike home
ward bound, past the lane that leads tt
to McQuillan home, Baker vas accosteC
on the subject by neighbors who knew
he came from the section where thu
murder was committed, and his descrip
, ton of the remains left nc doubt as t.
the identity of the murdered women
+ In fact, he now remembers distinct.
that they wore people he had seen il
passing p ANU Nv III MS "iN'
wagon.
The Identification is made more com
;, plelc from the fact that Il ncighbor o
the McQuillans, Il Mrs. Berry, recog
nized Enthusiastically, from description
!, she has read and from Bakers story
some If the clothing found at the seen
of the tragedy. Baker also gives tn
, name of the dealer found on the insid
;, of the collar of Il sacque that Mrs. Berr.
recognizes, and this dealer is Il New
burgh man.
:. This afternoon James McQuillan
, cousin of Joseph McQuillan, Of New
, burg, reached Bloomingburg, accom-
panied by Adam Sloan, a friend. Tn
body of the young woman was show
, them and fully identified as the daugh
, ter of Joseph McQuillan. The body Q
n the older woman being buried, a flu
!, description was given the men, and MI
! McQuillan left perfectly satisfied tina
+, the victims were his relatives.
The undertaken advised that tn
body of the mother should not b
: disinterred on account of its cond'
ton.
The rumors that Mrs. McQuillan ha
l 800 with her when she left home ar
; not thought to be true, but that the gil
had a gold watch and two rings, whic
; are missing,is known. Two pistols wer
: found in a vault in an clubhouse o
Justice Thaycr's place, where the su:
: pected was first taken when Al
! rested. The pistols are 32-calibr'
Z This calibre corresponds with tn
: bullet found near the bed in the hOust
t and with the bullets found in the mul
! dered woman.
! The suspected murderess is still
l Constable SCOTS care at his house.
She continues to treat her callers
the same disconnected vislonaT
speech, and natural or assumed Graz
actions. Many of the neighbors are il
clined to believe that Paul Halliday, IL
c husband of the woman under arrest,
: not dead, but has decamped.
d In the same vault where the pisto
= were found later, there was dug out a
= ounce vial, without a label, c%ontainin
1 chloroform. and two boxes of cartridge
5 one full and the other partially empt.
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