Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-09
HURLED THE 6AsY 80 FEET.
Mrs Margaret MoCabo Killed b Child that was
Loil In Her Chafue.

tNow York Timcsl
The record of crimes for 1898 was be-
sun yesterday afternoon with a decd of
peculiar utwclty, iu which the criminal
was q woman ana the object of her iu-
sane tury three muuths'-uld baby
Late ia Tho afternoon Thomas Pike. a
lnuit0r ut l21 Wct SiXupth street,
rushed hreathIessly into the SiXty-righth
street police station aud told The SCR
grunt at the desk thar there was a
drunken woman standing in front of the
hot house where he was employed with
@ baby whom she was treating most
hrutnlly. II shoulln't bc surprised II
she killed H. added Pike,
The sergeant sent Policeman Mercer
To The rescue. He arrived just Ia time
to see n large, hnrd.tvAtured woman,
who was standing just as Pike had de-
acrihed her swinging 2 baby by the legs
iu long hall circle. AS tho oiiiccr rush
cd up The woman swung the child from
lev over tho spuCc between Nos l3i nud
l2O, distance of thirty feet Tho
child was hurled through the mir like a
stone ifom q sling, landing squawy on
los hcud ON the tagging
Whilc Mercer paid his attention TO
the woman, who. evidently under the iu-
hucnce of long dcbauch seemed 10
sober UP at once by her terrible deod
Policcmuu Alexander kcir. who iust
thnn turned the corner picked un the
ehlld' lts skull and face were horribly
battered and crushed 100, aud the litle
one died IN the officers arms as hn WINS
CARRYING sc To the Roosevelt hospital
The body was accordingly taken tn The
station house, whore short time after
the murdercss arrived, having given two
poileemen as much as they could do TO
zee her there
Tho woman gayc her name as Mar
gaWt McCahc, and her age as 80 SIN
sAlu that she was married t0 a sweeper
in the strect.cleaning department. and
that she lived at TT West Sixtieth
street She VOuchsafed no reason for
her crime except 10 say that she wns
drunk when she did "a
The identity Of The child she did not
Know, ana the body had laid I'm tho stn-
.uon house fully three hours before The
ponce learned whose Il was. 'rhey made
" uiscgyNy "a q curious and t0uching
WY Nhefmnn Finch "a pattern maker.
VINO lives with his wife. Rose, nd n
Amstefdem avenue, vailed nt the sta
ilun house Ia inquire for his threo-
monthFold daughter. Annie. who had
heen taken ont hy the nurse girl al no
o'clock that morning They ought to
nave neen nome VA an hour. but had not
nplmateQ' ana Mr.. Finch IN his alarm
Aplhea q the police. His dissertation al
tho child Tailed exactly with Thar al
lhe murdered infant Wing IN rear
room Of the station horsa.
TIC WAS taken % see the hadv. which
NJ identified as that ~ his chill Mn
hlpeh was nearly distracted whom har
turn came % hear Of hOr loss
IRON Mr. lmchs story it seems CHAT
ON me tNih Of list month. ne hir,,d ns n
nnfspsiN one Manic Clancy. III yas
ms R,r who Ind taken tho hahv ont M
20 O'Clock Yesterday mornine She lnff
i with tho MoCnhc woman IA ~ W.est
NiAileih sirept while sin hers,lf ,reni
iQ visit her eistor Mrs AlcCale INA
been drinking heavily Tor some tio,e. ma
tle sight of the baby seems 10 have
thrown her into d frengy.
i, Fhe police are looking Cor Manic