New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-03
HER COLD-BLOODED MURDER
A HELPLESS WOMAN KILLED.
SHOT DOWN AT THE THRESHOLD OF HER
OWN HOME.
A DETERMINED WIFE. MAD WITH JEALOUSY
CALMLY AWAITS HER DEFENCELESs VIC
TIM-ONLY CHILDREN SEE THE TRAG.
EDY-THE BRUTAL CREATURE
GIVES HERSELF UP AND
TELLS OF HER AWFUL

The little children playing over the broad
sidewalk of East ghty-siNth-st.. near Avenue
A, in the waning Of the radiant October af-
ternoon yesterday noticed rail-, dark large
eyed black haired woman dressed in deep mourn
ing, pacing restlcssly to and fro outside No.
SIS, large ur>tory, brown,tone
fat-house. II was then just ailer
o'clock Speaking word, and be-
traying no evidence of the passion tha'
burned within her, the woman, never gong d
foot beyond the gateway of the house watcheu
quietly and placidly for fully ten minutes linen
the house door slowly opened. Inc "o1lah
stepped eagerly forward, and as the hsure oil ii
short. stout. blue-eycd woman appeared at the
threshold, ran up the stoop and confronted hei
There was "A short, sharp interchange Of
words though no one could hear what
WIS said Then the lisht-haired woman drew
hack. ~ il TO close the hall door The hands oi
the woman confronting her were nervousiy
gropng for something in her pockets. She iouhd
il Her right arm straightened out, while with
the left she pushed the hall door wide open.
Four revolver shots rang out. sharp and clear
Tbcrc was a chorus OF screams from the chill
dren As the fair haired woman rolled over on the
floor of the hallway, the blood pouring from a
hole in her neck The woman, who lay with
ing OH the floor was Mrs. Carrie PearsaH, the
wife of John Pearsall patrolman in the twenty
Seventh Precinct The woman placidly gazing
down upon her was Mrs Catherine Fitzgerald.
fortv-fonr years DID, who lived at No. 2,olo
Eighth-ave.
A. the East Fighty-eighth-st police station
scarcely more than two blocks away. three or lour
sorcoants were grouped around the desk. Sergeant
Dean being on duty. Ms Fitzgerald walked
calmly through the streets TO the stAtloh.
Drawing the revolver from her pocket she iaio
il in 'front.' of the sergeant, saying ms pls,o'
has lust tasen a life. am the person VINO
cr,d fhc shot The yor.an ] have klll'd Is
Mr.. pearsa1. OF 20. 5l5 East Eiltty- -siXtll-st.
poor.all himself was in the station ~ the time
ard half-crazed with excitement. followed MS
comnanions on the force. Lying in the halfway
inst inside the door, they came upon the body oi
vrs pcarsall OF the four shots fred only one
h,d s,r,cl, ber That one ia entered the iugtlar
vein. passing downward through the neck into the
,i,L, broast In the five minutes between the iir-
inc Of the shot and tho arrival Of the husband she
had bed TO death.
That ovcrwccning jealousy prompted the MIR
der is fact beyond dispute, but owing 10 the
.,i.oc. adonfcd Nv tho police the circumstances
.,,rou,din rho cas-, 80 iar remain unknown
Johu J. FITZGERALD, the husband OF the muru'i.
ess. is described a. an examiner w"au,Dcr "r r.r'
NAV mean Pcarsall. who has been twicc MI, ,h.
,io,l cannot or will not throw any light on tine
matter. ,,r h so,.s
" never saw her and. 50 far a. ! know, she had
never met my wife until she fired the bullet INTO
ncr body. r.
The shooting occurred AT 4 10, Yet the fact
was NOT reported at Police Headquarters until
q 40 more than five hours later.