St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-26
SHOT DEAD BY A PRIEST.
PRETTY NARY GILMAN TIN KILLED By
FATHER 0'GRADY.
SAD CINCINNATI TRAGEDY.

The Young Girl and Catholic
Priest Recently Came From
Love With Mary-ifter Firing
the Fatal Bullet He Took Ar.
senic, Which Failed to do Its
Work.
CINCINNATI, o., April 25.-Mary GIL
martin. a clerk employed by the Pulver-
machpr Belt company OH Sycamore
street, was shot and killed today while
on her way to her work. The murderer
was Father Dominick O'Grady, Cath
Ole prizes, who came from Ireland three
months ago. Miss Gilmartin is from
Sligo county, Ireland. One of her
brothers is Father NJ. S. Gil
martin, of Chicago. Miss Gilman
tin met O'Grady in Ireland, where
his attentions caused some gossip.
Last September she came to this coun-
try. The young lady was shot almost
before her door. O'Grady took arsenic,
but it did not prove fatal. He con-
feSsed the murder. Among his letters
was one written by Miss Gilmartin to
the archbishop in Ireland exculpating
OGrady from any wrongdoihg with
her. The girl is nineteen. Both we're
residents of county Sligo. Ireland.
THE GIRL WAS SENT
to college at Plymouth. There the
young priest, Dominick O'Gradv, paid
attentions TO her. The girls mother
died, leaving her daug liter in charge of
the young priest. Miss Gilmartin came
to America. O'Grady followed. They
Travelled as man and wife, went
to Chicago, where Miss Gilman
tins brother, Father GiImartin, had
a parish. He was deposed by Bishop
Lyster. Father O'Grady wanted Mary
to exOnerate him, and on his person was
found a letter from her to the bishop
saying it was not true, that the priest
and she had left Ireland together.
Among the letters from her to him was
one assuring him that she did not care
for Bosley, that she loved him, O'Grady.
alone, and would marry him in two
years. He haunted her. took room
across the street and watched her move
today asked Mrs. Tibbles to go with her
as she feared O'Grady. Win she took
a car Mrs. TibbleS returned, but had
not been home long before the tragedy.
The priest boarded the car and the girl
left it. He followed her. seized her by
the hair and fired at her head. After
she fell he fired the remaining balls
at her and then ran. HIS effort 10
poison himself was unavailing.
CHICAGO, April 25.-MiSS Gilmartin'S
brother in this city, Rev. Father NJ. S.
Giimartin. is
ONE OF TIE PRIESTS
in charge of the Holy Angels Roman
Catholic church on lakewood boulevard
He left for Cincinnati this afternoon on
the first train that left town after re-
ceIving news of his sisters death. He
first received a message to break
the news to the effect that his
sister had died suddenly, and later on
another telegram stating she Lad been
killed by an insane man. He was almost
Frustrated by the shocking news, as the
sister was favorite with her brothers
The men Of the family are all re-
ligi0uslv inclined. One OF the
brothers is professor OF ecclesi-
aStical history in the theological
seminary at Maynooth. Ireland, where
Archbishop Feehan first entered Oh his
church career. Another brother is now
a student in the theological seminary at
Baltimore. Father Walsh, of the Holy
Angels church, said today that the Gil
martins were among the most respected
of the Irish clergy in Ireland. Miss Gil
martin was very pretty girl of twenty.
She was educated in convent in Ire
land, and was i'll every respect an ac-
complished young lady. 1t is believed
here that O'Grady is nothing more nor
less than mailman.
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