The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-25
HAD Her BY The HAIR.
But Simon McGlory Denies that
He Killed Mary Walsh.
They Lived Together and We're
Drunk and Fighting Last Night.
Witnesses Claim to Have Seen Him
Strike Her; Then She Fell.

Mary Walsh, a widow a mother and
grandmother. lay dead In the stone
paved courtyard OF the Eldridge street
police station this morning. with a
bloated, dissipated face. an ugly black
eye, bad cash in the back of her head
and a fracture of the skull, presum-
ably, under the cash.
In cell just back of where the body
lay in its dirty gown of black, with
cheap and faded black straw hat tilted
over its face sat Simon McGlory, white
haired and trembling, on the verge of
delirium tremens, charged with the muir
der of the woman.
These two had lived for four weeks
in room H." in the top OF the four
story tenement-house at III orchard
street.
They had spent most of that time
drunk, singly or together, and quarrel
ling. Last night both were too drunk
to get about easily. and at o'clock
the woman fell on the doorstep and
slept where she fell. At l o'clock they
were seen quarrelling nearby, and at
little after this morning August Meyer,
of 1l6 Allen street, and John Frank,
his neighbor, setting out for their work
in a stable, heard brawling in Orchard
street.
They saw a man and a woman in front
of lO2 Orchard street. The man raised
his hand and struck the woman In the
face. and she fell. The men ran to-
wards the Eldridge street police station.
but before they had returned with a
policeman Patrolman Frank McCar-
rick. on a nearby post. appeared on the
scene.
At that moment McGlory was dragging
the woman by the hair, and when the
trail OF blood from lOi orchard street,
where the couple were, to l02. 1t stopped
at a pool of blood in the areaway at the
foot Of two. stone steps at No. 1902 1t
looked as II the blow seen by the two
Germans had knocked the woman into
the area; that she had struck on her
head and received fractured skull.
McGiory exclaimed:
For Gods sake, won't somebody help
me get my wife homer"
The woman was dead. 1t was then
8 40 o clock.
McGlory was arrested. The body was
taken to the station house. The matron
thought she ,eco!gnized the body as that hat
Been TeqGeGt visitor po the " sts,oa
house. and she was so entered in the
But at l2l Orchard street Maude Nc
AMI "Maude Me-" with some show OF
Indignation declared that she was sleep
ing in her own bed when that other
woman was murdered" Besides she is
only twenty-seven years Old, while Mrs
Walsh was forty-eight.
Room IL is five feet wide by eight
long. 1t contained single bed, "A
broken down washstand. cracked bowl
and pitcher, a bottomless chair and II
sickly little cook stove. 1t was home"
&c Mary Walsh and Simon McGlory TIL
swarm OF them. are of the same class.
McGlory was taken TO Essex Market
Court at $50 and Police Justice Koch
remanded him until tomorrow morn
Ing. Meanwhile Capt. Cort.iglt ana
Policemen Swarts and Burke Will hunt
up witnesses.
What are you trying T. do? Make out
murdered that woman?" Simon Nc
Glory asked Policeman MCCarrick on
the way to court.
Why. say, ! was only trying to get
her home. Shed been out all night, and
Then TO an Evening World" reporter
the white-haired, bullet-headed little
McGlory said
That woman's a grandmother. She
Was Mary GsEritiin; born right here in
y ss ~o od s She had ABOUT Hs
name was Walsh and he died four
years ago. My wife left me. She's
living in Paterson, and so ! took up
i'she's got daughter, Esther, and
she is married and lives IN Harlem
i've got a daughter. too. Her name
Is Rose Dolan, and she lives at 309
East Forty-third street. haven't killed
One OF the witnesses stated that Just