The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
saE'slENAM 'MAHoN.
Identity Of the Girl Who Left .
Dead Baby at the Cosmopolitan,
Victim Of the Negro Lynchsd at
Port Jervis In 1892.
Autopsy shows that the Mother Was
Guilty OF No Crime.

Mrs. Mary Mcmahon arrived at Belle
yue Hospital this morning from Port
Jeryis, and not q doubt remains as to
the identity Of the girl who staggered
into Chambers Street Hospital last night.
leaving a dead baby in a room at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel.
She Is Lena Mcmahon. who was Grim.
inally assaulted by the negro. Robert
Lewis. at Port Jervis. two years ago.
The townspeople lynched the negro.
Mrs Mcmahon. who Is the girls mother.
admitted these facts.
Lena's temperance before the public
is nearly as sensational as the episode
that first brought her into prominence.
About o'clock last evening the clerk
in charge OF the receiving-room at
Chambers Street Hospital saw tall.
young woman, whose hair, eyes and at
tire were black. enter by the street door
and move to bench with falterinS
steps. Her face was haggard and pale.
and she seemed about TO faint.
After an attending physician had
revived her the young woman said she
was Lena q. Bowling. of Port Jervis.
and was SO III that she needed medical
treatment. She referred to Mrs. Nc
Mahon, of Port Jervis. as friend to be
communicated with. but did not mention
the fact that that friend was her
mother. She was taken to a ward.
where It was learned that she had re-
Gently become a mother.
She finally refused to AFFORD any In
formation about herself, more than the
name and address she gave.
Meanwhile, a chambermaid at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Chambers street
and West Broadway. entering room
~, on the fourth floor. to arrange y,
formed child hidden in the closet or the
, The room had been occupied for a week
known as bowling and Gallagher. The
young woman was apparently In poor
health, but she had gone to the dining,
room regularly for her meals, and had
taken daily walks since her arrival. She
had gone out short time before the
discovery OF the dead child, and had re
marked to the chambermaid In passing
that she was SO sick that she thouRht
she would 60 to hospital.
Detective kehoe. OF the Leonard street
station. who was called. was Informed
Chambers Street Hospital. where the girl
The detective accused her of numbering
ish and wandering IN her mind neither
affirmed nor denied the charge. She said
that she did not know whether the child
was born alive or not. ,.
on ward at Bellevue Hospital, where,
under pressure. she made some state
ments to Detective Kehoe that led him
OF the lynching incident in Port Jeryis
She also. admitted that she was the
mother Of the dead child, and had
born. fstIn she would not say whether
or not the child was alive when born.
The body OF the child was in a paste.
nSaa BOX efh hsS been usea BY
Rogers 4 Peet to deliver clothing to Mr..
T; Hutchinson. of 7os Madison avenue.
There L pr hut. sni INTO at ssa f aa
Mrs. Nc Mahon left Port Jeryls at
oclock this morning. An Evening
Hospital and had a brief conversation
with her. which Warden O'Rourke alb
ruptly interrupted. ,.
had been living In Boston and this city
for about a year In October last she
married n man named VIII Bowling,
but where he nov ons or not What ss1 his 0e
She said that she had been In regular
correspondence with her daughter and
the birth Of child Was expected she she
crime In the birth and death Of the child,
as would be proven. She said that her
own husband. Lena's father, was down
Fast somewhere. but in her converse
ton with the hospital authorities she
implied that he had left her.
Deputy Coroner Weston this morning
fhe dead infant. The body was badly
decomposed, and Dr.. Weston believed
that 1t was born on either July 2s or 90
of the heart was not filled. as it would
have been had the child breathed. All
the organs were healthy. and the doctor
proper medical attendance at its birth
the child would have lived. 1t was a
fully developed female child.
There was no evidence that the child
had been strangled,