The evening world., 1894-10-06
MURDER IN A HOTEL.
Fagin Claims that the Man He
Befriended Had Robbed Him.
He Shot Woods" Through the
Heart, Fled and Was Captured.
Has Beca a Hospital Nurse and Is
Thought to Be Insane.


.ttI" v.re-c0Nored cages called rooms
at the WAy,rly Hotel about ! O'Clock
this morn.rE when they were awakened
ul the report OF a pistol and, rushing
uul INTO the halls, found man dead.
with 2S-eal.pre bullet through ms
heart. AMI another man walking calmly
down the stairs with a revolver in his
hand
The murdered man had registered an
/ hour befor. under the name Of Woods.
| The other had come in a; the sam"
/ 'mc. had paid for both rooms p cents
arh and had been assigned TO room -.
Night clerk John +. Frederick in
serted the name "Moriarty'' for this
man on the register.
Names are MT OF mucn moment In an
/ Eighth avenue ,adgng house, and Mo
/ riarty'' and WOODS" went up TO BED
At 1ut midnight.
/ At o'clock 8roderick was startled by
the sudden appearance OF d man az the
desk holding a revolver.
| Il hav. been robbed by the man be
! frienied.' he said. Come upstairs ana
help me get my money back.
! frederick went W. the ledger follow
/ iHE. At the top OF the fight the !'Agtr
/ showed a disposition TO Use the pistol
/ on the night-clerk who jumped into
/ one Of the caEe-iike rooms and shut
/ the door. From there he heard a voice
y gu have robbed me. and then a pis.
| tol shot Then there was the s1uni az
scutfiinE. followed by another shoe, ana
| then sienc, for q few seconds.
Then keys clicked in hundred locks
and ahunlToi men came OUT IN inc Aall
{ to find that murder had been done and
/ tina; the murderer was escaping Gown
The murdered man was clad only in
| his shirt. and had evidently been awaK-
ened from sleep to be shot. ,.-
The murderer. who claimed to nave
/ been robbed. was fully dressed m d We'll
worn cutaway suit, and the cot in his
room had not been disturbed.
| The murderer walked away lelsurelI,
Sun carrying the pistol In his hand.
Frederick followed at safe distance,
and when he cspied Pa,Tolman James
Reilly. at Twenty-seVenth street caused
They returned to the scene Of thu
! shooting, and found that Woods was
| dead.
The prisoner said he was Mark FaGin,
born in Newry. County Down. Ireland;
that he is forty years j ms been seven
years In America. and had come over
yesterday from Phiiadrlphia. where he
had been a nurse In the United states
Naval Hospital He was on his way to
! Montreal
Letters Of recommendation and certlil
Gates OF good character in his pocket;
Corro5aratei his story. one was dated
Anr t. lS'H All gidss ssnel ey sAe lb%ib e.
wls dated Yesterday, AMI was signed -
klniIohcrger, Medical Director, l, ;;
Naval Hospital, Ph.laielpnia. IT stated
faithful man in the hospital flr one year.
There were other letters signed April
4, lsS1l. b., Sgpt,, Ge9rgs r t9i.Gm, OF
the New York Hospital; \. h. Roche:
surge n-Maior A. NJ. p, of the second
Rat5alion Northumberland Fusi,eers,
EnS:ani Jan; l. , lSS' ana d. by J9h 1T +
Eye ana Ear Infirmary, April Il. 1889.
Fagln had coupon ticket from Phila-
dcphia to Montrea! and slG;25 IN cash.
He told an Evening World' re-
porter in jefferson Market prison to-
day that he had sll7 when he left Phila-
delphia yesterday afternoon. That last
OF a lodging in Eighth avenue. They
had few drinks and then he took the
heggar to tine Waverly Hotel at little
before midnight and paid for rooms FOR
When asked how IT happened that h"
had not removed his clothing in the
lodging house, he mumblcd something
about discovering that he ahd been
robbed by the man he had h,friended.
No money was found on the muir
is crazy. In the scutiie after the fatal
shot Fagin got a bruised and hlackened
eye.
Nobody has. Identified the body Of
Woods and there was nothing on
his person by which to Identity him.
He was about forty years Old, had red
hair. dark complexion. sandy musta che
and was five feet nine inches In height.
lie wore a shabby, brown coat and
vest. hlue-blaCk trousers OF the sailor
style and "A blue yachting cap. He was
stranger at the MaVerly Hotel. ami
to all Of the other lE dodgers Of last
night.
In jefferson Market Police Court this
, forenoon. Judge Noorhis set the eXami-
nation of Fagn down for next Weines-
day and committed five witnesses to
the House of detention in default of
bail These five are the night clerk.
John +. Frederick: George Maroney,
Henry Spelman, Charles Mackey and
Dan Kelly.
, on,y one of the bullets hit woods"
; The other was fired in the struggle. while
Woo LIS" life was ebhinC away. 1t
! spanteret the i or frame Of room No.
-. Nv oods's" body Is at the oNIrgue.