The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
She's LENA M'MAH0N.
of the Girl Who Left a
Dead Baby at the Cosmopolitan.
Victim Of the Negro lynched at
tort Iervis in 1892.
Autopsy Shows that the Mother Was
Guilty of No Crime.

4 Mrs. Mary Mcmahon arrived at Belle
yue Hospital this morning from Port
Jervis, and not Il 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
|inaily assaulted by the negro. Robert
Lewis, at Port Jervis, two years ago.
fThe townspeopie lynched the negro.
Ms. Mcmahon. who is the gir.s mother.
admitted these facts.
Lenas temperance before the public
ts nearly as sensational as the episode
|that first brought her into prominence.
About o'clock last evening the Clerk
lin charge of the receiving-room at
chambers Street Hospital saw TALL
|youpg woman, whose hair. eyes and at
tire were black, enter by the street door
and move to u bench with faltering
,teps 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 G. Bowling, of Port Jervis,
ana was so Ill that she needed medical
Treatment. She referred to Mrs. Nc
|Mahon, of Port Jervis, as a 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-
|ctntly 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
and West Broadway, entering room
ia on the fourth floor, to arrange u,
discovered the dead body of we'll
formed child hidden in the closet Of the
wash stand.
The room had been occupied for a week
by a young woman who was variously
known as Bowling and Gallagher. The
Geas SaP she T Sad sPRe to the dnDS
room regularly for her meals, and had
taken daily walks since her arrival She
had gone out a short time before the
marked to the chambermaid in passing
that she was so sick that she thought
she would go to a hospital.
Detective Kehoe. of the Leonard street
station, who was called. was informed
of the remark. and went at once to the
Chambers Street Hospital. where the girl
The detective accused her OF numbering
her child, and the girl, who was fever
ish and wandering In her mind, neither
affirmed nor denied the charge. She said
that she did not Know whether the chilu
was born alive or not.
She was removed to the female pris-
on ward at Bellevue Hospital. where,
under pressure, she made some state
ments to Detective Kehoe that led him
to believe that she was Lena Mcmahon,
of the .lynching incident in Port Jervis.
She also admitted that she was the
mother Of the dead child, and had
hsf she Wond mot sas
or not the child was alive when born.
The body of the child was in a paste
board box, which revealed, from Its
Rogers q Peet to deliver clothing to Mr..
r.. Hutchinson, of 709 Madison avenue.
There is a DR., Hutchinson at that ad-
Mrs: Mcmahon left Port Jerryis at 3
O clock this morning. An Evening
World" reporter saw, her at Bellevue
with her. which Warden o'Rourke alb
ruptly Interrupted.
Mrs. McMahon said that her daughter
had been living in Boston and this city
for about year In October last she
married a man named Will Bowling.
but where he now was, or what his &C.
cupation was, she would not say.
She said that she had been In regular lar
the birth of a child was expected. She
crime In the birth and death of the child,
as WOuld De proven. Sne sdlu tldl Hel
own husband. Lena's father. was down
East somewhere. but in her converse
tion with the hospital authorities she
implied that he had left her.
Deputy Coroner Weston this morning
performed an autopsy on the body OF
the dead infant. The body was badly
decomposed, and DR.. Weston believed
that II was born on either July 20 or 20.
The autopsy revealed that the cavity
OF the heart was not filled. as 1t would
have been had the child breathed. All
the organs were healthy. and the doctor
believed that II the mother had had
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.
Dr. James, who Is attending Miss Nc
Mahon, says that she is not critically
III and ought to be up and about in a
few days.
PORT JERVIS. Aug. LENA Mcmahon
Is well known In this town: She was as
saulted by the negro, Bob Lewis. who
was lynched by a mob in this village In
June. 1892 Ever since that time her
mind has been shattered and she has
acted very strangely.
Once she left her home and walked a
distance Of seventeen miles, AMI when
found she did not seem to know where
she was. The late DIR. Sol Van Etten told
her mother that the girl would never
again be right In her mind.
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