The evening world., 1894-09-25
HAD Her BY The HAIR.
But Simon MoGlory 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 Sho Fell.

| Mary Walsh, a widow. a mother and
a 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, a bad cash in the back Of her head
and a fracture of the skull, presum-
ably, under the cash.
In a cell just back of where the body
lay in it's dirty gown Of black, with
cheap and faded black straw hat tilted
over It's 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 9 o'clock
the woman fell on the doorstep and
| slept where she fell. At o'clock they
were seen quarrelling nearby, and at
little after this morning August Meyer,
OF r16 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 IA
policeman Patrolman Frank McCar-
rick, on nearby post, appeared on the
scene.
At that moment McGlory was dragging
the woman by the hair, and when the
officer appeared he saw that there was
| trail OF blood from 10i Orchard street,
where the couple were. to lO2 1t stopped
| at a pool of blood in the areaway at the
foot of two stone steps at No. l02. 1t
looked az II the blow seen by the two
| Germans had knocked the woman into
the area: that she had struck on her
head, and got fractured skull.
McGlory exclaimed:
For Gods sake. won't somebody help
me get my wife homer"
The woman was dead. 1t was then
McGiory was arrested. The body was
taken to the station-house. The matron
Of "Maude Nc Cruiser" who had
ibeen frequent visitor to the station
house, and she was SO entered In the
But at l2l Orchard street Maude Nc,
and "Maude Nc" with some show of
IN her bed '"s sns xsf oeser
cruiser got done up" Besides she is
only twenty-seven years old, while Mrs.
Walsh was forty-eight.
long. 1t contained a single bed. n
broken down washstand. cracked bowl
and pitcher, a bottomless chair and a
! to Mary Walsh and Simon McGlory till
last night, and their neighbors. a
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. Cortright and
Policemen Swarts and Burke will hunt
up witnesses.
murdered that woman Simon Nc
Glory asked Policeman McCarrick on
| the way to court.
her Sae say ea Sssn only GIs tTyn to 0t St
an couldn't do nuthin' with her,
Then to an " Evening World reporter
the white.haired, bullet-headed little
That woma ,a, a grandmSthsr; She
his ward She Was about TERI thrt yese
G Was Wis., shi ad and Ss died eus
years ago: My wife left me. She's
liyin' in Paterson. and so l took up
She's got daughter. Esther, and
she is married and lives in Harlem
somewhere. with her husband and two
i've got a daughter. too. Her name
East Forty,-third street. I amt killed
no woman"
This story was frequently interrupted
OF whiskey. The prisoner was SILVER
ing. and upon the verge Of delirium
tremens.