The evening world., 1894-06-06
MAY PROVE A MURDER.
Police Think Kelly Threw His
Wife from a Window.
Picked Up Unconscious, with Her
Arm Torn from the Socket.
Her Little Brother Says There Was
u Fight just Before.

Capt. Reilly and the police of the
East Fifty-first street station are inves-
tigating a case that may prove wife
murder.
Mrs. Julia Kelly, twenty-four years
old. was Dun lying in a pool of blood
in front of her home, 23l East Fifty
ninth street. at II O'Clock last night.
Her left arm had been torn from its
socket hung to her body by the
shreds of flesh.
The woman was unconscious. and had
evidently suffered internal injuries be-
sides.
Policemen Schuing m Tencardi
found the woman, n Ave minutes lat
err placed her husband. George, twenty
six years old, under arrest. It is be-
lieved he threw his wife from the win
dow.
The attention of the policemen was
called to the woman by the cries of a
boy from the second story window of
the house. While Schuing went to
byterian Hospital. Tencardi rushed
into the house.
In a front room on the second floor
he found George Kelly. the husband OF
evidences Of a struggle. The collar had
been torn from his coat, his shirt was
bloody and his face was a mass OF
blood and scratches. He was greatly
excited.
MY wife must have fallen from the
window" he cried as the policeman en-
tered.
There was also in the room a ten-year-
old boy who said he was Willie Clancy,
a brother of Mrs. Kelly. After Kelly
had been placed under arrest the boy
told a story hat reflected strongly
against the man.
He had been staying a few days with
his sister. he said. Retiring early last
In the adjoining sitting-room, which
cards.
Just after 10 o'clock the boy was
ting-room, he could see from where he
lay, Kelly and his wife were quar-
rellinG; then he saw the man strike
Mr. MRS; ,a Kelly lily several Sc ERA times; The boy did
was afraid. but he cried to Kery to stop
beating his sister.
Then according to the boys story,
and they moved away from the door
where they had been standing and VIII
lie could not see them. But for sew
eral minutes the sounds Of the struggle
from the woman. After that all was
It must nave been ten minutes after
sHoS 'hN Ivy lnouBHt Wnlle ne Stlll
lay, trembling, Kelly came up to his
bed. He was crying, and he said:
Where Is Julia: where is my wife?'
Then Willie got up and went into the
next room. His sister was not there,
but one. of the windows was wide open,
and looking out he saw somebody living
on the pavement. He shouted for help,
and the policeman came.
Kelly refused to make any statement
after the boy had told his story. At the
Presbyterian Hospital the woman re-
mained unconscious.
The police believe that Kelly threw the
woman ou; of the window, but held on
to her by the arm and that her weight
tore her arm from the socket,
After Kelly's arrest the police sent his
.fve-year-old child, Julia, to the Gerry
Society's rooms. The child had been
asleep in another room during the fight
between mother and father.
Kelly was arraigned in Yorkville
Court this morning and remanded. The
report of the physicians from Presby-
terrain Hospital was that Mrs. Kelly
might die at any moment.
Policeman Tencardi said that the wo-
man recovered her senses for a moment
as she was lying on the sidewalk await
ing the ambulance. In answer to his
question about herself, she only said,
81 fell"