The evening world., 1894-08-14
is IT WIFE.MUROER Z?
Saloon. Keeper Gillian Taken to
Long Island City Under Arrest.
His. Wife Was Shot and Killed In
BlissviIIe, /. l., This Morning.
II Is Supposed that He Killed Her
During a Quarrel.

LONG ISLAND CITY, L. L., Aug. H.
Thomas Gillian who keeps saloon at
Borden and Greenpoint avenues, Bliss
Vile, was brought to the Second Pre-
cinct Statlon-House at 10 o'clock this
morning on charge of wlfe-murder.
Mary Gillian. his wife, was shot and
killed some time this morning In her
home, as alleged. by her husband. Gil
Ian when arrested refused TO make any
statement. Tho Coroner has charge Of
the case, and Is making an investigation.
From what can be learned among the
neighbors Gillian and his wife had not
lived happily for some time. and 1t is
suspected that he shot her during a
quarrel
Gillan's saloon Is located at the ell
trance OF Calvary Cemetery. The sa-
loon-keeper is forty years OF age and his
wife was forty.
She was widow with one child and he
widower when they were married ten
months ago.
Ever since their marriage they have
lived unhappily. Mrs. Gillian has beer
before the police several times for war.
rants for her husband. charging him
| Win anu cruelty. lie Cdbtt
were settled. however. before they went
to trial.
! This morning. about 7.3O o'clock, Mrs
lGillan's thirteen-year-old daughter, by
her first husband, Estella Roman, went
| to her mothers room and knocked or
the door. She received no answer and
opening the door, went into the room
and. was Mortified to find her mother
lying dead upon the bed. PARTIAL,
dressed, with a bullet hole in her right
temple and revolver lying at her side
| on the bed.
The revolver was her husbands q. Tn,
child ran downstairs and told her ia
Their of the finding of her mother dead
Gillian went to the door and called Pc
lieeman William Parke. and told hin
what had happened
locked him UP In the Second Precinc
Police Station and notified Coroner
Strong. The Coroner took charge OF tn,
case and will perform an autopsy THU
The police think that Mrs. Gillar
committed suicide. while many of tn,
neighbors say that Gillian murdered hi
Gillian made the following statemen
about 10 o'clock yesterday mornin
my wife got flask of whiskey from tn
bar and went to see friends. She re
turned about o'clock last night unde
the influence of liquor. She sat aroun
the bar for some time, and then starte
, about midnight to go to her room.
closed up the saloon and started to TO
low her She turned upon me and sal
that could not occupy the room, an
II l attempted to do SO she would shot
me.
"To avoid trouble, as knew that he
condition was such that any little thin
would make her angry, l went down
stairs again to the barroom, where
| slept all night on chair. The FRI
| thing / knew of my wife's death wa
| when her daughter told me. The wa
in which the child happened to go I
, her mothers room was that Mrs. Gilla
was to call her to go to early mass, bu
the girl awoke before her mother an
went to the room to see why she wa
not up yet. ! know nothing about m
wife's death. The revolver found nea
her Is mine. She also had a revolver
Both were either kept In the saloon @
in the bedroom in the upper story of tn
: building"
Stella, the dead woman's child. ha
not been seen since she reported findin
the dead body of her mother. 1t 1
said that she went to Brooklyn to motif
relatives of her mothers death.
, Gillian protests his innocence, and ar
!, pears to be very cool under the cir
cumstances. He told his story with
/ out showing any signs OF nervousness.