The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 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 Been n Hospital Nurse and Is
Thought to BE Insane.

There were 40 men sleeping in the
little wire-covcred cages called rooms
at the Wavcrly Hotel about / o'clock
this morning when they were awakened
by the report of pistol and rushing
out into the halls, found a man dead,
with IA 3S-calibre bullet through his
heart, AMI another man walking calmly
down the stairs with a revolver in his
hand.
The murdered man had registered an
hour before under the name of Woods
The other had come in at the same
time. had paid for both rooms 50 cents
each. and had been assigned to room 81.
Night Clerk John r. Frederick in
serted the name "Moriarty" for this
man on the register
Names are not of much moment in an
Eighth avenue lodging house, and Mo
riarty" and Woods" went up to bed
about midnight.
At / o'clock Broderick was startled by
the sudden appearance OF II man at the
desk holding a revolver
My moneys gone, and you have got
to come upstairs and get 1t from the
man that robbed me-" he said
upstairs with Fagin. All the way up
the two flights Fagin walked behind
pointing the revolver at the head of the
clerk.
he had been assigned. Woods lay in
bed, partially dressed.
"'fheres the man that has got my
money, shouted Eaginc as he and the
THE man Is dead crazy, answered
Moods" as be half raised himself in
his bed His money is in his own
I'm blow your brains out 4 you don't
give me my money" yelled Fagin,
fiourishing the revolver. --
Broderick, as soon as the way was
clear, got out of the room and into an
other across the hall. Just as he got
into this room and locked the door two
shots We're fired, and there was cry OF
IN '' the " harrow dimiy lighted hall he
Fagin was in the lower. part of the
ha In his hSPa he R %So h atuRRs stSd
along after him for a few steps. his hand
As Moods" fell Fagln turned and
walked slowly down the stairs. Clerk
Frederick ran down rear staircase
and reached the front door as soon as
he. ,.
The murderer walked away leisqrely'
still carrying the pistol in his hand
Broderick followed at a safe distance
and when he espied Patrolman James
Reilly, at Twenty-seventh street caused
his arrest.
They returned to the scene Of the
shooting. and found that Woods" was
dead. ,.
born in Newry County Down, Ireland;
that he is forty years )ll, has been seven
years in America, and had come over
yesterday from Philadelphia, where ne
Naval Hospital. He WIS on his way TO
Montreal. ,
Letters OF RECOMMENDATION and certili-
April 6. 1894. and signed by Sheldon g.
Evans, p, A.. Surgeon, L 5; a. ,, Anodth f
Vas dated YESTERDAY ana I was signed =
Naval Hospital Philadelphia. 1t stated
that Fagin had been competent
faithful man in the hospital for one year;
There were other letters signed April
II. 1881. by Supt. George p. luilam. of
the New York Hospital; 4: II. Roche,
Surge ln-Major, 4. VI. n, OF the Second
England, Jan. |, 1859. and by John 7:
Allen, Superintendent of the New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary.. April H. 1859.
Fagin had a coupon ticket from Phlla-
He told an Evening World' re-
porter in jefferson Market prison to-
day that he had Sill when he left Phila-
deiphia yesterday afternoon. That last
night a man asked him for the price
Of a lodging in Eighth avenue, They
had a few drinks and then he took the
beggar to the Waverly Hotel at little
before midnight and paid for rooms for
both.
dered man and Capt Price thinks FaEin
is crazy. In the scutfie after r.. fatal
shot Fagin got IA bruised and bla-kened
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 mustache
and was five feet nine inches III height;
He wore shabby, brown coat ana
vest, blue-black trousers of the sailor
style. and a blue yachting cap. He was
a stranger at the Waverly Hotel. and
TO all OF the other los dodgers of last
night
In jefferson Market Police Court this
forenoon. Judge NOOrhis set the eNami-
nation OF 1'agin down for next Wednes-
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.
Only one of the bullets hit Woods"
The other was fired in the struggle. while
"Woois's" life WAS chbing away. II
sp.interei lac dgor frame Of room No
50. "Woods's' body is at the Morgue'