The sun., 1894-04-25
QUEER TANGLE IN HARLEM.
THREE ARRESTS TIE RESULT OF YOUNG
MRS. BIRDS ADVENTURE

Cisined In Court bv - Psir who Were
Not It- Psrspts = Complaints for As
snuit and Lsree.y Grow Out OF the Csse.
On Monday afternoon. about 3 o'clock.
Michael Brennan, n retired policeman. who
lives at 112 East I15th street. met Agent
MullRan Of the Children's Society on the
street He stopped him and told him that he
had seen q very we'll dressed young woman
who wore considerable iewelry and who had
with her q little child. They were hanging
about saloon kept by Christian Dorst at 115th
street aud Park avenue. Brennan told Mulli-
gan they had been there since Sunday morn
ing. and that the woman was In no condition
to have the child In charge
Mullgan hurried around to the saloon. There
was no woman In sight when he got there. and
he ordered drink. Before he took II he heard
q womans voice In the front room. which ie at
tho end Of the bar and between the bar and the
window. In this little room he found the
woman Brennan had told him about She was
lying on the sofa and was apparently III. There
was young man by her side who was strokinR
her hair Outside. playing with the bartender.
who was drawing pictures for her on q slate.
was little girl.
Muiligan went to the door and called Police
man Brady OF the 1o4th street station. He
and Brady questioned the woman. She said
she was Helen Gilmore OF 430 Pleasant avenue.
She told Mulligan she had been taken Ill on
the street and had gone into the saloon be-
cause there was nowhere else to CO. When
the child was asked her name she said It was
Maria Gilmore. and she said the woman was
her mother.
MpIligan ordered that the woman be arrest
cd, and Brady took her to the 10ith street sta
tion. The young man went along. Mulligan
says that on the way to the station the woman
oTo oI 20 pty ho u-ou LAT harD no
Just before they reached the station he SAYS
the young man said to him:
We'll Kate. IL 1t Is going as far as this. you
had better give your iewelry to me for safe
She took three diamond rings from her an.
gers and gave them to him. Mulligan didn't
like the young mans appearance. and he said
=" See here. young man. / don't know. you.
Give those rings back to this woman. II she
bS, gSS esnt s' to ySS SCm N as "
him then 70 notify somebody OF her arrest and
In the station house she repeated to the scr
geant that she was Mrs Helen Gilmore. Agent
Gilmore was sent up to tho 120th street sta
tion. whore there is q matron,
Clinton ". Bird. proprietor OF the Hotel Win
throp. q big Seventh avenue hotel. hurried In
aeT i and
Bird signed bond for that that amount aiN % And drove
anything an % % about the arrest | until vest yesterdSy day
morning. when the supposed Mrs; Gilmore
to the Harlem GoSrf sSr ~ a
q. Ja;tIcs ih.t ths woman was s,i, hls Elis; %
Bird i e had isis x; hotel sfi.raoon @ and
asorss dsS So9 4. Gilmore. ss @s6 Pleasant sysnas
where she had spent the night; She had gone
and had been taken sick in the street She
went into the saloon to get drink Of hot gin
her her eot the
sDnditiSn she was II Thea ,b she was S; arrested
said i that ali the trouble was due to her tenn:
Iors,g insanity The Justice wa; was MsatIfflsd
ns msds she shsrss that M %sa n
SSd Ts %as not II ,5s sS to care
poTtPy @r'S man ms and S dark Woman came into the
to tell his story. Before he had chance to
sna sSd With great %
That woman is not the mother OF that child.
womsns name is something else. / live at
ehiId st II o'clock yesterday morning to takss
But, your Honor" said Agent Mulllgau.
had 1ssP hSgnG SSSS, that
"Yoars a liarl I'm that ehild,s father. and 1
said he knew ali the persons connected with
s that e he thought It possicis there had been cen
some mistake He would parole the prisoner.
supposed parents. He told Agent Mulligsn 10
have his evidence In court this morning. The
RortIy man and the dark woman took away
TO The reporters Mr.. Bird said that Mfs
ahi wa llilm0FA'A
Gated, as was chsrsed BY the agent I.,
who Is bartender IN Christian BoTsts saloon.
was arrested on complaint OF Borst, and was
ahSS %aire had stolen siS from the iii on sunday
m9Tnils and had had left the Si saloon Lemairrss
:st' aS tf. 'n 'nes:s s:P'; esi his SAY
that that he he had seen the woman and child in the
g aS. s e acl Ss sl9 o% and Il. t
Up Sp his iop, and lett the store. The Justice dis
Then Lemaire said that the woman and child
came 70 Borsts saloon early on sunday night:
hSTss sstS seaSa ss% 1SS %
lett. the woman and child were attn in the
saloon.
when Court Ofllcer John Dwyer came ib with
sx- Policeman Michael brennan. whom he had
arrested on a warrant sworn out by William
buchanan OF ia last 18th street. Buchanan
said t4at Brennan had stabbed him with =
on brennan said that he had gone into
Borst's saloon where Buchanan was and Blu
chanAn had accused him OF having told Ger
RVS agent. about the woman. buchanan
Jumped on him and tried 20 hit him in the
lace brennan only pushed him aside. Blu
chanan's story was that brennan came into
the saloon drunk. knocked him down. and
iuInTed on him, and mauled him as aforesaid.
Justice welde held Brennan In 500 bail for
trial.
Tar SuN reporter visited BOrst's saloon after
ALI these things had happened The young
mnu who was tending bar there then said he
didn't know when the woman and child had
come there. hut they were there on Monday
morning when he got there. They had
ITea kfGst Of eggs In the saloon. Nothing hap
urnsd lie said. that was Ia any way out Of the
Wnr lie was drawing pictuTe~ and putting
down figures 10 Amuss The CHILD when the
woman was arrested,
Al 4aO pleaspnt avenue the reporter found
Mr. Gilmore. Nh Gilmore was not tue man
who appearsd In court. He had Iuat begun to