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.


little wire-covered cages called rooms"
at the Waverly Hotel about / o'clock
this morning when they were awakened
by the report OF a pistol. and, rushing
out into the halls, found a man dead,
with a SS-calibre bullet through his
heart, AM another man walking calmly
down the stairs with 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 % cents
each. and had been assigned to room 81.
Night Clerk John r. Broderick 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 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.
Frederick was frightened, and he went
the two flights Fagin wal ed behind
pointing the revolver at the head OF the
clerk.
Up on the third floor, in room SO. where
he had been assigned, woods lay In
bed, partially dressed
There's the man that has got my
money, shouted Fagin, as he and the
clerk ent cred the room.
The man is dead crazy. answered
Woods" as he half raised himself in
his bed. His money is in his own
"I'll blow your brains out 4 YOU, don't
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 were fired, and there was cry or
in the narrow, dimly lighted hall he
saw the two men.
Fagin was in the lower, part of the
hall In his hand dsi he held his pist sd
along after him for few steps, his hand
As Woods" fell Fagin turned and
Broderick ran. down a rear staircase
and reached the front door as soon as
he.
The murderer walked away leisurely.
still carrying the pistol in his hand.
Broderick followed at 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.
The prisoner said he was Mark Fagipp.
born in Newry. County Down. Ireland;
that he Is forty years oil mas been seven
years in America, and had come over
yesterday from Philadelphia. where he
Naval Hospital He was on his way to
Montreal.
Letters of recomendat ton and certif
OF s90d sev Was dsed
April 6. 1894, and signed by Sheldon G.
Evans, p, A, surgeon, I; S. A. Another
was dated Yesterday. and was signed p
Naval Hospital. Philadelphia 1t stated
that Fagin had been competent,
faithful man in the hospital fer one year;
II, 1883. by Supt George p. Ludlam. OF
the New York Hospital; A. II. Roche.
Surge IN Major, A. NJ. D., OF the Second
Battalion North1mnberland Fqsiieers'
Allen, Superintendent OF the New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary, April II, 1889.
Fagin had a coupon ticket from Phila-
df He tod &c an Ev eH %ord Sage
porter in, jefferson Market prison to-
day that he had SIT when he left Phila.
deiphia yesterday afternoon. That last
night a man asked him for the price
of 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.
No money was found on the muir
dered man and Capt. Price thinks Fagin
is crazy. In the scuffie after the fatal
shot Fagin got bruised and blt,kened
eye.
Nobody has identified the body OF
" Woods" and there was nothing on
his person by which to identify him;
He was about forty years old, had red
hair, dark complexion, sandy mustache
and was five feet nine inches in height.
He wore a shabby, brown coat and
vest, blue black trousers of the sailor
style, and 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 exami-
nation OF Fagin down for next Wednes-
day, and committed Ave witnesses to
the House of Detention in default OF
bail These Ave are the night clerk
John F. 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 ebbing away. II
sp.intered the door frame of room No
50. "Woodss' body is at the Morgue.
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