The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-06
DROPPED OUT OF Sight
Extraordinary Lack Of Clue to
Murderer MeLaren--Is He
a Suicide.

Although Hoboken detectives have bee
working hard to ascertain the hiding place
of Thomas McLaren. the Hoboken man who
murdered his reputed wife on Wednesday
afternoon, they profess to have made no
Roadway so far.
Only vague stories have been gathered
from people who choose to think they saw
him fleeing towards Eldorado or walking
through the D., L.. 81 w. R.R. tunnel, or
riding on a fast express to the far West.
Blu none of these reports is s~uhstantlated.
There is no one who seems to have noticed
particularly where the man went.
80 UTCRy
1t was about 4.45 o'clock in the afternoon
when the shooting occurred. Mrs. Mulvaney
was in the rear kitchen and the aRray took
place in the room adjoining. She told a
JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter that she saw
the woman stagger after the second shot.
She was petriied with horror, she
said. Then two moro shots followed and
she realized the awful deed. But a circum-
stance the police think very strange is that
Mrs. Mulvaney made no cutlery. II she
had raised her voice at all a whole tene-
ment house full of people would have pour
ed down in a moment. But she did not
utter q sound, and allowed McLaren to pass
quietly down stairs. No one was the wiser
from the expression of his face, for men sit
ting upon the stoop next door noted nothing
unusual in his demeanor. There was SO
much shooting going on that nobody thought
anything OF the pistol reports. Ali say Nc
Laren walked towards Ferry street, but
they made no especial note of it.
The police think the deed was premedi-
tated. McLaren, had he attempted the
shooting at any other time than the very
day he did, must nave been caught. A POI
Ecoptat rAotrnlC within a hloak Of the nlanA
from morning until night, and at the noise
of the revolver would have been Immediate
ly upon the spot. AS it was, McLaren pass
ed the policeman near tho corner of Garden
and Ferry streets.
McLaren fourished his revolver in the
presence of Mrs. Reichert of No. 50 Bloom
field street before the shooting.
SUICIDE
Richard McLaren, the murderer's brother,
called at Hoboken Police Headquarters this
morning and anxiously inquired for any in
formation respecting his brother. He was
told there was none. He manifested ex-
treme sympathy for his brother, and re-
marked, sorrowfully, HE will never be
caught alive"
My brother" he added, to the reporter,
s~cannot stand the STRAIN. He was half
crazy when he committed the crime, and
when he has recovered his senses and the
awfulnesS of the crime presents itself to him,
/ do not think he can survive 1t. l am afraid
he'll commit suicide. He either will do that
or will deliver himself to the police"
Although papers persist that McLaren
stopped at the house Of a friend named Sey-
mour, of Park avenue, immediately after the
murder, this is not so. Mr.. Seymour told
the reporter last night that the man went
there prior to the shooting.
The autopsy was set for one O'Clock this
afternoon. I he inquest will be begun next
Marday Yirht at Auetalio H0faI HndSnO
street, Hoboken.
The murdered woman's body lay in an ice
box at Cranes Morgue all day yesterday
and O crowd of curiosity seekers viewed it.
The face was natural and wore a stern ex-
preston. Mrs. James Williams of Wash
ington street, a sister or the murderer, called
at the m0rgue with the dead woman's two
small children. Jennie and Thomas. The
children burst into tears and called for their
mamma to come back. They gazed longing
ly at the dead woInan's face and chung to
their aunt. Mrs. Williams will adopt them.