New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-14
CHARGED WITH KILLING MS WIFE.
A LONG ISLAND CITY PLuMBERs BRUTALITY
HAS FATAL RESULT

A LONG ISLAND CITY PLrMBERs BRUTALITY
HAS A FATAL RESULT.
Richard Mccarthy. boss plumber OF Long Island
City and Assistant City clerk under the Gleason
administration. Is under arrest in tho Hunters
Point Police Station. The charge against him is
that he responsible for Injuries received by his
wife. which resulted In her death. The arrest was
made yesterday H was taken into custody at his
home No. s. West Thrd-st, Long Island CITY.
Mary Mccarthy his wife. died In St Johns Hos
pta in that city about o'clock yesterday after
noon She had been patient OF the institution
since Tuesday last. Her legs. face arms. head.
back abdomen and breast were a mass Of bruises
and cuts. caused by something blunt. She was so
badly bruised and cut that the hospital surgeons
said II was the most revolving case they ever had.
Some Of the woman's teeth had been kicked and
knocked out. In this condition. and suffering the
most Intense palm she lay in the hospital from
Tuesday until yesterday. Then she died without
having made a statement.
she was twentyeight years old. and was married
to Mccarthy when only seventeen. For six years
the couple have lived unhappily. They were con
stantly quarrelllng and carrying their grievances
into the police In no case did they wal
to have the matter settled by the justice bat maze
up and 20 live together again. Both made fre-
quent complaints. but when the time FOR prosecu-
ton came they were Withdrawn. 1t was often pre-
d!cted In the court when the familiar names were
called that there would be a tragic ending OF the
ON Tuesday last a boy ran into the Hunters
Point Police Station and Informed the seieedn'
tina, there fight In the McCarthy honsr lie
said the plumber kicking the woman about the
floor. No attention was paid to tn.- if rae ponce
Il Is said, as fights were common .'.t II was
thought the usual complaint would De WAn- ~ me
morning and the usual reconciliation WOl.i loiVN.
Early the following morning Mrs Dun, the mother
OF Mrs. Mccarthy asked that policeman Dt sen
with her the Mccarthy house n sh" want"I
to have her daughter removed to the hospital. Mrs
Dun said her daughter hal been badly 1aa'Sn ana
that when she tried to remOv" her t. the hospital
Mccarthy tore the bandagcs from MS wifes h1id
and again beat her Dr. Kennedy had been sum
mOneG the night before and dressed the bruises on
the wOman's head.
a policeman accompanied Mrs. Dun 10 her daugh
ters rooms. and Mccarthy offered no protest TO the
Carriage by the officer and Mrs. Dun, Mcclrthy,
the officer says uttered some Kind Of threat. WHAT
II the officer did not catch:
On arriving at the hospital. Mrs Mccarthy was
placed In one y the upper wards. Although her
BODY was q mass OF scars and bruises. The COrOne.
was not Informed until too late. Vt no time could
and It would appear that she d!d no; tell her story
TO any
Yesterday afternoon he Coroner went from the
hosrta TO the Hunters Point police station and told
death. He refused 10 make complaint but the po-
lice at once took Mccarthy into custody and held
him pending examination.
After her fathers arrest, MS daughter, eleven
years old told the police the story OF what happened
Tuesday. She was IA W tness or the Whole affair
The statements very damaging To the father.
and denies the charge against him. lie says he has
no idea how she received her injuries unless 1t was
through failing downstairs.
Coroner Strong las. night lmpaneed jury and
summoned Drs Kennedy Hinkson and House. VINO
performed an autopsy. The Coroner refused 10 dis
close the result of the doctors examination:
OF Mr. and Mrs DUFF The eldest IS the girl who
viii be the principal witness against her father