The evening world., 1894-10-06
MURDER IN A HOTEL.
Fagin Claims that the Man He
Befriended Had Robbed Elm.
He Shot Woods Through the
Heart, Fled and Was Captured.
Has Been q Hospital Nurse and Is
Thought to BE Insane.

There were 40 men sleeping In the
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 3s-calibre bullet through his
heart, and 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 % cents
each, and had been assigned to room 81.
Night Clerk John +. 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 a 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.
Broderick was frightened, and he went
upstairs with Fagin. All the way up
the two flights Fagin walked behind
pointing the revolver at the head of the
clerk
Up on the third floor, in room 49, 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 entered the room.
THE man is dead crazy answered
his bed: His money is in his own
.Iil blow your brains out i you don't on
give me my money, yelled Fagin'
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 of
pain: Broderick opened the door and
In the narrow, dimly lighted hall he
Fagin was in the lower part of the
hall. In his hand he held his pistol
pointing at Woods" who stumbled
along after him for few steps. his hand
AS Woods" fell Fagin turned and
walked slowly down the stairs. Clerk
Broderick ran down a rear staircase
and reached the front door as soon as
The murderer walked away leisurely.
still carrying, the, pistol In his hand
and when he espied Patrolman James
Reilly, at Twenty-seventh street, caused
his arrest. .
shooting, and found that Woods" was
dead.
The prisoner said he was Mark Fagin,
born in Newry, County Down, Ireland;
that he is forty years d LAS been seven
years in America, and had come over
yesterday from Philadelphia, where he
Naval Hospital. He WIS on his way to
Montreal.
Letters of RECOMMENDATION and certin-
aNNn IL, h .lyatn
corroborated his story. One was dated
April 6. 1894. and signed by Sheldon G.
Evans, p, A.. Surgeon, U; S: A. An Of 81
K kin Iasen Medical director i. $:
Naval Hospital, Philadelphia 1t stated
that Fagin had been a competent,
faithful man in the hospital t sIrn Une
IT, 1889, by Supt George P. Ludlam, of
the New York Hospital; A H; Roche;
a. Nj R Of the seeend
Alien, Superintendent of the New York
Eye and Ear Intirmary. April II, 1859 ST.,
delphia to. Montreal and SIG, Is in cash.
porter in Jefferson Market prison to-
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 Fagtn
is crazy. In the scufile after tn" fatal
shot Fagin got bruised and blL.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 a blue yachting cap. He was
a stranger at the Waverly Hotel. and
to all OF the other lOS dodgers of last
In Jefferson Market Police Court this
forenoon, Judge Voorhis 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 five are the night clerk,
John F. Broderick; George Maroney.
Henry Spelman, Charles Mackey and
Dan Kelly.
Only one OF the bullets hit Woods"
The other was fired in the struggle. while
"Woods's" life was ebbing away. 1t
splintered the door frame OF room No
SO. "Woods's" body is at the Morgue.