The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-25
HAD her BY The HAIR.
But Simon McGlory Denies that
He Killed Mary Walsh,
They Lived Tog ther and We're
Drunk and Fighting Last Night.
witnesses Claim to Have Seen Him
Strike Her; Then She Fell.

Mary Walsh, a widow. a mother and
a grandmother, lay dead in the stone
paved courtyard of the Eldridge street
police station this morning, with a
bloated dissipated face, an ugly black
eye, bad cash in the back of her head
and fracture of the skull. presum-
ably, under the cash.
In cell just back of where the body
lay in its dirty gown of black. with
cheap and faded black straw hat tilted
over its face, sat Simon McGlory. white
haired and trembling, on the verge of
delrium tremens, charged with the muir
der of the woman.
These two had lived for four weeks
in room H." in the top Of the four
story tenement-houBe at l2l Orchard
street.
They had spent most OF that time
drunk. singly Ur together. and quarrel
ling. Last night both were too drunk
to get about easily, and at o'clock
the woman fell on the doorstep and
slept where she fell. At ! o'clock they
were seen quarrelling nearby, and at a
little after this morning August Meyer,
of ll6 Allen street, and John Frank,
his neghbor setting out for their work
| in stable, heard brawlng in orchard
street.
They saw a man and a woman in front
of lO2 orchard street. The man raised
his hand and struck the woman in the
face. and she fell. The men ran to-
wards the Eldridge street police station,
but before they had returned with a
| policeman Patrolman Frank McCar-
rick. on nearby post. appeared on the
scene.
At that moment McGlory was dragging
the woman by the hair. and when the
officer appeared he saw that there was
a trail of blood from l0i Orchard street,
where the couple were. to lO2. 1t stopped
at pool of blood in the areaway at the
foot of two stone steps at No. l02. 1t
looked az II the blow, seen by the two
the area: that she had struck on her
head and received fractured skull.
McGlory exclaimed:
For Gods sake, won't somebody help
me get my wife homer
The woman was dead. 1t was then
! 5. 40 g clock.
/ McGiory was arrested. The body was
taken to the station-house. The matron
thought she recognized the body as that
bee MaTd woman nj Tho who has
house. and she was SO entered in the
blotter.
But at l2l Orchard street Maude Nc
and "Maude Me-" with some show OF
indignation declared that she was sleep
:ng in her own bed when that other
woman was murdered" Besides she 10
only twenty-seven years old. while Mrs
Walsh was forty-eight.
Room II is FIVE feet wide, by, eight
long. 1t contained single bed a
broken down washstand. cracked bowl
and pitcher, bottomless chair and a
sickiy little cook stove, 1t was home"
Ia Mary s walsh and and th smon till
swarm of them, are of the same class.
McGlory was taken to Essex Market
remanded him, until tomorrow morn
uE. Meanwhile Capt. Cort-iRat and
| Policemen Swarts and Burke will hunt
up witnesses.
wv hat are you trying to do? Make out
murdered that woman?" Simon Mo
Glory as ked Policeman McCarrick on
the way to court.
her home. She'd been out ali night. and md
couldn't do anything with her"
Then to an Evening World, reporter
the white-haired. bullet-headed little
McGlory said
That woman,s a, grandmother. She
wa, was Mary G SRI born right here in
years old. She had husband. His
name was Walsh. and he died four
years ago; My wife left me. She's
living In Paterson, and so l took up
She's got a daughter, Esther, and
she is married and lives in Harlem
somewhere with her husband and two
i've got daughter, too. Her name
| Is Rose Dolan, and she lives at 300
East Forty-thi street, haven't killed
one OF the witnesses stated that Just
as he turned to look for a policeman
to arrest the brawling couple McGlory
| seized the woman by the throat and
showed her into the areaway OF 102
orchard street.
1t Is claimed that the man McGlory
had an iron bar with which he struck
the woman on the head, but the police
who tells this story, and no weapon was
found about the scene OF the woman's
| death.
Mrs. .Rupp. the. housekeeper at l2l
Orchard street. said that McGory was
| a hard working man when he could get
work. and had worked two days last
| drunk.
The couple were in their miserable
little room on the top floor some time
after, midnight, and the woman was
smashing things, while, the man seemed
to be pleading with her. The couple
then went into the street again.
o'clock this morning" said Mrs " Rupp =
II tried to get her to go TO bed. She
wanted 8 cents to buy coffee, and gave
McGlory was with her thru"
1t is said that fully fifty people We're
in Orchard street at the time of the
| NualItI Del"eeU anu Mrs,
| walsh but the police can find no one
save Frank and Meyer who will admit
any knowledge of the affair.
! While McGlory was in court Police
man Cohen, Of the Fifth street station
recognized him as one OF the persons
| arrested in a raid by Capt. Cross MAY
10, on the disorderly house kept by
Louise Mullins, at Is Second street. The
| woman, Mary Walsh, was also one OF
the inmates of the house.
This Man May Have Been Murdered.
NEwTowN L l.. Sept 25The body OF the
unknown man which was found in the village
pond by Edward BreHer Sunday has not yet
| been Identified II is believed that the man
was hrst shot and then thrown into the water
| An autopsy will he held to determine whether
leath due to shooting drowning.
FIRE IN CR0T0N FALLS.
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