The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
She's LENA M'MAHON.
IDENTITY Of the Girl Who Left a
Dead Baby at the Cosmopolitan.
Tictim Of the Negro Lyrched at
Port ,Jervis in 1892.
lutopsy Shows that the Mother Was
Guilty OF No Crime.

Mrs. Mary Mcmahon arrived at Belle
me Hospital this morning from Port
eryis, and not a doubt remains as to
he Identity of the girl who staggered
hto Chambers Street Hospital last night,
having a dead baby in a room at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel.
She is Lena Mcmahon. who was GRIM
||hally assaulted by the negro. Robert
Lewis, at Port Jervis. two years ago.
The townspeople lynched the negro.
Mrs. Mcmahon, who Is the girls mother
Xdmitted these facts.
H Lena's temperance before the public
ID nearly as sensational as the episode
That first brought her into prominence.
About 6 o'clock last evening the clerk
In charge Of the receiving-room at
chambers Street Hospital saw a tall,
young woman, whose hair, eyes and at
Hire were black, enter by the street door
Ind move to a bench with falterng
hteps. Her face was haggard and pale,
md she seemed about to faint.
After an attending physician had
evived her the young woman said she
as Lena q. Bowling. of Port Jervis,
I'D was SO Ill that she needed medical
edthShts chC iSiCiiCu W n AhS-
ahon, of Port Jervis, as a friend to be
,mmunicated with. but did not mention
e fact that that friend was her
other. She was taken to a ward,
oere 1t was learned that she had re-
fly become a mother. - t.,
nation about herself. more than the
ne and address she gave.
ieanwhile, a chambermaid at the
,mopolitan Hotel, Chambers street
a West Rrnadwav entering room
on the fourth floor, to arrange IT,
covered the dead body of we'll
rmed child hidden in the closet Of the
The room had been occupied for week
a young woman who was variously
own as bowling and Gallagher. The
hng woman was apparently IN poor
lom regularly for her meals, and had
ken daily walks since her arrival. She
fd gone out short time before the
iarked to the chambermaid in passing
lat she was SO sick that she thought
le would go to hospital;
Detective Kehoe. of the Leonard street
the REMARK. and went at once to the
lhambers Street Hospital. where the girl
}as found.
per child and the girl. who was fever
sh and wandering In her mind, neither
firmed nor denied the charge. She said
hat she did not know whether the child
was born alive or not.
She was removed to the female pris-
bn ward at Bellevue Hospital, where.
Under pressure. she made some state
10 believe that she was Lena Mcmahon,
bf the lynching incident in Port Jervis.
Ehe also admitted that she was the
|nother Of the dead child. and had
been her own attendant when 1t was
born. Still she would not say whether
pr not the child was alive when born.
The body Of the child was In paste
% Haia eeN' that ANTI It had been used by
rogers & Peet to deliver clothing TO Mr..
r.. Hutchinson, of 709 Madison avenue.
There is Dr. Hutchinson at that ad.
possession is not yet known;
Mrs: Mcmahon left Port Jeryis at ;
clock, this morning. An Evening
rospital and had brief conversation
with her which Warden O'Rourke alb
fuptly interrupted.
Mrs. Mcmahon said that her daughter
had been living in Boston and this city
fur about a year. In October last she
|narried man named VIII Bowling,
nut where he now was, or what his &C.
|upation was, she would not say.
She said that she had been In regular
with her daughter and
Declared there was neither disgrace. nor
Rs would be proven. She said that her
wn husband Lena's father, was down
East somewhere. but in her conversa-
| ion with the hospital authorities she
Implied that he had left her.
Deputy Coroner Weston this morning
an autopsy on the body OF
The dead infant The body was badly
Hecomposed, and DIR. Weston believed
hat 1t was born OH either July 2s or 90.
| The autopsy revealed that the cavity
II the heart was not filled, as 1t would
ksye been had the child breathed. All
HE organs were healthy. and the doctor
.lieved that If the mother had had
oper medical attendance at its birth
lie child would have lived. 1t was
Willy developed female child.
There was no evidence that the child
ad been strangled.
Dir. James, who is attending Miss Nc
ahon, says that she Is not critically
and ought TO be up and about in a
wv days.
PORT JERVIS. Aug. LENA Mcmahon
we'll known in this town. She was as
lulted by the negro, Bob Lewis, who
as lynched by mob In this village. in
Inc. 1892 Ever since that time her
bind has been shattered and she has
cted very strangely.
Once she left her home and walked a
istance Of seventeen miles, and when
pund she did not seem to know where
he was. The late DIR. Sol Van Etten told
|er mother that the girl would never
4gain be right In her mind.
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