The evening world., 1894-08-01
SHE'SLENA M'MAHON.
Identity Of the Girl Who Left a
Dead Baby at the Cosmopolitan.
Victim Of the Negro Lypched at
Port leryis in 1892.
Autopsy Shows that the Mother Was
Guilty OF No Crime.

Mrs. Mary McNIahon arrived at Belle
vue Hospital this morning from Port
Jervls. and not doubt remains as to
the Identity OF the girl who staggered
into Chambers Street Hospital last night,
leaving a dead baby in a room at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel
She is Lena McMahon, who was GRIM
inally assaulted by the negro Robert
Lewis, at Port Jervis, two years ago.
The townspeople lynched the negro.
Mrs. Mcmahon, who is the girls mother
admitted these facts.
Lena's temperance before the public
IL nearly as sensational as the episode
that first brought her into prominence.
About 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
tire were black. enter by the street door
and move to bench with falterlng
steps. Her face was haggard and pale,
and she seemed about to faint.
After an attending physician had
revived her the young woman said she
was Lena G. Bowling, of Port Jervis
and was so Ill that she needed medical
treatment. She referred to a Mrs. Nc
communicated with, but did not mention
the fact that that friend was her
mother: She was taken to a. ward,
where It was learned that she had re-
She finally refused to afford any in
formation about herself, more than the
name and address she gave.
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Chambers street
~, on the fourth door, to arrange i,
formed child hidden in the closet of the
The room had been occupied for week
by young woman who was varionsly
known as Bowling and Gallagher. Inc
young woman was apparently In poor
room regularly for her meals, and had
taken daily walks since her arrival. She
had gone out short time before the
discovery Of the dead child and had re
marked to the ehambermaid In passing
that she was SO sick that she thought
she would go to hospital.
Detective Kehoe. of the Leonard street
station. who was called. was informed
Chambers mi Street Hospital. where the girl
was found.
The detective accused her of numbering
hsr s sh and the ffh e wh @nd
that she did not know whether the child
was born alive or not
on ward at Bellevue Hospital, where,
under pressure, she made some state
Inents to Detective Kehoe that led him
of the lynching incident in Port Jervis
She also admitted that she was the
mother Of the dead child, and had
born Still she would not say whether
or not the child was alive when born.
The body Of The child w s,as in 81, paste
Ssrkinpa that n had been used by
Rogers D Peet to deliver clothing to Mr.
r. Hutchinson, Of 7o9 Madison avenue
dr nsre T How the box got into the girls
possession is not yet known,
Mrs; Mcmahon left Port Jeryls s,o at !, !: 3
G dpd this rssort m1n sa% her An BeeHns
Hospital SrH and and had a BRIEF Conversation
with her irt. whiGh Warden o'Rourke alb
Mrs Mrs. McMahon said that her daughter
had been living in Boston and this city
for about a year. In Oct2ber last she
married a man named VII III, p9 S,I ns
cupation was, she would not say.
She said that she had been In regular
correspondence with her daughter and
declared dec ed" there was neither disgrace, nor
as would be- proven. She said that her
ton with the hospital authorities she
implied that he had left her.
Deputy Coroner Weston this morning
PERFORMED an autopsy OF, the body Of
the dead infant, The body was badly
decomposed and Dr.. Weston believed
that 1t was born on either July 2S or 20.
The autopsy revea led that the cavity
OF the heart was. not filed, as 1t would
have been had the child breathed All
the organs were healthy. and the doctor
believed that If the mother had HAD
proper medical attendance at Its birth
the child would have lived. 1t was a
fully developed female child.
There was no evidence that the child
had been strangled.
DIR. James, who is attending Miss Nc
Mahon, says that she Is not critically
III and ought to be up and about In
few days.
PORT JERVIS. Aug. LENA Mcmahon
is well known In this town. She was as
saulted by the negro, Bob Lewis, who
WAS iynched by mob In this village. In
June 1892 Ever since that time her
mind has been shattered and she has
acted very strangely.
Once she left her home and walked a
distance OF seventeen miles, and when
found she did not seem to know where
she was, The late Dr. Sol Van Etten told
her mother that the girl would never
again be right in her mind.
Ever since the Lewis affair she has