The evening world., 1894-09-25
HAD Her BY THE HAIR.
But Simon McGlory Denies that
He Killed Mary Walsh.
They Lived Together and Were
Drunk and Fighting Last Night.
Witnesses Claim to Have Seen Him
Strike Her; Then She Fefl.

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 a cell Just back of where the body
lay In Its dirty gown of black. with a
cheap and faded black straw hat tilted
over its face, sat Simon McGlory, white
haired and trembling on the verge Of
delirium 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-house at III orchard
street.
They had spent most Of that time
drunk, singly or together, and quarrel
ling. Last night both were too drunk
to get about easily, and at Q o'clock
the woman fell on the doorstep and
slept where she fell. At o'clock they
were seen adarrelling nearby, and AT a
little after this morning August Meyer,
of ll6 Allen street, and John Frank.
his neignbor. setting out for their work
in stable, heard brawling in Orchard
| street.
They saw n man and woman IN front
of lO2 Orchard street. The man raised
his hand and struck the woman IN The
wards the Eldridge street police station,
but before they had returned with a
policeman Patrolman Frank McCar-
rick, on a 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
| trail of blood from l0i Orchard street,
where the couple were, to To-. 1t stopped
at a pool of blood in the areaway at the
foot OF two stone steps at No. lO2. II
Germans had knocked the woman into
the area: that she had struck on her
head, and received a fractured skull.
MCGlory exclaimed:
For Gods sake, won't somebody help
me get my wife home?'
The woman was dead. 1t was then
$40 o'clock.
McGlory was arrested. The body was
taken to the station-house. The matron
thought she rrescognizei the body az that
been frequent visitor to the station
house, and she was SO entered In the
blotter.
But at l2l Orchard street Maude Nc
CoTmick, known. as Little Maude,
Indignation declared that she was sleep
ing in her own bed when that other
woman was murdered" Besides she Is
only twsnty-seven years old, while Mrs.
Walsh was forty-eight.
Room IL is five feet wide by eight
long. 1t contained single bed, q
broken down washstand, cracked bowl
and pit her, a bottomless chair and II
sickly little cook stove. 1t was home"
&c Mary Walsh and Simon McGlory Till
last night, and their. neighbors, a
swarm OF them, are Of the same class.
Court at $50 and Police Justice Koch
remanded him until tomorrow morn
Ing. MeanHhie Capt. CCrt-ig1t and
Policemen Swarts and Burke Will hunt
up witnesses.
What are you trying 70 do2 Make out
Glory asked Policeman McCarriCk on
why, say. / was only crying to get
her home, She'd been out ell night. and
| couldn't do anything with her"
the white-haired. bullet-headed little
THAT woman's grandmother. She
was Mary Griffin, born right here in
this ward She was about thirty-seven
name was Walsh, and he died four
years ago. My wife left me. She's
living in Paterson, and so took up
shes got a daughter Esther and
she Is married and lives in Harlem
somewhere with her husband and TWO
1--WE got a daughter, too. Her mama
lie Rose Doian, and she liyeg at 800
East Forty third street. haven't killed
One Of the witnesses stated that just