The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
SHE'SLENA M'MAnON.
Identity of the Girl Who Left 9
Dead Baby at the Cosmopolitan.
Victim Of the Negro Lynched al
Port .Iervis In 1892.
Autopsy Shows that the Mother Was
Guilty OF No Crime.

Ag,Af No. 80 nAll.
MfH 1, 49, ,hI. naar,,ns go, pa.,
vue hospitdi this morning from fort
Jervis. and not doubt remains as to
tho Identify OF the girl who staggered
"S.I g.. usu,.., - -.
into Champers street 1ospi,ai last night
leaving a dead baby In room at the
tosmopolitan Hotel.
. She is Lena Mcmahon, who was GRIM
linally assaulted by the negro. Robert
Lewis, at Port Jervis. two years ago.
qhe townspeopie iynched the negro
Mrs. Mcmahon. who Is the girls mother.
admitted these facts
I.ena,s reannesrancs before the nubl,c
heha ieappeaiahee peioie tue puoiiI
is nearly as sensational as the episode
that first brought her into prominence.
,hom, 9 o,o,oo, To-, ovor,ng The c,erL
Aoout eioch last evening 'he c'ei
'1n charge of the receiving room at
dhambers Street Bospitai saw a tall.
..a,'n. na,,an ,,hosa hatr go and a.
young woman, whose hdir' eyes anu at
tire were black, enter by the street door
and move to a bench, with faltering
,,eps usr faco n,s h.o,. "a and nale
and she seemed about to faint.
Altar a, atte,dine nbvsician had
Ai.er an al'enains pnyslc'an an, n mao
was ' Lena G. ne poWiins. of Port 4 Jerv wis.,
and was M i'll that she needed medical
49, 80 sn as.. - NJ
Hedthieht. enc REFERRED u MIS- MY
communicated with, but did not mention
the fact that that friend was her
mother. she was taken to ward,
where il was iesrned that she had re-
Gently become a mother.
She finally refused to afford any in
formation about herself, more than the
Meaawhile, charnbermaid at the
and West Broadway. entering room
~ on The fourth .,a door, Sa to sFrsne Welt f.
formed child hidden in the closet of the
wash stand iu "'uue" III '"e
BY The had 1sSn %SS sas for %sf
knoMn Dqwn ss and Gsasher p Tes
hsssh Int s Re sad sShs to he Id daniSns5
To2m fegHiariy for nep bar ea arr;v anu she
had gone oaS OUT a'aS short time before the
discovery OF the DEAD child; ana 10 naa me .
mar 10 .ne oh en- tb.t She thomRhf
sba nnmid ra ~ Snsnitai s"' '"'A"'
Deceive WSt Reboe " Of the Leonard street
e etat tS WHO was a,nn, W onca ~ tbe
Sbsmbers Street HosnitaI where the girl
VAS fo,,n5 VI" A''''"' e''
The sSe @ h SbS of was eys4
jsh and wandering In her mind. neither
affirmed nor denied the charge. She said
that She she ala ,, not know S, whether the child
SSo was rsmoved To- the female pris-
on ward nj Re,,eyue Hospitai where.
under pressure she made some state,
ments 70 Detective Kehoe that led him
To- believe thai she was Lena McMahon,
Of the lynchinr incident in Port Jeryis.
She .hs slso adn,SftteI tbst she was the
mother of the dad child. and had
I,orn SIN she woiiid not saw whether
' orr ,Iot 3 thn c s wns a,iwe Chen horn
:" The BODY s Of the child was in a paste
boarS 10y which reveaied from II,
ma s po"' ,bSStt bsd heen tused bv
PH.hrs 4. pat 70 deIivsr cIoth,ng 70 M
p iin,ch,nson ot IA Msdison Avenue.
49, is ~ Hutchipson ~ thsf al
,,r nsre Y on " H. how pnt into the eirTs
nnssassinp /. not vet fnown
Mrs. McMahon left Port Jervis at .
2c1GE TINS rsSor morning saW her fslieyue
Hospital and had a brief conversation
Viii her Which warden O'Rourke ab-
r Tret INTERRUPTED. " ~ ~
Mrs Mcmahon said that her daughter
had been living in Boston and this city
for ahont n vear In Octoher last she
married a man named viii Bowling,
hui where he now WAS, or what his oc.
c,inatinn vas she would not saw
Me SAID mai she had been in regular
correspondenca with her dau9htsr and
tba XIII ~ a cbiid Was exnected she
Jeclared thhre was nejfher disgrace nor