New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-26
POSSIBLY A MURDER.
Suspicious THAT A GIRL WAS THROWN
FROM A WINDOW.
HER FATHER ARREsTED-HE AND THE MOTHER
DECLARE THAT HE Is INNocENr-srAIE-
MENTs or NEiGHRoRs ABOUT

QUARREL.
Katie Keenan, nineteen years old. who either feh
or WAS thrown from the window OF her nome o"
the fourth floor of No. 2.So@ Second-ave, INTO 'he
ward and received compound fracture Oh '''
skull, died IN the Harlem Hospital at lo'9" o ''''N
Ncs ,rrday morning. Her father '"hh N'''"''
who was arrested late Wednesday night on s"Sp'
.on that he had thrown her from the window was
MIRA gnc,l before Maglstrat, Wentworth at IN" mar
lem cou,t yesterday morning ana COMMITTED WIN"
out hail fer examination In the AFTERNOONS
keenan, dcnicd having any connection win MS
daulht,r's fall from the window ana N'" '""' Il,
lnod her too dearly - harm her lie p'r''"'"
=, nj. abatement that his daughter was hanging
,iothins upon a pulley line when she lost h'' "''
an,o and fell to the yard When he W"s "''
that she was dead he broke into an agony vi ~'''
Tho girl fell from tho window at b'"o "V'o'N '"'
eycnIne The Gaze Was reported 10 the Eas' '''
hunlrcl.and- siN,h-st. station rs an accu'n' Later
"a the evening several reporters met friend o' the
lir, nairea Michael NJ. Nohlc OF NO "'f ''hS'
one hundreds nd thrty -scvcnthr VINO SAL" '""'
he received a postal card from Katie Keenan, W.
,er6ay asking him TO call ut O'Clock In the even
INK and take her out Tor walk. III" callcd AZ '"a'
hour and found that she had fallen ana was IN the
Harlem Hospital lie met Julia Boyle. young
woman who lives on the same floor with the N''h-
ans nut on the opposite side Of the han. ana ~
~i,; she told him that just before the fall from
the window she heard a loud quarrc! between Natle
heard her name mentioned. and would have gone
into The Keenans' rooms to inquire what WAS wrong
n snc had no. been dressing at the time WINE she
va, stir dressing she heard the sound OF the iAl'
and looking from the window, saw Katie keenan,
living on the fiagstones in the yard.
Others Of The ncighbors say they heard quarrei
between the father and daughter lust before the
girl fell from the window When these statements
were made known to Acting Police captain Vrrah''
Of the One Notwithstanding hist stailen
lie Policeman DIXON 10 arrest Keenan, ny
latter manifested much surprise at beng arrested
lie IS forty years old and Is tool-maker by trace.
1t said by the neighbors that he Is passionate
man. and he has had frequent quarrcls win ms
daughter. and had often been heard 10 threaten her
with violence.
Mrs keenan, the girls mother said yesterday
that all the statements made BY the neghbors were
untrue that her husband and daughter were on the
.bes; Of terms. and that they never quarrelled Inc
laughter. she SAID had been bathing at East one
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES She returned home al
about o'clock. and after washing he. bathing SUIT
about hanging IL out on me iine to dry, "ne e
- lost her balance and fell into tie yard me
Ia hing suit lying the wndow-sm yes'er-
say morning, and Mrs Keenan, called attention
10 Il in confederation OF hsr statements.
After the girls death known TO the police,
keenan, was rearraigned in the Harlem Court ana
committed TO the cus,od; Of the Coroner.