New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10
SUICIDE FOLLOWS MURDER.
MAvOY. WHO KILLED HIS WIFE, LEAPS
BEFORE AN ELEVATED TRAIN.
HIS QUICK ESCAPE FROM PoILcEMAN-pEATH

HIS QUICK ESCAPE FROM A INTERCHANGEABLE
AN HOUR AFTERwARD.
James S. McAvoy. who shot his wife in the neck
and abdomen last Saturday night. at their nome.
No 3i9 East Sixtieth-st, committed suic'oe III io
O'Clock yesterday morning by jumping IN lIo.'' "a
engine No 273 on the Third Avenue Elevated i'oau'
The engine and one car passed over his BODY CUT
ting off both of his legs. NcAvoy oieu d" 'ou
later in the Flower Hospital. to which ne was re-
povea Immediately after the train struck him.
Since Saturday night McAvoy had been prisoner
n the F,as. Sixty-seventh-st police stalloh ""e'e
ne was held to await the result oil MS wiz "
iuries After the shooting Mrs McA'oS ""s ' '
TO the Presbyterian Hospital where she u'e' "''
day - . .so
po,,oouar Ions rancredi took McAvoy to the
rour,h District Police Court yesterday morning
and arraigned him before Magistrate Mot'' oi '
charge of numbering his wife Inc -,
ordered the policeman to take tne p'.so ~,
Coroners office. Tancredi handcuneo oo'" Va IN,
nrisoner's hands and the two walked slde u! a'ue
49,, tho Fif,v-seventh Street Court TO the DOWN
town station OF the Third Avenue Elevated Hoau
q, E,ttv-nin.h-s, On the way TO the sta'o'i NJ
Ayoy appeared uncOncerned. thoueh n' 49,
talk much He asked the policeman ioi 80
OF tobacco which given to him. A'i"'"e "
the station the policeman led his prisoner 10 fea'
- ~ n,a,foru, N await the next train In le"
momen;s a train hauled by engine NO. 49, came
IN sight and the two men arose from thei go"
They walked to the extreme southern emu =, ~
platform and stood there unit! the engine LA, a.
yanced to within twenty feet OF the spot
. seconds warning McAvoy gave loud screen anu
,h.r hurled himself beneath the wheels. As nc
iumped. Tancredi seized the prisoner py 'ne ''',
arno and the back of his coat, but McANo! supp
from his grasp and fell over the outside ran
pefore the engineer could stop the train Inc en-
cine and first car had passed over the man. 49,,
on both legs and almost severing his hahos ."e
fha
..orgers IN the cars were Mortified at the sish'
- tho mangled body which had been thrown se'
oral fec, from the outside rail. TO the woooei 'a
which form a sub-p.atform between the up'o""
and downtown tracks. -
Ths nolceman rushed to the station and sum
- -, ambulance from the Flower Hospital.
when order had been restored the half-hieiesS
bosv was picked up and driven hastily 70 me n5
pltal where the murderer ana suiciue uie" Il" WV
Before McAvoys arrest for murder ssrera
night. he had been sasem 'n asorderiy conduct.
since his last arrest he had peen an UNI u'' - re
Oner in he IN Violent temper and abusive
toward his keepers wuuam McAvov. about
,neteen Years old was in the CorOners office THIS
Morning waiting for his father to be arragned AS AS
s saf to CFoner HoeOer don't think ink n aw w
ever get ista'r heT ew minutes naA later the telephone
bell rang and information was received ina, ,ne
murderer nad FAMED and did not
sciousness for several minutes ., ,,
To- la tier io,d Coroner Hoeber that on his wa!
IN the office yesterday he was delayed on me Ihlru
Avenue Elevated Road by biockade eaus SEQ ny
eoms one falling front of train. but ne nad no
idea that the man his father he lett .he
snrgace car The son is the eldest OF seven chi-
dren. ,......r ,h,r,,-nine wears
old. had been drinking heavily for some time t 1eiPI
last Saturday night. when he quarreieo WIN ~
!ast oand The neighbors heard uproar In his
They rushed in and 0v Wound she "i the
on na 'n another in The abdomen The children wers
IN the room and crying that their father mao
killed their mother McANos sun "e'O e ~
Volver in his hand.