New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-21

AN ANGRY CROWD AFTER A wIFE-MUR-
DERER IN FoRTY-NINrH-s

RYAN HAD KNOCKED THE WOMAN OUT OF A
sIxrHsToRY WINDOW AND HER SKULL WAS
CRUSHED on THE STONE WALK BELOW
HE Is NOW IN CUSTODY
Philip Ryan. driver for the Street Cleaning
Department. last night ordered his wife in
their home the top floor OF the six-story tene-
ment-house. No. BAT West Forty-nnth-st The
block extends from Seventh to Eighth-ave.. and
is known as Mixed Ale Row." one Of the most
disorderly localities in tie city. Ryan and the
woman he murdered had been married about two
years and had two children
The murder is the elimination Of long period
of il-treatment to which the woman had been
subjected by her husband. who was drunk the
greater part Of the time.
ANGRY BECAUSE HIS MEAL WAS NOT READY.
Ryan returned home at o'clock last night. He
was ugly from drink. His wife. already d,sfgured
by two black eyes he had given her during a
drinking spell week ago. was preparing supper
You've been ch:nnin again all day, an there's
notlin' 10 eat again" yelled Ryan. he lurched
into the room.
I'll teach yer some chin music he went on, as
the woman shrank from him into the corner OF
the room.
A heavy blow followed. The poor woman en-
deavored to pacify her husband. but in vain. For
nearly half an hour the neighbors heard mingled
consultations and curses from the tenement. but
they dared not interfere
At the end of that time a succession Of fearful
shrieks rang out from the Ryans' rooms and i'm
medatey afterward Mrs. Ryan ran out OF the
door and across the hallway into little empty
room on the other side OF the hallway. Her hus-
band followed her. and then a window was heard
to open.
moment later another shrek was heard and
then came the sound of a body falling into the
courtyard below.
Mrs Ryan was picked up at the bottom Of the
airshaft beneath the window almost before the
echoes Of her last shrek had died out among the
high tenement walls. She had struck on her head
and lay there dead her skull crushed by the
frightful impetus OF her slx-story fall. AS the
neighbors gathered about her their Indignation
broke forth Several people ran into the street
and called Acting Roundsman Hyatt VINO was
standing only a block away from the house.
When Ryan :he officer as he came up the
stairs he started at for the roof he had
hardly reached the scutte. however when
Hyatts hand was on his shoulder.
II didn't do IT. he gasped. showing MS rear
before any accusation had been made against
him. But the handouts were on his wrists al
most before he spoke, and the roundsman was
taking the testimony OF the neighbors
A CROMD CklES. slNNfl HIN.
One woman declared that she had seen Ryan
strike his wife a blow IN the breast which
knocked her out Of the window. The womans
husband tried In vain to prevent her statement
Male sympathy in troubles in the Row is usually
on the side of the man. The rcUndsman took
note of the woman's name and address, warning
her husband not TO interfere with Ter.
Then he started for the West Forty-seventh-st.
station with his prisoner. Another officer had
oii ord he fv-n al cd
side Of Ryan. That precaution was soon found to
be necessary. AS the party emerged from the
doorway Of the tenement house into the street
they were surrounded by mob Of bowling men
and women
Lynch him! Lynch the brute" they yelled.
One big coal HEAVIER Jumped on Roundsman Hy-
att and endeavored to drag his prisoner from MS
grasp but the officer drew his club and threat
ened him. and he drew back. The station-house
was only two blocks distant. but every step OF the
way the prisoners life threatened and his
face grew white with terror Ryan was locked UP
on a charge OF homicide The two motherless
children were cared for by the tenants In the
house