Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-22

kerosene and seemed as though she must
be thoroughly saturated with the fluid.
This morning one of the clerks from the
store was sent for to come to the station
house. and he identified the woman in the
cell as the one who was at the store yes
terday afternoon. This Identification did
not, of course, fix the crime of incendiarism
on the woman, but an event that occurred
a little later drew the cords closer.
Among those who saw the suspicious
woman in the churches yesterday after
noon was Miss Bischoff. the organist at
st. Dominic's, who saw woman within
the edifice acting in a rather strange man
ner. She said that the woman she saw
wore a rather long cloak and was closely
yelled. Miss Bischoff was sent for this
morning to come to the station house, and
a single glance at the woman under arrest
convinced her that she was the same one
who was at St. Dominic's Church yester-.
day. She also identified Miss Delaney's
cloak as the one worn by the suspected
woman yesterday. This cloak as well as
the cloth dress which Miss Delaney wears
are both still rank with kerosene. 1t was
supposed yesterday that the would-be fire.
bug had concealed the kerosene can under
her loose cloak, and the cloak which Miss
Delaney had with her when she was ar
rested answers the description perfectly.
Exciting Arrest.
1t was about o'clock this morning when
Detectives Carter and Gallagher arrived at
in tracing the Delaney woman. The pro-
prietor OF the house asked that in the IN
terest OF peace and quiet no arrest be made
at that hour of the night, and the two de-
tectiVeS placed their chairs in front OF Miss
DeIaney's door and sat there until after I
o'clock, when Miss Delaney was awakened
and tod that she was wanted downstairs.
She appeared as soon as she could dress
herself, and when she was given to under
stand that she was under arrest she Gre
ated a scene without further delay. She
used considerable force and bad language
and attempted to assault the officers. She
did succeed in striking them both in the
face with the palm of her hand, and it was
only by sheer muscular effort that they
succeeded in getting her out. There was
some delay in getting a cab, and then she
was taken directly to the first precinct sta
ton, ON 18th street, where she was locked
up in 4 roomy and comfortable cell on the
second floor and given hearty breakfast.
She was willing to talk with every one. who
approached the grating in her door, and
insisted in going at length and in great de-
tail into all the circumstances connected
with her unsuccessful efforts an i'm
presario. She talked as though she thought
she were under arrest for beating the
hotels and did not seem to be at all con-
cerned about her awkward predicament.
When asked about the fires at st. DOM
inic's and st. Patricks, she said that she
did not know anything about them and
she had not been in either church for
long time past. Personally, she preferred
st. Aloysius, where she had been going
with some regularity since she had been in
Washington. She was given to understand
that she was charged with causing the
fires, but she did not express any curiosity
about the matter, although she said she
did not know much about 1t, as she had
this morning. All she would talk about
was her need for money and the bad way
in which she had been treated by the hotel
people. and by the people who had been
tod rNyft h 6nr Of hN,~ In,
the presence of a policeman this morning
she said that the time would soon come
when Grand Army Hall would be burned
down. She talked in a rambling and at
times rather disconnected manner, but al
ways reverting to her grievances and the
conspiracy which is on foot to prevent her
from becoming popular in her efforts to
make her own living.
Her Appearance.
In conversation with Star reporter this
morning. Miss Delaney showed herself to
be woman of some education. She has
not at all the air of an adventures or a
bad woman, and her appearance is con-
sistent with her statement that much OF
her life has been devoted to missionary
ard church work. She said that she had
founded a number of working girls homes
under the auspices of the Catholic Church,
but that she had not received the support
she deserved from the church. She said
that the priests had gotten down on her
because she did not go to communion every
day now as she used to do. She said that
her thoughts were now growing into
SCIENCE" and that her church did not like
such freedom of thought on her part She
believed in freedom of thought speech and
action in politics. religion and all phases of
life. She said that much of her life had
been spent as an attendant in hospitals in
Milwaukee, and in answer to a direct queS-
ton admitted that she had been treated
several times herself for nervous diseases.
hot cf ha
from nervous prostration. She is not
particularly notwithstanding woman and
would seem to be in bad health. She has
nervous way of talking, and jumps from
one subject to another without much con-
nection. She was not well-dressed, and as
an instance of her feeling about the con-
spiracy against her, one happening may be
quoted. Her dress waist showed signs oil
considerable wear, and under the sleeves
are the stains left by perspiration. These,
she assured the reporter, were made with
chalk by some one of her enemies, and she
also said that many Of her other garments
had been torn, cut or stained by her enc
mics She said that a pair of shoes had
been cut in this way. and to show just how
it had been done she took off one or the
shoes she had on and held it up to the
grating for the reporter to see She was
asked how it came about that her cloak
and dress smelled so strongly of kerosene.
She said that she did not know, and she
spoke of an incident that had occurred yes
terday morning which attracted her at
tention. When she was washing at the
Elsmere she said that she noticed that the
water smelled very strongly of kerosene
and she supposed that some one OF her
enemies had put the oil there to annoy her.
Miss Delaney denied again and again that
she had been at either church yesterday,
and all efforts to trap her into an admis-
sion were frutless She admitted going to
Woodward & LothIop's but insisted that
if there was kerosene on her garments it
must have been placed there for the pur-
pose of giving her annoyance.
Miss Delaney will be held for the action
of the court, but it is more than likely
that the problem will resolve itself into the