The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-28
MURDER MOST FOUL
Three Lives Sacrificed to
Mackin's Fiendish
Rage Against
His Wife.
PLANNED IN COLD BLOOD
His Young Wife and Her Mother
Dead; Her Father RAPIDLY
Sinking.
GAsHED HIS OWN THROAT
But the Police Think the Mon
ster's Suicidal Attempt
Was Only a Fake.
HOW he GOT THE REVOLVER
Stole Coats and Pasvned Them to
Raise Money Pretty Liz
zie connor's Tragic
Love Match.
HOW He GOT THE REVOLVER

A slim. srnooth-faced young fellow
walked into Hatfield's saloon on Com
manipaw avenue, near the shore, last
night and after he had drunk a glass of
beer pulled a revolver out of his pocket
and quietly said
q have just killed the Connors family.
You had better send for a policeman. I
an a murderer
This was the way in which the first an
ncuncement was made that the most aw-
ful tragedy known in the annals of the
city had been committed The young
man, John Maclzin, a ne'er-do-weel, had
deliberately killed his wife, his mother
ln-iaw and fatally wounded his father
in-law. ana he wound up this morning
the chapter of horrors by. attempting to
take his own life.
The cause OF the murder may be
SKINNED up in one word-drink For
years the murderer has spent what lit
tie he earned in lounging about saloons
and assoctating with the toughest of
--rrrgh companicas. His father, Harry
EsacsS.r. bartender at the saloon under
the Fssller building, living at No sSs
Grove street, could do nothing with him.
Wnen only thirteen years OF age he was
arrested for an attempted burglary and
then began a career which will now ter
inmate on the scaffold. First an idle
Icy, then a thief, and lastly mur-
derer.
It was no wonder that when Maurice
Connors, a night watchman in Bartlett's
abattoir on the shore at Communipaw
heard that John Mackin was keeping
company with his daughter Lizzie, he
and her mother told their daughter that
: marriage with an idler and drinking
man would only result in misery. Lizzie
had attended ball in Woods Hall one
night three years ago. and there met
young Mackin. His easy, staggering
ways attracted her and she danced re-
peatedly with him. Mackin admired
Lizzie, who then was eighteen years old,
a pretty girl with fair face and gentle
and regarded him as a hero, and when
he asked to meet her the next day she
willingly consented. They met repeat
edly but it was only when he called at
her fathers home at No. 110 Philip
street, one Sunday afternoon, that Mr..
and Mrs Connors knew that their daugh-
zie had a sister Annie and Brother
William about Mackins age, and both
of them Joined with their mother and
father in trying to dissuade Lizzie from
marrying Mackin. But their entreaties
were of no avail, and only when it was
discovered that Mackin and Lizzie were
about TO run away and get married the
parents reluctantly consented
The young people were married. and
Maclzin took his bride to rooms on Coles
street. His promises to his father-in-law
to reform and make his wife happy and
comfortable were quickly forgotten. and
it was not long before Lizzie when visit
ing her parents, said that Johnny was
bringing and not doing right At times
he would secure a position as assistant
in a saloon, but his irregular habits caused
mis- dismissal after a day or two. The
few dollars he earned were spent with
companions of his own worthless kind