The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-06
DEATH DUE TO HER
HUSBANDS CRUELTY
Such q Charge Rests Against Michael A.
Kelley, of Ptttston Avenue.
MARKS FOUND ON FACE AND BODY
Kelley Beat His Wife Twelve Days
AgO..Arrested Last Night.. Coroner
LOngstfeet Will Conduct a Post.
MOrtem Examination This Morning.
The Seven MOtherless Children Arc
in a Destitute Condition.

Mrs. Mary Kelley. OF 321 Pittston
avenue died at O'Clock yesterday az
ternoon and her husband, Michael A.
Kelley is IN the central police station
suspected OF being the cause OF her
death.
Sne received beating from nm
week ago last Sunday night, SO severe
seen in the coftip
Neighboring women who washed the
body said that the black and blue spots
on her sides and breast show plainly
that he must have been very violent
in the assault made upon her.
Coroner Longstreet was notified and
he will make a postmortem examination
this morning.
The impression prevails in the neigh
borhood that the beating Kelley gave
his wife twelve days ago caused her
death.
Wednesday she was seen around the
house in her usual condition of health
and she was apparently all right except
the discolorations on her lace.
1t got out yesterday morning that
she was very sick. Various persons,
women principally, called at the house
and urged Kelley to- send for doctor.
He kept on insisting that there was
no need of one, and not until ) in the
afternoon was he persuaded to so after
DR. Haggerty, who came ana found
Mrs. Kelley beyond medical aid.
She died two hours afterWard.
The lower part of the body was par
alyZed for several hours before she
died and all the symptoms created the
suspicion that violence was the cause
of her condition.
rDrIuy pr .rCp I-crr,Up AppCSu,
Nheh Chief OF folice hopi,hS anu
fatroihlan Neuis went TO the mouse III
y clock last hisnt 10 arrest Neiiey
they louhu niili asleep on ruue peu
IN Il room adJoinlhg Wnere MS Wlte iay
he got up ana, rubbing ms eyes ana
ms blateu race asked theii, VIVA. was
wanted. Ihey said ne would oe taken
10 the police station on warrant al
iesins that ne beat nus wiie, ana .iiai a,
until The coroner would determine what
was the cause of her death.
lie shook his head to the right and
left and said he had nothing to do
with what caused her death, that the
marks on her face were from falling
down stairs, but he was willing TO go
with the officers, and he quietly sub
mitted to arrest. They took him to the
city hall and locked him up.
1t was through Mrs. w. Il. Duggan,
agent of the Board of Associated Char
tiles, that the case came to the notice
of the police. Patrick Roche, of Orch
ard street, the dead womans brother,
called on Mrs. Duggan early in the af-
ternoon and said there was a woman
lying at the point of death at 32l Pitts
ton avenue and there was u house full
of small children there too, with not
a crust of bread to eat or scarcely a
stitch to wear.
When Mrs. Duggan reached the
house in the afternoon at o'clock the
woman had just died, and when she
looked i'm the coffin and saw the con-
fused wound on one of the eyes and the
swollen lips. and she had inquired
around the place. there was enough of
evidence, together with what she knew
of Kelley's habits. to impress her that
the case needed investigation.
pr,Dy re x,-c,r uN,X1-S
NE' 10 "'-i-.
We're the Object of consideration not
long ago by the Board of Associated
Charities. There are seven children,
three boys and four girls. The boys
are the Oldest of the family and the
oldest one is a water carrier at one of
the steel mills when it works. He is
about 10 years old. The other two
boys. 13 and II years old respectively.
were picked uD several times on the
streets of the central city for begging.
They usually follow the occupation
of the bOotblack and We're in the habit
of being out on the coldest days and
nights WithOlt enough clothing on
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