The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09
THE STRUGGLE.
n,yIEI KANE ACCUSED or Kill
ING HIS WIFE.

al EkNtb nv WIN IN N
urooLiyn Tenement - Kane Rays tho
woman Threw Herself Out OF q window.
u, the front room on the third floor OF the tone
r,nt house at $50 Pacific street, Brooklyn, be-
tween two windows that face the east. hangs q
hlood, stained portrait OF President Mckinley.
poiprc that portrait carly yesterday morning n
n,n and woman ended a quarrel in q fight
,rblch proved a death struggle for the woman,
and which landed the man In Raymond street
ioIl. held on the charge Of murder. The man is
psuiel Kane, a butcher. about 40 years old, en-
Moved By Schwarzschild & Sulsberger, Forty
srst street and First avenue, this city. The
woman was his wife, Margaret, about IS years
did, The only eye witness to tho struggle was
their sou Daniel. who Ia only 8 years old.
The Kancs lived in tho front fiat on the third
floor, They moved into the house three years
ago. Kane was Industrious and quiet and Mrs.
Kane WAS good .uatured and c7sy-going. as per-
,oas weighing upward of 800 pounds are apt to
ne, There is NO record that Mr.. and Mrs. Kane
indulscd In anything more serious than a little
tf now and then, until Mr.. and Mrs. David
Blake moved into the rooms directly in the rear
OF the fiat the Knnes occupied, about two months
ago. The Blakes had not been there long before
Mrs. Kane accused her husband Of being on too
friendly terms with Mrs. Blake.
Kane's work kept him engaged at night. II
was his custom to go to work about 9 p. NJ. and
return nbout 1 A. NJ. When no rot home, n
little after l O'Clock, yesterday morning, accord.
ing to his own statement, Mrs. Kane accused
him Of having been out with Mrs. Blake. He
denied the accusation. A quarrel ensued. Mrs.
Kane was in bed. Finally Kane struck his wife
IN the nose with bis fist. That was the Begin
ming OF the fight. Husband and wife struggled
from the bedroom out into the living room. and
from side to side and emu to end OF that room
until the space between the two front windows,
where the portrait OF tho President is hanging,
was reached.
possibly his fve-year-old son Danny can
ten. Any one passing tho house about
l40 A. NJ. might have seen something
shoot out of tho moro northerly of
tho two windows, between which the man and
the woman had been struggling. They would
have seen that something strike, the iron fence
in front OF the house AMI then fall upon
the sidewalk just outside the fence. Had they
paused u moment they would have seen that the
was the form Of a woman. who was dead when
she fell from the fence to the sidewalk.
unusual had happened wien Kane called up a
Kane flat and next door to the SHADES. Teilin
For Gods sake. Tellin, lend me q hand! The
woman mas Ial6n OUT Oh mo WINDOW anu Is
lying on the pavement"
Tel.in slipped ou his trousers and Joined Kane,
and the two routed out the %janitor, who lives on
the floor below. The three men went down to
the street and there they found Mrs. Kane dead.
Little Danny, in his night clothes and barefoot.
ly @Ha ,asFs; ne Mammal isi HR 4 nj Mamma. Oh, Mamma,
Get up! Danny's so cold!"
passing the corner of Pacific street at the time,
and the motorman. named Flaherty. heard the
was the matter. just as he reached the spot
wheEs the woman lay he was joined
s Ss fGl'eeR Rane ca asked OF the see p sHsssr s'Fe fo
ring for an ambulance: This was done
and an ambulance from the Long Island Hospital
under arrest When the ambulance surgeon
a sFr . v he S saw b ssss E e9 H g s;,m inssssa ,S of
long, behind the right ear. beginning
at sndsr p Poi sar on and sh s,te e1sh1 s ND ., or the he s Iesk
to q point about half an inch above and in front
Of the ear. There were also four, punctures in
had come in contact with the short. blunt spikes
which run along the top Of the iron fence:
As ree a ~G feW inches Gss 'if r04 q sRs fe hss 'f tx; o MY
garment she had on was a chemise; which was
to the little room where the fight had taken
RIlscs. The child was put in the charge Of Mrs.
Tellin for the night, and Kane was takeu to the
station house. There he said:
All this came about through my wife's jeal-
with a woman Who lives in the house. When I
came home tonight she accused me Of being I'M
faithful, l denied IT and we had a fight. It was
thTew herself oYt: That's al can say
yesterday morning, Kane was arraigned before
Judge Bristow, charged with homicide. lIe
pleaded not guilty. and his examination was set
down Tor May II. Before he was taken to Ray
nond street. Jail Kane amended his first story by
saying that, after The fight, he and his wife and
boy went 70 bed. He fell asleep, and some time
~afterward he awoke. missed his wife. got up to
look for her. saw the open window, looked out.
ana &t sew thu bis c gai9,g pr sSdy diyiRs 1 Be- tRs slsf Mar6iy
Or the Butter street station went around to the |
tenement house to make an Investigation: The
anu the only table in the two rooms were over
turned. la the bedroom was found a woman's
blood. One of the pillowslips was blood stained
ana a towel in the same condition was found on
The floor. The bedding was also bioodstained.
FROM the bedroom out into the living room
the tracks OF the man and woman could be fol-
lowed by the blood stains on the floor. There
dows, for the entire east wall was splashed with
blood. There are blood marks on the window |
q rrn hold UPON ssomethine and he blood loo LANE ~ Ees
even reach far up, on the window shades. A
thorough examination OF the rooms failed to dis
haye been assaulted.
Not a tenant in the house heard the ~faintest
Oui VI q iuBklO III II hdiit IuL. 1neTe lB |
only a thin partition between the Kanes' bed
room and the bedroom OF the Blakes. but neither |
Mr.. nor Mrs. Blake, SO tho latter says, heard a |
pound in the Kane fiat after the Blakes went to
bed, about IL O'Clock. Mrs. Blake said:
Il was talking with Mrs. Kane for a short
time in the hall before $3.50. About that hour |
she went out, saying she was going to visit her
She returned about 1890 o'clock, and my |
and i talked with her for a few
minutes. She shortly went into her nat
and my husband and i went to bod. Neither Of
us heard or knew anything about the trouble
until we were awakened by the noise in the hall
after she foil out of the window. l never
not know that Mrs. Kane was Jealous OF
ne, although last, Sunday night she came
into my room and called me a vile name Tor
AT all, adding that / was. intimate with
her husband But she was, / think, under the
Mrs. Russell. the dead woman's sister, said
that when Mrs. Kane reached her house on FRI
Gay night she complained that she had been I'M
able 10 get any money from her husband since
tLc 81 .kes moved into the She said
that Mrs. Kane complained that Kane spent
most OF his time with Mrs. Blake. To Mrs.
tssell's statement, Mrs. Petersen. a neiRhbor,
sstdded that about midnight. on Friday night
AIRS. Kane came 10 her and said that Mrs. Blake
vas asleep In the hall on the top floor, and that
Mrs. Kane suspected that Mrs. Blake was walt