The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-06
A VICTIM OF CARELESSNESS
1rRS. JOHN TANsY KILLED AT I9O
 FRANKLTN ST. LAST EVENING.

By Frank Smyth, Polander, Who Was
 Celebrating With Bullet Loaded Cart
 ridges-smyth to bo Held for Manslaugh-
 ter--Sad Breaking Up of Family Party
 -Investigations by the Coroner.
 Last evening while the thousands throughout the city were celebrating the birth of American independence. and joy and good feeling reigned else- where in New Haven sorrow was in the home of John Tansy at 19O Franklin street. Two little girls, five and three years old, were wailing and mourning with all the depths of childish grief. over a tragedy, the full purport of which they did not understand, but the results of which struck home to their young hearts with d sorrow un- feigned, while a husband bowed hls head In manly grief, In the parlor or the little home which but few short hours before had been one of the nap piest in the city, lay wife and mother cold in death, the victim of the care lessness of a thoughtless celebrator or the nations independence.
 Shortly after supper last evening John Tansey a brass moulder employed at Peck Brothers shop, his wife and two children and his mother-in-law and sis ter, retired to grape arbor at the rear of the house to spend quiet evening instead of going out on the streets with the celebrating crowds. In the next house, at 1SS Franklin street, Frank Smyth, a boarder, and a party of friends were on the back piazza, and were celebrating in a noisier manner than the family next door, Snlyth was firing a pistol loaded with cartridges containing bullets. He had emptied his pistol and loaded up again and fired three bullets from his five shooter. MT. Tansy was just about to request him to be careful in firing when Smyth fired the last shot in his revolver. While the crack of the pistol yet sounded Mrs. Tansy, in the arbor just across the fence, suddenly sank to the ground. Her husband and mother thinking the she had fainted, rushed to her assistance. Lifting her up they discovered blood pouring from gaping wound just at the left of her nose, and saw at once that she had been shot. More than this, as they raised up the unfortunate woman they saw that she was uncon- scious and probably dead.
 pr Cahill who lives near by, was at once summoned and after arriving and seeing Mrs. Tansy, he announced that she was dead. MT. Tansy at once mo- tified the police and about 10 o'clock Smyh was taken into custody. He was locked up in the Grand avenue precinct station. He was overcome, and spent the night in cell, weeping and deplor- ing his carelessness and Its terrible re- suits.
 Coroner Mix was summoned and af- ter viewing the remains of Mrs. Tansy, he visited Smyth at the station house and took his statement. Smyth will be held for manslaughter.
 Mrs. Tansy was about thirty years old and had been married about eight years. Her mother Mrs. Catherine Du- ane, lives In Stamford, where two broth CTS, Frank and Matthew Duane also reside. Mrs John Mannix of this city, a sister of MT. Tansy, was in the arbor at the time of the tragedy. All the members of the family were completely prostrated by the terrible accident Smyth is a Polander and has been in this country but five years. He Is em- ployed as a blacksmith by Foskett & Bishop. When seen by the coroner last evening he claimed that he had fired ten shots in all at water closet in the rear of No. 1SS Franklin street Coro- ner Mix and Detective Donnelly, how ever, found four bullet holes in weather house over the cellar door of No 1Ss, and in the director of the Tansy house. It was evidently the fifth bullet of the second charging of the pis- tol, and of which the bullet hole could not be found in the weather house, that struck Mrs. Tansy. The revolver used by Smyth was @ 32-calibre. The coro- ner cut two bullets out of the side of the weather house and found two more inside on the cellar steps, they having passed through the sides of the wealth. CT house over the cellar steps.