New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-09
MYSTERY IN Il DEATH.
THE WIFE OF 4 DETECTIVE DIES FROM
\ KNIFE WOUND.

DEPUTY CORONER DONIlN THINKS TT COULD NOT
HAVE BEEN SELF INFLICTED Nus
BAND ACCUSED OF Ill. TREATING THE
woMAN-TnE FATHER ARRESTED.
Heart failure was reported TO have been the
cause of the death of Mrs Mary Moore, wife OF De-
tcctiyc William Moore. of Police Headquarters. who
died suddenly on Wednesday afternoon nj her
home. NO rs W"st One-hundrcd- and-twenty-siXth-
st. but II now appears that the real cause OF death
WAS deep stab wound in the abdomen. The case
IS regarded as suspicious one. as Deputy ofoh'r
pon,in IL Amos: certain that the wound coul" not
have been inflicted by the woman herself
William Moore sr.. the father-in-law or the dead
WOMAN SAYS that she was preparing 10 do day s
washing on Wednesday afternoon. and asked MIN
to 20 downstairs and get the wash-boiler. She was
sitting in n chair the dumh-waite- as ne lett
the room Wher he returned she was still Suing
rs 10 had left her and seemed 10 be asleep W ne"
he tried to waken her h" found that sh" WAS "n-
conscious Then ho noticed a carving-knife wing
on tho floor nv her side \ physician was NJ ono"
called in and after hastv examination h" said
Mrs Moore VAS dead. The undertaken who was 10
have buried tn" woman says that when ne arIN'"
he found tho body prepared for burial. ana ne
therefore saw 10 wound.
The husband of tho dead woman says that h. LETT
tho house on Tuesday morning. covered NaI-S''
deiag. and IN the evening went to tn" Henry
George mass-mce,ing at Cooper Union. THIS Kept
him 50 late that he did not go HON" un'il sum
moned on Wednesday afternoon by telegram tell
ing him Of his wife's death. ~" seemed greatly
shocked tho news.
An anony nous letter Was received az ~" Tor
oners Office yeq,orlay morning calling attention to
tho dca.h Of Ms Moore and saying that = Wouii
ha wise Tor the Coroner investigate tn" case as
II WAS something besides heart allure mat canN"i
the woman's death. The letter said ina Nui'"'
Moore often beat his wife and starved her Nh'''
cha
ANONYMOUS letter. Moore said that he wouls not
say thar he had never raised his hand against MS
vito but he declared that he had MOI lately done
so and was isnordn, o: anything that conia nave
The autopsy held yesterday by Deputy Coroner
Donlin revealed a wound an inch III MINI; =
hone The knifo found 10y tn" dead woman sld"
is ordinary carving kni;" ana nv y, w,s
the knife the Wound was made Win ON He'oih, :"
lis duness. The BLADE % N" Knlic - 'oN'''"
Win siains tina, may OF may not prove to Doe
Wrs ,;ynthi, Brown. The ianiiross Of the Nat IN
uTich Nre Moore died. says that the neighnols
nave ooon much Scanda2cd at MoorcS reatmen,
OF mis- wife and that he beat her constantly. W ma,
4. tno,e 10 tho pont IN" declared that Mr. mar
lo,te Watt. Of No as West one hundred en- pa,
twentv-sixth-st told her she So Moor snra en-
steal,h!!y out OF the house little Will nei4re "
Moore was found dead and IA; ne w"ht w. n,i
,or whose ewes arc rot Of the best. She would
not confirm Mrs Browns iia,emcr io Moo " Int
she was not sure it he Mrs A. HulI Of ~"
Ouc-hundred ana 4" envy
o'' ,o tbot Moore beat his wife terribly ana ms
S,hcr zoo In addition he starved Mrs. Moore ana
allowed her only 90 cents day . ,,.,,,,
Nvhen askcC il he should order an arrest DcPuas
coronrr Donlin replied Whom? Inc man Wa
NOT IN the house al the time. apparent J. can /
understand how the wound was innicte9' :. 1877
hardly possible that 1t was seIi-nilc,o' ~, tha'
hare ronrirnd the most heroic endurance 10 90 my
u'th me knife that seems TO have p"e1 us't. ).
seems equally impossible maj u VIZ uo IT, Inn /.
s'',n,i.ro, W, II must have been done hN 3"h
nne ~ n,us, nav been done with this knife "h'ch
was found alongside Of hri. a.. ,,.,, that
Coronrr Fitzpatrick said lat" las h9, , ti
though Inc woman might have comnl ~ ,r;
81 .ertad 1v the police In yiew or the sit,cil,
o. Dr. DonI.1 he could not talk th"l Ni'M ON
bn,n thn ,naftf- thoroughly investigated anu
20 the bottom and William Moore 81 KY Y
~, two wears old ana very f"e1' "h7 M
porson TO have seen the woman 'lTr' "n n ina,
vv,os IN INC house with her an II" NM anat
i"n.od rom me last time that shc Wa Scrh
9Iye and up to the time OF hor dcath re- "% ororrr
eccordngl; held the cider Moor on susp e va
hn,oiciln and nxcd his bond a. S2FF IAN -
fHrmi.hcl by Anton Gebler a l'ottfei VINO n.'s
81 10 {; Wos. hundred OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES