The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-24
DOLLY KILLS HIMSELF.
mrs WIDOW. WHOM HE USED TO BEAT,
GIVES THANKS, THEN GRIEVES.

Dolly Mccarthy. an Oid-Ttrne Tough ana an
Ex-ConVict, Commits suicide AFTER n Pro-
lonEed sprce-Mrp. Mccarthy, who HAD
Got q Summons for Him. FINDS His Body.
dolly" Mccarthy. wife beaten, ex-convict,
and enemy OF tho public peace, is dead in his
home. n third.story back fiat at 80 Spring street.
Ho lies in n vclvet.covored coffin, with n silver
candelabrum and a black canopy, embroidered
in silver, at his head. His wife sits at his feet.
Dolly died by his own hand.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Mccarthy went TO
the police station in Mulberry street and showed
n summons from the Centre Street Court for her
husband to appear and answer for having
threatened to take her life. A little while ago,
she said, Dolly had knocked out four OF her
front teeth. He had Como on a spree with his
wages for driving n contractors sand cart. For
a week he had been threatening ito do" her
and the baby. They had not been homo since
Saturday night. They started to go back on
Monday, but the neighbors warned them to stay
away, for Dolly was drinking harder and harder
every day. and WIS publicly whetting a Knife with
which to kill them. Mrs. Mccarthy asked that n
policeman be sent with her to serve the sum
mons. for she was afraid that Dolly would kill
her.
To the police her fears seemed reasonable. On
their blotters are many entries beginning John
J. Mccarthy. 80, Irish, laboror, 80 Spring
street. They knew that he had been n member
of the old Rubber Shoe gang Of Elizabeth street.
They knew that twelve years ago. when he had
been married just a year, Mccarthy had killed
an Italian with a butcher knife just back Of Po-
lice Headquarters. He had been sent to Sing
Sing for that. He was released after eight years
and came back to live on his wife's earnings as
u ~drcssmaker. In spite of the homicide episode.
McCarthy's friends nicknamed him Dolly
because, they said, The was such an inherent
child"
Policeman Cavanagh was sent with Mrs. Nc
door Of the fiat blocked from the inside. Cava-
nagh forced it.. Dolly lay in a tumDled heap on
a mattress in tho corner. All about him were
the crockery and furniture and clothing he had
smashed and torn TO augment In his week of
drunkenness.
Cheer up. old sport" said Cavanegh, as he
rolled over and the policeman saw n revolver
beside 1t and a bullet hole IN Dolly's head.
Hes dead, he said 70 Mrs. Mccarthy.
THANK God for that - said the widow. They
Strengthened out the body.
81 wonder will l get the insurance said tho
woman. now that he's killed hisselfi He's
do me out OF it now it will be a sinful imposition
she She BEGAN Ssinn to !. cry af: a., III wonder s},". when he was
geezers. upstairs must have heard him.. They
had a right to send for a priest. It's well known
they are no good neiRhbors.'
She turned to Cavanagh with the mmon
there was rising anger In her voice.
You may take your she said.
Cavanagh, who saw an application Of her
words of which she apparently was not con-
scious. hid a grin by lifting a helmet in front of
his face. and backed ont OF the room.
After the undertaken she sent for had come
and the place had been made decent. folks began
to come to ask questions about her husband.
II ia dead she said to them. Whatever
no has done, he will do no more. Let the dead