The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-03
A CAUSES SUICIDE.
MRS. AMOR COULDN'T sURVITE Her
DAUGHTERS DISGRACE.

while the Daughter. with Her Apparently In
nocent Husband. was Being ArrniEued In
Harlem, Police Court on n Charge or Bndg-
erinE, Mra. Amor Shot Herseir TO Death.
Mrs. Sarah Amor killed herself yesterday af.
ternoon because her ~favorite son had died and
her daughter had disgraced her. The Amors
arc well-to-do people. They live in a hve-story
fiat house at 1926 Lexington avenue, which
they own, and they own also some of the sur.
rounding property. Mrs. Amor's eldest son died
a year ago. She had been growing about him
over since. Her eldest daughter. Lillian, was
married about three years ago to Herbert Cleve.
land Hall, q clerk, who lives at 134 East 10th
street. She is o drinking woman and has for
three years been q disgrace to her family. At
the moment that Mrs. Amor shot herself with q
revolver which had belonged to her dead son,
this daughter, in the presence Of her father, who
was almost broken,hearted, and a typical police
court crowd, was contessing her shame. Not
content with her own disgrace, she had dragged
her husband into 1t. the pair being accused OF
working the badger game.
Mrs. Hall is of fair complexion, but with
black hair and black eyes. She Is still pretty.
She and her elder brother were Mrs. Amor's
favorite children. A man who said his name
was John e. Foggarty was tho complainant
against her. Foggarty, who had been drinking,
went into a saloon on Third avenue. kept by
Jacob Cawein, on Tuesday morning; he knew
John. Jacobs son, who tended bar. They had
several drinks. and John sent out for Mrs. Hall,
whom he knew. She appeared and was intro.
duced to Foggarty. They went out to a neigh
boring store and Foggarty bought her a
sailor hat, trimmed with black ribbon. Then
they went to her home. They were sleeping Off
the effects of their intoxication about 8 o'clock
In the evening when Hall arrived at the house.
Foggarty's coat and vest were hanging on the
back Of the chair, and he says thatin one pocket
were a gold watch and chain and locket worth
S135. Hall was met in the hall Of the house on his
arrival by the landlord, who was highly indig-
nant. He took him aside and told him that Mrs.
Hall had come homo drunk, accompanied by q
man, and that he wouldn't put up with any such
conduct in his house.
you've got to get out" he said to Hall.
IT won't stand for It."
Hall was astounded. At first he said he did not
believe it. The landlord told him to go upstairs
and see for himself. Hall went up to his fat
after declaring that, il the story were true. that
| would settle matters between himself and wife.
He would leave her and never see her again.
He knocked at the door of his room. but he got
no response; He had q key and unlocked 1t.
There was the woman with Foggarty. Foggarty
had heard him coming in and had covered up
the woman too. Hall looked at her and said:
well. this ends 1t. want nothing more to
She was maudlin, he says; told him she did
not care; she didn't want anything to do with
him anyway, and he says he went over to the
bureau in the room to get out some collars and
to his mothers home in 1llth street, When he
Raa s0f Hall fic %ss N t SESs r Te; he he q hsd hear 1h his
coat and vest fall to the floor. They were hang
the watch and chain and locEet were gone. He
woke up Mrs; Hall. who. had gone to sleep again.
M Sna n nsii told her hi 1i stealing sS LING t aSsss shi RIis:
self SO he went around to the police
station and told the Sergeant Of his loss.
arrested. the detectives got it into their heads
that the whole thing was put up between Mrs.
Halls mothers house and arrested him. Hall
swore he knew nothing about the watch and
was sent around to the Amors by Mrs. Hall OF
what had happened. She hoped that her father
esrs Of 0 Mrs ne Am Sas. and nae sh %e Became ,f hysterie snI
Amor would not go to the station; he had
had hqs Trouble de,s enough with ino his ,h dsu S ( sIa and noi
dare leave her. Mrs. Amor was historical all
In the morning she begged her husband to go
to the court, at least. and see what happened.
She told him. he says. that she feltqneer, and
head. He left her in the fat with Mrs. Gilbert.
their servant.
standing by his daughter in the court. the tears
streaming down his face at her brazen con-
fession OF her intimacy with togEarty, when
Mrs. Amor got out Of her bed. went into tho
room back Of her own. opened her trunk where
she kept the picture OF her favorite son. and
picked up a revolver that he had owned and
that had probably not been touched twice since
his death. Standing In the middle Of the floor
she put. It to her left breast and fired twice.
Mrs. Gilbert heard the noise and ran into the
room, screaming. Mrs. Amor lay on the floor on
her back, and. before any one else could be sum-
moncd, she was dead.
Mr.. Amor in tho police court heard his daugh-
ter tell her story, and heard her declare that II
anybody stole Foggarty's watch it must have
been Herb for she hadn't. He saw the JUS
tice commit her and her husband both to prison
In default of 81 900 bail each. and then he re-
turned home. 1t was half an hour after the
shooting. Everybody in the block knew OF it;
there WAS n crowd in front of his house. He had
reached the door when Mrs. Gilbert rushed at
him and told him that his wife was dead Ho
entered the house and sat In the room where she
lay. He remained there most Of the day. He
was too overcome by his double ~atiilction to do
anything or to say anything. He has two other
children, Sadie. II years old, and Edgar, u
years old. 1t was late in the afternoon before
they heard 4 of the tragedy, and they spent the
day and night trying to comfort their father.
Nobody appeared to give bail for the Halls.
gHE CAME FROM SANTA FF