The sun., 1897-11-11
DEAD PRIEST NOT MURDERED
Father McPake's End Was Due to
lraemia.
AUTOPSY EXCiTES INTEREST
Body, Partly DisrObed, Was Found In
the Yard Of the Female Con-
vent-.-Iseticcnce Oh
Every Hand.
Special to The Sun.

Special to THE Sun.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1O.--In the area
way of St. Pauls Academy the dead
body Of the Rev. Henry J. McPake
was found this morning. II is skull was
fractured, and another mysterious mur.
der was proclaimed. The dead man
was one Of the assistant priests OF the
Church of the Annunciation, and his
supposed brutal murder created pro-
found sensation. The interest Of both
the clergy and laity was intensified a
thousand fold late this afterpoon when
the autopsy demonstrated that the priest
had not been murdered, bnt had died OF
uracmia. Further investigation proved
that his body, with the coat and vest
removed, had really been carried
from a female convent nearby, and
that his death occurred in the convent.
Because of these facts the case becomes
one of the sensations of the day.
The dead Priest was first brought into
general prominence as the Spiritual Ad-
vitor of that Fiend H. II. Holmes and
this fatality to Father McPake adds
another chapter to the story Of that
criminal who died on the scaffold ut
tering imprecations upon every one
connected with his trial and death.
Since Holmes execution the man who
was in charge of his cell has died in
mortal agony, Superintendent Perkins Of
the prison has blown out his brains,
Shoemaker, Holmes attorney, has been
disbarred, the foreman Of the jury which
convicted him was killed by an
electric shock, one of his counsel,
died suddenly. George Graham, district
attorney who prosecuted him, fell under
a cloud which never has been lifted and
suffered great financial reverses. The
judge who presided at his trial lay for
months at the point Of death, and now
his spiritual adviser meets death under
peculiar circumstances.
The body of the dead priest was first
discovered by Mrs. Reed, janitoress of
the Academy. She lives in the rearof the
building, and when she repaired to the
Academyto begin her work there she
stumbled over Father McPake's dead
body.
At the time she did not rccog lize it,
but at once she summoned number of
priests, among whom w,r. Fathers
Trainer and Smith, of st. Phillips, and
Father Donovan, Of st. PauPS, the church
of which is just opposite the Academy
on Christian street.
These fathers at once rec gnzcd the
dead man as Father McPakc, of the
Church of the .Annunciation. Then i'o-
liceman Wagner, OF the Second District,
was summoned. Undertaken URourkc,
of Tenth and Taskcr streets, was notified,
and the body was removed to the Church
of the Annunciation AZ Tenth and Dick
inson streets.
When the body was searched only six
cents and an exchange ticket were found
upon it. The watch and purse, as has
been told, were missing. 1t was thought
at first that Father McPake, before lrav-
ing the Church OF the Annunclation last
night, might have left these in his desk,
but on Father Daily opening the desk no
trace of them could be found. All this
strengthens the assault theory. The body
was still warm when his brother priests
were summoned to it by the mortified and
shocked janitcSs. There was no one
found who could account for Fathe" Nc
Pakc's whereabouts from the time he
left the Church of the Annunciation last
night until he was discovered dead.
1t was the hardest thing to get any in
formation aboutthe affair." A visit to the
Second District staton-housc revealed
nothing, save that the body had been
found, and visit to the church with
which Father McPakc had been connect
ed was quite as fruitless.
Steamer Kaiser wilhelm der Crosse.
Special to TIE SuN.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. lO.-Stcamshlp
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse sailed from
khis port with about 5000 passengers.
Where are COyle's Relatives.
Special to TIE Sun.
READING, Nov. 10.-An advertisement
has been inserted in paper published IN
Belfast, Ireland, asking for information
I'm regard to the relatives OF John
Coylc, who died in this city, leav-
ing an estate consisting OF
b b,nds and other personal property
lie was unmarried and was not known
to have any relatives in this country
Only one claimant to the estate has las
appeared. John McKenna, the admlnls-
TRAITOR, received letter few days ago
from man in Ireland who claims to be