The evening times., 1898-09-08
SAW HER MOTHER SLAIN
Testimony of a Child Against
Her Parents Murderer.
PURSUED THE ASSASSIN
A Quarrel Over n Board Bill Results
in the Shooting of Woman by
Her Nephew--Three Children Wit
messed the TraEedy-kiIIed in Her
LIftIe Shop.

New York Sept. S.-Haif a hundred per-
sons. men and women and little children,
stood in front of a stable at No. 5l4 West
Fifty-fourth Street. yesterday afternoon,
shrieking and pounding on the doors in
an effort to get at a murderer who had
taken refuge inside.
Behind the closed door, a young man
with a low forehead and tangled, un-
kempt hair crawled out of a heap of
straw. Advancing toward policeman
who stood with revolver in his hand,
he said: Il give myself up
Behind the policeman child OF fifteen,
with tears in her eyes. and her fingers
ciutching her skirt nervously, said: He
killed my mother"
The woman who was murdered was
Mrs Rose O'Toole. She WIS fifty years
old, and she was shot in the head by
Patrick Reilly.
Mrs. OToole was the wife of laborer,
and the mother of six daughters. the old
est, Maggie, aged fifteen. She kept d lit
tie stationery store on the ground floor.
of No. S27 Tenth Avenue and kept board
ers in two of her rooms on the top floor.
Reilly is twenty-five years old. and
nephew of the woman. During the eight
years he has been in this country he has
boarded with Mrs. OTooe Until year
ago he worked weil al his trade. He was
a butcher. Then he began to get a little
wild, gave up his work and spent most
of his time in saloons.
a week ago Reilly owed his aunt sll.15
for board They quarreled about il sew
eral times and on Monday :uorning Reii-
ly was put out and was told that his
: trunk would be given him only when his
board had been paid. He returned TO the
/ house the same afternoon, struck his
aunt over the head with club, and was
put out again by her.
Reilly got a summons from the West
Side court on Tuesday. Yesterday morn
4 ing Mrs O'Toole responded 10 il and eX-
plained why she held her nephew's trunk.
/ The magistrate told Reilly nothing could
be done until the debt had been satisfied.
! Mrs O'Toole was in her little store at
O'Clock with her three daughters, Mag
/ gle, aged fifteen; Nellie, aged fourteen.
1 and Rosie. aged twelve a boy had just
/ bought a penny's worth of cigarettes,
and in going out had tipped over a box
/ of matches. Mrs O'ToOle was bending
/ over to pick them up when Reilly opened
/ the shop door and looked in. He raised
! his hand and Maggie saw him.
! Hell shoot you, mother; look out!
! cried the girl.
! As she spoke, Reilly fired. The bullet
struck Mrs. OToole over the right eye.
! She dropped dead. still holding the box
OF matches in her hand.
Reilly ran across the avenue to the
! next corner-Fifty-fourth Street-turned
! Up there and reached the stable at No.
/ 5l4 He ran in and closed the door. Mag
/ gle had followed him up the street, cry
! ing Murder" and stop him. a dozen
! Joined her. Soon their cries brought
many more, and two policemen. One
! stood outside the stable to watch. Pa
! trolman Steul went inside with the child
and two men TO ind Reilly. In five min
uues they brought him out.
! Back to the house they took him, and
placed him beside the murdered woman.
] The three daughters Identified him as the
! man who had fired the shot. The children
| didn't understand why they should be
asked whether or not they knew the
man. They kEew Pat. they said; they
could not be mistaken about his having
! fired the shot.
/ Reilly was taken 10 the West Forty
seventh Street station. the crowd follow
! ing all the way The man would not say
word to the police or any one else.