The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-20

to GllHuly & boHeH olliCe anu lSAS- phoned to the police station that wo- man had been murdered. Then he ran up Hamilton street and met the police wagon, which came down the street in few moments with four police officers besides the driver Cantwell climbed into the wagon, and when 1t reached the corner of Hamilton and Greene streets pointed out Duff to the four or ficers. Duff had then started up Greene street at run, and the police wagon followed after him, catching up With him at the corner of Franklin street. There Duff faced about and covered the driver of the police wagon. J. F. Ken dall with his revolver.
 At the same moment the four police men, Officers Doody Enright, Lindsley and McGinnis, jumped from the wagon and sprang towards Duff. He wheeled from covering the driver and warned the officers to come no nearer or ne would shoot. Not daunted by this threat, Officer Doody, at the peril of his life jumped towards him, and, edging around Duff's left side. grabbed him by the back of the neck and the left arm At the same moment Officer Lindsley struck the revolver from his hand, and in twinkling the four offi- cers had secure hold of him.. He was placed in the wagon with some resist ance, and on the way to the station he gave the officers much trouble in his endeavors to break away. As he was being taken from the wagon at the Grand avenue station house he made another dash to get away, but was held fast.
 Coroner Mix and the medical examin- CT were notified within few minutes after the murder occurred, and within forty minutes after the shooting began the coroner and deputy medical exam iner, pr. Gustavus Eliot, were at the house examining the murdered women and collecting evidence. Duff was lodg- ed in the station house within twenty minutes after his terrible deed.
 Among the witnesses of the shooting of Mrs. Duff were Mrs. Edward J. Gar diner, who lives on the first floor, and Louis Cantwell, who lives on the sec ond floor of No. 47 Greene street. next door to the house where the murders were committed. Cantwell was just going out of his front door when he saw Duff fire the first shot at his wife, and he said last night that it looked to him as though Duff fired in the front door and that he did not stop to see who the shot was fired at, but at once ran to | Gilhuly & Bohens to telephone for the police, as stated above. Mrs. Gardiner said last night that, having heard the | first shot, she ran to the front door to see what was the matter, and as she reached the front porch she saw Duff walk up to his wife, who was lying face down on the sidewalk near the curb. and fire a shot at her head. She then ran back into the house, not desiring to see more of the affair.
 The revolver with which Duff did the fiendish act was a six-shot 44-calihre Colts Frontier pattern with a ten-inch labarre1. It was made of blued steel and | was evidently a new one, possibly pur- l chased with the intention of using it as he did. When examined by the coro- ner the revolver was found to have all | of the six chambers loaded. One car | fridge had a mark at its butt, which showed that it had been struck once by l the hammer, but had failed to explode. Whether Duff attempted to shoot at | Cantweil or the police officers with this cartridge is matter of conjecture. In | his scuff1ing in the wagon when being taken to the Grand avenue police sta tion Duff cut his left cheek and his nose. He was seen by the coroner in the Grand avenue station about eight l o'clock, but refused to talk. At that time the excitement which had buoyed him up during the tragedy had disap- peared, and when the coroner mention ed the names of his wife and mother in-law he broke down and cried.
 Soon after being seen by the coroner at the Grand avenue station he was taken to the central police station and there Dr. Gaynor dressed the bruises on his face and head and sewed up the cut He winced under the slight pain caused by the operation and groaned almost continually. Several times he l tried to break away from the surgeon. but was held by Detective Captain Cowles and other officers until the sur Duff is large man weighing about 1855 pounds and is about forty years of age, his hair being slightly streaked
 with gray. He was fairly well dressed
 last night and the police officers whc
 captured him said that they detected
 no evidence about him that he had been
 drinking. He married Nellie Maher Noi
 this city about fifteen years ago and the
 couple had two children, a girl Flor ence, twelve years of age, and boy
 Charles, ten years of age The girl was
 in the house last night when the shoot ing occurred and will be valuable
 witness when the case comes to trial The boy had been allowed by his
 mother to go to the old green last eve
 ming to skate and was skating there
 while his mother was being murdered
 While the coroner was at the house in
 vestigating the affair shortly after il
 occurred the girl lay on a couch in the
 kitchen crying pitifully and moaning
 "Oh, my poor mamma"
 Mrs. Duff had been employed recent
 ly at the l.. Candee company's rubber
 shop and worked there yesterday unti
 about Il o'clock. She was about thirty
 five years of age. Duff has been ar
 rested several times before in New
 Haven for drunkenness and resistance
 to officers.
 Mrs Maher was about seventy years of age and was the widow of the late
 Thomas Maher who kept hardware
 store on Grand avenue opposite St
 Patricks church. Besides Mrs. Duff I. i, ,N.1.,r