The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-06
RIFLE BALL KILLSA WOMAN.
MRS. 7IERNEY SHOT WHILE SITTING
IN THE YARD.

Not Known whether She Was the Target
for n Murderer or the Victim of Care.
less Fourth of July Celebrant-Husband
Thinks the Shot Was Fired to Kill.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tierney. the wife OF Edward
Tierney who keeps roadhouse about three
miles west OF Hoboken on the county road
leading from Jersey City TO Secaucus. was
shot and MORALLY wounded while sitting
In the yard back OF her house about
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. She died
at st. Francis's Hospital. Jersey City.
at 1870 O'Clock last night. The bull
let. supposed to have been fred from
45-calbre Springfield rife. entered the left
side about Ave inches above tho hip bone.
passed clean through the body. shattered the
right hip bone. and was found imbedded In the
siding Of n chicken coop. about eight feet from
where the woman was sitting.
The identity OF the person who fred the shot
has not been established. 1t Is not known
whether Mrs. Tierney was the victim OF a ran
dom shot or the target for n murderer. She
and her husband expressed the opinion few
hours after she was shot that some one had
deliberately planned to take her life.
The house where tho Tierneys live Is called
the Frog House. and is owned by Mrs. Tierney
The place Is n popular resort for the poll
ticians OF Jersey City and Hoboken. 1t is on
the north side OF the county road and
which spans Pinborne Creek. The house
faces the south. and almost all OF the
ground floor is used for barroom. In
the northeastern corner OF tho barroom is o
window overlooking the small yard at the rear
OF the house From this window Mrs. Tierney
could easily be seen. In the northwestern cor
ner OF the barroom is q door leading to q small
porch. from which flight OF steps descends to
the yard. Adjoining the house and extending
horse shed and stable. The rear walls OF tho
stable and shed are on line with the rear wall
OF the house To the rear OF these buildings.
north and east the country is open and mostly
meadow land. Mrs. Tierney could also be seen
by any one standing at the northeast corner Of
the stable. !but the stables east wall would hide
the person from the view OF any one in the
house.
Shortly before 5 o'clock. Mrs. Tierney and
two OF her children. Grace. aged 10. and
Charles. aged II. and her sister. Mrs George
Overlook. and Mrs. Overbeck's child. went
into the back yard. so that the ohll-
dren might set Off some lrecrackers. Mrs.
Overlook seated herself on tho porch
and Mrs. Terney took n chair in the yard.
Mrs. Tierney sat diagonally facing the porch. SO
that she might keep an eye on the children.
MT WAS i'm. fGe oa A. H hesrd the
va as ms w h by Mia snd
about the shooting except that after the report
she felt aisharp pain In her side.
Mrs. TIerney was taken TO IT; Franciss Hos
pital where the operation OF laparotomy was
performed by Dir, Mclaughlin. 1t was found
that the intestnes were perforated in four or
Tierney saws that one Of the children told
Ia their shirt sleeves walking across The ticlds
toward Hoboksn The Official Investigation of
ATTORNEY a HnnRnn wInSn nfflpA
il in Jersey City. il was sngg"sted 10 Mr.
Tierney yesterday morning that he roport the
case to the county public prosecutor at once.
He had no. done 80 IN to last evening. but he
told a srN reporter that h" Guessed he would
fore been as yet undertaken.
Mr., Ticrncy produced. the bullet. which he
chckon coop. 1t hardly looked as II It had
come in contact With anything; In answer to
wiiies second husband. He said that She
had married John Henry Moor" at Troy about
sS" S ar and by hin Eor had three Gn
ago he said. his wife obtained divorce from
Moor" and shortly afterward married him:
II" last he had heard Of Moore he was travel
lie did not Know. where, Moore Is now. but
county He said that until March II last
Moor",s son. Edward, lHyears old. by Moore's
first wife, had lived with him and his wife On
the night Of March IN" boy went 70 q theatre
in Jersey CITY and never returned The hoy
sent letter to Ti"rney from Jersey city tho
next day stating that he was going to Chicago
TO seek his fortune.
Tlerney sFld thai. 50 FAR as h" knew. no one
her death, He said that the ouIy person with
whom his VIII" Ind had any trouble, SO
far he knew. was farmer named
Kirkpatrick, who's" farm adJoins the
1icrncy properly in the rear. Kirkpatrick,
he said. disputed with his wife over the line
dividing the prop"rtieS aud finally lug what
Tierney called q spite ditch along thr ronr line
1t Nnr a AlI-..I .,.Vl
staRnant water and Mrs Ticrncv had re-
Gently asked the town Board ~ Health To com
close II up,