The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-10
ACCUSED
Witnesses Says Sully Did
Not Kill His Mother-in-
Law.
MRS. CARROLL WAS DRUNK
Case Went to the Jury
This Morning No Verdict
at Recess.

The trial of William Sully, of No. IS
Hamilton street, Harrison, for causing
the death of his mother-in-law, Mary
Carroll, was continued yesterday after
noon. The State rested with the testi-
mony of Mrs. Agnes McAIeer, a neigh
Dor, who corroborated the testimony OF
Mamie and Nellie McGuigan and Mamie
Buckley. These witnesses, as told in yes.
terday's "Newss" had testified that they
saw the defendant push Mrs. Carroll out
Of the door and throw her on the side
walk. Mrs. McAleer testified to the same
thing. She had known the defendant and
the CAROLS for four years and was posi-
tive that it was the defendant who
pushed Mrs. Carroll.
In opening for the defence. Lawyer
Mervyn Armstrong said he would snow
by conclusive evidence that it was the
womanss husband, Luke Carroll, who
pushed her and not Sully.
Mrs. Mary MoFail was the first witness
called. She testified that she was in the
house when the affray occurred. Sully
had-not been there during the afternoon.
He arrived home about seven o'clock.
Carroll and his wife had had several quar-
rels. Mrs Carroll was under the influence
of liquor and was abusing her husband.
calling him all sorts of names.
Carroll finally told his wife that if she
did not keep quiet he would put her Out ,.ll
and he carried out his threat. He pulled
her over to the door and threw her out
The witness and Sully We're standing at
the time in another part of the room talk
ing The defendants wife called him and
said that her mother was lying on the
sidewalk. Sully went out and brought
Mrs. Carroll in very gently.
Mrs Letitia Scott, who keeps grocery
store on the corner of Grant avenue and
Hamilton street. testified that she saw
Mrs. Carroll that afternoon and she was
%l,O 1x,A,r fNf1 irIl
The witness heard screams of murder,
but paid no attention to them, as that
was a common occurrence in the Car
roll house Luke Carroll l told the the wit ut
wife out of bed in the morning and
thrown her on the floor.
John McFail testified that a few mo-
ments after Mrs Carroll was thrown out
he saw Mrs. Grove, a neighbor, go to
the door of the Carroll house and knock.
Mr.. Carroll opened the door. After that
he saw Mrs. Sully come out and stoop
down over her. mother, who was lying
on the sidewalk. He heard Mrs Sully
say Mamma, mamma, get up!" Mrs
Carroll didn't get up, and Mrs. sully
carried Mrs Carroll into the house.
Mrs Sully, the defendants wife, corr
roborated the testimony of Mrs. McF'all
She said it was her father who threw her
mother out and that her husband had no
hand in the matter except to bring her
mother in when the witness called him.
+ The defendant denied positively that he
had any hand in causing the death of his
mother-in-law. He said he had spent the
afternoon playing football and returned
home about seven o'clock perfectly sober.
He had lived ten months with his wife
parents and had always been on friendly
terms with them On the evening in ques-
ton Mrs. Carroll was in bed drunk and
abusing her husband. Mrs. McFail came
in and while the defendant was talking
with her Carroll pushed his wife over to
the door and threw her out. There were
several cries of murder, but he thought
nothing of it as Mrs. Carroll was in the
abit of screaming murder whenever she
and her husband quarreled. The defen-
dant said that he wore blue sweater
that night and not a black and white
striped Shirt, as some of the witnesses for
the State had testified to. He had not
ownei a shirt of that description in sew
eral years. The shirt was one of the main
points of Identification by the States wit
nesses.
Judge Blair delivered lucid, compre-
hensive and impartial charge to the jury
this morning, Prosecutor Erwin and Mr..
Armstrong having summed up yesterday
afternoon.
Luke Carroll was on the list to be tried
today for the manslaughter providing the
jury acquits Sully. The jury was still out
at recess