New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-05
A JEALOUS LOVERS CRIME.
aurRpER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A
TENTH-AvE. TENEMENT-HoUsE
an UNEMPLOYED BUTCHER KILLS THE GIRL
WHO DID NOT REcrPRocATE HIS AFFEc-
rIoN. AND THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF.


r1oN. AND THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF.
r,onas McGrath twenty-nne years old. a
.,cber when he worked. but seldom employed
ssot and killed Jennie Coyle. twenty-one years old
-, tight in the hallway of the house where both
,,,sd al No A? Tenth-sye. and then sent bullet
80. his own head He was taken to Roosevelt Hos
,,si IN an unconscious condition, and his wound
-. thought to be mortal McGrath a private
a, Company E, I'D Regiment and mustered
u, Of service several months ago. Shortly after
,..vng the National Guard McGrath met somewhere
ha married sister of the girl he shot last night. and
mas introduced to the latter soon afterward The
,.onng man was out OF work at the time and James
rovle the dead girls father, took pity on him and
,nv,ted him to make his home with the family.
ia speedily fell In love with Jennie comedy girl
=, entertaining address and some knowledge OF mu-
sc The girl. IT is said returned his kindly feelings
IN certain degree in the earlier stages Of their
cousintance but latierly she had done all she could
20 discourage his attentions.
NcGrath was OF an exceedingly Jealous disposition
end was unwilling that she should find pleasure in
socety other than his own. On Wednesday evening
two friends of Jennie young man and woman
called upon her The young said that he in
tended 10 take his companion to the theatre the fol-
lowing night and asked Jennie If she would not go
100 She replied in the Affirmative and appeared de-
ushted at the prospect. McGrath was in the room
AZ the time the compact was made. and appeared
IN he very angry Later in the night he Is said 10
have asked the girl what right she had to go with
any one else. and told her that he would blow her
brains out
The girl was employed in candy factory at
T6iriy-hfth-st. and Tenth-ave.. only few doors
from the house in which she lived. About o'clock
iast evening McGrath waited at the door OF the
tenement-ho for Jennie TO return home: When
she appeared they both went inside into the hall
What passed between the two is not known, al
Enough is surmised that she forbade him 10 offer
her further attentions. Patrolman William Hen
Messy OF the West Thirty-seventh-st. station
CHANGED to be passing the house on a Tenth-ave
ran into the building. He found the two forms
both appar enty dead. lying on the floor close to-
sether with the revolver by the side of the man.
where IL had fallen from his hand. Hennessy sent
hurriedly for ambulance from Roosevelt Hos
rital In the mean time. the Coyle family In their
down 10 dinner and were waiting for the coming OF
Jennie They heard the sound of pistol shots com
ing from the hallway. and Mamie Coyle, the
younger sister of the dead girl ran down the stair
way. She overcome by her grief that she
had TO be removed by her relatives The brother
the bottom of the stairs In an instant John was
one OF the first to appreciate the situation. and as
the motonless form of his sisters slayer was being
removed 10 the hospital in the ambulance he said
bitterly: Tom McGrath, II you ever come out of
the hospital alive l will kill you.
parlor OF her parents on the fourth floor. Her head
was smashed by the force of the shots so that one
side mass of broken bone and charred flesh.
close had the weapon been held when the shots
fred
McGrath was unconscious when he reached Roose-
welt Hospital and had not recovered at o'clock IN
the evening when Coroner yucca called to take his
ante-mortem statement.