The sun., 1900-09-10
KILLED BY STRANGLING G.!
MYSTERY ~ A TENDERLOIN SALOON
WATERS DEATH.
Found Dead In a chair. In seventh Avenue,
Near the Tiger, where He ewCrked-Autopsy
Shows Abrasious on His Throat-saioon
Keeper and Porter Arrested on suspicion.

Keeper aud Porter Arrested on suspicion.
Charles T. Merry. 4 waiter employed in the
| Tiger. Ranes law hotel at Twenty-seventh
street and Seventh avenue. sat apparently
asleep in chair in front Of 1865 West Twenty
! seventh street, two doors away from the saloon,
! just before / o'clock yesterday morning. Po-
| ccman Kenny shook him 10 wake him up and
| found that he was dead, An ambulance surgeon
! calloi from the New York Hospital confirmed
the fact of death and said he thought the man
I had GioI Of heart disease. The body wa taken
to the Morgue
Coroner, Physician Weston nado an autopsy
on it there yesterday aud found that the man
had been strangled TO death. There was large
abrasion almost two inches wide across the
throat and another about an inch wide and two
inches long down the side Of the neck. The
lungs were congesteJ. the face was black, and
there we're evidences OF asphyNia. Dr. Weston
reported hls discovery TO the police and De-
teCtiye, Sheehan and GlcnnOn were put To work
on the case Policeman Kenny told them That
his attention was callei To Merry by Patrick
Martin. who runs the Tiger. Martin told hun
that the waiter seemed 10 be Ill, Kenny said
Then the detectives que toned Martin. lie
said that about half-past 10 on Saturday night
Merry had told him that he was not feeling
good.
lie told me he was sick said Martin. and
had got some medicine from the doctor. l
asked him what doctor and he told me from
the doctor in the Kroy drug store, at
3Ol Seventh avenue across the street.
little later | saw him coming out OF the back
room with glass in his hand l thought he
had taken more medicine The bartender
remarked to me that Merry had been drl nk-
ING selXcr and milk, which was unusual Tor
him Merry told me that he had taken the
medicine for nervous trouble. When went
into the saloon ut midnight TO put out the lghts
he was sitting on II chair with his head on a
table aud he had been vomiting called
another man who wa, In the place, but Whom
didn't know and "" carried him outside
Martin didn't explain why they carried tho
man two doors away from the saloon hter
hearing his story the detectives questioned
Louis GriOuN, who |, cmplO, ed as porter at
the Tiger lie told practically the same tale
had noticed Merry lying on the table and had
assisted Martin 10 carry him to the street,
GrIoux had a marx ON the zip Of
Rad Ri FSss been %agr' sdTn on fe was akSd S' how
he got that and explained hat In picking Merry
W from the table the man had fallen on the
floor, and IN doing 80 had grabbed al him and
had scratched his nose.
, After hearing the statements Of Martin and and
GriOuA the detectives arrest both aud locked
them up In the lenderloin station The, were
they were with Merr, wher his death occurred
Merry lived with his father ard two listers az
?37 West Tweut, -seye. ia street He had
been employed at the Tiger FOR five or six months
doing odd Jobs lie left home To 20 TO the
saloon at . clock on Saturday night His
sisters said ycsteTdaN that he wasn't i'll then
and they couldn't account for his bu ing med
iciue They were told Of their broiher's death
by one Joe I.attimer, who mentioned tn telling
them thai he had noticed 10 x red mark across
Merry 5 neck, The sisters didn't know where
Iattmpr lived
The police said that from all they could learn
there had been no fight iu the saloon on Satur-
day night. August EChome uud his wife,
who keep a deliCate>s n store next door tell a
different story. Mrs. RluhOme told reporters
Yesterday that about 1850 o'clock there was
q great racket in the Tiger. Plate, were
smashed and there seemed TO toe general row,
but they didn't pay much atteutiun 10 tnat
because il wa. almost a lightly occurrence.
The ro wa still goi < on when the delCatessen
store wa closed at mid igAt. About tweIy
minute. later m ambulance came tO the corner
and they knew the ROW had ended serlOu+y.
Both MartiT and GriouN made queer mis-
take when they gave their pcClgrees at the police
station house. Martin said he was a saloon
keeper at 302 Seventh avenue. Grioux gave
the same address n the place where he Il em-
ploycd. TIE Tiger T. at 2l0 Scvo.th ayogde.
this he sent Martin to ask where his saloon
wa' and received word thAtit wa at 200 Seventh
avenue.
Dr VI r J Crowley, who manages the Kroy
drug store, told a - y rer oTter last night that
Merry did come into the store about 1880 on
Saturday night 10 ask for medicine. tie was
greatly excited. Dr. Crowley said. and seemed
on the verge Of delirum trenens. lie asked
for something ITO strAghten him out" and Or.
crowley told him 10 go home and quit drinking
lie didn't get any medicine and went away