The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-20

now and then he and his wife quarrelled,
and like other women she accused him
of paying attention to girls whose &C
quaintance he made. There were great
many of these girls who came to the in
telAgence bureau looking for places as
serl ants, and Murray Hall. who was a
sport, frequently invited them out to the
corner saloon, where for hours he would
sit in the back room and drink with
them. This Is what caused many quarrels
between Murray and his wife. On one oc-
casion his wife told hi mshe would get
a divorce from him if he did not stop his
casion his wife told him she would get
woman and one of the most pleasant wo-
men to talk to that l ever met.
Murray often took her to the theater.
and on the excursions of the social clubs
of the neighborhood. once she told me
that she was born in Maine and that all
of her folks lived down in Maine, and
on another occasion she told me she re-
sided in Connecticut. She never said how
long she had been married to Murray
Hail. but from the way she talked | al
ways supposed that she was his second
wife. When Murray died last night the
servant told the daughter Minnie that
she would get all of the property that
her foster-father left behind him. If ever
L
man masquerading in mems clothing AMI
drinking in the corner saloons with my
hoarders l would certainly have moved
cut of the house. When his wife died
was told that he sent her body to her
relatives"
From another source it was learned that
Murray Hail. then passing as man.
opended an employment bureau at Sixth
avenue and Twenty-third street twenty
five or thirty years ago Soon after com
ing there she brought a woman to her
home and introduced the woman as her
wife. For three years this woman resid-
ed in the house as Mrs. Murray Hall, and
then the couple quarreled and the woman
told her neighbors that she was going to
leave her husband because he was In
the habit of staying out late at night ca
rousing with the politicians in the dis
trict and losing money at the poker table
in one of his social clubs.
She also told them that her husband
was in the habit of coming home drunk
after attending the chowders of the Tam
many organization in the district, and
that she could stand him no longer One
day she went away, after telling a neigh
Dor that she intended to go to Jeffer son
Market for a warrant for her husband
arrest for non-support, alleging that he
would not allow her to handle any money,
and that he was in the habit of buying
groceries for the house and did not buy
sufficient to suit her.
Mrs Murray Hall was not seen in the
neighborhood again. Some years later
Murray Hall moved into the block now
occupied by dry goods store in Sixth
avenue, between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets. There she remained after
the dry goods concern had tried to get
possession of the house she lived in. She
was a tenant of the house and had an
employment bureau there, while the own
er occupied the first floor and went to law
to keep his place.
Shortly before this house was torn down
Murray hall employed a man named Ar
tie Hughes 90 clean out her cellar
Hughes was a laborer who now resides
in Sixteenth street, near Seventh avenue.
He told the neighbors that when he went
to clean out the cellar Murray Hall
warned him not to go near a long box
there. Being curious, Hughes said, he OPP
ened the box one day and found a HUI
man skeleton in 1t.
AT one time Murray Hall was arrested
on a charge of furnishing straw bail In
a criminal case that came up in the JEFF
ferson Market Police Court. AS a bonds
man she had furnished bail of various
amounts, from 500 to 5000. 1t is said that
co., Finally some one accused her of CIV
ing straw ball. and late one night she
was arrested on a warrant and taken to
the Leonard street police stations She was
in mans evening dress, wore a black
derby hat and carried a cane. She asked
permission to stop on her way to the sta
tion house to get a cigar at Myers cigar
store at 105 West Tenth street.
While there she told Mrs. Myers, the
wife of the proprietor, that one of her
political enemies who belonged 90 a club
of which she was a member had caused
her arrest through spite. She asked the
officer who was with her to stop in and
have a drink Of whisky in Skelly's saloon
at Tenth street and Sixth avenue. She
said she wanted to ask Sicily to go to
the station house and furnish bail for
her Before the bar she met several OF
her old political friends and invited them
to drink. Then she asked Sicily If he
would go to the station house and bail
her out. He agreed to do so and after
she had been taken there he arrived az
the police station with several Tammany
politicians. Police Captain Cross, now an
inspector, was in the station house and
he filled out the bail bond on which she
was released After she got out of the
station house. Skelly the proprietor of the
Sixth avenue saloon, slapped her on the
back and said:
mo, go straight home, old boy, and
don't stop to drink any more, or you
won't be able to get around to court in
the morning."
Instead Of going home Murray Hall
went over to Sixth avenue and proceeded
to buy whiskey for her political friends.
She drank a great deal herself and an
hour later was taken into custory by
policeman. She punched h m in the face,
and he had 10 call another policeman TO
assist him and finally sent for the patrol
wagon. Murray Hal was hustled into
the wagon and taken back TO the station
house, where she was locked up for the
night. She mode several attempts to get
out on bail again and had a dozen po-
litlcal friends who were ready to bail her
out but Capt Gross refused 70 a'cept
the BAH because Murray Hall was not In
condition 10 be released
After that she was frequently IN trou-
bic on account Of complaints made by
girls who went 20 the employment agency
and who said they had paid fees and got
no Jobs.
Joseph silk. the proprietor OF a book
eforo In tho houoa Attaining that Ia