New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-25
WIDOW CHARGES MURDER
ANOTHER WOMAN SAYS FLIGHT CAUSED
MANS DEATH.
,zE Jr-MPED FROM WINDOW WHEN HER
HUSBAND CAME. SHE DEcLARkS-CHll1-
DREN LOOKED FOR FATHER.

DREN LOOKED FOR FATHER
There is some mystery in the death Of Patrick
Aulcahey forty-two years old. Of No. 344 East
Seventy-fourth-st-. who was found dead yester-
day in the back yard Of No 300 East seventy
fourth-st His widow declares that he was tiie
victim Of foul play. but Mrs. James J. Green the
wife of a plumber. who lives at No 80 says
he met death by jumping from the WINDOW u
her roou, when he heard her husband coming.
She asserts that Mulcahey broke into her room,
that she did not know him. and had never seen
him before. The owner Of the house Joseph
vackiee saws he saw her talking with man
ar, Wednesday night and that she told him this
man was her husband and coming TO see
her later Yackjee admitted a man VINO ne
supposed was the one she had referred TO; put
later another man, who said he was Mrs
Green's husband. demanded admittance.
"oh no" said Yackiee, her husband is with
her now"
Tho las. man. who was Green. rushed up the
stairs followed by Yackjee, smashed in the door
of his wffes room and found her incoherent
from fright The man admitted by Nack1ee
earlier in the evening was not to be seen. They
found him dead in the back yard, and he was
identifed as Mucahey
Coroner Scholer after the police had arrested
Green and his wife. had them held as witnesses
at the House Of Detention. He said he did not
believe they were responsible for Mulcahey's
death.
Mrs Mulcahey, who has seven children. rang
3ng IN age from seventeen years down, said
her husband started out Wednesday night
10 go to a meeting of the local assembly Of the
knights Of Labor When II o'clock came. the
hour Mulcahey told his wife would be home
she became worried because he did not appear
AT midnight she aroused her Oldest children and
sent them out TO look for their father. James
seventeen years Old the eldest, was one to go
out She said the children went into every
saloon in the neighborhood into the drug stores
and 10 the East Sixty-seventh-st. police station
and made inquiries: they asked the policemen
on the streets and every one whom they knew
The search was kept up all night, but noI
clew was found until late yesterday Ihe
records show, however, that at lo:fo cIoch
the Presbyterian Hospital had received an am
bulance call to go for the injured man. ana the
druggist Conrad, at Second-ave. ana seventy
fourtb-st in the building from which the dead
man is said TO have jumped declares that Green
had sent a call for ambulance from there-
While Mulcahey at that time undermined
end the police report says, had no identifying
marks Mrs. Mulcahey declares her children
gave a description Of their father at the East
Sir.y-seventh-st. station. Yet they 'oid JAMES
they knew nothing OF the man; ,.,
The body was removed TO BELLEVUE HosIital
last night The morgue keeper said the pody
mad a deem wound beginning about half an inch
above the right ear and extending back to the
centre of the back OF the head. The right eye
was badly discolored and bruised and badly
swollen and the right hip bruised and oiscot-
ored He said that the wound on the side OF the
head could have been made by blow from
sharp or blunt instrument, but that II looked
as 81 II was the result of a heavy fail The
skull is fractured and badly crushed
Mrs Mulcahey declares she cannot understand
how the police and the druggist could have
known so much regarding the accident TO her
husband and vet been unable TO tell her chill
dren anything concerning the4r father. she
saws that when he left home he had $40 and the
membership card in his pocket W hen -fouIld
living in the yard there was but Sl4o IN the
rockets and the membership card was gone