New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
JURY SAYS 1T WAS MURDER
FOUL PLAY THE VERDICT AT MAU-
LIFE INQUEST.
PHYSICIANS DECLARE THAT ONE FALL
COULD NOT HAVE CAUSED INJURIES
OF GLENNON WITNESS

torney's office and at Police Headquarters.
McAulffe lived at No 146 West Thirty-third-
st, next door to a place which the police had
been accused of protecting as den of vice. He
and his wife were witnesses against Edward
Glennon, the former wardman of the Tenderloin
who was convicted of neglect of duty in failing
TO close the place If he had lived he might
have been a witness against other policemen
now under indictment for making false reports
about the place.
On the night of Saturday. February Is. Nc
Auliffe was found senseless on the sidewalk in
Eighth-ave.. and was arrested on the charge OF
intoxication. He was taken TO the police sta
tion in West Forty-seventh-st and was sent to
the Roosevelt Hospital for examination A sur
geon at the hospital said the man was drunk
McAuliffe taken back to the Station. On
the following morning he a man representing
him taken to the police court and dis
charged. Half an hour later McAuliffe was
found the sidewalk in Sixth-ave. near For
tyninth-st. senseless He had fracture at
the base of the skull. his nose was broken and
there were several bruises on his head and body.
He removed to the Roosevelt Hospital.
where he died. Investigations by the District
Attorney and the police led to statements that
McAuliffe probably had been hurt by accident.
POLICE SAY 1T WAS MAULIFFE.
st. station who arrested McAuliffe on the even
ing of February Is. was the first witness at the
inquest He swore positively that McAuliffe
the man he arraigned before Magistrate
Mayo the following morning Sergeant Shibles
and other policemen in the station testified that
when McAuliffe was brought to the station by
Reddy he was unconscious and sent in the
patrol wagon to the Roosevelt Hospital for
animation. A doorman swore that he saw
McAuiffe in his cell several times on the night
of February 15, and that the prisoner was
asleep most of the time. The police testimony
was emphatic that McAuliffe appeared to be
sober in the morning. and that he was sent TO
the police court in charge of Reddy, who had
arrested him.
Magistrate Mayo testified that the man ar
raigned before him as McAuiffe Sunday morn
;ng, February Is, seemed to be we'll and sober.
He was one of two prisoners arraigned by
Reddy, and both were discharged about 9;10
e m. Peter Hand the other prisoner srraIgned
by Reddy. said he did not know McAuliffe. and
he had been drunk to the point of oblivion the
night before they were taken to court together.
Assistant District Attorney Lord, who
sisting Coroner Jackson at the inquest, called
attention to several discrepancies in the station
and court records of the McAuliffe case. In
ene record McAuliffe was set down as an Tn
said TO live at No 80 West Thirty-third- st, and
his name was spelled without the final "e"
Dr. Russell. of the Roosevelt Hospital staff,
who examined McAuliffe on the evening of Feb
ruary Is, swore that the was suffering
from alcoholism then.
Policeman Sweeney. Of the West Forty-seventh-
ST station. who found McAuliffe senseless in
sixth-ave. on the morning of February 16 said
the man must have been moved from the place
where he had fallen. as there was a pool of
blood about eight feet away from his body.
streetcar conductor had called the attention of
the policeman to the
TESTIMONY OF CONDUCTORS.
Two conductors on electric cars in sixth-ave
testified that they saw the body OF man lying
in pool of blood on the sidewalk near Forty
ninth-st., and told policemen when they met
them. Sweeney was near Fifty -frst-st when
he told by the conductor of northbound
car. George Laurie, the conductor of south
bound car, the body, but did not stop his
car.
IF you saw man kill another would you stop
and get OFF, asked Assistant District Attorney
Lord.
NO; I don't think would. really" said the
witness.
Mrs. Thomas z. r Bolton of No $50 Sixth
ave, testified that she was looking through her
window on February l6 and saw a man stand
ing on the sidewalk
the ground. He lay there quite motionless. only
his feet moving: When looked again his face
bathed in blood
Mrs. Bolton said she did not see anybody
about the spot until later. Continuing she said:
The fell fiat on his face cannot say
where he came from, as l never him walk
1t was about twenty minutes before the ambu-
lance came"
INJURIES NOT FROM ONE FALL.
Dr. Thomas E. w. Brown and DR. Albert C
n
injuries of McAuliffe. and said they did not be
lieve the injuries could have been received from
one fall They said McAuliffe seemed to be suf-
fering from chronic alcoholism Dr. O'Hanlon
the coroner's physician said he did not believe
the injuries could have been received in a single
fall but might have been received in a series Of
falls.
John Schoenich. one of the policemen indicted.
now detailed at the station in West Forty-sev-
enth-st.. testified that he did not see McAuliffe
at the station, and did not know of his injury
until he saw the account of his death in the
newspapers. The last time he saw McAuliffe,
he said was at the Giennon trial.
Mrs McAuliffe. the widow, testified that her
husband was sober when he left home on Febru-
ary 15 and that he always was home in the
pen on account of the Gennon trial, she said.
and he had been accustomed to say 1T is
never well to do anything against the police.
God knows what is going to happen to US"
did he ever tell you he feared enemies?'
she asked
He had great fears ever since we testified in
the Glennon case He did not care to go out
without stout stick even in the daytime.
What. in your belief. caused your husbands
death? Tell the jury.
Il believe my husband was murdered an
swered the little woman.
In his charge TO the jury. Coroner jackson
said the inquest was of much importance. be-
cause OF the charge that McAulhe had been
"fouly murdered for doing his duty as citl-
zen. and giving his testimony IN a certain GRIM
inal action"