New-York tribune., 1902-02-22
SAW MAULIFFE FALL.
POLICE. STILL INVESTIGATING GLEN
NON WITNESSES DEATH. GET EVI-
DENCE FROM A BUTCHER.

In spite Of the conclusion reached by District At
torney Jerome and his assistants that there was
10 reason to suspect homicide in the OF James
McAuliTe. considerable scepticism has been
pressed and the investigation Of McAuliffes death
IS being continued. There has been doubt that he
could have resolved his injuries by fall There
has been more reason. Il Is said. to believe that
the assaulted. Suspicion has been di-
rected against the police because McAulffe was
witness against Glenuon, the former wardman in
the Tenderloin, and might have been called as a
witness against other policemen now under indict-
ment II he had lived.
DR.. Brown, the house surgeon OF Roosevelt
Hospital, said yesterday that his injuries could
not well have been received by a fail on the side
walk They could have been received easier IL the
man had been struck the back Of the head with
a sand club and knocked down, that he fell on
his face. The police have been unable TO find any
person who McAuliffe hurt at Sixth-ave. and
Forty-ninth-st. although It was 9:30 a. III. Sun
day when he found insensibe. and many per-
sons were in the at that time of the day
The police Of the West Forty-seventh-st station
assert that BcAulife was taken the police court
IN West Fifty-fourth-st. Sunday morning and
discharged a few minutes after 9 a. m. on Sunday.
n theory has been advanced that a dummy prisoner
was taken the court in McAulife's place. The
man who appeared in the court McAuliffe ap
peared 10 be well and sober. He gave his address
as No. 80 West Thirty-third-st.. whereas Nc
Aulffe's home No 146 West Thirty-t third-st.,
and he spelled the without the hnaI 'e.'
Assistant District Attorney Lord and Captain
Titus, OF the Detective Bureau. who have been
active in the investigation Of McAuiiffes death.
said yesterday that it ridiculous think that
McAuliffe had been assaulted IN the police station
IN Fortyseventh-st-, taken to SiXth-ave- and left
senseless the sidewalk, after a dummy prisoner
represent him had been 10 the police court.
A man with his nose split open and his faCe as
figured could not have been carried several blocks
and dumped in the street in broad daylight un-
noticed they said.
Captain Titus had several detectives engaged yes
teTday in a search for some person who saw Nc
Aulffe hurt in SiXth-aVe. Sunday morning. II
has been the theory Of the detectives that Nc
Auliffe struck by a streetcar or some venice
and knocked down. Captain Titus said IN the al
'ternOOn that his detectives had found respectable
butcher in Eighth-aVe. who saw McAulle lall
there Saturday evening. The butcher said tnat
McAuliffe fell heavily and struck the BACK OF ms
head the sidewalk and lay stunned until the
policeman arrived TO take him TO the ponce sta
zion. 1t possible. Captain Titus SAID, that Nc
Auffe might have received injury in the fan
that would account for the limp condition or his
arm when he taken TO the hospital on Satlr-
by the surgeon might have disclosed fracture of
the skull II would not be the first time he SAID,
that a surgeon had mistaken a fracture or the
skull for alcoholism and there have been many
cases Of walking around with fractures OF
7he skull for hours before cOllapsing-
The funeral Of McAuliffe took place yesterday IN
the Church Of the Holy lnnocents in West Thirty
eeVenth-st. The burial In the Holy Sepulchro
Cemetery, at South Orange.