New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-05
MURDER. SAYS JEROME NOW
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHANGES FRONT
IN MACLIFFE CASE-INSPECTOR
HARLEY INVESTIGATING.

Captain Donohue Sergeant Shibles and sew
eraI patrolmen of the police station in West
Forty -seventh-st were summoned to Police
Headquarters yesterday and questioned by In
spector Harley regarding the case of James Nc
Aulife, the Glennon witness who WAS locked up
in the station the night of February 10 and
found dying on the sidewalk at Sixth-ave-
and Forty-ninth-st at $50 a. N. next day. They
were Intercepted particularly as TO the treat
ment received by McAuliffe at the station on the
night Of his arrest. and to whether it was
McAuliffe or a dummy" who taken to the
police court and discharged shortly before Nc
Auliffe was found senseless in SiXth-ave. The
police declare that McAuliffe was not hurt at
the station; that he taken TO the police
court and discharged when he was apparently
sober and in good physical condition, and that
he must have received his injuries by falls on
the sidewalk when he was drunk.
Inspector Harley is to make a report to Com
missioner Partridge when his investigation is
finished. 1t is believed Police Headquarters
that Harley's report viii tend to discredit the
verdict of a coroners jury that McAuliffe was
murdered.
Mrs Mary Feehan, widow, OF West Thirty
ninth-st who is employed scrubwoman at
the police station, not witness before
Harley yesterday, but she may be later. She
has said that the morning of February II
she found two bloody towels in the police sta
ton. and took them home to wash them. Both
towels had been so much covered with blood,
she says that they looked If they were made
of red crash, and the blood was dry on them,
because she found the towels hard TO wash.
The blood had been the towels possibly more
than a day before she found them in the police
station. The woman says she has found bloody
towels in the station before. but she does not
remember having found two at time. The
record of the police station does not show that
any bleeding prisoners were locked UP there at
the time McAuliffe was prisoner, or for day
or two later
Captain Titus of the Detective Bureau yester-
day had before him a fireman who Nc
Auliffe fall the sidewalk in Eighth-ave. on
the evening Of February 10, before McAulife
was taken to the police station. The fireman
said McAuliffe was staggering before he fell, as
If drunk He fell so heavily that he lay stunned
and apparently unconscious until the fireman
teephoned for a patrol wagon to take him 10 the
police station. Some of the detectives assigned
by Captain Titus have been making a search
for persons who may have seen McAuliffe 60
! into louor store after leaving the police court
on the morning he was found in SXth-ave
! Captain Titus believes that McAuliffe must have
got liquor after leaving the police court.
District Attorney jerome said yesterday that
| on Monday night and inspected cell No 4
where McAuliffe supposed to have been
confined. He said that he saw no signs oil
! blood spots in the cell, but still he was of the
! opinion that McAuliffe murdered.
My theory that McAuliffe's death was not
! accidental. however, he said. must be worked
out in proof
Hitherto Mr. Jerome has declared that he be
! lieved McAuliffe's death was accidental.