The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-25
WIFE IS HELD
WITHOUT BAIL
Mrs. Connors Arrested With
Andrew PItrs, a Friend.
SUSPECTED OF FOUL PLAY.
Mr.. Cunnos Found in Street With Skull
Crushed Dies al Hospital After Say
Ing He Had Fallen
SUSPECTED OF FOUL PLAY.

Mount Vernon, ~. Y, Peb. 25-Michae
Connors, OF Brooklyn, who was found ly-
ing unconscious In the street, with what
appeared 10 be wounds in his head caused
By an axe early Saturday morning, died
In the Mount Vernon hospital yesterday
morning. The police are at work on the
case in Mount Vernon and Brooklyn.
Mrs. Margaret Connors, his wife. and
Andrew Pitre. an Italian fruit dealer
both OF whom live In the apartment house
at "a Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, are
under arrest, without privilege OF bail,
pending the inquest.
1t is the theory OF the police that the
couple, who have been friendly for sew
erelay ears, might have decoyed Connors
TO Mount Vernon and done away with
him TO obtain his insurance money.
Goodness and apparent indifference in
Mrs. Connors' manner after she knew
that her husband was I'm the hospital dy-
Ing first aroused the suspicion of Chief
Foley. The woman came 10 Mount Ver-
non with Detective Lynch, but declined
TO go to the hospital to see her husband.
Chief Foley says. because she was afraid
OF getting her feet wet.
Chief Foley offered to get her a hack,
but she was still disinclined TO go 10 the
hospital. and Connors. although he beg
ged for her repeatedly. died without see
ing his wife
Just before he died Connors made an
ante mortem statement to Detective
Gleitsman and DIR. Thomas T.. Goodman.
who attended him while I'm the hospital
TO the effect that Pitre brought him TO
Mount Vernon on Friday evening with the
expectations of calling on brother OF his,
who had been i'll. They came up from
Harlem on trolley car on the Union rail-
way.
COULDN'T FIND HIS BROTHER.
After arriving in Mount Vernon, Con-
nors said. they were unable TO find Pr
tres brother The two men had few
drinks and then became separated. Con-
nors started out TO look for his compan-
ion, and this is the last he remembers
until he awoke in the hospital with a
fractured skull.
The dying man insisted to the last mo-
ment that he fell, and that Pitre was his
friend Coroner Banning. however, Is posi-
tive that the man could not have been
hurt in such manner by a fall. He
thinks that he was struck with hatchet
or an axe, as there were four deep cuts
in his head.
Mrs. Connors told Chief Foley that she
saw the italian in Brooklyn on the night
that her husband declares he accom-
panied him TO Mount Vernon. Mrs. Con-
nors says that she has no idea why her
husband came to Mount Vernon.
ALWAYS LIVED IN SAME HOUSE.
Detective Lynch. while In Brooklyn.
learned that in the last five years the
Connors family had moved several times,
and that the Italian, who is a well dressed
young man, had always moved into the
same house with them Connors and his
wife, and the Italian always seemed 10
be close friends.
Mrs. Connors and Pitre were arraigned
before Coroner Banning and after inform
ing them of their rights and appointing
former Assemblyman William c. Mains
as their counsel, he held them without
bail TO await the result OF the inquest
which will be held on Tuesday I'm the po-
lice station. The coroner also ordered
an autopsy.
After Mrs. Connors and Pitre were lock-
ed up Detective Atwell says that he heard
them whispering, and the woman said to
the Italian:
BE quiet and remember half-past ten"
This is the hour she told the detectives
that she had seen Pitre in BROOKLYN
Connors, who is about 35 years old and
well dressed. Is the second Brooklyn man
this year who has had a mysterious ex-
perience in Mount Vernon On Jan. "a
Max Josephs. a lawyer is said TO have
come TO Mount Vernon to see client. and
registered a the Mount Vernon hotel. He
has never been seen since.