The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-18
A COWARD'S s
BULLET
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William Grady Way
lays His Brave Wife
and Shoots Her
With Cruel De-
liberation.
A[R lI[E nESpAIRED 0E.
His Drunken Habits Had
Kept the Couple Severed
For Three Years.
BLUFF AT SELF DESTRUCTION
Assassin Had Brooded Over
the Crime for Days
Policeman On Hand
Just Too Late.
BLUFF AT SELF DESTRUCTION

Without a word of warning, Mrs. Rose
A. Grady, a teacher in a North Bergen
public school, after alighting from car
at the railway transfer station at Sum
nit avenue and Congress street late@yes-
terday afternoon was shot by her hus-
band, William Grady. She is now in
the City Hospital in a precarious condi-
ton. A bullet from a revolver of large
calibre lodged in her neck.
Grady turned the revolver upon his
own head and was about to pull the
trigger when Patrolman Nolan sprang
toward him and snatched the revolver
from his right hand.
The wounded woman dropped to the
pavement. Miss Louise Mullins, who
teaches in the same school with Mrs.
Grady, was accompanying her on her
homeward trip. She swooned and fell
over the PROSTATE body of Mrs. Grady.
Miss Mullins is a niece of former FL
nance Commissioner John Mullins.
Grady offered no resistance to his
arrest by Patrolman Nolan.
SEPARATED THREE YEARS.
What led up to the shooting is not
known. Grady and his wife had been
separated for three years. He is clerk
in the Jersey City Post Office. She is
daughter of Bernard Mccormick, jani-
tor of No. 1 School in York street.
Police Captain John I. Kelly, is her
uncle. They have son now three years
old
Before her marriage Mrs. Grady was a
school teacher After the separation Mrs.
Grady went to live with her parents at
No. 174 Fourth street Sooner than ask
support from her husband she obtained
employment as a teacher in one of the
North Bergen schools.
OFTEN NET.
Frequently during their separation
they met upon the street. Usually these
meetings were accidental. 1t is said
that Grady. frequently endeavored
through friends to effect reconciliation.
These efforts were rebuffed.
Grady has been boarding since the
separation at No. 173 York street. In
the post office he worked one week during
the day and the next week at night
Recently it was noticed by Grady's
companions that he was growing morose
and even careless in his habits. and
drank heavily. After his nights work at
the post office yesterday he went to a
Montgomery street saloon and had sew
eral drinks. 1t was noticed by friends
that he was in an angry mood. They re
preached him.
81 am thinking of something serious,
he said, s.and prefer to be left alone"
He went into the street and was seen
to board a Hoboken trolley car.
SEEKS HIS WIFE.
On her way home from North Bergen
each day, Mrs. Grady changed cars at
Summit avenue and Congress street, at
half-past three o'clock in the afternoon.
Grady knew this. When he left the
Montgomery street saloon and boarded
a Hoboken car he was making for this
point.
Grady went to Wilburs saloon on a
corner, from which he could watch the
passengers going from one car to another.
He saw his wife and Miss Mullins alight
from a car inward bound from Paterson
and North Bergen.
THE SHOOTING.
Grady ran from the saloon and walked
rapidly toward the two women. Placing
his feff ilind on his wife's shoulder, with
| the other he drew a revolver, and before
| the Woman eoalld say i word there was