Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-12-10
THE ST. MARY's MYSTERY.
Story Told OF Young Fitzpatrick's
Death to His Mother.

Murray went TO the home of Mr..
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, 22O Eas
Thirty-eighth street, Saturday and
told her that her son Matthew, who's.
body was found on the beach a
Pearson, Md, 10 days ago had beer
murdered. According to the report.
from Pearson the body was badly
mutilated, but it was thought tina
Fitzpatrick had committed suicide.
To convince Mrs. Fitzpatrick thai
he knew her son, Murray showed heI
rosary an@ pocketbook which
had belonged TO him. Murray al
first did not want to give them up
but Mrs. Fitzpatrick made him dc
so. Then he showed her an under.
shirt that he wore, and Mrs. Fitzpa,
trick says that her son wore the shirt
when he left home.
Mrs Fitzpatrick got word of her
son s death on Thursday in a tele.
gram from Coroner Jarboe, of Pear.
son. The cause Of death was moi
stated. Her son Harry left for
Pearson Friday afternoon, but
Mrs. Fitzpatrick had heard nothing
from, him last night.
According 10 the story told by
Murray, he, Fitzpatrick and two
other men, named Murphy and
Courtney, left this city on October
q TO go to the Maryland oyster beds.
They shipped on boat from the
foot of East Forty first street and
worked two days at the oyster beds
without getting any pay.
Then they started to tramp back
to New York. When they reached
Pearson, Murray said that they got
permission to sleep in the Jail over
night, but next morning they found
they had been charged with vagran-
cy. They were discharged by Mr..
JarbOe, who is justice as well as
coroner.
Murray told Mrs. Fitzpatrick that
the Coroner j Justice had tried to get
them to return to the oyster beds,
but they refused. They left Fitzpa-
trick with Jarboe and went away,
returning later in the afternoon to
find that Fitzpatrick $ body had been
picked up on the beach.
The body had been all cut up and
the pockets of his clothes turned in
side out, Murray said.
Murray, who acted as il he had
been drinking, said he got back here
on Thursday. Courtney arrived yes
terday. Murray said that Courtney
had lot OF papers belonging to Fitz-
patrick, and that she could getthem
If she went TO the Yorkville Police
Court and bailed him out. Court
ney, according to Murray, had been
arrested for being drunk.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick hurried to the
court, but coldn't find that anybody
by the name of Courtney had been
arrested.
Murray left the house without
saying where he lived, but promis-
ed to come back at 40 clock. He did
not return. He also said that he
hung out in a saloon at Twenty
second street and first avenue, but
son of Mrs. Fitzpatrick could not
find him there or anyone who knew
him.
After Murray left Mrs. Fitzpa-
trick telephOned to Inspector Nc
Clusky and told him the story. He
said he could not do anything until
someone in Pearson asked him TO
look into the case.
For some unexplained reason
Murray gave Mrs. Fitzpatrick a slip
of paper on which was written, DIR.
Taylor, 30 East Twenty-seventh
street. Office hours, 6 to Z. DIR. ii.
n. Taylor lives at that address. He
said last night that he knew neither
Fitzpatrick nor Murray"
The Morning Herald, of December
8, says that Henry A. Fitzpatrick
brother of NJ. ]. Fitzpatrick, after
his return to Baltimore from Pear
son stated that he was satisfied that
his brother was murdered on O boat
and thrown overheard. He further
says:
Funeral services were held yes
terday in St. Nicholas Roman Catho-
lie Church, Rev. Father Scully off,
ciating, and the interment was in the
adjoining churchyard. Young men
of Pearson acted as the pail bearers.
They were Messrs. John w. Free.
man, j. j. Bohannon, Abel Arms
worthy, r. W. Bell, +. I. Dyson and
NJ. Dyer. Capt. l.. +. Miles had
taken charge of the body when IL
was first discovered by q boy and
had it buried along the shore.
Il am going TO do everything in
my power to bring my brother s
murderers 30 justice, and will state
my case tomorrow morning to United
States District Attorney John G.
Rose. have letter of introduc
ton to him. and will ask him to take
steps TO have the case thoroughly
investigated. My brother was EN-
ployed in New York by the agents
of Baltimore company. He had
never been employed in such work
and had never been TO sea. He was
born in Danbury, Conn, and was q
years of age. He had lived in New
York with my mother, myself and
two other children for q number o.