New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-02
FOUGHT WITH M'MAH0N.
POLICE LOOK FOR WEAPON
Prisoner Says He Only Knocked
Dospn Er-Justice's Brother.

lanes Edward Mcmahon, a brother OF ex-
Police Justice Daniel F. Mcmahon. was muir
dered early yesterday. His body was found IN
a pool of blood in the hallway of the nathouse
No 26s West One-hundred- and-hfty -tniro-e'''
where he had lived His skull had been crushed
In and there were wounds in his neck anu
sbour5ers that looked as IL they had been IN
fictezs with an axe butchers cieaVer-
About noon the police arrested Daniel j. Ken
redv q young fighter Of bad repute, nnolns MN
in drunken sleep in his mothers nome at NO
13S West Ninety-ninth-st- There was oiooo on
his clothes and on his hands In the AFTERNOON
he made a semi-confession. admitting that ne
had been in a fight with Mcmahon near one
hundred-and-ffty-thi early in the morning.
Mcmahon lived on the fourth floor OF the
house in Observation-Disclosures rd-st with
his brother-in-Iaw, Lawrence Hines, brick
LAYER Miss Catherine Mcmahon q sister,
slso lived with them. McMahon's body was dis
covered by boy living on the top moor VINO was
sent out early 10 get something for breakfast
TWO families on the ground floor told the police
that they heard sounds Of a fight in the halfway
about 3 a. m but they did not want 70 get
mixed I'D in it. and did not look out Hines
said that about the same hour he heard some
body trying to get into his fat. He said he got
q club In readiness for a burglar. but the per-
son who tried to open the door went down stairs
e,6 dss not return The families on the ground
floor said they heard the front door bang after
the fight in the hallway ceased. as II the con-
testants had gone away.
The Hines couple. Mcmahon and the unmar-
Red sister were at Daniel T. McMahon's wed
ding the other day. The Tammany leader was
.u Washington on his honeymoon trip yesterday,
and expressed disbelief when he was informed
that his brother had been murdered. James
McNahon was thirty-seven years old and I'M
Frlor in
Of Buildings in Commissioner Brady's term, and
since he lost that place had been idle.
Detectives learned that Mcmahon had spent
mart OF the night drinking in the Jefferson Hotel
at Eighth-ave- and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
st. and left there about a. m. with Kennedy.
They got into Kennedy's rooms through Win
dow and found Kennedy in bed. His clothes
were shattered with blood and his hands were
red. They searched the fat but were unable 10
find any weapon which could have been USED
in the murder Of Mcmahon
Kennedy did not seem to be much disturbed
when he was arrested. He was taken to the
West one-hundred- -flfty-second-st. station
and questioned. In the Harlem Court he was
rernanded until to-day. In the afternoon he
said:
Y started out about 4 O'Clock yesterday after
noon 70 drink, and landed up in the Hotel JEFF
ferson- I met bartender named Acheson
Acheson in the hotel at o'clock in the morning
and walked I'D Eighth-ave with the stranger
When we got between a. ~
stranger hit me and knocked him down on the
sidewalk I didn't hurt him much' ana tooh q
train home. That's all remember, ana oon
know how got the blood on my clothes
Mrs. Kennedy was at the home of a married
daughter in Bradhurst-ave- when her son was
arrested. She went to the station and made
statement when she heard Of the arrest She
said Dan had been working in a chemical fac
tory in PENNSYLVANIA and had been home about
two months looking for work He went out on
Thursday afternoon and did not get home until
about . a. m. yesterday. She said she asked
him how he came to be bloody. and he re-
piled: Some one did me up
He had been drinking" Mrs. Kennedy said.
'and whenever he drank he was a demon"
Acheson, the bartender mentioned by Ken
nedy. told the police he had gone to bed when
Kennedy left the Jefferson Hotel James Charl-
ton half owner of the hotel. made the following
statement:
About three years ago Kennedy created dis
1urbance in my place and I threw him out He
came back again, and beat him so hard that
lle had TO to the J. Hood Wright Hospital
He deserved it. and 1 am not sorry 1 did it.
would do ii again.
I didn't see him again until about three months
ago. when he came into the saloon of the hotel
He said to me, I've got a grudge against you
and I'm goin' TO do you up. I've got pistol
and you had better look OUT
1 felt nervous and took pistol out of the
drawer behind the bar and showed Il to him.
Now you get out Of here" I told him, and
don't you ever come in aglin." He went away
and I didn't see him until last night. He came
fn my place and said to me- NO grudge,
Jim?" and answered that everything was for
gotten.
Then he started drinking and kept it up until
10 o'clock be began TO box with every one
and kept repeating that he knew he could lick
me thought that TO save trouble would go
away and I did, after telling one of the men TO
try and get Kennedy out of the place. Some one
did take him away for walk. but he returned
70 the hotel about midnight. He then stayed
IA the hotel until it closed UP. Acheson then
went TO bed and Kennedy went away with Nc
Nfahon