The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-31
NORAH'S JOHN MAKES TROUBLE
LIVELY NIGHT ~ MRS. JULTA
ODELL'S LODGING; HOISE.
Muiready Came Home Drunk. smashed In
Two Doors, set Out 10 Lick u Plaster
Apollo and scared All the L0dgcrs
Headquarters al Last Appealed TO.

Headquarters al Last Appealed TO.
Mrs. Julia Odel, who lets furnished
| rooms at los East Twenty-sixth street,
was aroused at $40 O'Clock yesterday
morning by noise at the basement door
Goodness Can it bs that Nora's John
is cutting up ngan?" she said to herfelf.
Nora was the maid and so good Il one
that when she married John Mulready,
Mrs. Odell permitted the young couple to
occupy the basement She had no fault
to find with Mulready until week ago,
when she noticed that he had been drinking
pretty heavily and reproved him. She
also observed that he was inclined to be
jealous Of the men dodgers
The noise at the basement door was
followed by crash, az though the door had
been forced open, and then by woman 3
screams, which aroused the dozen men
and women dodgers and thoroughly alarmed
the landlady. She went into an adjoining
room where there is a telephone, and called
up Police Headquarters.
Send the police here quick. There's
a mailman in the house and he il liable
to kill some one was the message the
operator got. Word was sent to the East
Twenty second street station and Police
man DAILY starte d for the house.
While he was on his way things were
happening at the house. Mulready started
upstairs and the landlady had locked her
self in her room
Getting no answer to his call OF come out
here, say" he hit the door with an axe.
The door was splntered but not forced in.
1t was now the landlady's turn to scream.
The dodgers were out Of bed by this time and
staring down the dimly lighted hall. They
saw Mulready with his axe at the landlady g
door. He whaoked away at ituntil he finally
got ii open.
adjoining room and from there slipped
into the hall and sought safety in the room
of a woman lodger. Not finding her, the
man came out from the room and staggered
along the hall until he came to plaster bust
of Apollo which stood in a niche in the wall
He dropped the axe and went up to the
statue. One of the dodgers heard him say:
you'll make love to my wife. will your
His right fist shot out and landed on
Apollos nose. The bust staggered against
the wall, but rocked back into position again
Just in time to get left handler that took it
from the pedestal II fell down, landing n
the mans toes. That hurt and Mulreadv's
knuckles We're cut, too. The pain partly
sobered him by the time the policemen ar
rived.
DAILY rang the doorbell, but couldn't
get in and went to the basement and found
the door open. There was a light there
and Mrs. Mulready was standing in the
middle of the room too frightened to speak,
and clothed chiefly in food of tears. Her
husband had dragged her out OF bed when
he came in.
Where is he2" asked the policeman and
then seeing the woman's condition turned
his back, blushed and fed upstairs. He
found Mulready near the statue, while
several nightgowned dodgers were fitting
about the hall
The intoxicated man was taken to the
station and was later arraiRnei in the York
vile police court. Mrs. Odel appeared as
complainant. On his promise to reform,
she withdrew the charge and he was freed.