The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-24
M'NALLY'S SLAYER NOT FOUND
WOMiN-IN-BLACK CLUE PROVES
TO be WITHOUT RESULT.
Her Husband Had Warned the Dead Saloon
Keeper and Neither Had Seen Him
for Over q Ycar-Police Scout BROTH
er's Theory That He Was Shot In Bed

Unless some unlocked for incident de-
velops to suggest a clue there Is every In
dication that the murder OF the Brooklyn
saloon keeper, Frank Nc ally, which oc-
CURED at an early hour on Wednesday
morning last, will be added to the Latimer
case and others Of Brooklyn's unsolved
mysteries. Capt. Toole of the Flushing
avenue station and the detectives OF his
staff have worked diligently on the case,
but yesterday were forced to admit that
they we're no NEARER the solution OF the
problem than they were when they first
set out.
There were number Of very promising
leafs at the beginning The murder
was obviously the outcome OF some one OF
McNally's numerous women entangle-
ments, but with every clue run down the
person who actually killed the saloon
keeper is apparently flu Their away than
ever from the detectives clutches II was
thought on Friday that a mysterious
woman in black, described by Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Costello. might be able to give
some interesting information. The Co.'S
tellos said she frequently visited McNally
a his saloon and u at she sometimes brougl
little nine year old girl with her.
This, together with the fact that McNaliy
bid been threatened in his saloon by man
Who accused the saloonkeeper Of attempt
ing to wreck his home, was thought to be
clue that might lead to interesting results.
From Johnny Mccullough, who had carried
notes from McNally TO the woman in BLACK,
it was learned that they were taken to PA
Thirteenth street and that they were ad-
dressed to Mrs Mack" Mrs. Mack
proved to be myth, but in searching for
this myth Capt. Toole learned Of a Mrs.
Alice McBarney, who lives with her husband,
Edward McBarney, at 376 Bedford ave-
nue..
Mccartney is an electrician employed at
the Novelty Theatre, 1t was learned that
the McBarneys. up to about year ago,
had lived near McNally's saloon; that Ms.
McBarney had visited the saloon; that she
had taken her little girl with her; that she
had had trouble with her husband on that
account, and that her husband had gone
to McNally in the lltter's saloon and had
warned him to keep away from his, McBar-
ney's wife
Mrs. McBarney, in other words, was the
woman in black. and Mr.. McBaIney was
the angy husband who was alleged to have
threatened McNally Both Mr.. and Mrs.
McBarney admitted all this to Capt. Toole,
h. had ore was to warn the saloonkeeper
to keep away from Mrs. McBarn,y..
AN this, it was fully established. had
occurred over year ago Soon after 1t
occurred the McEa neys went to Bedford
avenue to live and since then neither Mrs.
Mcfa ney nor McFa-ney had seen the gay
Lotl aIio Of Park avenue and North Oxford
ST. eet, and both had lived together in peace
and harmony.
Thus two of the most promising leads
were found to lead nowhere. There only
remained another mysterious woman to
look up-the woman who was reported TO
have been in the habit Of going to
McNally's late at night. BUT this, on thor
be only the actress, Toma Hanion, with
whom McNally was on terms of intimacy,
but whose abb on the night OF the murder
seems to have been established beyond
doubt.
owen McNally. brother OF the murdered
man, was disposed yesterday TO place little
faith in the theory that his brother had been
killed by woman. He expressed the belief
that the assassin was man who had gained
access to McNally's room by key obtained,
perhaps, from some woman. Owen
McNally further said that his brother was
murdered as he lay in bed, and not as he
was standing on the floor Of his room. In
coToboration of this belief he said that the
bed clothing was smeared with blood
btltCtlNe Ndiucy ySotSiudy lunu
Owen McNally was mistaken in this, that
McNally was found lying on his dace on
the floor, that there were no bloodstains
on the bed when he was first found and
that those which Owen McNally saw were
made when the dying man was lifted from
the floor and placed on the bed. Detective
Carney said further yesterday that the
bed plainly showed that two persons
had occupied it on the night Of the murder.
The saloonkeeper's safe will be opened
Il 4, - lNA~ al, III
that some letters may be found in it to
suggest a clue.
The funeral of the murdered man took
place from the apartments where he was
killed yesterday afternoon and attracted
a crowd of several hundred of the morbidly
curious. Over twenty carriages were in
the procession. Detectives were scattered
through the crowd in the hope that some
one of McNally's women friends would
appear and suggest some new line of in
quiry. 1t was a vain hope. Even Toma
Hanlon did not attend the funeral The
interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery.