New-York tribune., 1905-08-13
WROTE NOTES TO "M'COY."
MISS HALL" ASKS AID.
Beseeches Priaefghter to Come to
Her assistance.

Three letters addressed to Kid Mccoy"
pugiist and saloonkeeper at 4oth-st. and Broad
way. were written yesterday by Miss Mary Hall.
the young woman who was found shot In River
side Drive on Friday night Two of them were
sent from Bellevue and one was sent from the
New-York Hospital Two were intercepted by
Detective Sergeant wrenn. and the third was
given to him. he says, by the wounded girl. to
deliver personally to Mccoy"
She appealed to Mccoy to come to her aid
she desperately in need of friend.
Mccoy" Norman Selby. his right name
is. could not be found by Captain Thompson. OF
the West 125th-st station. or Detective wrenn
They say they were informed he in New
Jersey with his f1ancee.
All three letters were addressed Raymond
selby, personal, Broadway and 40th-st." She
told Captain Thompson and Detective Wrenn
after they had called at "McCoy's': II shot
by a whom met by appointment at 116th-
st. and Riverside Drive last night. He is gen.
tleman. and other than that will not tell"
An intimate friend Of Mccoy said Mccoy
in town Friday night, arriving in time to
keep an appointment, If he had had one with
the Hall woman. He said a woman named Hall
had been or less intimate with Mccoy, but
that the latter had decided to ship her." as the
friend expressed 1t.
In explaining the return ticket to Paterson
she said she was there calling on a friend, and
was 10 return.
dispatch to The Tribune from Paterson last
night said that it was thought there that the
woman Mary Hail. is Della w Lyttel of Ell
mira n. Y, who arrived in Paterson three
months ago and made her home at resort at
No. 800 River-st.. and later at a similar place
in Ryerscn-st. There she assumed the name of
Violet Johnson. She left the Ryerson place on
last Wednesday, saying she going to Syra-
cuse. N. Y. TO try and effect reconciliation
with her husband She was not again seen or
heard from by those whom she associated with
In Paterson.
A difference of opinion has arisen between the
police and Coroner Scholer regarding the method
by which the young woman received the wound
The police now of the opinion that she at
tempted suicide. while Coroner Scholer still be-
Iieves that her friend" shot her To strengthen
the police opinion revolver was found yester-
day on the grass near where she was found 1t
is of small caihre, and one that a man would not
ordinarily carry.
The revolver was shown to her. There were
three empty cartridges and three still loaded
When she saw the almost toy pistol she ex-
claimed:
MY, how did 1t get so rusty"
This remark was considered significant that
she knew the revolver was clean before the
shooting.
She said she came from the West" as did
her friend. She said the Mary Hail.
is fictitious. and she would rather die than give
her right name or that of her friend. She said
that the man who shot her was her friend. and
she had known him for about two years.
She is in no danger OF dying and the police
expect to have her arraigned In court to-mor-
row.
a dispatch from Syracuse last night said
Frank Graham cartman. told the police he
believed the woman was his daughter Ella He
says the description tallies exactly with that OF
Ella and that she assumed the name of Nav
Hall some time ago. He informed that she
left Rochester two weeks ago and went TO New
York. where she has a sister, known as Nav
Kelly. who married TO a man named Savles