The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-17
TINY WOUND NEAR EYE KILLS.
POLICE SEEK BROTHER-IN-LAW
or DEAD MAN.

Sick VIE and Her Mother Heard the Two
struggle, but Feared No Serious Re-
suIt-VandeThanden Found StIn and
Cold In the MOrninE-WOmen Held.
Charles Vanderhanden lay sprawllng on
q ted. stone dead, In the rooms where he
.,cd with his wife and four children, at
los West Tooth street. when a policeman
RESPONDED 10 an alarm raised by his mother
ir.aw at O'Clock yesterday morning
There was a tiny wound, from which blood
cared IN the corner Of his right eye, near
IN nose. The eye was swollen and gorged
with blood An autopsy, last night showed
that this wound was the cause Of death.
The police learned that the evening before
hc had had a scrimmage with his brother
iu-law. Thomas Cullen Of 100 West Tooth
street and they looked for Cullen all day.
They did not find him, but they said, last
NIGHT that they would certainly have him
within d few hours.
The Nanderhandens lived in few small
rooms in the rear Of the second floor Of a
house almost opposite the West Tooth street
station house The youngest child was born
only six days ago, and the wife's mother.
Mr. Cullen, was stopping with the family.
S., says that about 10 O'Clock Saturday
mo Nanderhanden came in with Cullen.
J., th Of them had been drinking and soon
they had an alteration.
Mr.. cullen says that very little was
,alH. and that little she docs not remember.
SIZE only knows that the two men soon
lcran wrestling and fighting in the room
and that when the fight was over she heard
her ION going out. Vanderhanden, she
,avs wa- proud Of his wrestling ability,
always wanted to try his strength on some
one and, on that account and because she
diln't believe the wrestlers would hurt
each other. she did not enter the room,
but remained in bed in a room adjoining.
She heard nothing more, she says, until
che woke up at o'clock and heard her
son-in-law snoring loudly. She SAYS that
her daughter called to her to know If Charles
wa all right, and she replied that he was,
that be was sleeping soundly. Mrs. Cullen
,ays that she then went to sleep again and
dIi not get up until o'clock.
Al that time she went through the little
room separating her sleeping room from
that Of her sonin-law and found him
surawed across the bed, with his feet on
the floor and all his clothes on. She tried
to arouse him, but he didn't awake. He
was -tif and cold and dead.
When the policemen got there they found
Vanderhanden's right eye discolored and
blood Oozing from a punCture in the corner
Of il that might have been caused by any
sharp. narrow bladed instrument. Ques-
ti1uing his wife and mother-in-aw, they
were told that Nanderhanden had been
seriously i'll with pneumonia a month ago
and that both the doctor, DR.. kennedy Of
g52 West Ninety ninth street, and the priest
had told him that II he ever drank again
the liquor would kill him.
Cullen was not az his home. The janitor
said he had slept there the night before.
but left the house about 8 O'Clock in the
morning
DR.. O'Hanlon performed an autopsy
last evening at an undertaker's shop. He
said that he found penetrating wound in
the corner Of the right eye, extending
through the orbital plate into the ethmoid
bone and ,fracturing IL. Death did not
ensue Immediately, but after some time,
from hemorThage when the pressure be-
came great enough TO destroy the functions
Of the brain. IL was possible, he said, that
the wounded man did not die until o'clock,
the time when Mrs. Cullen says she heard
him snoring.
Tanderhanden was 80 years old and had
been married fourteen years He and
Cutler. were together a great deal, and
according TO Mrs. Cullen, had never had
any trouble beyond few playful wrestling
matches Mrs. Nanderhanden corrobO-
rated her mothers story. Though Mrs.
Eanderhanden's bedroom adjoined that
Of her husband, she did not know that he
was dead or even injured until her mother
told her.
Capt. Sweeney gave orders to have Mrs.
Cullen and Mrs. Nanderhanden detained
as witne sses. IL was not considered safe
10 move the latter and a policeman was
placed in the apartments on guard. Mrs.
Cullen was taken To a station house.
Late last night Capt Sweeney learned
that Margarine Hickey, a sister Of Mrs.
Cullen, was in the house at the time Of the
row. Taking Detective McManus with him,
he ARE sted her at 100 West lOlst street,
where she j. employed a. janitress, and
dc aimed her a. witness,
Capt Sweeney has heard that the women
were awake and engaged in the alterCa-
f.pn. All that they would saw last night
that there was a row, but that Wander
uHuaeu was the aggressOr.