The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-14
PRIEST and WOMAN BOTH DEAD
PROBABLY VICTIMS or CAS- ~
A LODGING HOUSE.
Rev. 4. 3. Quinn. Recently ~ Atlantic
Highlands. and MoIue kiley. RectOry
Housekeeper. Passing ~ Man and wife.
Pound Dead-Rad q wife Elsewhere.

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H~ousekeeper. Passing ss Man and wife.
Found Dead-Rad q wife Elsewhere.
A man and a woman, dressed in their
night clothing, were found dead in a room
on the third floor Of a lodging house at
22s Fast Eighteenth street yesterday
morning. Gas was flowing into the room
from a partially opened cock beneath the
gas Jet, which was lighted and burning
low.
Mrs. Henry Walker, the lsndlady, inn
mediately notified the Coroners' oftice.
Coroner Acritelli found the body Of a man
about IS years old lying across the bed
with the feet resting on the floor and the
arms spread out across the tumbled he'd
ding. The woman body was huddled
on the ioor between the bed and the wash
stand. Her legs were drawn up and her
hands clenched as il she had died in pain.
She seemed to be about rs years old.
Hanging across the h~eadboard OF the
bed was a priests cope and stole, both
embroidered with gold thread. A cassock
and surplics were thrown over a chair.
ADOut the man p ncCh Was a ih1 VN"poho'
The Coroner found On a small table a
half empty flask of whiskey and a glass
| containing whiskey and water. Behind the
window curtain on the ledge Of the window
| there was a heavy rattan and lead slungshot.
In a trunk was a quantity Of silver forks.
knives and spoons, some oyster forks and
a small individual soup tureen. These
pieces, about ten in all, were marked with
7 -. antEaErA sEVaT0ff
House" and Hotel Bartholdi" being the
marks on most OF the pieces. Two Of them
had initials only.
A watch with a gold cross charm and
bearing on the inside OF the back case the
inscription Charles =. Quinn" was found
in the pocket OF a waistcoat hanging on a
chair. Among the woman's effects was a
small ring set with chip diamonds.
Mrs. Walker, the landlsdy, aid that a
week ago last Tuesday the man, who gave
his name az Charles S. Quinn, called TO ace
her and ged the room, TO be held for
him and his wife until the following week,
Quinn and the woman came TO the house
on Tuesday last, she said. and they took up
their abode in the room. She saw little OF
them. The last time she saw the woman
alive was on Wednesday night when the
woman came down stairs and asked Mrs.
Walker 10 lend her a couple of teacups
and some spoons, saying that she wanted
TO brew some tea for herself and her nus
band.
Coroner Acritelli did not think that gas
enough had escaped to cause asphyxiation
and he ordered an autopsy and may have
the whiskey analysed.
When the Coroner came to examine the
letters and papers found in the effects of the
dead man and woman he found letters
addressed TO the Rev. Father Charles s..
Quinn, st. Agnes's Roman Catholic Church,
Atlantic Highlands, N. j., and to Miss Molly
Bridget Kiley, st. Agnes's re Glory, Atlantic
Highlands. Further examination OF the
papers showed that until a recent date
the Rev. Charles S. Quinn had been acting
as an assistant in st. Agnes's parish dnder
the Rev. William j.. O'Farrell. and one
document, prepared in the handwriting OF
Father Quinn, alluded to Molly kiey as
the housekeeper Of st. Agnes's rectory.
A telegram addressed to Miss h. Riley,
st. Agnes's Church, Atlantic Highlands, and
sent from the Hotel Bartholdi in this city
on December IL, read;
Come on to-day at l2li from there.
Will meet you. Paid answer. QUINN
One typewriter sheet marked copy
was a letter addressed to the Rev. Father
Carroll of st. Agnes's Church and was written
from the Hotel Bartholdi on November 30.
This letter, after saying that there had
, been a great deal Of Misunderstanding over
, money matters in st. Agnes's parish, con
tinued:
In the first place there il a misunderst and
ing regarding the signing OF checks by me
? Now, all the checks l signed ] did so by TN
full authority OF the pastor, the Rev william
, J. o'Farrell, and e. a witness his house
keeper. Bridget Kiley.
In the signing of all those checks ther,
are only two checks made out to me
one was made out and signed by Father
O'Farrell in person, and this was made out 4
. me for moneys that ! advanced him on dif
ferent occasions and also 10 his housekeeper
who has witnessed The transaction. I'M
check was for $500.
The letter continued to state that tn
. check for 1915, which was signed with tn
name Charles s. Quinn, was made out at tn
express wish of Father O'Farrell. Becaus
Of his feebleness Father O'Farrell was I'm
? able to sign the check and had requeste
: Father Quinn to attach his own signature
: This check, the letter said, was to repay tn
: writer for his services. He had served tn
: parish twenty-five Sundays and Fsthe
O'Farrell, the writer said, had liked Tn
= salary at SIS a Sunday. This check was ais
signed with the hosuekeeper, Molly o
, Bridget Kiley, as a witness.
An anonymous letter was found anon
, the papers containing the letter to Fathe
. Carroll. It was scrawled in a coarse han
on a bit OF paper and read:
DEAR FATHER: I am just writing yo
these few lines TO let you know YOU NUT
- look out for yourself. Father. you bett
go to the Bishop and see is the $500 on tn
check book. IL you made a mistake te
him you acted as Doctor and Father O'Farre
paid you for his head. ! would eKplai
|, the whole thing and would not spare tn
O'Farrells. You must try and square you
self. and also tell them why you did not n
, port Of him being sick.
Father Quinn had evide ntly Orwarde
n a copy OF the letter he sent to Father Caro-
to Bishop McFaul OF Trenton. for in IN
n eFecta NJ the dead man there was fOun