The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
WOMAN STRANGLED TO DEATH
MAN SHE LIVED WITH ~ TONES
ON MURDER CHARGE.
The Couple Lived or Money She Brought
In and Tie Quarreiled with Her for
Not Giving Him $50 60 Play Chrtsty
Sullivan's Horse He Notified the Police.

hnc NOupte LlSeu on Money Sne HrOugnt
In and Tie QuarreiIed with Her for
Not Giving Hin $50 to Play Chrtsty
Suliivsn's Horse He Notified the Police.
A woman known as Mrs. Maggie Gordon
was stranglcd TO death In her room, a front
one on the ground floor Of IS Second street,
between I03' and II O'Clock SATURDAY
night. The police at first were not inclined
to accept that theory of death, but Coroner
julius Hamburger, who vas called when
the body was found. saw several things to
make him suspect foul play and he ordered
an autopsy. Or. Schultz reported yesterday
after making the post mort EN- examination
that there was no doubt that tho woman
had been murdered by st~ran9ulation.
The Coroner then committed the man
known as the woman's husband. Alexander
Gordon, who had been arrested on sus-
picion, to tho Tombs without bail on q
charge Of murder. lie is rs years oil and
sa = his wife" was 81. Gordon is a brother
Of Jacob Gordon, a general cont ractor and
man of means, who lives at 1921 linton
avenue, h Bronx.
Two policemen were standing at the
corner of Second street and the Bowery
about II O'CLOCK SATURDAY, night when
Vpruon ran up TO them.
Where cnn | GET a doctorp Quick, help
me; my wife is dying'' he said. One Of
the policemen ran with him, the 9th er
calling an ambulance.
The police found the room in which the
Gordons lived scantily furnished. II was
very dirty also. There was an old iron
bed, a cheap mattress. an iron cook stove,
a bureau, two chairs and some prints on
the wall. The f0or was covered with
much worn oilcloth. When they got
there they found the womau's body lying
on the bed fully clad save for the absence
of one shoe and stocking. The ambulance
surgeon made a quick examination and
said the woman was dead.
Coroner Hamburger reached the house
at 1915 A.. NJ. He made a careful search
Of the room. Lying on the floor near the
woman shoe and stocking was a five
cent piece. Further search disclosed $50
in bills tucked behind a chrome on the wall.
An examination of the body showed the
neck swollen and discolored with marKa
made as if by finger nails. the skin being
broken in several places. Gordon all this
time was standing by volunteering in
formation. He said he and his wife had
been on or TO Staub's restaurant ut All
Bowery tor supper at 8 o'clock and had re-
turned home. They sat around until half
mast 10. he read the evening n~ewRDaDpFc
and she did some sewing. He remembered
that about half past 8 she stuck her head
out OF the window and talked with the
ianitur's wife.
He said he went out al 10 g. to get a pack
age Of cigarettes for her and got back a
few minutes before II o'clock, only 10 find
her living choking and gasping on the bed.
Then he called the police.
Coroner Harburger questioned Gordon
closely and was told that the couple had
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Gordon said he worked for his brother,
the contractor, but Admitted that during
the two months he lived in that house he
had not worked very much. Whatever
money had been made his wife" had
brought in. When questioned asto how she
made II he merely shrugged his shoulders.
Tn Coroner noticed that he had Sev eral
fresh scratches on his face as il made Dy a
woman's sharp finger mills. Gordon de-
Clared that he had never quHrrelled with
his wife" As the police hunted the room
for ev dence Gordon watched them closely
and when thew dug the $50 in bills from
behind the picture on the wall he exclaimed
in Iiddish an equiv alent for:
-Ah. that's where she had it, This
was belieN ed 20 be ' eTv significant.
o. er at Staub's restaurant the police
found three witnesses who told Of "A quar-
rel the man ard woman had while having
their supper. They almost came to blows.
One Of the witnesses said that Gordon
a uIlIOlllIAk tuc NOAIldh tOI HOl HdN llK
ri, en- him $50 that day. He. with all the
rest OF the Bowerv, had the tip on Christy
SulliV ans horse X o, which won at AQue-
duct at 10 TO 1. and so certain had he been
OF winning that he wanted to put $50 on the
horse.
That's all right. : the woman said to him
when he kept recalling that il was her hack
of Judgment alone that kept them from
having not only the $50 but $500 additional
then.
but how many times did You lose the
money I gave your You can Just shu up.
won't give YOU a emit" she Aaid. They
were still wrangling when they left 'he
place.
The police and Coroner are convinced that
GOrIon was in n rage with the woman be-
cause she had not given him the money to
play Sullivan's horse and that when he got
her home he decided to make her surrender
IL then. They think he tried 10 choke her
into submission and went too far. They
point to the shoe and stocking which had
been removed and say that Gordon probably
looked in the stocking as the most
likely place for the one and not finding
it there lost his nerve as he realized hat tho
woman was dead and notified the police
himself in the hope Of diverting suspicion.
He was kept waiting IN Coroner Lar
burgers office while the autopsy was being
made and refused 10 talk When the report
finally came over the telephone from Or.
Schultz that the woman had been murdered
Anu LHS NOTOUcT TeIrHbcI " dFDuN SDTuOn
ost his color and his hands shook. He
was a ghastly yellow wh.n told that he
would be sent 10 the Tor1Ns yit bout hail
pending the inquest.
Il did not kill herl don't know who
IL wasl- was hia only comment.
The house in which tho murder was
committed IL n very old two story prick,
now given over to cheap lodgings. Jacob
Goodman has the lease for IL and No. rs
adjoining and has no difficulty in renting
the twenty-five rooms IN the two houses
for good prices. The GordOns plid $3.50
for The one room. and the other lOigcr-,
most Of them unmarried women. pay in
proportion.
IL was less thar two months ago that
a murder OF the Jack The l,ipper B. pc
was committed almost opposite the house
a. . Second street. Annie Moore Was
found stabbed and mutilRted and a man
who passed As her husband h o in the
Tombs awaiting trial for her murder. Cor
oner Hamburger saws he thinks a little
police attention TO Second street would not
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