The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13

with the Giant In the small bricked In pit
~ 'he area.
Mcfarland had sft Hopper's revolver
In the murdered woman's flat. 20 clubbing
was sufficient 20 glbdue him. Perhaps
he got moro than was really necessary.
Nearly everybody on the block had turned
out by this time and the n~elghbofhood
mea and women, yelled and catcalled their
approval as Mcfarland was dubbed up
olt OF the cellarway and along East Seventy
9Th street on the way 10 the poles. station.
His wife and ffteen-year-old daughter
Mary were among the spectators. His
twelve.year-old boy Jimmy had slept
through the uproar.
Hoffer was able 10 appear against the
murderer in the Yorkville police court,
where there was no examination. and after.
ward before Coroner Acritelli. who COM
mitted Mcfarland to the Tomhs without
bail on the charge Of murder.
IL was after the arraignment downtown
that Capt. Handy sent Detective Bonser
over 10 McPartland's fat to get the finish
ing touches for the evidence.
He found the wife, with her head ban
daged as the result of q beating with a
nallet six weeks ago, on her knees in the
little squalid front room Of the fat pray
ing before a cruciix and asking that the
man mi ght never come back She told
about her husbands coming hone 10 change
his clothes, but was in no condition to give
mhUl utldIS. Ht udukUtcT. gldfl was dDIe
TO tell a clearer story TO the police and 10
the %neighbors who kept coming in ali day
to congratulate Mrs. Mcfarland.
The Hoffers were not known In the block
east Of Second avenue, so the satisfaction
OF the neighborhood in getting rid Of the
worst terror wasn't impaired any by grief
for his victim.
Some Of the callers even made sport Of
James McPartland's silverheaded cane and
tall hat in the corner, which IL had been his
custom to wear on Sundays. The cane had
the distinction, according to the daughters
the house that had never been pawned
y wasn't necessary SO long as either Of the
children had shoes. And, besides, the cane
was handy TO beat the family with. The
daughters nose was broken with II about
two years ago. That was Just after papa
I'VE were all clean and happy those
seven years that he was In prison said
the fifteen -year-old daughter. I'VE, had
plenty to eat and wear, because mamma
can earn 81 .s5a day, and Jimmy and | went
10 school. We go to school now, but he
He didn't work much. and had only had
this job three or four days. He was out on
bail for hitting mamma with a mallet."
While the girl was telling of the family
trouble her small brother came in with
a bunch Of pansies, which he frankly ad-
ihltteu li tHS pTooetlCB OF TWO OeteCtlVC3
he had just stolen out OF one Of the gardens
In Central Park. But being on a murder
case the sleuths ignored the pansies. Mrs.
Mcfarland put the pansies in water. Her
next act was to rip her husband's picture
out Of an album with evident satisfaction.
She gave the picture TO n reporter and
toll him never to bring II back.
The story that the daughter told the
detectives at her home and afterward put
in writing for Capt. Handy at the police
station was:
Papa came home and woke mamma and
mo up. He said that he had killed a lady
sndwanted his new clothes and some money.
Mamma gave him his clothes and a quarter,
which was all she had. He had 10 cents
h himself, which he showed. When mamma
asked him where he was going he swore
and said II was none Of her business. Then
he changed his clothes and went away
Hotter was held at the house Of de-
tention, principally because there was
nobody to take care of him anyw here else,
His wife's body was taken to the Morgue.