The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
KILLED IN BED WITH HUSBAND.
"6IANT" RPARTLAND HELD FOR
MURDER or LENA HOPPER.


His wife and the SeiShboFs Breathe Faster
VOW HOPPER . Crippie Hair smethered
by Redeiethea while Waterman ~.
tackled the wife Hes an ExsCon,ict.
James Mcfarland. q night Waterman,
murdered Lena HOPPER In her he'd at 22s
East Seventy-ffth street yesterday morn
ing, while her husband. too old asd rheu-
matte TO help, lay beside her half smcthered
by the quilts which the murderer had thrown
over him. The vito dice of shock after
che had been assaulted.
The crime occurred within eight blocks Of
where Mcfarland committed his first muir
der Of the same sort about nine years ago.
Then he dragged an old Third avenue beg
gar woman into a basement on East Eighty
third street and assaulted her. She, was
found dead soon afterward with the print
Of a mans fin gers On her throat. Mozart
land was sentenced for only seven years
for that crime. because there was sonic
doubt az TO whether he or a companion,
Bull" Murray, had killed the woman, But
there seems to be no doubt about yester-
days crime, and there was general rejoicing
Yesterday In Seventy-ffth street, between
Second and Third avenues, after the muir
derer's arrest, over the prospect that the
n~eighborhood was going to get rid OF Jim
Mcfarland tho giant"
Nowhere was this sense OF relief 80 APP
parent as in McPartland's own basement
Aat at 40 East Seventy-ffth street, where
his wife, whom he had beaten time and
asain. prayed that che would never see
the man again.
rs 49, -R- -.n 49, tanttAr ~ tho ton q =
rnent house at 225 East Seventy-ffth street.
The building was being renovated and all
the tenants had moved out except Mrs
HOPPER and her seventy-year-old husoand'
August HOPPER, They were living In one
room on the second floor. MCFARLAND
had been hired by the contractor who was
making over the building to guard the
tools and lumber on the sidewalk nights.
In the four days he had had the job he had
formed a calling and beer drinking ao-
ouaintance with the Hopfers and frequently
went upstairs to visit them. He evidently
planned his Assault on the woman, VINO
was twenty years younger than her nus
band, on Friday, for that evening he wen
upstairs and borrowed old man hopfer's
revolver. He said that he had no pistol
OF his W and was afraid that thieves were
coming around that night to steal some
Of the tools.
Hotter objected 10 lending the revolver,
explaining that II was his only protection
a. he was 90 crippled that he could not use
HE fists or run away from anybody.
Mcfarland, who Is Q feet tall and
weighs 300 pounds. assured the cripple
that he'd take care OF him and secured
the revolver.
60 Giant Mcfarland had nothing to
fear when he won't up stairs yesterday
morning at 2 o'clock and awakened the
Hofers by ban gine Oh the door. He said
that he wanted to como in and sit down for
a while to rest. Hofer unlocked the door
for him, while the wife remained in he'd.
aThe minute he got in Hotter afterward
told Capt. Handy Of the Fast S~ixty-seventh
street station, she pointed my own revolver
at me and told me that s. made any fuss
he'd shoot me. / thought for a second
he was fooling, only he looked ugly and
kept cursing. he made me light a lamp,
Then he picked me up by my waist and threw
me on the bed, reached out my arm and
her by the shoulder and held her down.
She screamed August help me- Just, once
and then seemed to be frightened 30 death.
1 only heard her moan after that, and when
I tried TO help her the Waterman threw the
bodelothes over my head and held, them
down"
The HoFers had $500 in cash In their fat,
but Mcfarland did not disturb that. When
he went away Mrs. Hoffer was probably
dead. The old ma made his. WY to the
window and shouted for the police:
the boys Of the neighborhood annoyed him
that his cries at first didn't create much
excitement, but finally a fireman OF Engine 4,
two doors away, heard the call and ran into
the street, He met Mcfarland In front OF
the trouble was.
sThe old mans drunk, y said the watch
rnan and then ran toward Second avenue.
My wife's murdered. Hopper called
down TO the fireman and just Their, Patrol
man man. Neville s9 2sir1 and H Second sSdrGHea sne
rcpping for assistance as he went from one
arcaway TO the next. Detective Bonser
and Patrolman Reardon joined in the
search.
Bonser, who had arrested Mcfarland
half a dozen times before for wife beating
and d~lsorderly conduct. knew that he
lived at 4lO East Seventy.afth street. W
blocks. away. and the three policemen
hurried over there.
In the meantime Mcfarland had been
last quarter, given her a farewell blow in
the face and escaped about two minutes
before the police arrived. As he could
not nave come west without meeting the
police, Bonser started on down the block
toward the East River. But as they were
passing iI6 Neville saw some board move
in the be sment areaway and stepped
Nown 10 investigate. He found McPart-
land orouching under two cd doors who
he had braced up above his h sad as a shield
neville. who was M match for the ak
footer, odlled to Bonscr and Reardon and
the three had q rough and tumble fght