The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
BRIDE ARRESTED FOR MURDER
HER HUSBAND KILLED WITH A
HATPTN m A HOTEL.

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After He Announced ms Marriage
Bride Apparently Alone with Him
when He Received the Fatal wound.
GREENWICH. Conn. Dec. iS.--Joseph M.
Neil, a blacksmith. 20 years old. whose
parents live In New York and who had a
large business on the Belle Haven road;
Hotel, where he and bis bride Of q few
weeks had gons only a few minutes before.
That he was killed there 10 no doubt.
Whether il was murder. an accident or the
the authorities are trying to solve.
Neil was an athlete. Last spring he was
pitted against Qua Rubin under a fictitious
name, He bad q prosperous business and
was supposed TO DO . bachelor.
Yesterday aftsrnoon a woman about
2s years old entered bis shop and workmen
heard loud words. Last night at s:25
he entered the Greenwich Hotel carrying q
suit case and accompanied by the same
woman. He told the landlord he wanted
the bridal chamber.
Ten minutes later the woman came down
stairs and asked that a physician be called.
DR.. L. o. Thompson responded. He found
Ned dead, fully dressed. lying on the floor.
There was q dark spot under his right eye and
some blood on the floor. The woman gave
n o explanation, saying he had suddenly
dropped to the floor dead.
His face was bruised and scratched and
the woman's face was scratched too.
While the physician was examining the
body the woman took the suit case, and
saving she would spend the night with her
mother In New York and return ia the
morning, she went to the station and took
a westbound train. The death was not
reported to the police until after she bad
left town.
The body was removed to Knspp's morgue
and to-day an autopsy was made, which
showed that death had been caused by
the brain being pierced by some pointed
instrument, possibly a hatpin which was
found on the floor.
The woman had been seen about town for
some days, but it was not suspected that
Neil was her husband until last night. Il
is said they had been married four weeks
and that she form erly lived at Stamford
and before that at Coney Island.
II has been found out that Neil decided
his property here to his sister Nellie Of
New York in November and took the
original deed from the town clerks Office,
where it had been recorded, yesterday
afternoon. 1t is assumed that when this
deed came TO the eye Of Mrs. Neil il may
ave led TO q quarrel.
Chief Of Police Ritch OF Greenwich yes
terday came to Police Headquarters here
with a warrant for the arrest Of Mrs. Neil
on a charge Of manslaaghter sworn out
by Prosecuting Attorney Henry B. White
of Greenwich.
Detective Sergeant Butler was assigned
TO assist Chief Ritch. Mrs. Neil was arrest ed
at her mothers fat, 1856 East Ninety
fifth street. where Mrs. Neil had told the
doctor who was called when her husband
was found dead in Greenwich that she
was going.
She was hysterical. Mrs. Neil was
brought to Headquarters in a cab and her
record was taken. In view Of her hysterical
condition no questions were put to her,
AZ Chief Ritoh was advised by a police
surgeon that to do so would cause the
woman to collapse. She was taken in an
ambulance to the prison ward OF Bellevue
Hospital.