The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
WOMAN HELD FOR HOMICIDE
ACCUSED OF CAUSING TIE DEATH
or MRS. O.. 8. STONE.

ACCUSED or al
or MRS. q. 5. STONE.
Attacked Her IN street ami Knocked
Hcr Down -vtcum the wlfe OF an
Oid Time Police Clerk Prisoner IL
Married to . Racing sheet writer.
Mrs. Laura B. Stone. the wife of George
g. Stone, who has been a clerk at Police
H~eadquarters for nearly thirty years, died
OF cerebral hemorrhago about a o'clock
yesterday morning In her apartment at 8
West Sixty-third street. A few hours later
Coroner Dooley ordered the arrest OF Mrs.
Elizabeth Mcdonald. whose husband, Jim,
IN q bookmaker's sheet writer and race
track follower. Mrs. Mcdonald was held
on q charge of homicide and locked up In
the Tombs in default Of o.. 800 bail.
Late Friday afternoon Mrs. Stone. who
was a large. handsome woman with reddish
hair and q fine c~omplexton. ran into the
West SIXTY eighth street station crying.
She carried a battered picture hat In n
hand, her hair was museed and her clothing
was rumpied and disaxranged Mrs. Stone
told Capt. Halpin that Mrs. Mcdonald,
who lived on the third floor Of the apart
ment house at . West Siaty third street.
just above her own apartment, met her In
Sixty-third street between Broadway and
Central Park West. sccused her Of flirting
with Mcdonald and running around with
him. struck her in the face and knocked
her down.
Capt. Halpin saw that she was unstrung
and excited. She told him that her heast
was bad and that she could hardly breathe.
HA toll hDv 10 ~, h0upa Ard faGA thtnOa
easy and he would send a detective around.
Joe Gassmsp, a plain clothes man, went
around to the apartment house and auee-
toned Mrs. Mcdonald. The woman had
BEEN drinking, Gassmar said, and her left
eye was discolored. She said the black
eye was q present from her husband. the
sheetwriter, who struck her with his nst
on the night Of July 3. She had seen him
drinking beer with Mrs. Stone in . Columbus
avenue restaurant early In the evening,
che said, and when he came home she started
in telling him what she thought about such
goinss on. Mcdonald merely remarked
her in the eye.
AS God is my witness, officer" she said
to Gsssman, Jim Is a lovely fellow and
there wouldn't never have been nothing
between US II IL hadn't been for that womag
below. Nov he's left home and I sint
seen him since. It's all her fault and I
didn't do nothing to her that any other
lady wouldn't have done. ! pulled her hat
over her eyes and gave her a little push
just 4 that.
.She's been running down to the O
track with Jim and he's been blowing money
on her that ought to nave been spent for
groceries. h got the late suppers
the hanson rides and the attentions that
Wild
Gassman asked her Why abe had been
drinking. -Sinoe Jim left me I've had to
do something to distract my thoughts"
she said. Mrs. Mcdonald promised TO let
Mrs. Stone alone. but after another talk with
town with her yesterday morning and get
a warrant for Mrs. McDonald's arrest. Mrs.
Stone declared that she was afraid Mrs.
Mcdonald would kill her.
When Stone got home that evening his
wife showed him bruises on her knees and
when Mrs: Mcdonald pushed. her. She
$50 O'Clock yesterday morning she awoke
and ask 9 her husband 20 get her q drink
Of water. After she drank it she could
hardly get her breath: Stone hurriedly
dressed, got a cab and drove around to the
West Sixty-eighth street station, where he
found Police Surgeon Nesbit, who accom-
panied him back to the house. Mrs. Stone
was 9 when they returned.
SOIOhpt bOOlDy Nkab oUOuG LII
Mrs. Bessie Simmons Of is West Eighty
fourth street had to say, and then ordered
Mrs. Mcdonald arrested. She was ar
raigned In the West Side court and remanded
on a short affidavit TO the Coroners' ONCE.
h didn't know that Mrs. Stone was dead
until the Coroner informed her. Then she
denied that she had struck Mrs. Stone. Mrs.
Simmons made an affidavit before the
Coroner in which she stated that she and
Mrs. Stone were together Friday afternoon
When Mrs. Mcdonald ran up and began to
abuse Mrs. Stone. Mrs. Stone started 70
run. and Mrs. Mcdonald followed her. Mrs.
Simmons saw Mrs. Stone fall on the side
walk and noticed at the same instant that
Mrs. McDonald's arms were extended.
Mrs. Mcdonald, who 10 q small blonde,
owned two houses at Princeton, N. j., and
wanted him TO accept them as security for
her bail bond.
Coroner's Physician Leblanc removed the
body Of Mrs. Stone from the apartment
house to Roosevelt Hospital and performed
an autopsy. Death was caused by cerebral
hemorrhage which had been brought on,
he thought. by a severe shock. There were
bruises on tho woman's knees and elbows,
but no marks Of any kind on her head.
Stone said yesterday that Mrs. Mcdonald
was very exoitable and jealous and had
accused his wife wrongfully. He denied
hat his wife had ever gone about with
Mcdonald or given Mrs. Mcdonald cause
for complaint.
Stone is now record clerk In the Police
Department. He was appoin ted january
rs, 1878, as deputy chief clerk. He is 6s
years old. t~wenty-eight years older than
his wife.