Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03
WOMAN CUT TO DEATH
Found With Six Stab Wounds in
Her Body.
HUSBANDS STRANGE STORY
Besides the Injuries the Body Was a
Mass of Bruises.
HUSBANDS STRANGE STORY
NEIGHBORs TELL OF QUARREL
They Say They Heard Scufaing Dur
ing the Night and Demand
for Money.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 3.-Mrs. Catherine Kill
loran, twenty-nine years old, was found
stabbed to death in her home on the fourth
floor of 4O3 East 146th street, this MORN
ing. There were six stab wounds in her
body, five in the back of her head and
one over her right eye The room in which
she was found was Uttered with glass and
broken bric-a-brac, as if a hard struggle
had occurred there. The police have de-
tanned James Killoran, a foreman in the
McAdoo tunnel, the husband of the woman,
and Peter Heeney of 645 East 146th street
as a witness.
Policeman Alexander Brown of the Alex
ander Avenue station first notified of
the murder by Killoran himself. Killoran
and Heeney approached Brown at 146th
street and Willis avenue, and Kiloran
asked Brown If he knew where a physician
could be found for his wife, Brown wanted
to know what was the matter. Killoran
said that his wife had met with an injury.
The policeman went with the two men
to the fourth floor of 4O3 East 146th street,
and on the floor of the kitchen discovered
the body of Mrs. Killoran. Besides the
stab wounds the body was mass OF
bruises.
Child Crying for Mother.
On the bed was the womans son James,
not much over three years old, who was
unhurt. but crying softly for his mother.
Brown then turned to killoran and ques-
toned him. whereupon the man told
strange story According to Brown, klllo-
ran said that he reached home late yester-
day afternoon, retired to bed early, ana
was awakened at 2 o'clock this morning by
the sound of some one knocking at the
door. He said, according to Brown, that
he asked his wife for the key to the door,
which she refused to give him. Then he
dropped off to slumber again, but was
awakened a little later by scuff1ing. He
sprang out of bed and ran to the kitchen,
where he found his wife on the kitchen
floor. Then he got the keys, and, opening
the door, went out to get help.
Hceney declared that all he knew about
the matter was that Killoran came to him
asking him to get physician for his wife.
William Flynn, who resides the fourth
floor adjoining the Killoran apartments.
said he arrived home at II o'clock last
night. He at once went to bed, but at
o'clock this morning he was awakened by
a sound of scuffling and woman's voice
Sdy ing Leave ulc tiioIS, you Will lul lllt
child"
Baby Couldn't Tell.
Then a mans voice is alleged to have
cried: You have fooled me long enough"
After which there were groans followed
by footballs the floor, if some one
walked around in the room. Flynn also
asserted according to the police, that he
heard water running.
Martin Costello, who lived on the fourth
floor front. said he heard noise as if
some one was knocking at the door and a
moment afterward a mans voice asking
for money. He heard reply in the wo-
mans voice that she would get the money
directly Costello thought. say the police,
that he heard noises which might have
been blows.
There was no knife found anywhere in
the apartment of the Kilorans with which
the stabbing might have been done. The
police however, found a letter written
May 20, in which the writer-the signature
was Observation-Disclosures to a woman re-
questing her to return and get all the
things belonging to her.
The police questioned the child, who is
believed by them to have been eye-wit-
ness of what went on in the house. but
the boy is only a baby, what he said was
of little moment.