The sun., 1908-02-11
QUEENE SHOT ON THE TRAIL
MUFF HIDDEN REVOLVER KILLS
HER IN A CAR.
She and Five Comrades were Quitting
Chinatown &C Q o'clock In the Morning
Accident, Apparently, That Gun IN An
other GlrlI Keeping was Discharged.

Accident. Apparently That Gum IN An
other GlrIS Keeping was Discharged.
A girl was killed yesterday morning on
the well beaten trail that leads from tn .
Tenderloin to Chinatown. She was shot in
a Second avenue car In which she and Ave
friends were moving nOrthward at O'Clock
in the morning. Her body was pulled on
the car and left on the trail by the men in
the party, who got away. Two women
also tried to get away, but they were cap
tured. Il was one OF the women who had
shot her, although apparently it was an
accident.
just who Queenie was before she passed
up her right name 10 favor Of that one the
police didn't find out at once. But last night
Mrs. Matthew Callahan, who has boarding
house At 10 East Tenth street, went to the
MorClS and identinod the body as that Of
Annie Coming. - years old. and recently
employed az q maid In the Chelsea Hotel on
West Twenty-third street Mrs. Callahan
said the girl had stayed in her house every
once Ia q while when out Of employment.
She camo here some time ago from q town
in Delaware, whose name Mrs. Callahan
did not know.
Queenie, a girl whose name the police
got as Mabel Cuzze and three young men
whom Chinatown knew az Chop Suey.
Eddie and Harry. foregathered at Chick
Turner'S, Twenty-eighth street and Sixth
avenue, on Sunday evening. and after
pIentifully supplying themselves with neces-
saries for the journey started for China
town. Arrived down in the back room Of
Callahsn's, q favorite stop for frequenters
OF the trail and those who look for scenery.
the party met another girl, known a. Rose
Mcguire, who gave her address as 354 West
Eighteenth street.
Rose had come from a ball at Tammany
Hall. Not liking her friends she joined the
other party. They had a merry time Of
it then. especially when the young man
known as Chop Suey, and who was sum
ciently conspicuous in a light gray over
coat, made good and opened a pint before
starting northward.
Il was just beginning to be light when
they started back over the trail and boarded
a Second avenue car at Bayard street and
the Bowery. Queenie and Rose took seats
on the left side Of the car with two OF the
men. The Cuzze girl and the young man
in the gray overcoat seated themselves
across the aisle a little nearer the front.
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men sitting beside Queenie toppled over
onto her lap from the effects Of hard travel.
Queenie deftly extracted his watch, fob and
pin while he lay thus and laughingly tossed
them over to another girl
Hes down and out" said Queenie, who
seemed to have more spirits than any o ne
else in the crowd.
At times the party made such a racket
that the conductor. John J. Sullivan. hau
70 speak to them. The young man in the
gray overcoat produced a pint bottle OF
champagne he had bought and hadn't
who sat next to him to help along the merry
making. Folks in the car feared that
fight was going TO start then, but the Italian
took it good naturedly.
Watch me give him shave, shouted
Chop Suey as he brandished the bottle.
but the girl beside him stopped him and
at that he made a grab for the gray nun
in her lap. The girl had both her hands in
il and as he reached for il she stood up
As she did 30 there was a report and a fash
seemed to come from the mutt Queenie.
sitting diagonaly opposite, rose to her
feet, and those in the car saw her put her
hand up to her side. I'm shot. she said.
Then she pitched forward and fell on the
floor OF the car
The girl from whose muf the flash had
come sat down with a scream. As she did
so there dropped on the floor, according
to one of the passengers. a revolver which
the man with the gray coat picked up quick
as fash and tucked up his sleeve.
The car had stopped by this time. II was
then at Second avenue and Eighth street.
There were perhaps thirty persons all told
in the car Apparently they all lost their
heads and made for the street except the
men with the three girls. Two of them
picked up Queenies limp body-it was
curled up in heap on the floor at their
feet-and made for the rear door.
Nobody stopped them. They brushed
by the conductor and In another second
had reached the gutter on the east side Of
the avenue.
There they dropped Queenie. her head in
a pile Of snow and ice and her rose trimmed
picture hat beside her. The three men
darted across the avenue and were last
seen hotfooting it west through Eighth
street.
The two other girls followed the men
OF the car and without stopping to look at
the heap in the gutter they started to run
up Second avenue. One OF the passengers
on the car, Samuel LippschitZ. a letter
carrier. OF 400 Seventh avenue, Brooklyn.
had come to by this time. He saw the two
girls running, sprinted, caught them after
a short chase and held them until Policeman
Faber Of the Fifth street station came along.
He pointed out the Cuzze girl as the one
who had shot the other.
Il never shot any one in my life" said
the girl.
Queenie's body was taken to the Fifth
street station and later to the Morgue.
On her finger she wore plain gold ring
marked "A. ID. to c."
The two girls were taken before Coroner
Shrady in the afternoon. Although the
girl who gave her name as Cuzze had re-
fused to answer any questions to the po-
lice she finally told the Coroner that she
had had a revolver in her muf and that
when her companion had tried 90 grab
her nun the gun had gone OF. She said
that Just before they had got on the car
the man she called Chop Suey had handed.
the revolver TO her with the remark: Here
you keep this for me until ask for it, IL
might get me into trouble and II the police
caught me with il I'd be sent up"
The Cuzze girl insisted that the revolver
had dropped out Of her mum before IL went
of. According to the story told by the
letter carrier and the other girl however,
the fash came from the muf. The police
found the mum on the sidewalk. but there
was no smell Of powder about it. In the
car was a pocket handkerchief which the
letter carrier said the man with the Cuzze
girl had dropped.
The two girls insisted TO the Coroner
that the men were only chance aoQuaint-
anoes and that they did not know their
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