The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-13
Doctor. Going Home, Finds
Two Servants Dead.
EVIDENCE OF HARD CONFLICT.
Aged Woman Victim Had Been In tho
Physieian's Employ Forty Years.
Dead Butler Hindoo-Crine of
ThieVes-Money Missing.

New York. May 10.-Nfiss Margaret
Mechnes, who had been housekeepei' in
the home of DR.. Mott ID. Cannon at
l31 West One Hundred and Twenty
second street, for forty years, and vii.
liam Beeman, Hindoo, who went to
work ON Saturday as butler, were
found badly beaten and shot to death
in the house late yesterday afternoon
when DR. Cannon returned from max
ing calls. About 5000 was missinr
from dresser i'm Dr. Cannon's room.
From the facts at hand last night the
police concluded that the housekeerei.
and butler had been killed by burglars
Miss Mechnes, who was sixty-nlla
years old and frail. was found lyia- in
the front parlor she had been shot
through the mouth. the bullet splittia.
her false teeth and finally falling to
the floor near where she lay. One of
her eyes was discolored and a deep
wound in the back of her head ap-
peared to involve a fracture of the
skull. The furniture and other articles
in the rooms on the floor where she
lay seemed to be in perfect order
There was every indication that she
had been killed where she lay.
Beeman, the butler, was lying just
inside the door leading from the base
ment to the street There were six
deep wounds on his head. two of which
appeared TO be bullet holes. One was
beside the right temple and the other
behind the right ear. Two of the 9th
er wounds, which were such as might
have been made by an iron bar, were
on the right side of his head and two
were on his forehead. Evidently he
also had fallen where he was shot.
Beside Beeman lay DR.. Cannon's re-
volver, which had been kept in an un-
locked drawer Of his dresser. Three
cartridges had been exploded. DR..
Cannon said the pistol had not been
fired before in ten years. The pistol is
of 80, the same caliber as the bullet
found beside Miss Mechnes None OF
the missing money nor the six stick
pins, which were missing from DR..
CannOn's room were found in the Hin
doo's pockets.
Police Inspector Hussey, Captain
Carey of police headquarters and Cap
tain Kuhne of the Harlem detective
bureau, thought the indications pointed
to burglars as soon as the extent of
the injuries of the dead persons
were noted, and this impression was
OF fr.an nfrth Trhn
up in a room on the top floor an early
edition of an afternoon paper, which
looked as if Jimmy might have been
wrapped up in it. DR. Cannon was
sure that no member of his household
had brought that particular newspa-
per in. No evidence of the use of
jimmy for the purpose of getting into
the house was found, but force had
been used TO open a drawer Of the
physicians dresser, from which 500
was taken. The other 500 was taken
from miniature gas stove which was
used as a bank and stood on the
dresser
DR.. Cannon is a widOwer, his wife
having died over year ago after hav-
ing been an invalid for years. Miss
Mechnes had been her nurse and had
been in DIR. Cannon's employ before
he was married.
The Cannon home is the most strik
ing residence in the section between
LenOX and Seventh avenues. II Is
built of Indiana limestone and is in
great contrast to the other houses.
which are nearly all brownstone
houses. The Cannon house is the only
one in the block with bay window
and would at once attract the attention
Of persons who were looking for
likely place i'm which to find yaluablcs
JUDGE WAS SCORCHING.