The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-07
TO RAISE MONEY
:
WILLING TO DIE
A Fathers Plot Of Murder and
Suicide.
NEEDED CASH TO BURY his CHILD.

Gregory Kelly Fires Revolver At
Chophouse-Keeper Who Refused
TO Employ Him-Tries To End
His Own Life To Collect Insur-
ance Money To Save His Baby
From Potter's Field-Says World
Was Against Him.
New York Especially When Greg
CRY Kelly. waiter out of work.
walked into Hickey's old chophouse
In John Street he intended to kill
himself, $50 that the 1926 insurance
on his life might save his little
daughter from burial in potter's
aeld. He had planned, however, that
before firing the bullet into his own
brain he would take the life of Fred
erick Biscottee, the manager Of the
restaurant, and thus. as he believed.
avenge the death of his four-month-
old child.
The shot from Kelly's revolver
missed the managers head by the
fraction of an inch and he was over
powered before he could turn the
weapon upon himself. He is now
An Bellevue Hospital, pending an ex-
animation into his sanity, while not
far from him, in the Morgue, lies
the body of the daughter whose
threatened burial In pauper's lot
apparently had driven him to des-
peration.
Kelly had been discharged from
the restaurant about year ago.
Since then the chophouse has chang
ed hands and Kelly had applied reg
mlarly to be taken back to work.
When he entered the restaurant 1t
was ful of diners He walked to
Biscottee and made his customary
request The manager put him on.
do you intend to take me back
to work." he asked.
mo-" said the manager, and then
Kelly whipped out his revolver. Bis
coffee ducked and the bullet buried
atsel1 In the wall. Kelly was then
0verpowered.
In his pocket was this letter, writ
ten In good. legible hand:
ssTo the Press and the Public:
IT am writing this in justification
Of what am about to do and to
avenge the murder and give proper
burial to by baby girl, lying dead
In Bellevue Hospital, in the mOrgue.
/ also hope that the city officials will
inspect conditions as they are now
ct said hospital that will allow a
dying infant of four months to be
put out in the streets.
"a strong, healthy child was
stricken with pneumonia. November
20. On November 20, with blood
running from the ears from hemor-
image and fits of conclusive coughing,
my wife was ordered to take her out.
She protested, saying she was not
cured. They said they needed the
bed and she must go.
Finding her pleadings of no
avail, my wife bright her to cold,
damp basement, where we live. She
lay there three weeks. Believing 1ker
to be dying on December %, my
wife, through the help of relief So
cfety, got her admitted again to the
same ward (B 81 that they put her
out Of three weeks before. She made
q hard fight for life, but was not
given half chance.
"The men who kept me out of
work and left NE in this condition
without money TO call in doctor or
live in decent rooms are her MUIR
derers, and with them / will settle.
/ am not lazy or shiftless, but save
my money when given a chance to-
work. AS evidence of this can re-
fer to the New York Savings Bank.
where I had on deposit 1925 on De-
cember Is, 1907. That was the saw
ings of eight months work in the
chop house at William and John
Streets. They have barred me out.
Now all / get is promises and insults.
'.sAs they refuse to let me work
and live they shall not live. My wife
has done all that any woman could
do. Her devotion to Toodle, our
baby. was pathetic. The sacrifices
she made, the hard work she has
done, the lack of proper food ruined
her health until now, afflicted with
tuberculosis, it would kill her to see
Toodles go to the Potter's Field.
believe it my duty to die and save
her that disgrace. My life is insured
for $500 in the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company. / want to be
buried in the same casket with my
baby and I trust that the undertaken
who buries us will be reasonable and
leave my wife little to live on.
Gregory Kelly,
"333 West Twenty-ninth. Basement.
In another of Kelly's pockets was
this letter addressed to the Metro
uolitan Life Insurance Company:
KINDLY pay to my wife, Catherine
Kelly, my insurance, about 5000, in
Guiding the per cent. bonus, as my
policy has been issued seven years
ago. September s, 1902, and save
my baby from the Potter's Field"
Cuts Her Lovers Throat.