New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-19
StrangIed to Death by Rope Tied
to Door, She Is Found Near
Dead Man.
PAIR HAD LIVED ALONE
Another Brother, Suspicious
Aroused by Dark House, Calls
Police to Help Him Force
an Entrance.

Born in the same house. at No POI
Livingston street, Brooklyn, a brother
and a sister were found there dead last
evening The sister had committed sui
eide by hanging following the death
from natural causes of her brother. She
was Lucy r. McMullen, fifty years
old. He was Louis McMullen. forty-six.
whose father for thirty years was an
Appraiser of the Port of New York. The
dead man had studied, but had never
practised, law. but for a time was under
the late James w. Ridgway, District
Attorney of Kings County.
Harry McMullen, a brother, who is in
the dental supply business at No. 167
Baltic street, Brooklyn. was instrumental
III the finding of the bodies. The family
was wealthy once. Recently things had
not gone so well with the McMullens.
peculiar affection existed between
the dead brother and sister. The other
memoirs Of the family had married or
had drifted away from the old home, but
Louis and Lucy. devoted TO the old
house, made a pact to live there to-
gether alone to the end OF their days,
without thinking much Of the outside
world.
Louis, a few years ago, became i'll.
The physicians talked of a complication
of diseases Harry often visited his sis
ter and brother. He called there on
Saturday Last evening he went to the
old home. The house was in darkness.
He became alarmed. and went to the
/ Dc, ~
Strench and Murray were sent around
TO the house with him. They raised a
window on the ground floor and entered
the place. In a front room on the sec
ond floor they found Louis McMullen's
| body lying on the floor He had evil
IDENTIFY been stricken in an armchair and
! had slid to the floor.
| In a rear room the sister was found.
A rope was cutting her throat. She had
! tied herself to d door knob. 1t must
! have taken her long time, a physician
said, to strange herself. The wOman's
he'd was disarranged. The mans had
! been occupied. on his bed his evening
! clothes were found, nearly arranged.
Detectives Duffy and Manning, of the
Rrool<lvn Detective Bureau, went to the
house later in the night and found long
letter written in Miss McMullen's hand
writing The letter was addressed to
no one and had been placed on bu-
roam with the evident intention that it
should be read by whoever found ii. The
| letter read, in part. as follows;
..T o,,is delirious all night. He slipped
from the chair and l tried TO get him up
t,t could not. and he died this morning
He was good and kind TO me. and
tboupht everything that was good.
"Our lives together were pure and ne
wouId not approve of me doing anything
wrong NV mother tried to make another
will and I'm sorry now that l did not
! oo,sept as she had always told me to
A. che right thing and the best in every
thing.
| ~ y,orId like TO go back, as Louis had
h.en tender and loving and had deplored
any, change In me. He was absolutely
irnocent II any wrongdolhg III my hlotn-
er's estate, and always hhu pef.eSt lal,ii
| in me when ] found thai mao iost the
| last chance 10 sell the mouse IL was a
great shock TO me, and one from Wnlch L
| have never recovered ] was mace TO
aLuear Incorporate and insane III was
a strange punishment. -,
ct have acted strangely, TOT my head
has moi been right for some Time I've
been selfish, and I'm sorry LOT II now