New-York tribune., 1910-08-29
KILLED THROUGH PEEPHOLE
Barkeeper. Answering Call, Gets
Two Bullets in the Heart.
SUSPECT Is UNDER ARREST
Woman Says Two Men Fled
One, Prisoner, Once Wounded
by Murdered Man.

William Lennon. Of No. $50 West 18th
street night bartender in the saloon Of
Patrick = Gil1nartin AZ No 5SI West +5th
street was shot down in cold blood yes
terday morning al O'Clock when he an
swered summons TO the side door. The
two bullets which entered his heart were
fred through the slide peephole"
through which il was his custom TO scrutt-
nize intending customers before unlocking
the door.
The deliberate manner Of the killing par
allels the murder of Antonio and John Di
Leo on the Sunday previous In the rear
room Of the saloon al No. 335 East 18TH
street In bo-h cases the murderers shot
their victims without warning and made
their escape before spectators Of their
crimes could interfere
In the case of Lennon the police. guided
by information supplied by TWO women who
were in the neighborhood at the time he
was shot down. took two men into custody,
one Of whom was known to have had q
grudge against the dead man. He is George
Gallagher alias Red alias ''Newburg'
Gallagher. said to he 4 member Of the
Gopher gang" Lennon shot him in the
same saloon last MAY. when he thought an
attempt was about TO he made to hold him
up Gallagher is twenty-nine years old
and lives al No. i3s West 9Th street
In GaIIagher's company when he was
arrested, few hours after Lennon vas
killed. was Martin Brennan. alias Martin
Brown twenty-five years old, of No. 53S
West 39th street.
Gallagher and Brennan were held by Cor
oner HeIlenstein and remanded to the
Tennis without bail. charged with homicide,
on snort affidavit signed by Detective
Edward Caretti of the fourth branch detec-
tive bureau.
According to three men who were in the
back room OF Gilmartins saloon at the
time the murder of Lennon was deliberate
and premedftated. They are Simon Fitz-
simmons. Daniel Smith and Thomas Gil
martin. all Of whom were held in the House
OF Detention as material witnesses
Lennon was in the barroom doing the
customary cleaning up preparatory 70 end
ing his nights work. when some one
knocked at the side door and a voice called
out
Hello. Lennon; open up 80
Stepping into the rear room, Lennon
walked toward the door opening upon the
vestfhuIe leading TO the side door of the
saloon Sliding back the panel to look
over the persons oILsElS- 1T N6S b-lliA~N
by a fash and staggered back with bullet
in his heart There was a second fash and
q second bullet found the same spot As
he fell 70 the floor the three men sitting in
the roou7. jumped 10 their feet and scurried
for places Of safety.
There was a scufling of feet in the vesti-
b1lle the outside door slammed shut, and
footsteps were heard Of some one running
avav The three men then summoned the
police and an ambulance call was sent 70
Flower Hospital The ambulance surgeon
said Lennon was killed instantly.
At this point the information Of the po-
lice is supplied by TWO women, Mamie Han
Ion. nineteen wears old. of No 449 West
;5th street, and Eliza beth Clarkson, whose
address was not given out. but who De
tective Caretti says will testify at the Coro-
ner's inquest
Miss CIarkson. Caretti informed Coroner
Feuenstein. said she heard the voice of
Gallagher calling Lennon 10 the side door
lust before she heard the TWO shots.
Miss Hanlon was passing the saloon or
the opposite side Of the street when she
heard the shots. Startled. she stopped and
saw two men emerge from the side door
one of them carrying a smoking revolver
They ran toward Eleventh avenue and
disappeared around lHe tpiltSi. buI iioN
before she had seen enough Of them 70
describe their appearance to the police
when they arrived on the scene
The description Of one Of the men tailed
with Gallagher and. with the shooting Of
last May in mind, Sergeant McGrath. of
the West 9Th street station, and Detectives
Walsh and Caretti hurried 10 a saloon in
West 34th street. known TO be one OF Gal
.-Ear1cr-O-JrS
Both Gallagher and Brennan stoutly as
serted their innocence. but were taken 70
the West 37th street station. There Miss
Hanlon identified them as the men she had
seen running away.
While he was waiting for the Coroner's
arrival Gallagher who was handcuffed 10
Brennan settled comfortably into a chair
and fell asleep. Although Brennan IS
heavily built. Gallagher is taller and more
burly. and has faring red hair. He has
not been long out of the hospital, where he
spent several weeks as the result Of the
bullet wound received in the alteration
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