New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-16
TEXAS BOY KILLS WOMAN
Drops Revolver in Park Row and
Fatally Wounds NeWSdeaIer.
HERE TO SEE NEW YORK
Tells Police He Had Been Robbed
and Was Seeking Place to
Pawn Weapon.

just in from Texas. and carrying anout
the streets 4 revolver which ne wanted u
pawn for money enough 10 see New YORK
James Cullen Henderson. youth OF siA-
teen. accidentally killed a woman news
dealer in Park Row yesterday afternoon.
The woman was Mrs. Rose Malcbeode. thir-
tv-three wears old. OF No. y Roosevelt
street. who for several years has stood in
front of the Park Row Building in the az
ternoon selling newspapers TO the throngs
bound for the Brooklyn Bridge ana Inc
subway and elevated stations.
When the late afternoon rush was az It's
height Yesterday shot rang our and
woman shrieked and fell 20 the pavement
A seven-year-old boy who was sitting by
the woman on a campstool screamed and
a crowd began 70 collect The hundreds at
tracted by the shot saw a young man stoop
and grab something from the pavement and
then dash away toward Broadway and Ann
street
Detective Frank Allen and Patrolman Jo-
seph Finnegan had heard the shot and
reached the scene in time 10 notice me
Young man. pursued by hundreds. dashing
along the street.
They shouted 20 him 10 stop. and when
the fugitive saw the uniform Of the pa
trolnan he quit running He then handed
over 10 the patrolman a .3S-calibre re-
volver. fully loaded with the exception OF
one chamber. He was taken 10 the OAK
street station. where ne said that his home
was in san Antonio and told MS story.
According 10 his tale ne arrived yester-
dav from Galveston. Tex. on the steamer
Brazos OF the Mallory Line. He said he
was James Cullen Henderson. Of No. 5li
West Woodlawn street. san Antonio. Tex.
He mad started from Texas with about $40
his intention BEING 70 spend week IN TINS
CITY. on board ship he was robbed OF cot
This left his finances so low that upon
his arrival here he decided 10 pawn the re-
volver. which he had purchased IN Texas
He had read somewhere that drastic
measure regarding the carrying OF con-
cealed weapons had been recently passed
In this state He therefore carefully
wrspped the revolver in newspaper and
carried II in his hand 10 various pawn
shops along the Bowery and Park Row
The proprietors Of the loan establishments
refused 10 accept the revolver because Il
was loaded.
Disappointed az his failure to raise
funds. Henderson was strolling along lower
Park Row, when the revolver slid from the
paper and the fall on the pavement eX-
ploded one Of the cartridges. He did not
know that anybody had been struck by the
bullet. ne said. but was unable 90 control
the impulse 10 run.
When Mrs Malcheode fell 70 the sidewalk
several men hurried 10 her side and she
was taken into d drug store until an amDu-
lance arrived from the Volunteer Hospital
When she reached that institution she was
placed upon the operating table. The pny-
sicians said the bullet had entered her left
groin and that ner condition was serious.
She died four hours later
When Henderson. learned that woman
had been badly wounded 10y bullet from
his revolver he asked the police 10 send the
following telegram 20 mis- mother;
Dear Mamma. ] have. please remember,
unintentionally shot d newspaper woman.
Don get excited. j. n. HENDERSON-
Henderson told the police that he was
still a student and went 10 school. but
worked on holidays and during his vaca-
ton AZ a soda water fountain and had
earned the money which he was spending
on the trip.