The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-12
LED TO HIS
ARREST AS BURGLAR.
Dennis Mccarthy Fell and Broke Leg, Then
Had Police Arrest His Wife on Charge Of
sBigamy- an Dropped From
Third Story

| Lying nalI-dead and with n broken
1 leg IN the bottom of an open areaway
in the rear OF the Bailey Furniture
Company, 1905 East Main Street Den
mis- ]. Mccarthy, of Savannah, Ga, CALL
cd the police TO his rescue early yes
| terdaY morning. and was later arrest
ed on suspicion OF having attempted
70 commit burglary and Of being a
fugitive from justice from Georgia.
1 After being taken to the City Hos
pitai. where he was placed under
guard the man made. according to the
police. remarkable confession His
wife he declared. was a bigamist, her
hrst husband being Herman Murken
Of Savannah Mccarthy claims that he
ran away with her and married her in
baiumore. lie urged that She be also
arrested. though for what reason he
would not state, and Detective Ser
geant Wiley and Policeman Bradley
went later TO her room at 1410 East
sleep placed her under. arrest and
| locked her up in the First Police Sta
tion
! Officer Heard Screams.
The first alarm came about o'clock.
While Policeman Bradley was patrol
iing his beat He heard the screams
OF man in distress. and. after some
search, loca ted the sounds in the rear
OF the Bailey Furniture Company's.
|
not see the man, but Mccarthy, suffer-
ing from the shock of n fall from the
third story of the store and from his
broken leg, still shouted Justify for
/ help. He was down in the bottom
or the areaway. about Twenty-Five
teet from small porch in the rear
calling several negroes to his aid
Policeman Bradley procured ladder,
and with great difficulty brought Nc
Garthy to the surface To repeated
questions as to how he came to fail
Mccarthy answered that no had fallen
from the railing OF the rear porch, but
suspicion was aroused by the fact that
he was without his hat and one shoe
and by the fact that all the overhead
wires, three stories up. were broken
without further pnrley, the officer tel
ephoned for Detective Sergeant Wiley.
who was at the First Police Station.
Together they again questioned Nc
Curthy, but he still stuck TO his story.
The city ambulance was called, and
the man was placed under police guard
and turned over to the care of ambu-
lance Surgeon thurman. who took him
to the City Hospital
All Wires Were Broken
] Then Wiley and Bradley proceeded
TO make an investigation. They no
ticed again that all the electric light
ana telephone wires were broken as
II heavy body had fallen against
them, and later, as the dawn began to
break they saw the outline of q hat
hanging from the caves OF the roof
BY putting two ladders together, Po-
liceman Bradley assembled 10 the roof
and there found both McC'nrthy's hat
and missing shoe. From tho periIous
height the officer looked down ans
wondered how Mccarthy had escaped
with his life.
with this ample proof that the mans
l I'm, Is, \ u.
officers went to the city Hospital. and
confronted the injured man with the
evidence they had gained.
We'll l might as well tell the
truth he said turning in his bed lie
told them that. accompanied BY an
other man whom ne had met only n
short time before. and whose name he
did not know. he had climbed to the
top OF the roof to watch his wife the
window of whose room could be seen
from that point He denied emphatI-
cally that he had intended 10 commit
burglary He stated that he climbed
to the roof by the gutter pipe. but the
officers discredit this part of his story.
for IT seemed to them a human impos-
slnility for any man to climb three
stories BY the slender gutter pipe they
saw Their theorytis that he scaled
the walls of the house adjoining. 40,
East Main Street. by climbing from
one window to the other until he had
reached the second story, and then
reached out and climl. ed the rest or
the way by the pipe E
Lost His Balance.
On the roof Mccarthy. after taking
off his hat and shoe, with the intention
apparently of taking off both shoes.
lost his balance and fell. He clutched
| II the wires as he dropped. and one
by one they gave way beneath his
weight, On the last wire, large in
sulated one. he dangled a few minutes
before IT broke. and then he dropped
sheer into the deep areaway He said
that he shouted and screamed for
| twenty minutes before his cries were
! answered His companion. he stated,
climbed down and deserted hirn
In his anxiety to have his wife ar
rested Mccarthy told the story of
/ their runaway marriage which she
later admitted TO be true. Her first
| husband. both say is Herman Murken,
i who lives at 53S East Gordon street,
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