The evening world., 1911-03-18
CUSTOMS CLERK
SLAIN At REVEL
FOR W0MAN'S SAKE
Brother of Muldoon's Com
panion Turns st. Patrick Jubi-
lation Into a Tragedy.
SLABS HIM TO HEART.
Slayer FleeS After Fatal Blow
and EScapeS-Police Ar
rest Witnesses.
SLABS HIM TO HEART.

room OF Shea a. O'Toole's saloon on
tho northwest corner Of Lenox avenue
and One Hundred and Thirteenth street
struck up The Wearing OF the Green"
shortly after midnight to-day n party
o. -. Patrick's bay jewellers were
heEed up to a high pitch OF gayety.
Charles Muldoon OF No. S5S Gravesend
avenue. a Customs House clerk. q fine
LOOKING young man ~ about thirty. was
the life Of the party.
lie 1t vas who ordered that the stir
RI tune he ollyei again and his
voice doomed high In accompaniment
to the first few bar. of the music. Be-
fo:' t. big steel disc recu.l had com
pieted Its revolutions Muldoon lay dead
on the foe a stab wound through
his heart.
The murder was swiftly executed. The
murderer had stalked into the midst of
the revcl like a spectre, killing and flee
ing before the jewellers half realized
what had happened. l. is Charles Nc
Dermott OF No. 81 West one Hundred
and Twelfth street. and he killed Null
doom because OF his attentions to Mrs.
Katherine Mooney. his CMcDermott's)
sister. who was one ~. the party In
the back room.
Turns level to Murder.
McDermott came into the back roonl
with a face bla k WITH passion. His
right hand was deep IN the poke q.
his overcoat, gripping u knife. Bur so
hilarious were the mcrrymakers in the
place at the time that his entrance and
MS looks were scarcely noticed. Null
doom saw him and was not In the least
dismlyed.
Come join US. Mac" he cried out.
Have a drink and a song"
I'll have neither" said McDermott,
II came for my sister" Then he turned
to Mrs. Mooney and commanded: katy,
come home with M. This is no place
for a married woman. You and Null
doom know it,
Mrs. Mooney laughed scornful,y. Mul-
doom called OUT boisterously. can the
crouch, Mac; don't you know the day
1t Isl"
II want none o this said McDer-
mott huskily. "Therell be trouble here
IL Kitty Mooney don't come home"
"Ill not come home Till wish" re-
torted Mrs. Mooney, whereat she and
others lifted their vo.ces in sons again.
McDermott laid his hand ON his
sisters shoulder. Are YOU coming
home?" he asked.
Leave her alone. man." protested
Muldoon. Ills no way for a man to
act"
Plunges Knife in Heart.
From black McDermott's face turned
purple. The veins corded out on his
forehead as he stepped TO the side OF
Muldoon and bent over the table.
1t was not Till that momont that any
OF the Witnesses to the tragedy gave
heed or got ~ mixing OF the passions
tia. wore raging in the breast of Nc
Dcrmott, and before their senses cleared
the knife had struck II the happy
go-lucky Muldonn lay a corpse at the
feet OF the slayer.
Muldoon, say the witnesses. had no
warning before the kntte flashed above
his head and struck. lie didn't even
have an opportunity to put up his
hands. As he SPRAYED forward on the
floor and lay still McDermotl stood fol
a moment, gldring savagely at the
stunned and gasping hcn and women,
Then ne turned swiftly and hurried out
OF the saloon.
Tic music Dos was sin blarlnS away
and out at the bar beyond the pAcl
room doors there was loud laughter dnG
the cllnN OF glasses, This all changed
quickly to an uprOar and a babel of hys.
~torical voices.
Polio Rou,td Up Jewellers.
When Dr.. cole OF the Harlem Hos
p,ta; got 20 the place with his amhu
lance the uproar WAS SIN on and no,
hody seemed to know what had hap
pened and how. All the surgeon found
to do Was to pronounce MuldoOn dead
Before the police arrived all the wit
nesscs to the crime had fled. Thei
names were obtained n detectives ar
rested them at their homes.
Muldouu's body was AXE. to the sta
ton house.
Coroner Hallcns:eiu held an lnquir.
at the station house At q O'Clock tAi
> morning and heard the statements u
all the Witnesses rounded up by tn
police. lie ordered these detained: Jd
seph Dunn. No. ~ West one Hundre
= and twelfth street: James Heany, NJ
. 500 West one Hundred and Flfty-nrs
. street. Fred Sallade, No. 3l5 West On
hundred and Thirteenth street; Arthu
= Il. Dcnham, No. a. LenoN avenue; D,eu
Martin, NO. 81 West one Hundred an
= 1,Ne,ftn street. one or whose chillre
was cent to The Gerry society. Mir
Mooney and Annie Vaughan. n
= women were sent to the House OF -,
: tent,ou. ORDERS were given to kee
. Mrs. Mooney and Mrs, Vaughan, WI
. is said 20 re her sister, apart. The me
N gave bali