The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-17
ROSENTHAL MURDER RECALLS
 SHARKEY'S JAIL DELIVERY

The recent Roeenthal murder in New York, and the subsequent in calls a similar case of forty years ago. Indeed. today is the fortieth anni- versary of the deliberate and cold olooded murder of Robert S. Dunn, a gambler. by William J. Sharkey, a ward heeler during the palny days of the Tweed ring in New York. The quarrel between the politician and the gambler arose from a gambling debt which Sharkey alleged that Dunn owed him The details of the crime were not greatly different from the staying of Rosenthal although of of course mo murder car'' entered in ito the arrangements Sharkey, perhaps like those~w4ho planned the killing Of Rosenthal expected to fget away with it' through his political in- fluence The assassin was of a we'll to-do family. and a personal friend the uncrowned king of Manhattan. He was what would now be called a classy dresser. hail-fellow- we'll met and was immensely popular in sporting and political circles. Despite his pull with the powers that ruled New York. his crime was so cold thrown intto jail There he was so insoIent and ungovernable that he was kept in close confinement.
 And now enters the woman in the -'cherchez Ia femme we find her in Miss Maggie Jordan, lovely young woman to whom Sharley. in his days of freedom had paid marked atten- tfons. In fact. they were sweethearts, perhaps engaged Miss Jourda n g love for her imprisoned suitor was such that she found it<in her heart to forgive his hesnous crime. and even to plot for his escape. It was on a. morning over a year after the murder that ehA was admitted to the jail to see Sharkey. in accordance with her custom She talked with him through the bars Two hours later Mrs Wes- on a burglary charge. entered the prison An hour later thickly veil ed woman left the jail, surrendering Mrs Aliens pass ticket When a lit tie later it was found that the real Mrs. Allen was still in the building, and when asked for her pass she ex- plained that she had lost it:
 It developed that Maggie Jourdan had brought Sharkey outfit of woman,s clothes and had passed them to him through the bars. at the same time supplying him with a key that opened his cell How she got the key remains a mystery Mrs. Allen had been induced to take part in the plot by Miss Jourdan. and had slipped was necessary because she was a large woman auot known to the gate keep was well known to all the officials of the jail The clothes supplied to her lover by Miss Jourdan were exactly like those worn by Mrs. Allen, which aided in the deception
 Sharlxey. the murderer made good his escape-perhaps the police, boss controlled. did not make strenuous efforts to prevent his getaway-and fled to Cuba Maggie Jourdan was arrested. but was never punished for her comPlicity in the plot Later she went to Cuba to join the man She had freed. but it is alleged that he re- pulsed his benefactress. Later she married an actor
 When Iast heard of Sharkey was in Spain, working common labOrer. There was some talk of his extradi- rIon but it ended in talk. Since Shar- keys exploit, only three prisoners have succeeded in escaping from the Tombs, the last occurrence of this kind hav- fnz-+taken place this month when Reynolds F-rosbrey took French leave of the noted New York jail