The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-26
SIX CHILDREN SEE.
= MOTHER STABBED,
/. FATHER LOCKEDUP
Annie Gillen, Aged IS, Crap
Piled With Father and Over
came Him Too Late. .
After she had son ner father dragged

After she had sUn ner father dragged
away by the police from the wrath Of
angry nelghbors and had visited her
mother. dying in Bellevue Hospital from
wounds ne had inflicted. Annie Gillen,
eighteen years old. turned to her three
weeping sisters and two brothers early
this morning ana said to her sister Flor
enoe. fourteen:
Flo. you look after the Riddles and
don't let them cry. I'm going to work.
I'll have TO earn food for US ALL"
without realizing she was doing .
heroic thing. Annie put on her hat and
started for work. whe she reached the
street she broke down and burst into
tears for the frs; time.
Annie's father, Frank Gillen, who Is
forty-two, has not worked for go long
he forge.s what he is. The nelghbors
say he has not done q stroke in a dozen
years. Meanwhile the mother, Molly
forty. has worked In the day as
laundress and at night as an ONCE
cleaner. has reared a family Of six and
has never had the courage to refuse ncr
husband part Of her hard earned money
each night when he demanded II.
Three years ago Annie began to work
TO help her mother keep thinss together
IN their little four-room fiat on the
ground floor at No. 49, West Fortie;h
street. and she objected to the nightly
drink doles to her father.
REFUSED DRINK MONEY, RE.
TURNED TO KILL.
IA IL
last night Annie pushed him into the
kitchen and told him to leave of both
er,ng people" Then Mrs. Glllen. her
sister, Mrs. MacHare, Annie. Florence.
Kate, nine: Frances. eight; Sonny. six,
and Frank. two. went to bed in the
front room locking themselves in.
About go O'Clock this morning Glllen
demanded admittance and was refused.
Then he climbed In at the window. As
he did so Annie awoke and saw that
ne had a hatchet in his hand.
The girl sprans out of bed and Crap
pied with him. In the scuffle he dropped
the hatchet and Annie seized 1t. Gillen
then drew butchers feshtng knife
with a sharp six-inch blade. she after
ward told the police. and tried to reach
his wife.
Mrs. Glllen, thinking Annie was be-
ing attacked. pushed herself between
her husband and her daughter. Helped
by her aunt and sister. Annie managed
TO overpower her father and as she
held him cried to her mother to escape
through the window.
=. Thu woman imbed ,ut and collapsed
on the pavement. She had been stabbed
three times. tho doctors found--once
over the.heart. once in the side lust I'M
der the heart and once In tho back. this
wound penetrating the lungs. the doc
tors fear.
Father bergen OF st. Raphael's
Church, Forty-hrst street. gave the
woman the last rites OF the church as
she lay on tho sidewalk and DIR. Ward
OF the New York Hospital took her to
Bellevue.
When Policemen Mulcahey and Gaffey
went for Gilien in the kitchen, where
he HAD hidden, they expected he might
attack them AS tncy opened the door
the man fell on his knees and begged
them not to beat him. The patrolmen
had considerable difficulty In getting him
away from the ne!ghbors and took him
10, the West Thirty-seventh street sta
ton.
Where she worked and how much she
earned Annie would not tell. She feared
the publicity might cause her 20 lose her
COB, she said.