New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02
REJECTED BY WIDOW,
POLICEMAN KILLS SELF
Sends Bullet Into Brain as
Woman Walks Away After
Refusing Him.
ENDS LIFE AT HER FEET
Quinlish, Veteran of Brooklyn
Force, Desperate at Vain
Efforts to Win Her
Consent to Wed. ,

Efforts to Win Her
Consent to Wed.
Made desperate by his love for Mrs
Leischa De Lacey, widow of a fireman
who was killed in the Equitable Build
ing fire, in January, 1912. Daniel 5.
| Quinlish. patrolman attached to tho
Butler street police station. in Brook
! lyn. and himself widoYer, shot him
self behind the left ear last night in the
apartments of William Hannah. at No.
! IL Butler street. He fell dead almost
at the feet of Mrs. De Lacey. who was
visiting at the Hannah home.
A minute before he sent the bullet
crashing into his brain. Quinlish had
| proposed marriage TO the widow for the
last time. When she refused to accept
his proposal. Quinlish walked into the
| front of the apartment alone. The re-
port Of the revolver brought Mrs. De
Lacey running into the room. where
she saw the man who had but the mo-
ment before asked her hand in mar
riage lying dead on the floor.
| Quinlish married a young girl of
about his own age at the Roman Cath
Ollie Church of ST. Stephen. at Hicks
and Summit streets, Brooklyn. twenty
four years ago Yesterday. They lived
together happily. Mrs. Quinlish died
in May. There were no children. and
he brooded over the loss of HIS wife for
several months.
Friendship. Not Love.
| Recently. however, Quinlish began TO
pay frequent visits to the apartments
of Mrs. De Lacey. who lived in the
same apartment house as he did. at
No. 1927 Snyder avenue Mrs. De Lacey
is thirty-eight years cid and Quinlish
was forty-...ne, and the two seemed TO
be mutually attracted toward each
other. Mrs. De Lacey. however, who
has three children, only regarded the
policeman as a friend, and repeatedly
refused to listen to his PROPOSALS OF
marriage.
| Quinish grew detected when Mrs. De
Lacey told him she could not marry
him. but did not cease his visits to her
apartments. That he still had hopes
of making her change her mind is
shown by the fact that three weeks
ago Quinlish went to the Brooklyn Mar
riage License Bureau and obtained Il
license. His pleadings for an early
y 4;
Yesterday evening Mrs. De Lacey
went TO visit her sister, Mrs. Hannah,
2 at No. II Butler street, a few door
from the station house TO which Quin-
: lsh was attached. The policeman was
on post at the zine in Butler street.
and evidently knew that Mrs. De Lacey
was in the Hannah apartments. Quin-
Fish. who had been on the force for al
! most twenty years, had been attached
!; to the Butler street station all that
time and was known to every person
on the block.
Complained Of illness.
! About 40 o'clock he saluted Ser
geant Tucker on the street and said
he was sick. The sergeant advised him
TO report sick at the station house and
go home. Quinlish said he would and
} started back. lie never went to the
station house, but instead walked up
} the steps of the Hannah house. AS he
did so he was met by William Hannah
the husband. who was just going 10
work.
: Hannah invited Quinlish TO go inside
, but the policeman refused. AS soon as
Hannah had left, however Quinlish en-
/: tered the house and rang the Hannah
bell. Mrs. De Lacey opened the door
and asked him inside. She was sur
prised to see Quinlish in full uniform
p but did not suspect what was in his
mind.
Mrs. Hannah was in the rear of the
, apartment. and Quinlish and Mrs. De
I Lacey walked into the front parlor.
There the patrolman asked the widow if
: she would marry him. She refused him
as gently as she could and then started
for the kitchen, thinking TO avoid him.
L Before she reached the kitchen, how
ever, she was startled by the shot.
Screaming she ran back to find Quin-
, lish dead.
p Hysterical, Mrs. De Lacey ran TO the
front door and called for help. Ser
] geant Gallagher, Of the Butler street
station heard her cries. He summoned
DR.. Cokeley from the Holy Family Hos
pital. The physician said the man had
died instantly.
!, MISTAKE COSTS MAN HIS LITE