Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-18

and jury We're of those fraternities.
He also hated lawyers.
His mind seemed to be unbalanced
On the subject of police and city ad-
ministrat.on. In his letter and in his
talks in the afternoon. when he
would say absolutely nothing about
h mse!f and stuck to David Rose as
his name, Mahoney followed the same
strain He hated Colonel Goethals
because he thought the man was re-
sponsible for slides and deaths at the
lsthmus. He hated Andrew Carnegie
because, he said, Carnegie had
cheated HIM out of thousands of dol
lars. He got this notion evidently
through working for many steel com
panies in the Middle West Maho-
ncy also dis,iked Commissioner
Woods, whom he called fraud com
pared to Mckay.
Family in Newport. Ky.
The police learned that he has a
wife and daughter Mary at his home
in Newport, Ky, and communicated
at once with the police in that place.
Mahoney said he was a blacksmith,
had worked as a carpenter, but could
not work for the last few years, be-
cause his hand was hurt in an acci-
dent.
He hired the room at 203 East Eff
teenth street on November 26 of last
year, paid 81 so a week for il and 25
cents a month to a Mrs. Balland for
keeping his trunk. He gave her the
impression that he WAS a carpenter
out Of work because of an injury
but when he left on Wednesday he
said he had a chance for a Job in
Pittsburgh.
Instead he slept in a lodging house
at Hester street and the Bowery on
Thursday night under the name of
James Mahan, and on Wednesday
night stayed at Reilly's Hotel, Third
avenue and Twenty-third street, un-
der his real name.
Suffered Heavy Reverses.
The change of name disclosed an in
teresting circumstance in his life
which presumably turned him mental
~. He was born on March ~, 1912,
about seventeen miles outside of Cord,
Ireland He could not remember when
he came to this country. 1t was
some sixty years ago, he told Tunney,
but he lived in Kentucky and grad
ually got hold of property worth
about S14,5OO in seven houses and two
OTIS, with a mortgage of $1,000. He
exchanged this property for a farm
worth S14 200. This was in 1883. He
sued the man who sold 1t to him,
however, because there was a fence
around it and lost the case. He also
had to pay costs, about 5000, but either
coHld not or would not and the prop
erty was foreclosed and sold for 3d.,
900
Mahoney never quite got over that
shock He Immediately assumed the
name Rose and began wandering
about the middle West and occasion
al y the East. working at score or
moro of jobs
Discharged for No Reason"
All through his diary--a home made
affair like a schoo.boy's notebook
in which he entered some of the
minutest do'ngs, he inpariably wrote
after his recital of his many jobs and
discharges: "They found me out or
discharged for no reason" Some
times he mentions the Masons and
odd Fellows as having caused his
In the last few years he has di
vided his time between New York,
home and Pittsburgh. He was here
until July last year and then Went
TO Pittsburgh, leaving $40 with
Father Brann at st. Agnss's Church.
141 East Forty third street. He wrote
on for some of the money which he
left for safe keeping for M. r.
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