Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-10-14
NEWARKER SLAIN
IN HOSPITAL BY
|NEBR|ATED MAN
Brother of Frank Cavanagh,
Bicycle Rider, Is Victim-Wife
Sees Slayer Escape.

John Cavanagh, formerly OF New
ark, bridegroom of less than a
month, and brother of Frank Cav
anagh, the professional bicycle rider,
was murdered late yesterday after
noon in the Polytechnic Hospital, New
York, by drunken patient he was
trying to overcome.
Cavanagh was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Cavanagh, of 346 Grove
street, this city Up to a late hour
today the parents had not been noti-
fed by the New York authorities
Cavanagh had been an orderly In the
Polytechnic Hospital less than month.
Until September 16 he was an orderly
in the City City Hospital. this city.
On September Is Miss Lillian Hall
grath, who lived at 81 Hunterdon
street, with her brother, and was
laundress in the City Hospital, quit,
and the next day Cavanagh left. A
few days later word was received they
we're married and Cavanagh was en-
ployed in the New York institution.
The only information that young
Cayanagh's parents have of the
young mans death was that obtained
from the story printed in the Evening
Star. No notice has been sent to
them from either the authorities or
the young mans bride. Young Cava-
nagh had not been home for some
time, although he had visited New
ark since. taking up his position in
New York, and his parents knew of
his marriage.
This afternoon the young mans sis
ar Ool hn ef7
on the telephone seeking further in
formation. She further said that his
bride had relatives In East Orange.
The body is now in the morgue at
the hospital awaiting the widow to
claim it.
The slayer, Thomas w. Nicholson.
sixty-f1ve years old, then leaped
through a side window on the second
floor to the lawn and escaped by
climbing two fences. Mrs. Cavanagh
was looking out the window of her
home. 35S West Fiftieth street. next
door to the hospital, and saw the man
escape.
The drunken man was taken to the
hospital to have cut on his head
sewed up. After treatment he became
abusive and the physician who closed
the wound told Cavanagh to quiet
the man and call the police,
While trying to tie the patient to
a cot Cavanagh suddenly called
out, I'm stabbed, I'm stabbed" and
fell dead on the floor, just as the
physician returned to help him. The
slayer ran from the reception room
in which the stabbing occurred up
one flight of stairs, through the room
of a nurse and out the open window.
After climbing over two fences he
inf hu uplS n q
at 351 West Fiftieth street, and met
a woman who could not speak Eng
lish well. He asked her for hat.
saying he had left his in the hospital
from which he had just escaped, be-
cause they tried to kill me-"
The woman let him out by the front
door, and he disappeared down the
street.
Mrs. william Cavanagh, mother of
the dead man, who lives at 346 Grove
street, said this morning that she had
not seen John since July a, and sup
posed he still was at work at the city
Hospital. She had not been told OF
his marriage.
Neither Frank Cavanagh nor his
wife were at home when Star re-
porter called today. 1t was said they
had left home early to attend to some
business.
The body of John Cavanagh was be-
ing held at the hospital today to await
the action of the coroner. it was said
at the hospital, and the New York
police were trying to get in touch with
the dead mans relatives. Cavanagh
had worked at the Polytechnic three
weeks.
Physicians at the Polytechnic Hos
pital wished to emphasize the fact
that the slayer was not regular pa
tient at the hospital, but casual,
brought in for emergency treatment.