The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-27
GIRL TOLD SLAYERS
WHERE VICTIM WAS
Saws One Of Them Let Madden
Know Later Doyle Had
Been Killed.
HEARD THE SHOTS FIRED

Miss Margaret Everdeane. who said
IN. came from a good family. was a
rad witness yesterday against owen
Madden. a gang leader. at his trial for
nurdc- before Judge Mott in Geheral
sessions. Madden e. accused of direct
Ing woo Of his followers to kill William
Moore. known in gangdom as Patsy
poylc, who was shot six times in a
saloon AT Forty-hrst street aud Eighth
avenue on November 2s last. Then he
dragged himself next door, where he was
found dead.
Jus, before the shooting Miss Ever
tsane and a friend. Frieda Horner. were
N the saloon and she told the Jury
that the information that Doyle was in
the saloon was given by her to one Of
sAree men who called to kill Doyle. She
ewore that as she left the saloon she
me; Arthur Keller and Hoppe McArdle
with Willie Mulhall. She was asked
By Mulhall. lis he in there?'' answered
Eyes" and a moment later she heard
shots and was told that Doyle had been
Killed.
BeIler pleaded guilty to his part of
the killing OF Doyle and Is now unde
q sentence of not less than eighteen
years. McArdle Is serving thirteen
years.
Miss Everdeane. who is pretty and
81 years old. admitted her acquaintance
ship with gangsters n aid tina she
had made a friend OF William +. Mott.
Q sailor. who had taken her to the scene
o: the shooting OF Doyle. She had met
Doyle three weeks before his death. Just
before the shots were fired into Doyle
No Everdeane was put out of the place
BY the sailor. who knew, as he testified,
that trouble was about to begin.
She said abe nrst met Madden four
q I'VE years g and also knew his
n She had met him at dance halls.
On the night Of Doyle's murder she had
soos to the American Lunch Room at
Thirty-third street and Tenth avenue,
Nd BY her to be the headquarters of
the Madden gang. There she talked
with Madden, n after the murder she
had again gone to the restaurant, where
Doyle arranged for her and her friend
Frieda Horner to go to a fiat run by
Arthur Stein, known as 'the King at
:3S West Thirtisth street. There they
stayed for several days. as she says at
the direction of Madden. who ,ook her
ere in a taxicab from the restaurant.
In the days in the West Thirt!eth
street house Miss E~verdeane said she
had many talks with Madden. Once she
said she heard him say concerning her
III ! thought she had told anybody
else more h she has ,old me | would
take her up the Hutson. croak her ana
throw her overheard.
The early morning following the muir
der beiler was admitted 10 the HAT,
where he remained for u While. There.
Sic says. she heard him say hat he
had 'croaked Doyle" This she swor.
was In the presence OF Madden. who
had heard Beiler say that he got the
revolver he used from Jimmy O'Connell.
When asked to tell who Jimmy was she
answered: why. he Is Madden's mes
senger boy"
From the testimony given 70 the jury
By Miss Everdeane she played a promi-
reHi rart In the killing OF Doyle through
certain telephone conversations she had
WIKI the In which Madden
and his gang congregated. She said she
id not enter into a proposed agree
ment from Madden to get Doyle in the
Forty-f-st street place to be killed. but
sdmitted that she had given the word
to -. "A known to be Madden's agents
that he wa inside.
m croas-examination by Charles F..
Cy''lSan for the defendant Miss Ever
DOW" admitted that she was addicted
I" H. Use III liquor, but emphatically
& ueu tGa' she took cocaine. She also
s.T''iCd that the night OF the murder
when she vert 10 the house in Thirtieth
tr'st with Madden she was partly I'M
d.. the influence of drink. She also
denied that she had drunk the major
portion OF four bottles of whiskey. a
bottle OF brandy and twelve bottles Of
S'ne on that night. She said she had
oil she wanted and no more. She stuck
70 her main story OH the examination.
The case will be continued this morn
mr. when Miss Horner will he called
b. the prosecution.