The evening world., 1919-01-20
$40 BILLS FOUND
ONO'DONNE[L MAY
Be MARY R|DDELL'S
Man Who ConfesseS Staying
Had Amount Taken From
Richmond Hill Girls Purse.

The $40 found upon Patrick O'Don-
nell. the epiloptic who claims to have
Killed Mary Elizabeth Riddell, seven
teen, last Wednesday night at Rich
moud Hill, L. J., became to-day the
special and particular interest OF dc.
tecttves and prosecuting officers o.
Queens. o'Donnells nails were OK
amined microscop.cally this after
noon for bloodstans.
Two or three hours before tho muir
der Miss lddell received two new
$40 bills from the Globe Indemnity
Company. Manhattan. her employers
The $50 found upon O'DonncIl was In
two new looking SO bills. folded, the
police say, as tho girl was known TO
have folded hers.
In an effort 20 trace O'Donnc.r-
money the police learned that he re-
ceivod $50 from the Waterman Foun
tain Pen Company on saturday, Jan.
II. and from that time until his ar
rest on Jan. II had been drtnklng
heavily
Willing % ~ivc O'Donncll tho ben
eit OF every doubt. for they believe
he is mentally ponsibic. the au-
tho-ities OF Queens regard the two
$40 bills as important. and the DE
katb Avenue transfer check az even
more significant.
The transfer slip was picked NJ
some hours after the finding OF Miss
Riddell's body. not far from tho scene.
The police to-day found tho conductor
who issued H. Goorg" Galley OF so
l69 Bergen Avenue. Galley says tho
slip was the last in one Of his books.
He says II was given on, between ,
O'Clock and 6n o'clock L. NJ on
Wednesday The conductor VIII see
O'Donneil tonight in the Long Island
city Jan To- determine whether ne re-
calls him rs a passenger.
II Is admitted that, in order to get
out 20 the Glen Morris section or
Richmond llil IN time to waylay and
Nil Mary EiddcIl. the slayer would
have had 80 move Qu:,'ly. The police
have figured that it could have been
done. but they admit that the man
could have lost no time along the
way.
As closely as the police can figure
out the movements OF Miss Rtldcll
on the night of her murder. she left
her Office in Manhattan ~ ol5
o'clock and reached the Lc',cr's
Avenue ~" station at $50. From
tncre It is about ten minutes wIlh
20 her home. The police believe that
sne was murdered at G.4o o'c,ooN
ODonncIrs father lives in Dck llb
Avenue, and at Nonk"rs on Saturday
the prisoner told of going TO his
parents house on Wednesday, Mem
tiOn of Dekalb Avenue reminded the
police Of the transfer slip and O'pou-
nell was asked whether III had ridden
on surface cars.
Il got transfer from a Dekalb
venue car" he said,
Asked il he still had the slip with
Inn, tho prisoner sad ne mad. tie
searched his clothes for 1t and said;
BY gully, I've lost a."
Every effort was made to-day tC
check up further on O'Donnclln story
when the man stepped out Of an
automobile at Glen Morris In n,
dusk of saturday evening, after A.s
ride from Nonkcrs, ne waikal al
most directly to a blood-stained spot
IN the sidewalk
= Here's where / grabbed her" hC
said. Il placed my hand over ne'
mouth and she BIT me" (MdrNs -
his fingers, the police say, may have
been caused by tecthD
He walked into the nearby lo' nj
most to the chicken house o.
rcighbor ON the parallel street.
This IL where | dropped her. h'
said.
He was looking toward the spc
where the body was found when b.
was taken with one OF his spells
From that time to the present TIA
prisoner has talked incohcrcntly. 7
prevent his injur!ng himself a spccta
guard has been placed over him. ID!
Flatt, the iail physician, examine
him this afternoon at the request o
District Attorney Dennis O'Lcary u
Queens,
"If it appears tina, O'Donncil is
mental incompetent" the Distrtc
Attorney said, Il shall ask Judg
Humphrey to commit him to IN
Kings County Hospital for eNamna
ton"
Residents Of Richmond lIill vii
discuss their need for more and bet
ter police protection at tho hnnua
meeting ot their civic association II
Masonic Temple tonight,
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