Year: 1873

moved to Bellevue Hospital as soon as possible.
found the BODY Of James lying in the 'front.' room
and covered with sheet. He e'permitted its being
Immediately placed upon zee. He also gave an


THE MURDERER IN TEE TONES
after his Se entrance into the prison He is some
what toll, but quite corpulent, evidently abous
forty-nve years OF age. he has heavy and some M
expression, and wears heavy sandy mustache
and goatee His clothes were poor and long wore.
used pair Of dark corduroys formed his hsbliment.
He was evidently greatly affected and, tnoeGn
still under the influence Of liquor, had faA
consciousness OF his crime. Every few moments
he burst into hood OF tears and got some whaa
mixed up in his account OF the circumstances:
he did not apparently seek to palliate his own
faults. In answer to 9 question by the reporter as
sion Of such deed, he said:-


HIS STORY.


"Wel, l did not get on very well at home. NY
to want to bother me in every way sne possibly
could. She tried to put my own children against
up for me the day BEFORE and when i woke mp IN
the morning asked her for them. found she had
not put on one Of the buttons Of the pants and
talked to her about it, when my mother-ln-iaw in
terfered, and had some words with her. Then
John came in and said, why don't you put the son
slat OF the bed and came for me to strike me.
endeavored to prevent hum hitting, though he
gave me one or two blows with it, when my
younger son, James, came in and Joined John.
After that don't remember anything"


REpoRTER.Don't you remember using your knife


THE DEED DONE IN FRENZY.


BRODERIcK (crying) No; don't remember any.
know what was doing had drunk some lager
beer the night before, aud don't seem to have
well ABOUT the pants. The button that was mtss-
ing was a suspender button, and couldn't put the
on without it. That is way was So mao
my own son |: had known It. Even after the
scufiie took place, and both the boys were out Of
knowing that any one was badly hurt. can't de-
scribe my feelings at all at that time. All know
is that after gong down stairs to 20 to work


SAW JAMES LYING DEAD
and then went back again into the room and kept
quiet until the officer came to arrest me.


REPORTER-had you any trouble with any OF your
familyY


BRoDERICK-wen, Ididn't agree at all times with
seventy-six, and petulant in her disposition. She
wantea always TO have her own way; Then was
picnic the night before. had been taking care OF
the little girl Maggie oil alone while they were en-
onghf to have been home earlier instead o1
leaving me all alone. When she came homo
John Win III m Them John was eGy and nsa
house. but In some street uptown with a hard
woman, and l had often said would sooner ha
that night said he must leave the house and he did
so after saving he'd get square with me. Then
didn't see hum till me morning, when he came in
again and ordered him out. IL was then he came
Tor me making 1t an excuse that was abusing the
family"


BAD son.


REPORTER-You didn't like him then ?


BRODERICK--No; he wasia bad son and received
great deal Of trouble from him. But tried not to
see him at all. James gOod.boy usually though
when he drank he was sometimes hard In his con-
duct. Still loved James.


Here the murderer OF his son began again to





spoke-


come upon We had good home-nO worse
than other people, and great deal better than
most IL would have been all right If John hadn't
hurt. / never dreafnt OF committing murder on
any one, and much less on my own nesh and blood.
have been peaceful as most people, and never
struck blow to one OF the women in tho house.
But sometimes you feel bad and you want TO find
fault with somebody, and


ALL ABOUT BUTTON,
you see, murder has been done. . my God, my
God, have mercy on me-


And here the unfortunate being fell on the moor
OF the cell upon his knees, and moa9ed as II his
Duranqnet, Hs % Accompanied @ BY Dr. McGiynn, Of St.
Stephens, passed IN. Both clergvmen had pro-
ing sometime after Father Duranquet had lef'.
AT THE HOUSE


the scene was one OF great desolation. II difl.
cult to make ones way up stairs, the jam was SO
great Women stood on nearly every step wait
ing and looking frightened. AS the reporter passed





fusedly amongst themselves. About twenty families
live In the building but everything is quite clean.
The passage to the rooms where the murder took
place was circuItOus and hard to find, as many
seemed to branch on In every direction. After
weary tramp up the rooms we're reached. In the
largest rOOm--the one where the horrible deed
took place--there were a number OF women assem-
bed around an ice-cOnin IN the middle OF the
apartment, where lay The remains OF the murdered
boy. The body was already cold and STARK but the
face, which seemed to have been rather goOd-loOk-
ing in life bore placid and calm expression, as If
hpr n "a m n "


1t was one OF those sights which even inyounta.
rily move the hardest heart. Death and murder
there had been LIE and some happiness, at least.
the lifelong suffering Of half dozen beings from
fate OF the dead the future or the living seems
still more appalling.


The Coroner, when at the house, examined Kate
Broderick, the daughter oi the murderer. Her
story ran as follOws:-


STATEMENT OF MISS BKopEKrcK


"Last night, late, my mother. myself and my
brothers James and John returned home from y
picnic. At six O'Clock this morning father said to
don't leave mere there VIII be blood split
Grandma said she would go. Ne then threw
Clara, "Go and wake up Jimmy: there wul be mur-
der here" Then my two brothers came out of
my brother John with a ati. NY brother T James James
went to protect John, when my father stabbed
James and then stabbed John; then he closed his
knife. The s.abbing occurred in the kitchen.
Captain Garland came and arrested father and
took him to the Twenty-eighth precinct station
house."


Alter leaving the tenement Coroner Young called
upon the prisoner, at the station house. aud had
an interview with him, during which Broderick
inquired tenderiy after his sons, and when told
that James was dead his anguish seemed almost
too great for human nature to bear.


Broderick paced backwards and forwards In hts
cell. wrung his hands, tore his hair and stOuty
protested that he did not intend to Kill the bow
He could not tell what prompted him to use knife
on the boys. Deputy Coroner Marsh Will make a
post-nortem examination on the body OF deceased
to day at the house where he was killed. and an
inquest will soon be held by Coroner Young.


THE WASHINGTON STREET HOMICIDE
An Investigatfon Before Coroner