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Show MAR FOUND MURDERED IN HALLWAY OF HOME WITH SKULL CRUSHED ". '. : V- ' mZ : : V .":',-,; -: NEW TORK, May 1-With his "skull crushed In and the marks of a cleaver on his neck and shoulders James Edward McMahon, aged 37, brother of former Police Justice Daniel F. -McMahon, .was -found murdered early today In the vestibule of the fiat house In West One nundred and Fifty-third street, where he lived. In the pools of blood that were ail around the body were the footprints of one or two men.-. - : ' , ; .McMahon' lived with his hrother-in-1 1 w and an -unmarried sister. The family gave the police little information wMch threw any lKM en the murdef. George ilischke, who occupies a a t; -it.-. V-"n; .j the ground l.oor, said T.o ani Lis fami tad been awakened 4-bout o'clock by hearir. a- pounding noise In tun fcallway. He said fc& beard, the struggling going from one end of the hall to the other, but wu afraid to look oof. Finally he heard the door slam, he says, and heard men walking away. ', ' ' '; '.--.' ! . .. - . . ... . - . . McMahon, it is learned, left' his brother-in-law's apartments ai 5 o'clock last evening,, saying he would return In a short time. The police saythat between midnight and 1 oclock this.mornlng McMahon was lii a hotel in Harlem. 'They think that perhaps he was followed by rough characters and after being murdered mur-dered was robbed. , .. i .!'"'.". |