| Show MURDERS SUICIDES AND OTHER CRIMES IN MANY CITIES there was but little peace or good will in new york city kew york dec 26 although scores of choirs sang teace on earth good will to men and the spirit of christmas shone in a broader and greater charity than ever be ore new yorks christmas bore tho marks of passion and tragedy A dozen murders and as many more tragic deaths marked the day mariano gaetona Gae towa called to tho door of his house and there sapt dead by an unknown man who escaped the police have no clue john sweney refused to give money ta a vagrant who angered at tho refusal struck him over the licad with a black jack sweney died la a hospital and his assailant was held without ball tor trial joseph Kun denson sustained a fractured skull in a fight following his refusal to allow anthony and joseph cabany to participate in his family christmas celebration it is eald that Kun denson was struck with a large brass crucifix james munday was shot and fatally injured by james Ja carusso because the formers saloon newly opened was doing more business than the one across the street owned by jacob betz and peter shaw watchmen in an apartment building were badly beaten by a club in the hands of an unknown man who became angry because neither would take him upstairs in an elevator to visit a cervant in the house betz will die william kennedy was dangerously wounded by being shot during an altercation ter cation in a saloon john palermo Is under arrest charged with the shooting an unknown woman was found dead in fifty first street apparently from the of knockout drops margaret byrnes was burned to death while kneeling before a shrine in her home one of the candles from th shrine falling and igniting her dress his arms filled with christmas eltta lor the children herman K le romps was knocked down and fatally injured by a trolley car john R a veteran of the civil war was crushed to death under the wheels of a trolley car months ago rhind with his son bis only relative and they parted bearing a peace lottering ottering ott ering was on his way to visit Us eon when he was killed annie dropped dead in the midst of a christmas celebration in exactly ahe same manner as her only sister died on the same day twenty two years ago wm obreen died from injuries received by being run down bj an automobile albert B muller waa killed by falling from the window of his room on the fifth floor of the apartment house ellas P mance dropped dead while attending a christmas service at a church in two unknown men were killed by elevated trains |
