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TTTFI TIMES: MAY 2, 1919
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Old Jockey, Who Murdered J
Clerk, Is Free Man Again
Crack Eider Spent 20 Years
in Prison and Finally
Pardoned Through Efforts
of His Mother.
MARTIN SWEENEY -was one of
the most famous Jockeys on the
Pacific Coast 35 years ago. He gain
ed fame, and considerable money,
nd then decided to try his fortune in
the East. He came to New York and
code on. local tracks during the sum
mer of 1898. In the winter ot that
jyenx he drifted around Broadway and
Coo (Tenderloin, finally bringing up on
thai lower Bast Side, where he be
came a, pal and a crony ot Abe Coak
ley, a, noted oracksman and gangster
bt Chat day.
Sweeney sew goc Into any par
ticular mischief until the night of
Deo. IB, 1898, when he went into
(the .Hotel "Waverly, at Eighth avenue
amd 28th. street, and asked the night
telenk, James Holcrow, for a room.
SMorair replied that the hotel was
i full. After an argument Sweeney
lrw his revolver and killed the
vlerk. He was arrested a few min
avtea later by Chief of Police Devery,
(who found him standing over the
(body ot the murdered man with a
pistol in one hand. He was convict
fed of second degree murder, and
inn & life sentence In Sing Sing
;prlsonby Justice Furamaa of- the su
preme court.
