New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-22

MYSTERIOUS ATFAR-SUPPosED HosrcIDE.-On
the 18th instant, man fsmliary known about
Harlem as "Joln the Tinker" but whose real name
is John Rylands was conveyed TO Bellevue Hospital
by Officer Bates of the Twelfth Ward. who supposes
tia; be fell from embsukment the corner of
OnehundIed- and -thirteih street ard Broadway and
injured himself severely After Rylands admitted
to the hospital be was visited by two men who sp-
peetd to be police oficers; they said they had good
reason to believe that RyIands had been badly beaten
bya couple of fellows whom their suspicons rested
The supposed officers did not leave their names nor
address. Ryands had several cuts on the head, one
of his cars was nearly severed and he showed other
evidences of violence. He fingered till Monday and
expired is believed from the effects of his TO- uries
Coroner Hills yesterday commenced inluisition
The body Of tie deceased, ard took the following
evidence
Alfred Lyon. being sworn, -ays-I re-ide at Manhat-
tanvilie; have Known deceased a5ou; seyen years;
be was an intemperate man; would get drunk occa-
sionally; deceased used 10 work for some five o.
six years ago. he had for the last few years. done no
work bis mind at times seemed deransedi he was, IN
word, vagrant, having no home, work, or friends
dol know OF any one who was his enemy, or "Ould
Djure him.
Beriamn Bates, being sworn, says-I am az officer
Of tie Iwefh Ward; on the morning OF the 10th, b.
tween | and O'Clock | found deceased lying in
aseep: deceased had several cuts about the head and
face could not arouse him; he used to sleep in an
old house a bank; thought he might have fallen
down the bank into a cut where street was being
opened be was living thirty feet from where he would
have fallen if he lid fall there blood on the spot
where lie lay, none elsewhere; he was taken TO the
Station House and tnen TO the Hospital; IN the morn
ing, looking at the place. found stone on when
was blood ana hair, about eight feet from the spot
where deceased was found; at u. o'clock, J. heard
some one playing a Jew sharp, anu was told that
il was deceased; this near where deceased was
founo there there OF desperate character
in Manbattanve, who prowl about ard insult and at
tack various persons they were en- this night about
~ O'clock i'll the negbborhoodi 1t Is supposed iha'
thee persons committed the oifense,
Joseph Whiteman, being sworn, says-l am an Of
fcer Of the Twelfth Ward at clock in the morning
OF tie 18th saw deceased lying as stated by the
above witness and knowing who ii was, his habits,
end surprising him asleep, DID rot disturb him. not
thinking that any injury had beiallen him passed
on; oil coming around again l learned from Officer
Bates that he was injured.
i. A. Barrel NJ. d., being sworn, says-i am Sur
geon at Bellevue Hospital deceased was admitted on
The 18th Of July, in nsensible condition, suffering
under the effects Of scalp wound over the eit parle
tai bone, the other the Occpital bone, an ncsed
wound over the booy Of the lower jaw, the right ear
was almost severed from the bone ana much laceraedi
he maibed in semi cOinatose condition untll July
~, at o'clock a.. M, when he died on removing the
caly alum the els of the brain were found much
contested particularly under the squamious portion Of
the temporal bone of The right side; there was an etu
sion of about six ounces Of blood and serum between
the meIiDges and the brain the right yenrice Of the
brain was filled with bloody serum on the surface OF
the superior potion of the middle lobe Of the right
Lemisp here; there some softening OF the cerebral
substance beneath VIII c was clOt OF blood as large
as a pea and the conmencem of al abscessi the
left hemis pierre healthy my opinion Is that death
was caused by tusiOn from the cere bral vessels the
result OF violence.
The case has been adjourned for wait Of further
evidence 1t will be continued to-day. The deceased
was about IS years of age, and native OF Ireland