New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-16

~-;,h e wounded man and say h
bls ply 40 sorch for him at present. WIN. VI. u ~,
shot begged and prsyeu Va. ,," S"c,or snd !,
s ~Iy vt Il nained him so muV" , "nS s.,, nv
was too deepi after '""'
more OF TIE a;,n berg sworn, suid-1 live at No 5'o
Chaies was at the scene OF the disturbance on
Tbiru sn;sht last at o'clock; saw crowd az ',c
SUNDAY Eou,ih street and Avenue A; went over 70
ceIneh st was the matter; asked some one, on on, 81;
ia Enc ,bat man was struck by an officer WI" 81 M
lub: stood there ten or twelve minute "h en thew
Sheen officers came down Fourth street. s;cer com
Ira within few PAGES of the crowd, one ,ra ,ben
c.nJed Them Ia halt; some Of the crown ",J;otJ,,
Growing apd whistlng; the officers pes &C Avenue (
10 use their clubs; ran of to the Cy " soma five or
and Third street; looked rounu a ~ the roof of
six shots fr ed bv the officers soh,e ~ ~ on. off.
s snd sn,1. at the crowd; sa" pn !,
rev striking a woman; don MY" Inv what
mas ON the head or arm nn,on. I shortly
ns;o., !, Vas nor do / know 'hc MJ" H. ornsr ~
pmVei " os, nA;cers coming round the GOTHIC, VI
- q, s,,oet and Avenue \, using lhel. I It III 80,
~ vent on toward Third street, gu! hau ilo'
'oNe.si ,teps before got shot IN my rlgnt arm
gone w. persons standing there thar was snot,
'9id hwed them the hole in my coat wh"e thoy
..sre standing around me, an Oncei Gaiio W W a.
1T me tut those persons told him hal hotnng -
A. 9Th the riot. and only a spectator, so uhe
"a L.. me 60: then went into my house and sent
Sar The doctor who took a ball out OF my ARM tne
hall entered my arm near the shoulder, iIoul oe'nu
i did not see any stones thrown; heard tnere We!S
thrown atler poHCc uicu avn P'''N"i
o tell the officer when he tried TO arrest me, that
had been ehot did not see Miller at ALL nor any one
shoot him. -. 1ros;da q.
.Jobn Strapemeyer, being sworn, says-l reside az
No. $50 Fourth avenues was at the sceno % 'uo
not about o'clock Sunday evening; saw a nlah
speskipg to another person on Third street an AZ
nue A: while they were talking an officer came up 70
III, m and told them TO clear away one OF tie uieh
ast cd the officer the reason he should clear out-tha
b. rs tall inc with his friend and had perfect night
70 stay where he was he went there 10 see what was
the after, and with me came Others ana soon niue
crowd was there; the officer lett and went do"h lhTi
street after he saw that he could do nothing; lnmed
ately afterward he came back, accompanied by an
other officer the other officer rushed in the Nd am
used HE Club very freely after this the oicer struck
one man on the head and the man He'd INTO harls
place; the officer then went away and gave the alarm
rap after the alarm the officer went up Fourth street,
with boys running after him halloing; soon aerwa-d
saw number of policemen coming down Fourth
street; when they arrived at the corner the
officer in command ordered them TO halt;
then went to the southeast corner, where 1
understood by the crowd that Capt. Hirlt was IN
command; aIerward saw the oihcers rusniIg luV9
The crowd using their clubs, knocking down right and
left also heard five six shots fired; afterward
saw little boy named John Brown lying on the
ground; my brother, standing near, told me tna' the
officer tore lin down from the fence, knocking nm 10
the ground they said that thioficers name was Mr.
Dreshnan; went down Third street, beloE Avenue
A. where heard several shots more by whom 90
not know; afterward / went to Third street, where
saw the officers running between the people; ron
there went down Fourth street and went home; |
cid net see Muller shot; saw man standing behind
one other man with bis revolver pointed over the
shoulder of another did not know that the maa
was an officer; at the same time l pistol fired
and man fall; the man who fell stood in Avenue ~
near Third street, the next side OF the ave-
nue.; / did not know Muller; the pistol
fred was about ten PAGES from where the
nan fell; knew Capt Hartt; l did not hear any
one give orders TO fire. heard officer on the cor
ner Of Third street give orders TO the crowd to clear
out; the pistol fred was about ten inches long; the
man " no fired it had on light hat and dark coat.
The Coroner at the conclusion of the testimony, ad
ouned TO this morning, when the case Will be resumed
in the General Sessions rooms in the Park.