New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-12
RENCOUNTER IN The PARK.
ALMOST a TRAGEDY.

ALMOST a TRAGEDY.
A BROTHER AyENGING HIS SISTERS WRONGS.
The scapos ous Sc res ahoat for days past re-
va,o,pp the conduct of on7 f the Aldermen vi the
On, s.o al officer IN the rect Coumissloners Depart
nep. came hear being followed by bloody consequent
ees YESTERDAY htle before O'Clock he afternoon,
Mr.. James Ktrrgan, Clerk Of the Essex Market Police
Court in passing through the Park observed Al1ernal
Genet standing near by 10 company with rlenos, and
would have sb, HIN down but for the ln.rerene OF
the Oystanders.
The cau.e IF this attack h. g been variousy stated
bu, We learn that the fats folio Ga tue aite-
pop OF the .6th of JuUe, Mr.. kerrgaus sister, MIS-
+ in com auy with You Lady 70 wuom her brother
l. paving his addIessee aud another lady Ire d. went
10 the picnic Of ST. Mar Roman Cath ic Church At
JoDes's Woods Whie there, John ketchum, lisP~c'
tor of street Membranes, under the Street Commits
sioper approached them aud init odocod himself a.
warm friend VI Dir. KerngaD. After some Converse
un be IL grasred bImse with the l4des, and invited
them 70 get into his S.bost and he woad pGl th'm
up and dow in front Of the grounds. Suspectns no
harm al ke ieviug that the ~as friend 0i Mr..
Ker,Igan they CONSENTED. After getting into the md
die Of the river, KeIcuum protested that the current
wac 70 sli0ug ami the boat 30 heavily laden that ns
eosd not row against the stream JasIth Alderman
barry Gebet pulled up in hItie dingoy aud he'cham
hcu.ed Mfs. f., being he largest # the three Ia i'o
to get Ito bis boat by telling her that 70 remain where
sh. WIS, would probably down the waoie par ~
Wien she had dOue So the two bOats instead OF keep
ing in .gbt Of tbe picnic az pIomsed, were ro"ed on
tesard Bellevue Garden. Ga tie waS t1ither. It
ALI ed thai Genet who profeesed the utmost hend-
ship Tor her brolher attempted to lake improper hJer
tes With Mrs +. STE resented this, al DC rens%e1
the pressing bis hands upon Der person, and
stlsrwise il-usiDg her, To her tas and remonotran-
Gene g4yly exclaimed, "On, I'm a fat mao have
plenty OF money hors.s, ahd yacht; intend u sIend
nv money his Summer, aud you are tue girl for me-"
khe told sn that he vas very much uls AIKEN 10 his
estimate Of her character and com naoded nun u pat
her lahore at once He refused and urged hectic @ on
board biz .cht. She peremPtory declined ana eVen'u-
.llv ttetwo boats VIZ ere 70 we'd Bellevue .r Ten Here
George Gr.ebe and Others, woo had Walked tnIlhef
from Jopts's WOODS, lined the company, and all "a
men ibdu,e in the coarsest remarks az the eAPese 90
Of their b. lpess companions. IL was nov 'ark, an
Genet and bis FRIENDS IN reply TO the entfeaes oi Inc
ds. that they be taken 70 the Cars ut oHce, refused
AND usls.d that they should remain with him su1 lie
friends and rleep all o.ether unoer tent i'll the etf
d.Ds MIS- f. begged TO be so Ted 20 % home, a. her
babe would Lee d be- " To bell WI n tue oaoe
cried Genet, you won't 90 home 10 night. Attempts
vere made TO have The ladies pakr OF wi1e or eoa-e
other shm.nts but they Ieiased, ADD a. LENGTH
after bling detained against their Will I'LL ten OcocS
a. night, subjected 10 gross personal iadlgaos, and
anpeDed 70 G-ten to pr0Dosas 100 grossly inoecebi
for repetition Genet, Ketchum Greene, aud Co. TOOK
The lsoee through lonely lane TO the ScJnd'aven1e
Railroad, aud, placing them in car, allowed them 10
Depart.
subsequently we learn, these wre'ches were heard
70 lubhely lament their folly, when they hal them ~
ID. If power, in allowing them - depart without &C.
pom plehipg the infamous purpoze which they had IN
view Genet, in parting with Mrs. r., Insisted that
she should meet him the next day az certain place IN
broa WAY She refused when he held her by the arm
xno at. mpsed 70 exiort consent from her. but by
,ioe p effort she broke from his grasp, and joined her
GSpds.
From all the circumstances Mr. Kerrigan became
satisfied that bis sister, sweetheart and their friend
had been made the victims of base conspiracy, which,
but for their rmners would have resulted Ia tner RUM
and he resolved be revenged upon the cohsprators
Meeting Keichom, with whom he had been on terms
Of intimate flend.bip for ID years, soon ater he toid
Rim 20 nimself, and TO advise Genet 10 do the
same for should be either Of them ward he
woah al DOT bin on sight.
Ke,Jigan has been brought up in a hard school
He has been Sixth WaId politician, Mexican voluD.
teer, Walker hhbusisr, and Councilman aud has
seen q good deal Of the rough-and-, umols of life
Boz, however rugged his experience may
haze BEEN be lie reI uted have always oeen dutf1l
svp and most afectionate brother. His family he
loves as biz de, aud guards it with most Jealous care
The outrage ohch has been put upon two Of hs near
est and oeaItst relatives shameful that he felt
shst he had no alternative but 10 punAh its authors in
the moe, exemplary manner.
Ketchunn, VINO knows his determined character, is
ssio 70 have left the city, and Genet and he had been
Kept apart by mutual friends who did not desire TO see
bloodsh.d. But just before clock yesterday, in
pss,ing through toe Park, when opposite this ofics
Kerngan accidentally encountered Genet who was
talking with Sbeph-rd Knapp and tSo Oher gen le.
men. Ae 500 ss K-rrissu him, h turuei his
back 70 bin ~ give him ebaoce 10 draw, aud then
faoeo abOnt, but Genet sooner observed him than
be doog.d behind hr. KNAPP jet as Kerfigan dru 4
q large tiy-barreed navy revolver. Mr.. Kerrigau
shouted 70 Knapp and bic friends 70 redre as he was
"eong 10 shoot that id oiry coward, Genet"
Upon nearing THIS Mr. Knapp TUNED sharply around,