Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-17
KILLED By A FALL.

A Man Falls from q street CRF@Hts
Neck is Observation-Disclosures Inter.
naIly-SPeedS Deata-COrOnerss In
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An Irishman named Jerry, Dooley came
suddenly to his death at the foot Of Vine
yard street, in this city about hslf past
eleven o'clock Wednesday, night, IN eeoonse-
quenee of a fall from a West Side street rail-
road car. The Coroner, DR.. Prentice, held
an inquest on the body yesterday morning,
when the following facts III the case were
developed
About eleven o'clock Wednesday night,
Mr.. Dooiey and Mr.. Edward Parsons, an
Englishnian, were waiting at the Atwater
Block for q car to start for the West Side,
both parties living on the other side Of the
river. po6Tey Was somewhat under Inc n
iuence of liquor, and consequently quite
excitable. He and Mr.. Parsons got into a
controversy about Fenianism, and when the
car started were SO animated that Mr.. Kid
ney, the Superintendent Of the road, fearing
a hsht might ensue, requested Dooley to
take n platform 81 tie Car Ind Parsons the
other. The former accordingly took his
place on the front, and the latter on the rear
platform. Before the car had reached the
foot of Vineyard street hill, Parsons walked
through the car to the front platform,
when the dispute was. recommended
and speedily grew into a fierce wrangie.
AscufAe ensued on the platform. Dooiey had
laid hands on Parsons when in backing down
the steps of the car, as If to draw Parsons to
the ground, the former suddenly fell. The
wheel caught him, but the car was stopped
and backed before it had run over the body.
But 1t had severely injured Dooley's right
side, apoSt norton examination showing that
the right kidney and the liver had been rtp-
tured, and that q gallon Of blood had been
extravasSted and lodged in the, abdomen.
Oooley was picked up, but expired in two or
three Minutes. A cut was discovered over
the right eye of the deceased, and it is stat
ed that his neck was dislocated by the fall.
The body was taken to the office of the
railroad cOmpanT on the West Side. Mr..
Parsons voluntarily gave himself Up to the
police. He was not arrested AS has been stat
ed. There is no evidence to show that he
struck poOley, or that the lead knuckles
found yesterday morning near the scene of
the accident had been owned by Mr.. Par
sons. Superintendent Kidney testified that
he didnot see Mr.. P. strike the deceased,
and he watched the encounter and tried to
separate the parties.
After hearing all the testimony in the
case, the ~coroner's jury retired a verdict,
that the deceased came to his death by fall
ing off a West Side street railroad car.
Mr.. DOoley was a man about fifty years old,
and left a wife and four children in indi-
gent circumstances. He had been in the
of the street railroad company for
two years, as Waterman of their barns on
the West Side. Superintendent Kidney took
of the body.
In connection with the above, it is but
proper for US to say that the reputation Of
Parsons is such that it is not at all
probable that he ever carried knuckles, and
that those picked up were individually
dropped by some other parties Il
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