The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-13
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
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CORoEER's INQUEST on THE L ATE III ART
@ mAN h9AlVlDE.- An inquest was held yeseI day
upon the booy OF MIR. Henry Hartman. who
uled On tuesday, at his residence No. 1905 Wood
street, nom injuries lnhlcted on SUNDAY. The
oeCea,ed was engaged IN difficulty about two
O'Clock on Sunday afternoon at Race and INIT
per streets, with man named Charles smith
duIlng which he (Hartman) received a severe
cut on the side OF the head, but still was able to
walk home. About 4 O'Clock, two men. named
George Il. Kern ard John H. Mccormick went
10 Hartmans house, and after short t,n,e a
bFht ensued, during whicn Hartman was
knocked down and taken home in an insensible
condition. and remained so until he died The
Ihree men connected wish the affair we're ar
rested. ~
GoIton Gayit, who saw the first fight, testified
as iolioWs:-l saw difficulty at ,Junlper and
mace mace streets, at o'clock on Sunday afternoon;
some one made the remark, "There comes Hart
man across. Broad street. drunk" Hartman
Went Gown Race to Juniper; was talking to a
man named Mccullough, and ne said "Look
mere Hartman is getting thumped ~ hurried
acrose, and saw Smith strike Hartman with his
canes atter got no TO them, / heard Smith say,
Il nave had fight With you twice; / will kin
you thls nme /" They came together, end Hart
man GOT Smith down on q step, and then Smith
struck ha tman on the side OF the head with a
cane making a cut back OF the ear
Charles III. Potts testified that he saw the DIFF
hc9ity at Juniper and Race streets; saw Smith
man went away after being struck bur witness
did not notice where he went TO.
l.. Mccullough testified that he knew Hart
man and Q. d. Smith, and saw them on Sunday
at southeast corner OF Juniper and Race streets:
they were FIGHTING, and Smith fell over a cellar
door, and Hartman over him saw Smith strike
Haltman once with cane; Hartman then went
towards his home, with Smiths crutch i'm his
handi dld not see any one else strike Hartman.
Il. Il. Hartman, son Of the deceased testified
that on last Sunday afternoon Mccormick aud
Kern came to the house and asked IT the old
man was in. j told them no, that he had inst
gone to my brothers. NY father then came M
and one of them called me liar Kern came
up and struck me, and Mccormick made pass
at my father; the two then ran towards Thur
teenth street, and | followed them my father
coming after us. At the corner OF Thirteenth
and Wood streets Mccormick struck at me aud
l knocked him down; my father and McCor-
mick clenched, and while in that situation
Kern came up behind hum (my father) and
struck him on the head my father fell, and Nc
Cormick and Kern ran. When l got home nv
father was lnsenslble, and he renamed so until
he died. Had no conversation with my father
about the first fight
Helena M. Martin, daughter Of the deceased,
testified that her father was sitting on his step
about four o'clock on Sunday, and Mccormick
and Kern were persuadng hlm tN 90 with them,
and While dsputtng abouta crutch both of them
struck at my father: alter getting across the
street, Mccormick struck my brother and Kern
struck my father, knocking him in the gutter:
ne was Drought home Insensible, and renamed
so until he died.
DIR. Shapleigh, who made post-mortem ex-
animation, testified that he found lacerated
wound on the left size OF the head. three inches
behind and above the left ear; the skull was
fractured at tie base; the fracture extended
through both temporal bones; the deceased
came to his death in consequence Of compress
sion OF the brain; he did not think, if Hartman
had received the wound while engaged IN the
fight with Smith, he could have walked home;
he thought the wound must have been inflicted
when in the tight at Thirteenth and Wood
streets, later in the Gay.
The jury rendered the following verdict
That the said Hartman came to his death from
the effects of injuries received during a scuille
with George N. Kern and Johu T. Mccormick,
on September 8, 1866, in Wood street, near Thir.
Teenth.n
Mccormick and Kern were committed to pri-
son, and Smith was discharged.