New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-03
uurder IN w-estebcstcr County.

osE WOMAN SHOT AND A MAN INJUEED-COwAaDLY
C'yDrCT OF SoLDrERs--CoRoSERs INQUEST
Yesterday. o dsorIcrly disturbance carried on
v PARTY o. soldiers a. tie quiet Of Wesichester in the
s..e cunv which aroused intense feeling there Appar
eHy vas p.e5oucer.ed plan TO commit murder, and bad
most tragic end1g bg H. did not reach me Intended vcim
Mis- feu III a. cogsia q Alexander Elliott against whom
che soldier. hal grulge the person murdered The
principal n he affair Thomas fitzgerald corporal IN the
Isl " $ Artillery and his accessories were Sergeant John
Dorin Michael :. Cany Michael Mr.n and Charles Burke
t oi ac sane regiment ana Oh sistoneu ~ Io scnuyei
rom % s. c5,SsSSeI er attach on Elliot While be
was re' ng and broke his len arIo ty then leit him
AMI returned house about O'Clock on Thursday morn
M armed Vh guns lie then Jumped our Of second story
,sdoq and hal wreste with oBe Of toe crowd. and after
iakinc le Tor help In ne absence flgefald
Ellen Hicks Who standing ~ doorway WIN her
sister ard MORALLY wounded her She fingered about three
houfs nnd died shortly afier o'clock ,,e,
Officers Dennis McMehon and J h PM OF tne Teil,
Trecn Police arrived the after daylight bui found
ihe porsraOr Il the deed aud ms conparos gone 1le
70 lowed 90 or schuyler ABOUT ou bes away anu
them Icudng the prime pal arrested thtfe Another
,f the party wa taken into CUSTODY soon i!eward M
soon cfer the arrests CcroDes inquest was he'd ana me
following facts eoited before Coroner O'cF ana justice
etsnder Elliott being sworn before Justice Byrne testi
knew AL tie defendants executing Fitzgerald ana
nornne Of the "a Of August; they Murrays Public
House near Westchester Bridge be went into TINS
sitting an table playing some game the wipess
went 70 90 when two OF the PLAYERS shut me door
aid came from Philadelphia murder you (Elotpi that
was the Grs expression hesfd from either OF them re-
sso sad You Rsped Robinson to beat Arthur Crummy.
replied did not Burke then seld' Ger ready kept re-
heytaa the bOtod Burke kept striking at ne bat 4ep
ou Of his way. begged them % et me 20 as was alone
and there five Of them got out OF The place at
Isl and started TO go home In company with Richard
f,oWed me- about halfway home }. Z. Burke clnehed me
aad Knocked him down tLen serFt Dorsn struck me with
an ron bar and broke my left and Knocked me down
fhr haooed and relief 10 ny cousnilcnard
Archer nd baker named Nicholas Ioty cane 20 my assist
the attacking party then ran sEtS loH@ws9 pcrsn
Y)onad who came and set ga up untn O'Clock
when / went up Stair and uhdTesseo' and "ss about
M door m the rear. ! looked Ogt o. ne window and
saw Two Den Chss. Burke AID Michael Marin standing
"a front a my house with eaeA fun ana osyoaet
iu icr hands, Burte standing IN fonl OF nv wluoow
ard Martin had across Ia ts htcs door ihen ian
stairs heard their cry "AuTceT ne orange sohoi
Ihad nothing but my sniri then rsn upstairs
an nc8 out u Al upper Cory Wncow landed ALONGSIDE
Il .ares Burke tie fence whs bsiweet hm hna m'st
sOoP rail and Ia1 TOWARD LoIls 1Ie h' Ish l1G
ne / inside the ward tftvtei nv tctt' bhu Dehe
.ho, Michael II Ceptr Mlcise Marin JOIN D0rsn and
JOIN G. Burke wsr, IN he r,sf' fG Lad gnrs with
bagOaets attached; Charles hHAe ttee "p aue
ran the muze Of In gun in NJ face and pulled tbe tgg
tvioes the esp die sIIods made gI'o le nun ~
dropped the and baes % he 30 le1so " ~.
aud Chsres Burke coming amer ne viii g. 'lAmiAt
''There gOes the Of -i tso go sool nundI'l
house and heard my mother sItaa oufAn hose behind
me thoY got nearer than 30 yarc, 70 ahef s
the hsiasi kep' On /" "'''eL's'" re- a." , i
scr05s using my slgli WW Wthe ~ it. at't
hoard shot and thought could hear the bah viii psi ny
heat % two o. ilfee loas' o1 me other zoe lA.
taaf and alOOef muIuef tffl Nnlo lot ei ne n went
le house Of MI w Erflf anl alarmed NM ~ got ~ ana
l me n a1d CAV, ne pol o." .."oa, 40 lse ag..lf
a. fremont for the mounted ponce f"de doNr in iAc
~sis Precinct station House an hM's@ -'o 'V''' f3 ui