The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-27
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
A Fatal ARRAY at West HObOkeA-Sui-
eide In n Csn-Attsmpted Murder OF

A Fatal ARRAY at West HObOken-Sui.
eide In n Csn-Attsmpted Murder or
Policeman.
: NEW YORK, July 27.-About O'Clock yester.
day afternoon, six canal boatmen entered
Roche's tavern at place known as the Snad. $,
in West Hoboken. and had some dispute with
Michael Roche, the proprietor, who was unwlll;
Ing to have them on the premises. Roche seiaeu
an aoze, which he welded ia threaten. ,onIt !.
up q chisel, with which he made sSVe-
fsl desperate plupges, u 5h9 aep%y %eHP0 ESnayan
and penetrating the pectorai musoie sSn No namnd
depth of five inches Another man, nanea
Csnaysn- rsceiyed a terrible cash in the ab1o
men, from which the bowels protruded. Roche
Eyener and together with the wou uded men,
was conveyed before Justice Du Puget, az the
Elysian Fields. The Justice, seeing hat both
men were sinking fast, took the deposition OF
MaGdeu: but Canavan was unable to utter
Mary IS Hospital, but, Notwithstanding all that
medical aid could effect, they gradually sank,
ana at eleven O'Clock last night both men were
Henry BreJour, a boarding house keeper at
No ll3 Washington street, was arrested yester-
day afternoon on the complaint OF hls wife,
Charlotte. Yesterday they quarreled, as usual,
ard Bretour. who was intoxicated, threatened
TO kill his wife, and she then caused his arrest.
On being taken TO the Liberty Street Police
Station the prisoner became very violent, and
vented his wrath against his wifo in anything
but choice language. In his possession was
found formidable dirk knife. AT 5A
9STck @S otboup me H"S s traces Of
ipioxicatiOn. At 645 O'Clock p. NJ, the door,
man, in making his rounds, discovered the pri.
sOntr hanging by The neck from the grating of
his cell he having used his suspenders in lieu
of IL cord. He was At oncecut down, physician
sent for, and attempts made to resuscitate him,
but Without avail. He was quite dead. Tue
wife of the dead man WAS Informed of the fact
of bis death. and calling at the Police Station.
viewed the IifslesS body. She remarked, quite
cOully, that ii was better that he should be dead
than that e should XIII her.
Early yesterday morning Officer Sherwood, of
the Twenty. first Precinct One same in which
John Smedley was murdered on Thursday night
last) heard the sound OF an alteration in
Twenty ninth street, between Second and Third
avenues, and on approaching found q number
of roughs engaged in fighting. He ordered the
gang TO diSperse, when two of them, James
Cannon and James Logan, at once assaulted
the officer, and one of the scoundrels cut him in
the neck with knife. Fortunately, the wound
the knife.blade would have severed the jugular
vein. The wOuld-De murderers were arrested,
and yesterday Justice Kelly, of the Yorkville
Police Court, held Cannon in $50 and Logan in
$500 bail to answer.
4 new JIlck of a bogus jewelry firm was ex-
planned 10 q reporter IA day or two ago, by onS
OF the dealers. A company was organized
some time ago for the manufacture of watcnes
and tewelry under q very lahiug title, and fine
"gOd" watches were manufactured and sold,
and are now selling at the rate of SIS eacn The
articles are well gotten up, and are very decep-
tive, hence the success OF the trick. AS soou as
the first lot were brought TO New York, one OF
the persons engaged in the traffic visited the
pawnbrokerS, and in each place produced his
watch, mad it duly examined, and never failed
every pawnbroker in town has one of these
slime. keepers" in his possession, on which he
has advanced from SIS to $50 about one-fourth
their apparent and six times their real value,