The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-02-10

@ what Ola you do win the money! A. Gave my
mother elgnseen dollars ana she went out and got
o. And you kept the balances A. Yes, sir.
q Did you have supper A. Yes, SIR
O. Anybody come TO see you that aftern0onS A.
Yes, SIR.
@ Did he come before you got supper. A. Yes,
q How did he come, knock At the door or what
describe how. A.. lie came and Knocked at the
door and called me out in the hall anu
told me that he heard the of1cers were
looking after me; asked him for what; he said he
when il happened and he said he did not know;
said to him. ssWhen was it, last night or the night
beforesn and he could not tell me-
q. Who was cutS A. He did not say.
Y. Nor where II happenedf A. NO, Sir, nor where
1t happened
thing happened and he could not tell rue.
q. Did you ask MIN who was euts A. No, Sir,
did not ask him who was cut.
10. Did you ask him who told him the police were
looking after your A. lie said man named john
son.
froms A. No SIR all he told me was that this john
SON sent him up; thought from that that he came
up from Nineteenth street.
O. How long did he stayY A. He only stayed
while ne was telling me this.
Q. Did you ask him anytning9 A. No, cir.
@ Did he leave any message with your A. No.
Q. Did you ask him what he thought you ought to
dor A. No. sir.
Q. Did you ask him what police were after your
A. He told me the Fifteenth Sixteenth and Twenty
ninth precincts were looking for me.
Q. Didn't It surprise you little to hear this? A.
out OF the house only Monday night; was out till
eleven O'Clock; Tuesday and Wednesday nights HAD
q Up to this time had You heard Of any stabpipgs
q. About what time in the tlaya A. This was
somewhere about five Q'clnSx.
Q. Was 1t dark: z. 1t was coming on dark
Q. Did you 90 back again into your room and
speak TO your mother and sister about it, A.
q. Did you speak to your sister about its A.
told her.
2. What did you telLhera A. told her that the
officers were looking for me.
Q. Did you tell her what fors A. told her 1t was
cutting somebody.
Q. Did she express any surprise' A. do not
know as she did, mother felt bad about it, told her
it would not amount to anything, to keep still.
@. Did you get newspapers A. Yes, sir.
O. Did you get it in order to learn about the stab
bings A. Yes, sir; got 1t with the intention OF see
ing whether there was anything about the cutting
Q. What did you find in itG A. found the stab
bing affair in Twelfth street.
Q. Mr. Rogers' A. do not know; could not say
positively whether it mentioned the name or not.
affair in It. A. No, sir.
/. Q. When you read the account OF the stabbing in
M1aday feisffed tQs A. could not tell. / knew
that was in the Fifteenth ward, but could not tell
+, o. After reading the paper what did you dot A.
sat in the house. sTiE-s,s~ a. ~
@. How long did You stay therea A. Wei,
O'Clock before left the house.
q. Between the Time Of Munday's coming and
your sd the EN- nose S ana as matter
q. Did you think OF going and finding out the
police' A. Yes sir, intended to go to the station
o. Did you go to either the Twenty-ninth, the six
teenth or the Fifteenth precinct station houses A.
o. What did you dor A. After left the house
took the Third avenue car and went down as far as
Spring street.
o. You got out at Spring streets A. Yes, SIR.
@. Where did you go tor A. As far as Mercer.
O. And through Mercer A. To Prince. ana down.
Prince; | met young man named Campbell and
asked him II he had seen Jimmy Gallagher.
q. Why did you ask about Jimmy Gallagher?
A. Because / thought he was to be down town that
night on account Of promising to meet him as Bry-
ants Minstrels that night, and did not go.
Q. Why didn't you go 20 Bryants' Mnstrels A.
q. You made an appointment with Gallagher at
sir.
Q. why didn't you gos A. | changed my mind,
O. And when you rode down In the car You passed
Fourteenth street, A. Yes, sir.
O. You didn't think 70 get on and go to Bryants'
Q. Whereabouts did you ask Campbell for Gala
gherf A. Corner Of Prince and Greene streets, at
o. VINO did yon see in theref A. did not 20 in;
he was there, standing on the walk:
asSea him II he seem aa y9a ns Ta
said not; so walked up to Mercer street and met
man named Smith and went down In the basement
he came out; SO then this Yves Allen came out with
US and went as far as where Jake Roome's ball is,
s eD s u Us wsn s corner
again aa rs ana smith came sns 9 SAID Se
avenue s car SO then met Gallagher after sss II
Prince street and met some more men; We went In
the and aa & and
think It is, and had drink and q cigar Id there;
came out OF there and he took me up to some place.
state where d the place was; il was III q basement
anyhow; we had drink there; We came mp, and I
think we came into Greene street ana met Q man
named Tom Brennan and Barney something's don't
came on up Greene STREET and afterwards to Bescker
ss WaS met George Johnson and Ws had talk
over this; he said that he had sent Munday up 70
the house; he gave hmm quarter to ride up to the
Dorsey's, corner OF Eighth avenue and Nineteenth
streeH; do not recollect him telling who told him
me wen he ss s Rrs
somewheres waited there u Gallagher came out
OF this house; we went down, think, TO the corner
OF Houston street, and went IN and had drink, and
then LEFT GALLAGHER; went down as far as Prince
street with him; went into Jake Roomes ball by my
sell, and stayed in there about half an hour; came
out OF there and came up In here.
Q. What time did you get in here9 A. should
think between twelve and one; could not say ex-
dCuy.
@. You say you talked the thing over with John
son; what thingf A. About him sending Munday up;
he told me he had sent Munday mp TO the house.
stabbingf A. asked him how he came TO hear IL;
he told me he heard 1t down In Dorsey's
q. Heard whats A. About the cutting affair; he
said what he heard about 1t; they were looking for
me about the stabbng.
Q. Did he say who told him who was looking A.
No, sir.
O. Didn't you think it strange they should be talk
ing about you In relation 70 this thing A. did not
ask him anything about that Munday, at the house,
said that they thought might have got drunk and
got into nuse somewhere.
q. Did any Of them advise you TO 20 to the poices
A. told good many of them l was going to give
myself up; told Gallagher and told Tom Bren-
nan that | was going to give myself up; |
knew that hadn't done anything; knew hadn't
stabbed anybody; hadn't used no knife on anybody
and was going to give mysefup.
Q. Didntit strike you az singular, knowing that
hadn't done anything, that the police should be
looking for your A. No, sur It didnt strike nowheres
singular.
q. Did they have description OF either OF the
people who was SAID TO have stabbed Rogers A.
No. sir.
q. You are sure o. THAR a. think there was only
four 1--WE small lines, "A man stabbed in front OF
hi@ N doQr.if could not exactly eay what W. In