New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-12
CRIME.
THE TnIRrEENrH-sr. TRAGEDY.

ChIME.
THE THIRTEENTH-sT. TRAGEDY.
On Saturday Coroner Rollins held an inquest
\, No .sa West Thrteenth.st over the body Of Mrs.
Susan account OF whose death at the hands
OF her insane daugherInaw, Mrs. Rosanna Deane mas
been given in THE TRIBUNE. George B Deane, husband
OF Mrs Deane and OF the deceased tested that MS
wife had been acting strangely for long ume ABOUT
five years ago she first showed symptoms OF INSANITY
The duration OF these attacks was not than day
or two AT time She was not violent although consider
ably excited She has made threats OF violence
but no attention paid TO them as she was considered
harmless DR.. Clark, who attended her Informed the
witness that II the attacks continued, It would be neces
snry send Mrs Deane to lunntlo asylum Dus ol NO
she has seemed somewhat better ana being apparenuy
fully under the eGnTS Oh Psr peans left the
house Saturday morning, and on her return, wheh
had been 60 Jefferson Market Witness was absent from
the house when the assault was committed on Pehg
Informed Of IL returned at once, and fOund the
deceased lying the moor beside the lounge In her
room apparently dying physician was az once sem
for who. on his arrival, pronounced the woman dead
The bn,chct ued by sirs Deane has been lying around
tho basement FOR long time and was used Tor spuns
James NJ. Davis who occupied the second story OF
co into tho room with Ratchet in her hand She
looking very Wild and said, Mr.. Davis there has been
n murderer In this house kept here 10 inatSot me,
and you harbored tho murderer and at the same
moment che aiged nc hatSnet Su denSte woman
but not without considerable dhcuiy she tnen sau,
have settled one you can ~ updaSsh h az" Of
Mrs Deane then came ia and took her mother away.
Recoleetng what Mrs Deshe naa sau' Dbl d G 10 es
solicitation OF his vile, went UP STAIRS hnu IN , ,v io"
room on the IN rd floor found Mrs lamnreauN lying on
the noor apparently dead. DR. p j. Clark testified that
he lad attended Mrs Deane for tho past ten years Tor
mental arrangement which was slight al hrSt ont g
the family have her taken care of had not attended
her professionally since then Dr. John beaeh nsde
found eleven abrasOns the left side OF the neck sna
Instrument. suited from hctnOrfhAHc Ihe jury
rendered verdict that the deceased met her death at the
hands of MIRA Rosanna Doanc while the latter was SUIT
fcrng from ne Of insanity aud recommend that Mrs
Dcane 6e placed ~ come PROPER inSnoh IIr tno ~,
removed his wife TO The Booml sdaie Asyum The de-
AN OFFICER NEARLY MCRDERED.
Soon after o. M. yesterday, while Patrol
man Patrick Higgins Of the Sixteenth Precinct was pass
ing along West sxtcentl-st, he four lying in
the doorway OF No. AL apparently asleep. As he drew
they sprang up with cry OF Now we've GOT him.
and commenced 10 belabor the officer with clubs They
also wrenched the officers from him. and beat him
with It. lie shouted for assistance, and Officers Camp
bell and Seaman to In time to capture Ed
| ward Lamon, whom Higgins had seized and chung 10
tenaciOusly lie taken 10 the Twenteth-st Police
called in to dress the wounds Of oicor Higgins, and
found them very severe. The scalp was mass OF abra
sons, there being over dozen wounds of various kinds
| That the should have survived 90 terrible
surgeon. Yesterday morning two heavy chair legs,
abont two feet In length and covered with blood were
fOnnu the scene OF the array. inc prisoner VINO
belongs to the gang Of rnlas that lnfest portion OF
the Sixteenth Ward was yesterday taken before Justice
Dodge at the Jefferson Market Police Court aud re-
manded tho Station House until to-day. Active efforts
being made by the police to discover and arrest the
exceedingly common In certain portions OF the sixteenth
Ward. Tho street corners OF seventhaye from Six
as mentioned above who insult respectable people
they pass and are occasionally guilty Of assault Is
ANOTHER OFFICER DEArES.
Patrolman Hamilton, Of the Nineteenth pre-
onct, early yesterday morning two mon engaged In
fight In Hamilton Park. at Thrdaye. and sixtysixtlst
lie arrested OF the mon, named Nugont, and was
proceeding with him to the Fiftynnth-st police staon
when the Friends the prisoner aud attacked the
officer. lie struck OH the head with paving stone
and severely beaten, receiving several wounds In the
melee the prisoner rescued by his friends and with
the latter, fed. .1
r.JI STILL ANOTHER OFFICER ASSAULTED.
On Saturday evening Patrolman ConuOr of
the Fourth Precinct saw john Sherwood commit an I'M
provoked assault woman in Rose-s. Pearl. lie
attempted take Sherwood into custody when the lat
Yer broke away aud seEnR paviDgstone, hurled 10 40
INC ho9d OF the olicer sirmg him aud causing serious
Justice bowling committed MIN. ...
ANOTHER SIXTEENTH WARD AFFRAY.t
Early yesterday morning, while Robert Ross
OF No. Isl West Twenty secondst was standing on the
corner OF Twenty sixthst and Eghthave gang OF ruff
fans camo by, OF whom addressed TO him insult
Ing remark SOME reply was made, when the party as
saulel Ross and In the mseo he received cut the
lof SIDE near tho nip, causing serious wound. The
salants then ned, and escaped Ross unable 10 idon
tfy any Of his assailaDtA, Ills wound dressed at
nelghboring drug Store and ho was taken home
ARREST OF CoUNTERTErrERs "A QUANTITY OF
SPURIOUS MONEY AND BURGLARS TOOLS
SEIZED h.It.L H.#rT r'.r.. H....
A short time since Col. Whitley Of tho Secret
Service Division OF the Treasury Department received in
formation that John wIiams and John j. Wood had
to this city from Missouri for the purpose OF pro
curing supply otcounteret money for nse IN tho west
Accompanied by Detective Clana and others OF his force
COL Whitley came 10 this city, and kept watch on tho
movements OF the On Saturday the suspected par
ties visited the Moore House, In M0ore-st, and there
procured from David Ecker and Ell Field 500 in cOun
erelt hycent fractional currency The exchange had
sooner been effected than Col Whitley and his officers,
who had witnessed the transaction from safe hiding
place. took all themen into custody conveyed them 10
Police Headquarters The counterfeit currency was found
In the possession OF Wood In possession OF Eckert
found counterfeit United states Treasury - BILL
aud twenty-five cents In counterfeit fractional currency
After his aTes Eokert confessed the whole thing, ana
stated that bis trunk containing quantity OF counter
ielt lives and set OF burglars TOOLS would DO found M
the Erie HOTEL AT the corner OF West ana Robinson ss
Accompanied Dy Detectives Vaughan ana Farley, tue /
Washington detectives visited the hotel and removed tue
trunk 10 Tie apartment Of the officers at the ~ charles
Hotel. On opening the trunk. roll OF eOuutefieit "
United STATES treasury notes, amounting 70 NoO was