The New York herald., 1869-03-30
THE SING SING RIOT.


Inquest the Body Of the Convict Henry
O'Nefls alias Charles III. Lockwood-Evi-
dence against tho Keeper, Sullivan.
The inquest ON the body OF the convict henry
ONeil, alias Charles Fl. Lockwood who was shot By
one OF the Sing Sing State Prison keepers was held
yesterday before Coroner Flynn and jury. 1t win
be remembered that the body OF the deceased was
given TO his friends in this city for nterment and
that the Board OF Health authorities refused to honor
the certificate OF death as made out by one OF the
Sing Sing o1cials and referred the to the Coro
ner. The Westchester Coroner yesterday made
demand for the body, but his demand was OF course
unheeded. There quite gathering OF spectators
at the Coroners ONCE during the inqusition It will be
seen by the evidence given below that the deceased
was not only unarmed when shot down, but begged
pteously for his life when the keeper aimed the pis
tol at him.
The following is the evidence
JACOB STORMS SWORN.
reside at Tarrytown; am The treasurer OF Sleepy
ago Iwas awoke very early that morning by one OF
my sons coming 10 my bedroom; he said one OF my
the stable, whom he supposed were morse thieves;
this was about five O'Clock In the morning; he said
oe oqsn the tne men hrdssr oor 20 sea
and one went IN on one side OF the barn, and the
other on the other, but could not find them; George
told me he thought the men were dressed IN light
clothes he said that he thought there were three,
and then again he said he was not positive as they
he got confused; at breakfast he told that they
had not entered the barn he lay close by the door;
son; before e. going into the % woods, went into the
barn with ptchfork and and pitched the hay about,
but found no one; not having heard ANYTHING about
prisoners dress, we concluded to leave the
matte, mater secret and. and watch the barn ,,a At
along and told one Of my men about the escape OF
five prisoners, and that one OF them had killed
Caleb, one OF my sons, came along and 1 said,
"Caleb, those men George saw were no doubt the
take George and my revolver ana 60 IN the barn
and search for them thoroughly stayed In the
ned I'LL SIX oc0cK then came e. home ana i0and
for the rev0lver just at that moment an old gentle
man named wildey came from the barn and told
s that he S0 conidnt @ stay s's where % tney = were; @
found two prisoners, they locked the doors after
them and went up in the NOW; one Of them took
Jumped on something and exclaimed, 'Caieb there's
something soft here ~ and 1t turned out to be Of
s s 1o Ds the
barn were an Irishman ana Dutchman; on my get
ting down to the barn the prison guards said to me
money were caught, while the one who had was
not; they showed me pair Of wet pantaloons 70
said that II the man had ever been in the barn he
was still there; it was then agreed that the
BARN sSSS Gs sd
outside; in fact the deceased O'Nei said after he
TONED ton % while he was conceaied guess he heard me
say that ia pull all the hay out and ia get himi
heard voice soon afterwasd nom the tiptop Of the
NOW, and, looking up. saw man dressed IN white
holding up both his hands; he called out Captain
III surrender TO you; ! see its no use, can't get
for;'' as said this he jumped down from one NOW
TO the other until he SUD down beside me- and all
the time he kept his hands held Ep, as II to show
hausted; said to him, "How did You get In the
barn ~ and he said he had crawled IN and got up
in in the Ebay hay with the he other men; then asked
him where the other TWO men were; said my sons
two, and ne replied that thev had Isit aup above
here" meaning that they had not come down to
ing me, Mr.. williamson the constable Of Tarrytown.
came up; saw the prisoner turn pale, ana nold up
r Sr Goa on
the captains" turned around IN the direction in
Locking e and Sss s S
WHILE cusng he kept rnS ana
win XIII my poor mother; after he had fallen On
van was apparently about to shoot him when O'Nen
pteously begged him TO desist; also told him not
Sullivan and Manning rhe other keeperl Kicked
O'Ne after he had been shot down, and Mr. William
the Ss% ns no @ S ss%
ever, but acted = quietly 4. child would have
after nSy sS cfS &c him nsy aSS R% s
palr Of drawers on at the time; on gssting
e he Sees % 70 Be dsas ssssn 70 ,Oa dSn
y wns Ss nsoE sEs @ Send me ss1 and
sThats where kicked you you son OF b.. you
amt shot there;' sullivan and Manning then took
0rs se% %S ep Us
for the other men; asked Mr. Williamson II an ofcer
a sS S shoot aeT ac
keepers then went on and after going about thirty
yards they had to carry o'NeIl; they held him, one
him to Dr. Lubners; the shooting occurred about
six O'Clock IN the evening.
am physician Of Sing Sing Prison; knew nothing
OF o'Nen's having been shot until the following
ns haa received psso shot o on len side OF the
abdomen; was told by one OF the omcfals that
oNe had been taken at At n wnen saw
him he had the appearance OF . man who had re-
ceved severe physical shock; though that he
mental and physical shock set in, accelerated, sup
posed by injury to the liver and after that
time nS he Continued TO - sink until the morn
ing OF the 25th, when he died. l made no ex-
any post mortem examinaton held or any coroner's
inquest as far as know; IN my opinion death was
caused by jaundce in connection with peritoneal In
nammaton OF the liver: 1t was not deemed neces-
sary to bother about the because the friends
OF the deceased wanted the body and were very
anxious to take II away.
CHARLES WILLIAMSON SWORN.
l am constable Of Tarrytown; | met George
Storms and his brother taking the two mel they had
caught TO the depot; when the train came along
Manning and SuSan got or and on seeing the prison.
ers one OF them exclaimed TO the other, "Come
along there's more where those fellows come from;"
we were afraid 60 up to the top OF the highest
NOW for fear that 0'Nel, II concealed there, might
shoot us In detail as had reason to believe that he
would from the character OF the man; we then pre-
tended to go away and walked OF south OF the barn;
Captain storms was there at that time; we stood
where we mad gone. In conversation with Mr..
Storms, for q few minutes, when we heard one OF
the horses I'm the barn snort 81 wonder what makes
that horse snortr said one OF the keepers, and we
all started to the barn to see what was up; while 1
was telling the captain who tue two men were l
heard O'Nei CRY out from the top OF the NOW, "Cap
TAIN surrender TO your the captain replied that it
was the best thing he could do; while O'NeL was
talking ne kept his hands up above his head, sup
pose TO show that he was not armed; there