New-York tribune., 1870-08-30
THE SHOOTING BY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
INVESTlGATI0N-THE OFFICER ACQUITTED.

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INvEsTIGATION-THE OFFICER ACQUITTED.
At the Kings County Morgue yesterday,
Coroner Jones held inquest the Of Richard Ma
10y the burglar who was shot Saturday morning and
killed. by officer John Cowan of the Second Precinct OF
Brooklyn.
The first witness Dr. Philip OHanon of the Board
OF Health York who deposed About 10 o'clock
Saturday morning riding Smith-st. car down
Main-st heard crowd shouting and saw a man run
ming followed by another who had pistol pointed
at the foremost one the first turned the of
watert pursued by the officer and appeared to be gain
advance OF the officer; when he got about tw0thrds the
distance away from the corner the officer hred the man
turned into aleyway and when came up the oiheer
was bringing hun out and l noticed that theIe wa. q
from the palor in his face that he dying
he died in about a minute and hali the o1icer was
so feet from him when he fired think the man would
have escaped if the officer had not fired as he gaining
Margaret Dennison deposed hye at NO 80 Doekst.
OF Front coat was stolen from my apartments
Saturday last il belonged TO my son. and is the one
the thief had; first saw him ON the back stoop; a
that I" said No man :" she said "a man with
has just out of your room went and missed the
coat from my bureau, and followed the man who was
about four houses away from me; cried watch, stop
large crowd folowed the man ran ahead with te coat
and lost sight OF him; went TO Waterst and there
officer had my sons did not see The oicer before
the door OF my room was open when he took the coat
Ex-Alderman Francis Markey depOsed; | standing
on the corner Of Main and Frontst talking to Officer
and II o'clock: saw tie crowd and / noticed
running toward me-: told the officer to go Tor
him the officer pursued him down Man-st as
far as / could them l heard oiheer
fast and gaining the officer; did not see what was
done after they turned into WateTst Officer Cowan has
important arrests and stands very hgh az
an officer do not know whether the officer could have
| captured the without shooting him.
Officer CarOugher depOsed: nave seen the ueceaseu'
recognize him Richard Maloy, who about three
ycars ago robbed Mr. Daviss house on the Hights ne
made his escape from the police court aiterMar1 rec
| ognized him in Justice Dowlings Court, New,Hork,
tried for burglary ana got four months on
Backwells Island; / took him from the Island on an
Of the Brooklyn Court, ana he was tflep IOf D
gary and sentenced the Penitenary for two years
the next time / him when he lay dead III the
station house.
DR.. a. w. Shepard deposed made post mortem ex-
animation Of the body OF the deceased az the Mofgue
found bullet hole penetrating the back about two inches
SPACE between sixth and seventh ribs II then passed
through upper and inner border of the lower lobe OF
the LETT and terminated at the spnc in Its course
the ba had divided the right pulmonary artery causing
the prOfuse heTmOrap the left peurd cavity was ted
with blood the other organs in normal condition; in
my opinion death resulted from internal hcnOrIdge by
the division Of the right pulmonary artery caused by the
bullet wound.
Sergeant Richard G.. Smith made statement substan-
TALLY the that OF Officer CaIOugher lie lecog
uiZed the Richard Maloy.
Richard Anderson of MOnrOest. depOsed that Two
coats stolen from his room on SATURDAY morning
last and he recognized the deceased as the person VINO
had stolen them. .o , -
TO the pawntcket found the person of Maloy after
which the given 10 the Jury who rendered the
following verdict:
end deceased MalOy TO hi. death by
pstOsho 6red by John CowSn police Ocer The Zh OF August
igO Maiu-s aud the Jury hereby justify the
OceT Cowan shooting deceased believing have been LIS duty