The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-06
A LIFE FOR A WIFE.
Dangerous Shooting ARRAY i'm n Lager Beer
SalOOn-The PerpetratOr Escapes-Ante-
MOrtem Statement.

Dangerous Shooting ARRAY i'm n Lager Beer
Sal0On-The Perpetrnt0r Escapes-Ante-
MOrtem Statement.
Coroner Flynn yesterday. at Bellevue HOSPITAL.
took the ante-mortem statement OF James w. Kicks.
Prussan, fortyth years OF age who was shot in
the chest by pistol In the hands OF some one un.
known, during difficulty at the lager beer
saloon ITO Clinton street. On Monday evening
MI. Kicks, who lives at the above number
was informed by his wife that she had been insuled
down stairs by two or three men, one OF whom she
pointed out In calling the man to account for the
alleged insult Ricks soon found himself in trouble
winch resulted In ms being shot. Soon after the
occurrence Thomas hathaway, a carman living at
$50 Grand street, was arrested charged with the
shooting and Kicks In his excited state of mind
identified him as the man who had dis
charged the pistol, but yesterday afternoon
acks, on DelnG coronted Win hathaway, said he
him. although he was near by when the difIlculty
occurred. William Albright, somewhat notorious
divtdual who shot Kicks, and Captain Ulman or the
Thirteenth precinct, with several OF his ofcers il
an search on Albright WHO IL keeping out or the way.
Below Will be found % synopsis Of the evidence taken
before the Coroner
MIR. Kicks says tnat on Monday evening. about
seven O'Clock, his wife went down stairs into the
yard. when three strange men insued her by call
Ing her hard names, AMI she returned to her nus
band, crying, telling him what had occurred He
asked her IT She could point out the person who in.
suited her, and sh said she could. Ricks then went
down stairs win his wlfe, and in the lager
men whom she said had insulted her.
KICKS went TO the table where the man
SAT drinking with two Others, and asked him to
step outside moment so that he could inquire the
reason why he insulJed his wife. The man went OUT
and on being charged with the offence called Kicks
add LIAR and said he did not insult his wife, and
~ the same time struck at Kicks. The latter de-
lenaed himself and struck 'back. AT this time
shnn man struck Kicks, and the two men
u,en commenced beating INN. A third man then
Sae ana cried out TO the others to stand back; they
SpSss, MN and this man then shot Rcks in the
Doiss VITA pistol at distance OF five or six feet.
IVY aohs VI eu ouI 81 am snotn to which the man with
1ne pistoi REPLIED Yes, dn youl you are done for -,
ton house. ~ ~ w ~ ''
Dr. Curtis. House Surgeon OF Bellevue Hospital.
having KICKS IN charge, deposed that he was sufer-
lngfr0m pistol shot wound OF the chest left side
the ban entered the cavity OF the thorax IN the
third intercostal space, about one and a half
inches to the left OF the median line. the a,rec
ton OF the wound beng downward in the doctor;s
opinion the left lung Of the patient is Injured and
his condition he regards as critical ~
The case was then submitted to the Jury WIN
found that James w. Kicks came TO his wOundlng at
the hands OF some person unknown on the Atm alav
OF july, 1870. ut 179 Clinton street. hathaway was
ned IS witness.