The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-09

CUTTING CASE IN OAK STREET.
Family Feud Fatally Ended-Personnel Of the
Parties-Wife and Family Of the Dying
Mantle Terror Of the Tenement
House Hypocrisy and Hatred

Oak street. This feeling, which has eliminated no
lamentaby for both sides, seems to have had no
better foundation at its starting than one OF those
peculiar dislikes that people very frequently
take for one another. Living on different n oors
Of the house the opportunities for both iea
to give free expression To their sentiments were very
frequent. The innumerable little jeers and insulns
that are so easily given and so rardily for
gotten made up part OF the daily life
of these two wretched families The dricultY
was not between the Two females OF the respective
houses as is generally the case, but between the
man on the one hand and the mother on the 0thers
Mrs. Wells, the mother OF the young man now
awaiting the result OF the injuries ne mas caused,'
took strong repugnance to Mr.. Keating from the
very first moment she saw him. This animosity she
at time took any pains to conceal but rathef, on
SHOWED HER DISLIKE
by every means in her power. The woman's char
acter the neighborhood where she lives is most
peculiar one. The people who live around her say
she Is woman addicted to drink, OF
violent temperament and most unforgiving,
though at the same time strictly regular in her at
tenton to religion, with that superstition Of whicft
people or her class to be able TO divest
themselves, has several occasions cursed thesi
injured and his family This method Of resenting
an injury or paying back slight Is Of the most
appalling that be resorted to among these Door
people. Every turn OF i'll luck that comes after suchl
q thing has been done they fO0lisnly attribute;
to the effect OF the mprecaton. Mrs. Wells though
of the same order her neighbors. had cunning
enough to understand this. and since the unrOrtu-
nate Keating family has lived under the same root
with her, she has many time made them tremhle
with
AWE AT TIE DENUNCIATIONS
she called down upon their heads Shortly after
one OF these terrible outbnrsts about three mOnhss
ago Mr.. Heating fell sick, and his terrified WIFE
trembllngly attributed his illness to the bane-'
full influence OF Mrs. Wells. This woman
seems never to have stopped, in her inhuman treat
Of those people, TO think OF The effect of all
act Of hers tnat other persons looked
TR Matters s %sre IN this ona
ton during the illness OF Kea!lng ana since hls
recovery some M Two weeks since; YESTERDAY
came home 70 his dinner , At one e., O'Clock,
She would make no room for HIM to go up 10 his
person. Keating asked her al first quietly to move
out Of mis- way, as he was In hurry, but
SHE WOULD NOT NOE.
Becoming eyasperated, as his time was passlna
endeavorlng to push his passage up the stairs when
the son. George Wells, came upon the scene
boin attached Heating with their tongues. His wife
heard the alteration In her room and came OUT
the in dee an sw
ing the character OF the woman at the loot
Of the stars she requested her ., husband asa.
During the time he was sitting az the table Wells
and his mother kept up The battery or words. Keat-
lng'S door was open, as the room III WHICH
the the abuse from the other side %
finished his meal he went down to return To
his work. Al door he was met by Wells and three
young friends OF his, who taunted Heating no
passed, and called himself and wife the vilest naes
Heating being man of very easy disposition tooE
turned at this face his assaiant when the others
slashed a. him from behind, cutting and
Rearing, VINO had gone TO the window to watch
her husband OH. saw the onslaught made upon him.
and. rushing down stairs, picked up two bricks.
with which she struck Wells he side Of the mead
CUTTING HIM DEEPLY
and drawing stream of blood. Wells got SO cue
ragged when he saw the blood rushing down his
shoulders and chest that he pulled a lOng-baled,
ram leaving 1t sticking MS liver. IL dropped ont
IN a moment and Keating, putting his hand over
dashed after the wouid-oe murderer. as
the man rushed along the street the hot blood
ground, his body bent tcward one side. and the
last agonies OF the death struggle crOwding into
his face. Wells new along. looking from side
to side, eager for an open door or an
alley way that would Offer good chance for escape.
Men, women and children ran IN from every side.'
and seeing the bleeding victim tearing savagely
along, they took up the chase and pressed closely
upon
THE HEELS OF THE FLEEING MURDERER.
AS he made a curve towards an alleyway, In the
direction Of Cherry street, policeman COnron, OF the
an wSo Saa cut p open with
razor, saw the man running away purt
Ksang wno e psoy rack Seana h TOOK
up the pursuit and quickly caught the fugitive He
was brought to the station mousse ana locked up
a weakened state that Captain Allaire was
Obliged to send Tor an ambulance and nave hind
oil IN Dn RI ngntfC ThA ynurf 1u
ahmed by the doctor in charge, and 1t was found
the knife had passed through the liyer causing
Keatlng had about MIN was a cotton hook, which
he used IN his trade as 'longshoreman, and that
the scrimmage. Keatlng is a man about forty.
Ave years OF age, tan and slight OF easy
and three children. lie is a member Of
temperance society, and seems to be very
R% r6s fellow an ana VINO ms s ~s
who is very much attached to him. have made sevl
era attempts leave the house in Oak street where
lie met his deathbow but his frequent ns OF linesS
and the dulness In MS business prevented him. ,
AS he lay on the pallet in the hospital yesterday,
with his wretcned wife beside him, holding tne
great heavy hand, covered with dried blood, III
THE LITTLE ONES CLUSTERING
behind her, the poor fellow gasped between The
paroxysms Of pam. 80; my poor boy my lieis
home May God forgive him. IN, Mary Ks sa ING
endeavored to console her with such small comfort
one can ind al such q time.
was the one in the station house when the man
VINO has caused so much misery was brought
IN. He Is quite young, about nineteen or
twenty, with q rather intelligent face and
bright, quick eye. He evinced no regret
for what he had done. but said 1t was all Keatings
own fault, and he brought It OIL himself The
wonder isl, said " els 'that he did not get
It beioren The young man evidently thought
he had done what was right, as II only appeared 10
MIN that he was defending his mothers position
He, too. was covered with blood. me
front OF his shirt saturated and
so were the back and left side or hts trousers
He had evidently no regret for what he had done
but 1t is the first tlme III my life, and must take my
chances. Only once during the questions NJ the
desk dd nc raise his head and ask alter the condi-
ton OF Keating. When he was tod tnat the maB
could not live he simply answered, "Wcll, its all
his own fault.n
An ante-mortem examination was nelu during
the afternoon Of yesterday, and keatings statement
was taken. Wells Is TO be removed rI
the 1ombs to await the result OF MS
INJURIES and all tho witnesses 10 the
affair are held at the Fourth precinct station house,