The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-27
PROBABLE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN
The Roughs Of the Nineteenth Ward on Their
acknowledgements Conflict with the Police ,
Broken Heads and Arms All Round
The Condition Of Officers Tully
and Lambrecht-Tully Pro-
badly Fatally Injured.

On sunday evening, about ten O'Clock, Onlcer
Tully, OF the Nineteenth precinct was called into
the lager beer saloon No. SSS First avenue to que
disturbance and to arrest one Louis Miller. While
endeavorIng to effect the arrest OF Miller the officer
was set upon by gang Of reughs who were in the
place and who had been acting in most disorderly
manner. To show what the character OF this gang
was and the bad "corner'' IN which the
officer found himself. 1t is only neces-
sary to state that II was largely composed of per-
sons engaged either directly or indirectly
IN the murders which occurred In the neighborhood
OF Forty-seventn street and First avenue recently
While Tuiy was jostllng round the saloon with
Miller he was tripped by the stove, and he fell upon
his back on the noor Instantly several persons
fell upon him and beat him with his own club and
other weapons. Alter being rendered almost insen.
sibc he was pitched into the street, and reeling
and faint from the Injuries he had received, nc
made mis- way to the station house In Fifty ninth
street.
Dr. Swami, the police surgeon of the district was
Immediately sent for, and dressed Tully's wounds,
which consisted OF two factu es OF the SKULL He
was then taken home 10 1016 Third avenue Yes
terday morning he consi Tered In such critical
CONDITION tnat ne was removed In an ambulance to
ST. Luke,s hospital where he now hes.
90 Alter dong everything That could be done for
house, Captain Gunner ordered detective Lambrecht,
hOunuSmau WcDD Oulcer I0Uker Oflcer
OBren to dress themselves IN citlzen's clothes and
arrest the assaants OF officer fully. They pre-
pared themselves Tor hazardous undertaking, ana
issued from the station mouse FULLY Determined III
they found the party 10 arrest them. on arriving
OF the corner OF Ffty-nlnth street and second ave-
nue. they came IN contact with SIX drunken rock
basters VINO were waItlng Tor the cars. They mis-
took the Olcers for clzens. when the latter spOKe
to them and tod them to maze less noise one or
them went" ToOker ana before he could defend
htmselfsO sudden was the movement OF his assailant
thai he was made to see more stars than there are
n "A y n ha QtIn nf
the head. rough and tumble tight Immediately
ensued between the TOUR Officers and the SIX Drawny
ROCK basters, the latter using their fists and stones
whe the officers used their cuDs with terrible enect
Dougnerty had one OF his forearms broken with
ceived somewhat severe scalp wounds. Lamorecht
while threatening to shoot one OF the party VINO
with, was struck from behind on the Ie' back a,M,
or the head with piece OF white marble in the
hands or George Lavery. He reeled and iei almost
lnsensble on The street, where he ay some minutes
before he recovered himself sufficiently 10 ald In
Lac Inye arrest o. the party DoSgnery George
Laverv and Matthew Lavery (all the Laverys are
relatlves) were arrested ana locked up IN the sta
Officers they "would not OF course have
are only sorry that one or Two more are not in the
same condition IN which Officer Lambrecht IS.
n a secrs'nx Ie prlsoners Ia t9e station house
was conveyed to st. Luke's Hospital, agan went
forth IN search OF the assaianls Of Oicer Tully in
First avenue. 1t was not however, until the fol-
lowing morning yesterday That they succeeded in
arrestlng two persons supposed to have been I'M
pllcated in the af1alr. These are Thomas alias
'sulcn" Mccarthy, and Charles l.. Clemens,
OF 34i East Forty-fourth street. Clemens Is but
nineteen years or age. and Is worth about fifty
thousand dollars In real estate, with no one to
divide IT with bat his MOTHER with whom he now
lives. lie cares for no company but tnat Of the
rOwdles who live In his immediate neighbornooJ,
and they are bad enough To grace even a more dis.
tngulshed locality than the "Five Points. lie adj.
mlts having been In the saloon when Tuy was
beaten, but ne took no part in the arav, ne saws.
McCary denies having any knowledge whatever
OF the assault
Olicer Tuiiy knew but one OF the party who as.
sau ted him, but he had not been arrested up to q
laie nour last night. The prisoners In both cases
viii not probably DC arraigned at court for some
days yet. by that time Onlccr Lambrecnt may DO
are 10 leave the hospltal but Ollicer Tuy, VINO Is
dangerously injured, Will not leave 1t for a long
time IT, indeed, he ever does. The TACT Is that the
physicians In attendance upon MN have their
Of recovery are slight.
In q conversation had by the HERALD reporter
yesterday with Captain Gunner. Of the Nineteenth
precinct in relation to the foregoing cases the cap
tam did not attempt to deny the TACT that the force
at present ur Ter his command IL entirely inadequate
precinct. "For instance" SAID he zone officer
mas to cover from Forlv-second street to
s slXiSsr c street on THIRD avenue, while
twelve miles-that Is. from Seventy second to Sew
enty-nintn street and from Filth avenue TO the East
Rver;" Al SIX O'clock c last evening the platoon
twenty men, ten OF whom by right would be re-
CURED TO cover Third avenue, the other ten
nues, thereby leaving q large portion OF
tho ward unprotected. He says 1t Is, Of
course. impossible for the Police Commissioners
the Legislature gives them the power Of increasing
the number OF The whole OF the force. When this IS
done and not till then, VIII he be able successfully
TO compete with the lawess gangs or ruflians who
lnfest his precinct, especially during the summer
months, when plcnics and excursions occupy his