The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-30
BRooKl YNS WOUNDED COMMISSIONER.
Probable Recovery Of the Victim Assemblymau
Roche Not Sorry and the Friends
of the Parties Joyful. -

Assembyman Dominiok Roche could scarcely have
committed another act which would have obtained
for him the widespread notoriety that the stabbinl
OF Commissioner Henry Corr has. 1t is scarcely
the kind OF notoriety, however, which gentlemen
desire or gain from the fact that they rarely use
language which might shock the most sensitive, and
the knife is only drawn when they believe theil
lives in jeopardy. or course the notoriety is un.
pleasant to Assemblyman Roche, and no one re
grets the act which brought him out so promi-
nently before the public more sincerely than he
does. He has always been q hightempered little
fellow, and it is only surprising that he did not
gain this notoriety long ago. If he will looh
back over the little conflicts In which he ha g
been engaged at diferent times, he will
be surprised to think he has escaped
so long. Yet he is considered by
his associates clever fellow, and prominent poll.
ticians In Brooklyn greatly attached to him, as
shown by their sympathy since the present di1i-
Guilty. He has hosts OF friends in the district in
which he lives, and by taking care Of himself might
be elected to almost any position as easily as
he has been twice to the Legislature. As he
to him, and he win endeavor to follow the example
allows his passion to get the better OF his Judgment
He was always pcacemaker.
day morning was the of the erestes yrst
cation to his friends, and when he is pro-
nounced out OF danger there will be
great rejoicing by the entire democracy
OF Kings county, for q political murder would
cause considerable feeling even among those who
are not intimate with the parties. Corr was said
by the physicians to be improving, but they look
upon his recovery as miracle. The physicians say
that he must keep perfectly quiet and his chances
or recovery will then be very fair There has
bee ,. considerable said in regard to
the authorities. In the first place an effort was
found to be too serious an affair. When Roche
and likely to die, he proceeded at once to police
headquarters and gave himself up. An officer was
sent with him before Justice Delmar but not with
Instructions to make any complaint. The case was
stated to the Justice, but as no complaint had
been made be declined to nold MIN, ana itocne was
allowed to 60 at large. Thousands of private citi-
zens said II Roche had not been politician he
would have been promptly arrested and thrown into
jail to await the result OF the injuries which he in.
hicted He probably thought even il Corr should die
ne would not be absolutely guilty of numbering
him, because he was first assaulted. Corr struck
him violent blow In the face, cutting scar about
two inches in length, which he still BEARS and he
may have then thought he was In danger OF bodily
harm, and having the knife In his hand used 1t in
defence. Corr, although mild-spOken man, when
under the influence OF liquor is quarrelsOme and in
the habit of striking people He had little dis
cussiOn once with exAlderman Totans, when he
struck him in the face and nearly knocked out his
teeth. There were parties present who Immediately
or probably the affair might have ended
more seriously. Roche is still In custody, being
held by order OF the Police C9mmiss ioners.