New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-18
THE MURDERED DETECrVE.
A VERDICT AGAINST LAvERY-THE FUNERAL

yrRpICr AGAINST LAvERY-THE FUNERAL
The investigation into the circumstances
conneoted with the fatal assault on DETECTIVE rhniP
of the Nineteenth Precinct by George
on the morning OF Feb. 20, was heid on S"'"l'! ~
Coroner schirmer. The evidence corroDor'eu Vno ~
commits heretofore published TWAS SHOWN tht oet"oc
90 and o'clock on the morning In question LamDrechl'
o,ndsman Webb and officers O'Brien and Tookor LEFT
.he Police Station search or the assa
p+s of Officer Tully who had been dangerously Deateh
while attempting quell Disturbance III saioon' AZ
First.aye and Fifty-nlnthst. the party met seven
intoxicated men, including the brothers LaverY ana
william Fitzgerald The latter jostled against ohccr
Tooker who asked him If the pavement was not WHO
enough Fitzgerald then struck Tooker and his friends
assaulted the other officers During the struggle George
Iayery picked up small block Of marble and approach
Ing Lambrecht, dealt him blow on the head fraeturhg
his skull The assaant, his brothers. and fitzgerald
were taken to the station-house George Lavery was
identified by La1nbreeht his assalant All of the OIL
GERS concerned in the ARRAY identified George Lavery as
the person who struck Lambrecht
Six iurymen rendered verdict against George Lavery
and the seventh, Dennis De Courcey OF No. 15i East
Fiy-sxth-st. gave o separate verdict. modified by the
statement that Lambrecht received his injury during
fight The accused, on being formally questioned, said
that he native Of Ireland abOrer age &C. resided
at No. 2S2 East Ffyniuth-st., and WAS not guilty. He
was committed the TOmbs TO await the action OF the
Grand Jury. As Lavery leaving the examinations
room in charge of an officer George a. Lambrecht, a
brother of deceased said to him: ever You get
out this have pistol for YOU The prisoner turned
pale. hut made reply. Lambrocht was led away by
his friends who feared that he might attempt the NE OF
the prisoner eXasperated he at the sight OF his
brothers assassin.
The funeral of the murdered policeman was attended
Yesterday by n large number OF police. AT noon bat
TALON of police, consisting Of 10 deachmens each mum
herring 80 patrolmen, commanded respectively by Cas
Ulman. Alairc, Cameron, Lcary, Ward, Kennedy,
ThOrne, McDcrmott Washhurne, and Byrnes. ana 20
sergeants, formed in front OF Police Headquarters
superintendent Kelso assumed command while In
ers Smith, ManerTe, and Barr followed In carriages
Headed by Grafullas Band the procession passed up
Broadway the house of the mother of the deceased
at the foot of East Fifty-fOurthst. In consc-
quence OF the the attendance of HawknsS I0l-
ave Veteran Corps and the various German societies OF
which the deceased was member was not large The
body removed directly from the house 10 calvary
Cemetery the usual prayers for the dead prescribed by
the Roman Catholic Church having been offered The
police the Nineteenth Precinct acted as guard OF
honor The line OF march through ify-fourth-st,
Ffthlvc. and ThftYfOurthst TO tile ferry, where he
societies and battalion dismissed The Nineteenth
Precinct Police escorted the body to Calvary Cemetery
In chapel of the Cemetrv the usual prayers for the
repOse OF the dead reced by the officiating priests.