National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1872-12-24
THE HOMICIDE,
INoUEsT AND VERDICT
The Testimony In tho cSse-.wcl.h'. Death

The Testimony In the Case-.Vyelsh's Death
Caused BY a BloN Indicted by I.ydeu.
Coroner Patterson, assisted by DR.. J. p. HART.
gan, yesterday morning, at II O'Clock, held an
Inquest on the body Of Patrick Welsh ht the
Fourth precinct station, on X street, between
Twentieth and Twenty-nrst streets, and the fol-
lowing jury were summoned: Jay ]. Elliott
owen McQuadN Hans H. Smith, J. Burke, John
Frederick, J. y. Burke, John D. Ericsson, c.
Rasner, Jacob Fink, N. Funk, Chris. worch and
N. Conner.
.rHB TESTIMONY.
the two men Welsh and Lydeni had 4 quarrel
about some coke, Patrick Welsh took some
coke out the car and laid II alongside Of his IRE
back the coke was gone. lie asked Daniel suli.
van who had taken the coke, and Lyden stepped
| up and said he had taken II. They had some
words, and the deceased struck Lydcn. They
were separated, and In about fifteen minutes az
forwards the deceased commenced tFing up his
furnace, and afterwards went over toward the
wall and sat down on pile Of coke Lyden at
thls time was putting out some dirt with
Wheelbarrow, and whom he had the harrow filled
win breeze he walked over To the deceased aud
struck him with shovel twice. Witness did not
see the nrst blow, but saw the second one struck
There were no words passed between them al
ne time Of the striking, The men were both on
uuty al the time. The striking occurred at about
$40 O'Clock. At the time the deceased was
struck witness had his face sideways TO Lyden,
and deceased, he Thought dld not see Lyden.
witness was Of the opinion that neither OF the
men were under the influence Of liquor. In the
early part OF the night they had been drinking.
They went out Of the nre-room together in the
Daniel Welsh sworn and testified that he is no
relation to the deceased; heard that the deceased
struck Lydon with his nst saw Lydens nose
bleeding everything was all over for about one
half hour when he saw Welsh sitting down on a
pile OF coal and Lyden was putting his dirt into
the barrow; heard noise, and on raising his head
saw Lyden strike the second blow at deceased;
heard the men following out '"rhe man Is Killed"
which caused him TO look up In time TO sec the
second hl0wi was about seven yards from the
scene. When witness saw Lyden strike deceased
It was close on to O'Clock. When deceased was
struck he was sitting on the Pile Of COAL with his
side towards the wall. Lyden struck deceased
side blows, Deceased's left side was towards
lyden, The blow witness saw struck was on
ne head, lie heard the deceased make no noise
! after being struck.
Redman sullivan cOrroborated the statements
| OF the above witnesses, with the addition that
| he separated the deceased and Lyden when they
were qnarrellng lie saw nothing Of the striking
| with the shovel, and, 10 the best Of hts knowi-
edge, neither Of them were under the influence
| SIichSei Clancy, sworn; lie came on the scene
after me quarrellng, and corrUborated the above
Matthew Donough: Saw the deceased strike
| Lyden with his nst. Remaining testimony cor
! rOboratOry.
! Dr, J. French IIartlgan was sworn, and testified
| that he examined the head Of the deceased, and
found At the top OF the head an irregular cut Of
| the scalp about one and n half inches triangular.
\ lie set back the scalp, and found an extensive
fracture OF the skull separating the frontal coro-
nal, also the partial, with about one half OF Its
sagital In It's ceHtre; also producing fracture OF
| the left partial, which was depressed, the frRc-
ture reaching from the corOnAl suture 10 the
J sagital. The brain was laoerated when the bone
pressed upon It, and was also covered with blood.
| The condition Of the injury looked a. though the
| heavy portion Of the shovel had struck the head.
! There was only one abrasion well defined, the
| wound producing death.
! The case was then given to the Jury, who
shortly after returned and rendered the follow
ing yerdicti That the said Patrick Welsh came
10 bis death between the hours Of four and i've
O'Clock on the morning Of the 92d day Of Decem-
I Der, iSI2, at the works Of the Washington Gas
| Company, corner Of Twenty-slNth and q streets,
1 from blow on the head indicted with Q coal
| shovel held In the hands Of John Lyden,
The body was, upon the conclusiOn OF the in
quest turned over TO the friends Of the deceased,
who removed the same to his late residence, on
Twentysthird street, between L and NJ streets,
from whence the funeral will take place to-day.
During the inquest o. d. Barrett, counsel for
Lyden, was present and cross-examlned the
1 Witnesses.
Sunday night and yesterday morning the body
Of Welsh was visited by large number Of his
friends, who seemed deeply impressed with the
loss OF their former co-laOOrer.