The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-21
TRaGEDY STvTH STREET.
The Shooting Of n Horse Dealer In his Own
stable Possibly . Suicide.

The Shooting Of Horse Dealer In his own
stable Possibly . Suicide.
At 2o'clock yesterday afternoon Thomas
Kerrigan, OF "a North sixth street. williams-
burgh, was found In the stables at 2l4 Sixth
street, New York, bleeding and almost dying
from pistol wound behiud his right ear. He
was carried to the rooms Of his sister Mrs. Flan-
nagan, at 219 Sixth street, whs re he remained In
possession OF his reason until Coroner Kessler
took his ante-mortem deposition. when first
questioned he declined 10 say how he received
his wound.
lie siterward grew Mighty, as much apparently
from inclpient dehnun. tremens az from his
wound, aud while Ia rat condition he said that
he had been shot by MAJ 20 whom he bad sold
n horse In Cold Spnng feN dHys aRo. They
net yesterday morning lii the street IN front -
,hs stables. whsra thew qUarrc,ed, af'orward
going to the stables tn ngh' II out, where his
person to Coroner Krssler. VINO refuses to make
u public, He also said, Hanson, WHO keeps a
restaurant At seventh street ana Han place,
know. who shot me- no have the name In my
pucket hook" Coroner kess er theieuuon gave
captain Mccullough awdr ant tor lt arrest OF
INC man aud then beg II to search Tor further
testimony.
lhe stables in which the shooting was done
are In the rear Of "a Sixth street. and access s
had to them through an alley into which a door
Of I tuck McMorroN. saloon opens. The door
was open Dll the morning, and Mc.lcrrnw SAYS
that he saw every person Who plssC through
the alley. Two other men up 10 SUNDAY seemed
10 be ~ work In the. stables, although Memoir
or employees. kerr-au was the ouy man who
entered the stubp- within four hours prev Gus
- the shooting, and hi. only cumpanil IN in the
81 brs va- boy % fifteen. At II o'clock YES
trrday kcrrigan took drink at McMorrows
bar.
Al about o'clock McNorrow saw the boy
or rs the street and enter the opposite house.
lie returned within three minutes, and a, soon
as he reached the stable he ran into the street,
shouting, Mir. kerrighns shot" The first per-
sons who entered the stable found kerrigan
leaning over nRnger, suffering the blood which
WAS flowing copiuuslY from hs wound TO fail
upon an open newspaper that apparently had
been placed there for the purpose. Al his feet
wHs a seNen-shUotcr with one chamber uis-
charged. In reply to tho nr-t questions he
SID. "SnmebOdv has hit me- and then he
ste tdilN refused 10 say more.
John kttrigdn, nephew Of the wounded man,
the boy whom McMOrrov mad noticed ms kerri-
gan's assistant, soon atierward returned. lie
his uncle's condition, and when he rC turned he
brought his father from e. Broome street.
Young kerrigan said That just before the snoot-
ing his uncle. no Tad b -Cn dridking deeply for
weeks, gave MIN f1i TO take T. Mrs. kerigan
across the street. when he returned he found
hs uncle standing as before draclibed. No one
was IN the stable with his uncle just before OF
just after the shooting.
Two laborers who w,rc working on the side
had entered or emerged from the allcy within
the hour previous TO the shooting. and tina
they had not heard the report Of the pistol.
From these facts the police infer That the
shooting, alleged IN the ante mortcm TO have
been done 10y another was done by kCrrigan,
whose incbriation for several weeks past cul-
minated IN an attempt to commit suicide.