The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-20
THOMAS ROONEY.

| The inquest of the coroner over the body OF
Schuetzlein, one of The victims of the low in
Chicago, Monday morning, the 10th inst, in
which Thomas Rooney was so seriously mised
up, took place last Thursday and Friday. The
evidence is rather conflicting. 1t appears ffoIa
| the post-mortem examination of SehuetHle in S
remains, that the bail took downward direction
instead of upward as stated last week. The ball
entered about four inches below the navel, and
PASSED downward and backward, which goes to
show that Rooney was standing at the time of
Fl ing, or that Schuetzlein was down. Officer
Race, who arrested Rooney at his boarding
house. and who was there when he came home
| from the fight; and probably heard the first ac-
count of the fight that Rooney gave of 1t, swore
that Rooney said ST am in trouble. have been
| to Dance and Harmon's brotherin-law got Into
a fight. The men had him down, and came out
and tod them not to kill him. Then the crowd
rushed out of the saloon on me, got me down and
were pounding and kicking me: when called
| to them to get off me OF 1 would shoot. They
did not get off, and did shoot. They fell back
a little way, and then rushed at me again, and I
shot again. Then they fell back and 1 rushed
| out of the saloon Both the wounded men eta
ted, when brought into the saloon after the fight:
that Rooney had shot them. Henry Schumacher.
Schuetzlein's brother-in-law, gave detailed
account of the row; accusing Rooney of starting
the fight. A part of the evidence is that there
were three shots fired. and part that there were
but two Rooney's revolver had two empty
were three shots fired, some one besides Rooney
may have fred the other shot. Rooney's story.
told before the coroners jury, as reported in the
sInter-Ocean,' is as follows:
"Roorey was neatly dressed and Clearly shay
| ed, and presented very respectable appearance
/ Judging by mis- quiet selfpossession and the
open candor with which he gave his evidence
he is apparently the las last man 10 be mixed up in
! in the death OF the unfortunate Schuetzlien
/ The substance of hig statement was as follows.
came to the hall OF Sunday. night about
O'clock and remained in the hall till the Getting
was over. then passed down into the saloon
where they were serving supper. We did not
| anG played several games of eucEre About /
O'Clock we returned to the hall, and Officer Har-
| mon introduced me to a lady, and danced with
heI until / was stopped Harmon asked why I
did not continue, and said I had been stopDed.
| He told me not to say anything about 1t, and |
replied that not a word should be said by me
| In the course of the evening had some more
beer, and number of persons then started a
row, which was stopped. A rush then occurred
and was struck on the forehead by some UNI
known man. [ hit back at my assailant. Then
some words were said in German, sort OF signal
and four or five men made rush at me, and GOT
me down. They were all on top of me at once,
and after trying to do the best / could without
using my revolver told them / would shoot if
they did not let me up. They did not do so,
and fired twice did not aim at anybody.
believed that Ihad either to shoot or be xiii ed
/ took no part in the which preceded the
shooting, and only defended myself when L was
struck. Ii have killed anybody, I am sorry.
~ I'll not ~ In Mas hO -
fight.
cut on the side, apparently with the butt Of re-
volver. 1t was spattered with blood both inside
and outside, and afforded strong proof tha6 its
owner had been engaged in good sized fight
The revolver, fve-shooter. of the Continental
Arms Companys pattern. was also produced.
Three cham bers were loaded, and the remaining
two still held the shells Of the cartridges. Rooney
1 declared that he dred only two shots and the
question as TO whether two shots three were
fred seems to be hopelessly clouded.n
Alter Rooney had told his story. the ante NOR
tenn affidavit of Frederick Roos-the surviving
victim was read to the jury which is as follows:
. Estate of Illinois, Cook County:
Personally appeared before me, j. Frederick
Banyon, notary public In and for the city OF
Chicago, Cook County, aforesaid. Frederick Roos
who, being duly sworn, anon his oath says: That
on the 10th day of Jan, 1876, afiant was in the
s saloon No. 10l6 South Halsted street. Afiant
? says that he heard some one calling for help
about O'Clock a. m. There affair. saw one
Rooney, an ex-policeman, and Mike Schuetzien
who shot by Rooney $50 he Schuetzien
: says) passed alongside of them, and they step
ped to the linen Rooney raised his LEFT
arm and shot ne IN the bowels. / then went
back to the saloon, and was attended by Dr.
Talcott.
Aflant further states that he knows the de
e PENDANT Rooney, having seen him several times
j before, and can positively swear that said Rooney
i fired at MIN with revolver in the hands of the
said Rooney.
fSigned) FREDERICK Roos.
Witnessed: j. Frederick Banyon, Angus I. G.
Arch
The Coroner then delivered his charge to tn,
Jury, saying hat Rooney confessed the shooting
bnt claimed that it was done in self-defense
n That point, however, was not for them to decide
r but was for the consideration of the Crimina
d Court. If they believed that Schuetzlien wa
il shot and killed by Rooney, it was their duty t,
! recommend that he be held without bail to tn
e Criminal Court AS TO the Important witnessed
r he thought that Gruetzmaker should be held Il
bail as a witness. The room was then cleared