The New York herald., 1877-02-09
RAIDING A COCKPIT.

EXCITING DESCENT DY The POLICE IN PHIIA-
DELpHIA-A MYSTERIOUS HoMIcIDE-FoRrY-
THREE FISE-BRED COCKS CAPTURED AND
FoRlY-Iwo PRISONERS
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8, 1871
police raid attended with exciting results and end.
ing q strange homicide occurred In this city three
O'Clock this morning, when successful official descent
was made upon q cockpit In West Philadelphia For
timo tho officers OF the Society Tor the Prevention
Of Cruelty 10 Animals have known that cock fighting
stu carried in the City OF Brothery Love- noswith.
standing the stringent State laws against IT, but the
exact locality OF tho pit renamed closely guarded
secret.
Last night Dr. Alfred L. Eiwyn the president OF the
society, accompanied by the secretary, called upon
Mayor Stokely and informed him that he had discov-
cred tho illegal sport carried IN ncighbor-
hood OF Forty first street and Girard avenue West
Philadelphia, just opposite the Nam Centennial Exhbi.
tion Building. and ho invoked the assistance OF tho
police force suppress 1t and arrest the participants
The Mayor promptly ordered Lieutenant Crout and
six reserve officers from the Central Station
TO accompany the officials OF the humane or
gnnzation AZ the S,x,centh precinct station house
Grard avenue, u was dccidcd 10 detail sxeen men,
under Lieutenant Brown, to surround the whole OF
the suspected locality assist In tho search Ar
riving on tho ground about two O'Clock, nearly nm
hour was consumed in irutess rch before off,
were led 10 low building IN Lancaster avenue,
Forty-lirs street, partly under ground A xin-
dow being softly raised Lieutenant Crout entered
small. dark room, in which found a collection Of
bags anu barrels. While cropping among these b
startled by
PISTOL SHOT
THIS was rapidly followed by Two other Shots upon
hearing which he summoned his officers ard burst
open and adjoining larger room ned with excited men
scunling an quarrellina, and watching COCK -fignt
gong in tho pit in tho middle oi the floor. Upon
tho appearance Of the police all IN the
d.avored to escape by the doors nna windows bu. the
officers were prepared :or this, and secured
forty-two prisoners among them being Pat
Carroll and bis son., well known owners Of
game cocks. who have before been arrested.
a search Of the premises resulted IN an stonishing
haul OF gamecocks. no less Than iorlythrce beng
found concealed bags and barrels around the sides
the room. besides dead cock which lying IN
the pit. It was during the fourth man, 1t appeared
that the police arrived.
A MYSTERIOUS HOMICIDE.
small room opened into the lurgcr one, the door
OF which was locked The officers heard u noise with
lying on tho floor groan'ng He was dragged out,
when he speedily ,,. tainted. and y was found
III carriage and hurried TO The police station
house Girard avenue, which is quite near by, but
before his arrival 'ne,e hc was dead. He had been
bail apparently entering the heart One Of the prs
oncrs stated that the dead mans nams was paIrick
McCrory, that he was nouder by trade aud lived
Eighteenth ana Federal streets. He mad wife and
scvcra children, had been out OF work long time,
aud merely VISITED the cocknght this morning TOR
fun, " being IN no other way concerned IN he affair
How or when thc~man was shot L. mystery, as tue
officers positively deny hrng shot AMI ncir pistols
were all found loaded.
Tho prisoners were all searched, but none OF them
had any weapons In their Possession, and no pistol
was Onnd on the premises. As ibc bali entered the
back and The door OF the room which deceased
found locked. the officers disposed tnink
he sho, Uy some one from the outside he vas
Jumping into the winiow, being mistaken for Of
the raiders. The prisoners, the other hand, con-
tend that he was cndeavorng to escape by getting INTO
the room and was shot by an odirer The Coroner
went to the station mouse, viewed tue body and
nounced that no would hod an inquest on Saturday.
The Chief OF Police Is also making an invest igaon OF
the Affair." and Is cndcavor'ng TO ascertain who the