The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-10-29
FOUR MURDER0IS LOAFERS.
sTIBBTNG IN 4 u INK .fLLEY IN THfR.
Tr-SECOVD STRhET
West Side HUMANS Again Using the Knife
L,ing In Wait for - Boy Eight W oun ",

Robert s. Dale, engineer and machinist.
lives in II rear house at 4l2 West Thirty -second
street. Al 10 o'clock on Saturday evening nd
WAS talking at the entrance Of the alley. which,
leafs to the street. with his friend. Mr. Scully.
and four young men entered il. Little Tommy
Hamilton, nine vears old. stood near Dale and
Scully, listening to their conversation. Scuily
went away. and Dale attempted 10 return ~ his
apartment Tommy says that the four ruff
fians remained in the alloy. and that when Dala
was passing them they called him nickname.
Then the largest one Of them sprang upon Dale.
shouting. Lave it to him. boys; now's the
time to lave it to him" Then the youngest and
smallest one. Joseph kcarns drew a knifd
anu struck Dale many times with il In thd
back. Tho big rufllan. whose name Tommy
does not know. grapplcd with Dale, aud struck
him IN the facc. The other two. Harry Rigging
and johnny Thompson. helped. Tommy rad
and told his mother. Sarah Hamilton. She says
she came out and caught kcnrns's wrists ns ha
was stalbing Dale in tho back. She snw the
knife in his hand but doesn't remember what
kind Of n knife it was. While she held Koarns's
wrists Hurry Higgins struck her. and Knocked
on her hat. She got Dal. away. and he walkcd
the floor. He was bleeding copiousy
Dale w95 taken in an ambulance to the Prs.
eight times in the hnck and sides \ wound m
tho upper part of the back. II is feared. extends
When the police arrived Tommy Hamilton
told til"m the details 81 the assault H. was dis
rofcd 10 walk carefully along tho street and
see II ho could rrcogniz" any of the Offend -,
He advanced cautiously in front of the policd
until h. 'amo g. 131 West Thirty second street.
There ne heard somebody say just inside OF the
door: Cheese il: they're coming" He knew
kearns's voice. and told In" officers the fnl-
lows Wcr" in there. Tho building is used fora
mosquito net factory. Officers Mccormick and
McLnvy demanded Abundance hut the door
WIS not opened. Then Cant. Nashhurn ar
rived and ordered the door broken IN. Up in
tho top story. concealed behind "A pilc Of nets.
kearns wis found. He was taken before Dale.
who idrntihcd him a. one of the assailnnts.
IN" others had escaped from tn house. At
Hboui O'Clock Yesterday morning Higgins was
arrested IN Eleventh avenue.
,,bulh OF tue prisoners were in tho JrfferSOn
Market police court yesterday. Kcarns was
ncld. unn the name OF Joseph Coync. to await
the result OF Dnc's injuries He Is only sixteen
years old Higgins, under the name Of Henry
Hagan. was ordered TO be- taken e. the hosptnl
for id"uti alton 10y Dale. Krarns Higgins
and Thompson board together AT iiG Wcst
Thirty second street II IL said that a few
weeks ago Higgins and Thompson wrongfully
accused D.le oi stealing pair OF CATERS from
the feet OF on" Of them while Ia lay drunk in
the alley whore the stabhing was DONE They
broke in his door nj IN" time ihov nude tho
charge. AMI assaulted him. The four. IL ia
-ald, ronstfui" gang" and are accustomed
10 take up each others uuurrelS.