The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-07
MURDER.
A BLACK SCOUNDREL KILLS A
WHITE THIEF.

GREEN NEAIE IN An AFFRAY WITH JAMES
DUFFY, ALIAS DEANE, SLABS AND KILLS
HIM--yERSONs OF THE ORIGIN OF THE
DIFFICULTY.
The disrcputablc part of the city, living
on the west side of Commercial avenue, he.
tween Fourth and Sixth streets, was Yesterday
thcsccne of nm atf'ray which has rid the earth
OF the presence Ola bad and dangerous char.
octcr, with Il likelihood of his murderer
soon following ON the same dark journey.
James Duffy, alias Dcane, the murdered
man, was twenty-five years old born in
Pennsylvania, raised in Evansville, and as he
expressed il shortly after receiving his
wound without parents living or friends.
The last seven years of his life have been
spent along the river towns on the MisSiS-
Sippi and Ohio where he was known to the
authorities rs professional thief. Green
| Ncalc, who did the Stabbng, is large,
wcI-built muscular negro, well known in
Cairo, of bad Characteristic worse Niger
in town, as an officer expressed it-and
whom many of our readers will rccollpCt rs
the man who stabbed Hill Schultz in a
quarrel about two years ago, Schultz only
cscapingsleath by some fortuitou. crcum.
stance, This is Duffy'S account of the
origin Of the ARRAY of yesterday, taken
from his lips at the hospital of the Sisters,
between eight and nine o'clock last night;
Duffy went into RaggioS' saloon, corner of
Fourth and Commercial avenue, about six
O'Clock, to get drink he came out; saw
Ncalc sitting on beer kcg in front of the
saloon; Duffy said to him: "How do
you do?" Ncale replied by telling
him to go To h-l;' Duffy asked, "What
kind of man are you, meant no offensr,
and don't propose to allow YOU to insult
me in that way" "If You don't get away
from here" said Ncalc, ''I'll break your
neck" Other words passed and it is said
that Ncalc drew his knife, whcreupon Duffy
told him that if he would put up the knife
he could lick" him. This cnraged Ncalc
and he commenced the attack on Duffy, cut
ting him in the right side below the ribs
and penetrating the lung, Duffy then
drew u large knife which he carried in the
pocket of his coat sack, and made at
Ncalc inAictng two large gashes-
one across the cheek from above
the left eye to the ear and
another on the left shouldcr-nethcr OF
them dangerous. Neae then took to his
heels, and brought up at DR.. Parkcr'S office.
where his wounds were dressed. Officer
Cain arrested him there and lodged him in
Jail. Duffy was taken to Dr. Wardner's
office where his wounds were attended to
and subsequently removed to the Sisters
Hospital, where, news reached Us at a late
hour, he died about midnight Another
version Of the affair is that Duffy was used
by the authorities Ia assist them in trrrctinp
out the author or authors of the recent at
tempted burgaricS which have bcenmcntion.
ed in The BULLETrN,and Ncale and Others
Of his gang, having somehow gained infor-
nation Of this fact. il was resolved to get
him ont the way. Duffy was about five
feet seven inches in height, Of clear cut. req.
uiar features, bright, penetrating gray eyes.
shabhily dressed resembling in appearance
Il tramp, was HOlubc in conversation. and
when speaking Of his ''row with the niger
as he termed it, was extremely bitter, and
continually regretted that he had no
weapon in his possession with which he
could have dispatched his enemy. The
locality where the crime was
committed is now brought
prominently to public notice, and some eff.
forts should he made to regulate the crimi-
nal classes, black and white, who con
grcgatr there. II is we'll known fact that
respectable persons the nearest way 10
whose homes lie along this route, are com.
PEELED, as measure of safety and dcccncy,
to avoid it, thus putting themselves ont of
their way coupl" OF blocks. Besides
this, night there is frequently made one
long continued and loud brlwl. disturbing
and alarming all wcl-diSposcd people in
the ncighborhood.
WANTED-By everyone who has an intel
ljgcnt conception Of It's yaluc-hraIth.
Health depends upon the possession of pure
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