The New York herald., 1878-09-28
DIED OF A FRACTURED SKULL.
THE sINeULAR TREATMENT TO WHICH AN IN
JUREp MAN WAS suBJEcrEp

THE SINGULAR TREAT MENr TO WHICH AN IN
JURED MAN WAS SUBJECTED.
"Ihere's we'll dressed man lying drunk Jay
street. ana hos fell and hurt himself SAID boy who
hurried Into the Fifth police precinct station house
shortly after he meridian hour on Thursday Ser
gosnt Boehme at once notified the Central Once that
an ambulance was needed, ana then sent Oacer Fin
nerty TO take charge Of the The latter proceeded
under the guidance OF the boy above mentioned
to Jay street, near Washington, where he found an
intoxicated man stretched at full cagth the
There was cut on his head, from which blood was
ooz:ng. When the ambulance arrived the surgeon mo
accompanied It med the wound. applied some
lint and bandage and, alter expressing his opinion
that the man was more drunk than injured and could
walk TO the station house, he drove away. With
the assistance OF Oncer Cofey, on whose post
the man was found, officer Finnerty succeeded IN
getting HIM upon his feet but ho seemed utterly
unable to walk the patrolmen wheeled hun to the
stauonhouse IN handcarL BY this time the man
mad recovered the faculty OF speech and In answer
10 the questions py tho Sergeant, gave his name
Henry +. Tracy. ana hs business that OF au eating
house keeper, as No. 2s3 spring street. No money
anything else oil value was found on his person.
ARRAIGSED IN COURT
He was taken Gown stairs, and AS he appeared to
be very much intoxicated the doorman placed him
lying down on the noor Of CELL and not the DUNK,
lest he might fall from It, After The prisoner had
had an hours sleep the doorman looked the cell
stretched himself on the bunk. II then deciied
that Tracy was well enough 10 walk to the rombs,
aud accordingly Oficer Cuney escorted HIM thither,
AMI, before Justice Kilbretn preferred a charge OF
iptoxication against him. Tho prisoner begged the
Court 10 be lenient with him, urging that his case
was only one OF simple drunkenness, and when the
Court pronounced tho sentence OF "ten days or SlO
Tracy at once assumed dogged air. and muttered
something about putting bullet through the Judge
when his time expired. He was then taken into the
prison and placed III padded cell
DEATH OF THE PRISONER.
AT pino Z. NJ Tracy found 10 be unconscious,
aud By direction Of DR.. Hardy, the prison ply
he was removed in an ambulance TO Bellevue los
piial He continued In comatose state and died in
about an hour after beng admitted. A post mortem
examination by DR.. Miller disclosed tho fact the
man skull had boen fractured.
THE FATAL FALL.
A HERALD reporter called at No 23 Jay street last
evening, and learned from Mr. John Ackerson, u
clerk engaged there, that no had Tracy who ap-
penred 10 be grossly noxicated fall in the street,
his head striking the side OF the curbstono with
great force, and that the lay some mi
utes as though dead. After the police removed
Tracy Mr. Ackerson says no saw blood the curb
stone.
A PROLONGED SPREE.
Deceased, together with his wife, had been keeping
restaurant at No 213 Spring street, aud Thursday
the business moved No. 2Sl the same street.
Tracy did not assist AT the moving, however, us he
had been drinking Tor sOme weeks past, and had
been seen by his family since noon the day named
Tracy was about tnirtytwo years old, and native Of
Ireland.