New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-21
MURDERS AND ASSAULTS.
RESULTS OF DRUNKEN QUARREL

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RESULTS OF DRUNKEN QUARRELs.
JOHN GALLAGHER SHOT BY JOHN JOURDAN-
STABBED WITHOUT KSowING T-AYoEY IrAL-
| IANs.
A noisy party of young men, most Of them more
or less remotely connected with the tenth Avenue
Gang" of runians, was gathered on Saturday night
in the yard at No. 24O West Sixteenth-st., singing
snd drinking. James Gonnond. an ash-cart driver.
working slowly down the block. his cart nearly
filed heard them carousnQ, and recognized through
| the din the voices of John JOurdan and John CAL
| lagher, both formerly drivers like himself IN the
employ Of the Street Cleaning Department. His
wagon was nearly opposite the house from which
| the noise came. when suddenly angry words and
curses were followed by the sharp report of pistol
| then all was still. AS the ash-man stopped to lift n
barrel John Jourdan rushed from the alley leading
| to the yard of No. 30, and called to him:
Jim here, take my coat, and let me drive your
cart to the dump.
Never mind" he added, hastily putting on his
friends coat, " will tell you why another time"
With this he whipped up the horse. The ash
mans attention was attracted next to a crowd Of
men who also rushed from the alley, shouting muir
der. John Gallagher had been shot down in sud-
den quarrel. No one knew the murderer An hour
later the ashman met Jourdan at the Twenty-frst
Street dump and received back his cart. did you
shoot Gallagher ~ he asked
Never mind" was the answer, "you keep a still
tOngue.n
"Where is the pistol ?"
81 'slung it," was the answer.
The crowd that filled the Twentieth Precinct Sta
tion-house after the shooting, each man with his
own version of the affair, bewIldered the police for
ZINE. But before long GOnnond, the ashman, was
found, and his story was told. Captain Ryan
speedily bad John Jourdan in custody. He denied
the shooting, and the most persistent search failed
to discover the pistol Yesterday Charles Rafferty,,
of No 81 Tenth-avc and William Malloy of No.
427 West SXteenth-st.. were arrested, suspected By
the police of having been in the gang that attacked
Gallagher. JOurdan lives at No. 41S West Six
teenth-st.
Gallagher. when found by the police. was uncon-
scious, and remained 50 until a few hours later,
when he died in the New-York Hospital. No bullet
wOund was apparent and even the post-mOrtem ex-
animation yesterday failed TO reveal anything be-
yOnd few bruises the head. The pOst-mortem
examination had been concluded when last glance
showed 10 DIR. Goldsmith a small hole in the skull
IN the bone back of the right eye hardly visible
even when the BRAN had been removed. The
bullet had passed through the eye under the lid
aud was found IN the brain upon further search
JOurdan and his two companions were committed
10 the IOmOS 10 await the inquest, and GOunOnd
with another witness, were sent To the House OF De-
tentlOn.
William Hall and Louis Smith the former an in
cutter, Oc upy rooms on the ground iOOr of q rear
house at No. 30 RiyIng iOu-st Their rooms open on
the same hall he nelgnbOTs say that Hail was
intoxicated Saturday, and insultcd Smith
Shortly after 5OCiOck the Two men were seen light
ing in the yard, having QuarTecd about the price OF
some work which each charged the other with
eudeavOTIng 10 obtain by undertaking competitors
Hail was beaten, ana complained 10 the police
who locked smith up. HANS bruises ban0-
AGED, and he went home TO beat his wife, whose
crics compelled the ueigDbOrS ID interfere for the
second time later IN the night.
Yesterday morning Hall appeared in the
Essex Market Court against smith, who
was held for examination to-day. he re-
turned 10 the EldTIdge Street station. and
informed the sergeant that in the tight he had been
stabbed in the groin. The wound le exhibited as
tuuishcd the sergeant, who had him taken 10 Il dis
pcnsary. An hour later Hail was in the station
again, the bearer Oh message from the physician
at the dlspensaTy TO the effect that hs wound was
fatal the knife having cut through the intestiues
Halt was suffering intensely but stOutly refused 10
let IN ambulance be called, and walked out with the
expressed intention OF riding TO the hospital IN car
The charge OF assault anu battery against Smith
was changed to one of felonOus assault. The neigh
bOrs W ho saw the fight declare however, that smith
had no weapon of any kind. Strangest OF all, at
the station Hall declared That he had not known OF
the wound ~ the gGoIn uuiiI nouns GitCf tue hglt
when he rot "a doctor to baldagr It. Ills COudl-
lion last night was considered hopeless.
GIocOmo senO, an Italian laDOfer, who lives at
M 80 tuiberry-St., yesterday toward Ligatial re
turned 10 his non intoxicated. I'm the yard he
against a fellow Italian, Antonio BralcO, Of Ne. Is
MuiUsrry-st. A crowd OF tneT COuntryMen VINO
stood near heard an oath ard blow and then
SIX inches long IN his right breast. The wounded
man was taken 10 81. NuCenGs Hospital where at
ight when the police had found 6leriAO, he fully
Identified him.