The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-26
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PATRICK HYNEs' ALLEGED MURDERoUs AssAIL-
ANT IDENTIFIED By HIS vIcrIM-THE WOMAN
IN THE CASE.
Patrick Hynes. between eleven and twelve o'clock
last Sunday night. while company with woman
crossing Cherry street. the OF Chambers
street. when q man came running quickly toward
him. The woman sprang aside. and the man sezing
Hynes cut his throat from to ear. Tho
woman fed in direction and the assailant
in another. The wounded cried, "Help!
for Gods sake help!" and staggered
the street into q saloon. News OF tine ARRAY was
sent to tho Fourth precinct station house. and
Hynes carried there. lie said he believed his
assailant was the father of girl whom man named
Mcneil had Tilted. He added that he resembled
Mcneil in appearance. and had In all probability
been mistaken for him by the Infatuated father,
who had long threatened to avenge his wrongs.
Hynes was then removed to Bellevue Hospital.
Surgeons pronounced the extraordinary one
The heshy part OF the neck completely laid
opcn but arteries veins severed, although
the jugular slightly puncturedN and the wind
pipe grazed.
Three years ago Louis Nelson. . liqhterman Of
No. 934 Atlantic street, brooklyn, became known to
n woman named Nellie Harrington. who had left her
husband. He took her under his protection. Tho
police say that she is dissolute and abandoned in
hcr naDlts. On ounuay ulBnt, u low Deiore
uynes was assaulted. 1t is said she in his
and Nelson's company at the corner OF Cherry and
Roosevelt streets. and that all were under the nfu-
ence of liquor. Then Hynes and the woman
seen without Nelson and IL is believed that
they had agreed to get away from the latter Detec-
tive Keirns put upon Nelson's track Patrolman
Nolan told him he had arrested the man few
months since and had had MS uniform torn from
his back Tho detective went to the ightcrage Office,
of Wall and south streets, and learned that
Nelson employed upon the lighter John q.
Monday night he boarded the pale, found his
and arrested him.
IRON GODS SAKE TAKE HIM AWAY"
After q nights confinement in the Oak street sta
ton house the prisoner yesterday morning
taken to Bellevue Hospital for recognition. Tho
wounded man looked steadily ut him few moments
and then said, THAT Is the man who my throat
last sunday night. For Gods sake take him away.
don't want to zee his face again have him
me-. Then Hynes turned his the wall until
the man had been removed. When questioned
about the Mcneil story Hynes denied that he had
ever mentioned II to the police IL he had IL was
| when greatly excited, aud the statement was not
was unable to so to court but gave him cert fcate
the effect that his condition does not appear 10
warrant fatal result.
The woman Harrington discovered in house
in Batavia street. AT first she proessed Ignorance
of the whole occurrence, but at last admitted that
on the night of the aifray she had both Hynes
and Nelson. She and the prisoner taken to the
Tombs Court. Detective keirns told Justice Otter
bourg that the woman had been found with great
difficulty. and unless she were committed to the
House of Dcten ton a witness she would not be
present when this EXAMINATION took place II Hynes