Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-11
A TRAGIC AFFAIR.
DEATH FROM A KICK.
A Guest at = the Grape " D,es from Injuries
F. Recelved from HTS Landlord.

DEATH FROM A KICK.
A Guest at =. the Grape " D,es from Injuries
Reoelved from HIS Landlord.
Our brief mention on Saturday of
difficulty between Landlord VIM. Is.
Fiuney, Of the Grape hotel. and guest
named Hurd from Boston, was made when
the mans injuries were not believed to
have been nearly so serious as they sub
proved. His death confirms our
account Of the origin ofthc affair and in
vests it with an importance which was the
theme of wide comment throughout the
city yesterday. The facts in the deplOr-
able affair, as We gather them from ell
tirely trustworthy sources, are as follows {:
On Tuesday evening, March 90, two
strangers arrived in this city and registered
at the Grape (or ''Michael's'') hotel, VIM.
B. Finney, proprietor. Ono of them was
p. Moran, Philadelphia the other Luther
F. Hurd, Boston. They came together {;
were assigned to the same room, No. "a,
and were engaged in canvassing for an il
lustrated edition of the Bible, sold in num-
bers, the headquarters of which publica-
tion and Moran's address were 224 Walnut
street, Philadelphia.
Mr.. Hurd's board was paid in advance.
A few days afterward Moran returned to
Philadelphia, leaving his books and bag
gage in his room, and expecting. as Hurd
claimed, to come back to Lancaster. On
Thursday forenoon last Finney spoke to
Hurd about MOran's departure and failure
to pay his board. Hurd remarked that it
was all right and that Moran would either
return or remit his bill, and seemed wor-
ried that Finney should take him to ac
count for it. On the afternoon of the same
day between and o'clock, he recurred
to the subject in s conversation with
Finney in the Office Of the hotel. Finney
was behind the desk and Hurd iu front OF
it. There was a gentleman in the back
room and two young men standing outside
the front door at the time. 1t seems that
Hurd said to Finney that Moran would
surely pay his bill and that even if he did
not the books and other baggage he had;
left behind were worth three times the
amount of it. Finney angrily answered :
believe you are both pair OF ID
pious frauds" Hurd cxpostulatcd at this
sort of language and reminded Finney
that his own board was paid in advance
Finney reached over the desk and struck
him, and coming from behind the railing
ordered him to quit the house. As lie
ouOSCu IoNAlu OOpA L AhuCt
or pushed him so that he fell near the door
The young men outside, hearing the alter
cation, opened the door to let the man who
was being assaulted escape, and saw
Finney kick him rs he was on his hands
and feet.
The man risin. complained of being hurt
and asked for medical attendance as he
found he was bleeding in the parts where
10 l., n l.; ~ lao no, ..ln,.
ran for DR.. Carpenter, but he was not in,
and Mr.. Hurd was assured that DR.. Oliver
Roland, who boarded at the house would
advised Mr.. Hurd to lie down, but the
ing in the house where he had
stay there with any self respect. DR.. Il.
however persuaded him to go to his room,
and gave him every attention, and as his
condition became worse DR.. John l.. Atlee
was called in. It was found that he had
suffered rupture Of the urethra and was
losing blood from q hemorrhage. This
was allayed, but his injuries continued to
demand attention, though his condition
wards developed.
uc ElIlS tU Ou3 uOlCl WclC NCiy hilitt III
Mr.. Hurd and manifested much interest
in him and they and the physicians left
him apparently resting easy on Saturday
night at 10 O'Clock. About 12 o'clock Mr..
Hurd discovered that another hcmorrhagG
had set in and rang his room bell connect
ed with the office indicator. He received
no answer, and Vben ut o'clock on Sun
day morning the girls looked in at his room
&~r l,o1r 10 II, ,,I
weakened by the loss OF blood, and his bed
soaked with blood which had run through
to the floor. His physicians were ut once
summoned and he was only able to tell
them the circumstances of the alteration
and to give an account Of his family and
circumstances and the desire that he
had regarding the disposition Ofs his
property before he died, at $50 a. M
He was about S years of age
his parents were both dead ; he had two
married sisters and four brothers, of whom
Mrs. Lizzie McCann, lived at No. Mar.
bic street, Boston; Z. P. Hurd, Great
Falls, n. H., and Frank Hurd, Spring.
vile, Maine. To DR.. Roland he entrusted
the keeping of his vest, in which were
found four 500 four per cent. government
bonds and considerable amount in notes
and silver, with instructions to pay his
funeral expenses and return the balance to
his sister, Mrs. McCann. Mr.. VIM. Lea
man at once telegraphed the news of his
death to Mrs. McCann and in the evening
a telegram was received from Boston,
signed u. G. Jackson presumably one
of Hurd's brOthers-in-law) addressed :" to
the proprietor Of tho Grape hotel" saying
Jackson would leave at Once for this city
y. l.,A Sal-.
charge of the body. Undertaken Miller
was sent for carly in the morning and the
body has been properly cared for awaiting
Mr.. Jackson's arrival.
Coroner 9Iishler, upon the news of the
death, summoned a jury consisting Of B.
F. Slough. David L. Wisner, John Barr,
Emanuel Reifsnyler, AL. Rosenstein and
Jacob Chillis and they viewed the body
but, pending the post mortem examination
by the physicians, adjourned the inquest
until this evening. Dcs. Atlee, Roland, Davis
and Compton made tho post mortem, de-
veloping the nature ofthe injuries as above
stated.
Yesterday afternoon, upon complaint Of
Coroner Mishler and upon warrant issued
by Alderman Samson, Constablcs Flick
and Lentz proceeded to the Grape to arrest
Finney. They found him in bed with his
head bandaged and himself and family
greatly distracted over the terrible affair.
He was asked if he desired cab to be
taken to the alderman's, but he walked up
to the Keystone hotel, where he was met by
the alderman, district attorney, sheriff and
his counsel, and by consent Of all parties
he was placed in charge Of two deputy
sherif1s, who kept him in custody at his
hotel yesterday and he was committed to
prison this morning to await the action of