Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-03

through the body The elder brother en- deavored to wrest the weapon from his hand. The officer took both into custody. Each was fined $iO. It was stated that the young men are sons of ex-President Garcia, of Peru.
 Nurder-A Man Stabbed Six Times by
 a Thief at Ills Own Door.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Daniel Shea aged 9 years, of No. 9 Mulberry street, was assault ed by three thieves to-day at half-past eleven o'clock at his own threshold and almost cut to pieces with dagger. The would-be mur- derer was arrested, after an exciting chase by 8 policeman, but his two companions es- capped. She and his wife are care-takers of the house No. Mulberry street and live there At half-past eleven the husband was at work at No. 176 Worth street, and Mrs. Shea was alone in their rooms, when three rough looking young men burst in the door leading into the room, bent on robbing the house. Mrs. Shea made an outcry, and a neiehbor, who heard the noise, ran around the corner to warn her husband. He start ed for his own house. At the door he was met by the three men hastily coming out, and instantly surmising that they were the thieves, he seized the first and largest man. The fellow, with an oath, attempted to shake him off, but failing drew long knife and plunged it into Shea's body. His two com panions tugged at his victim. endeavoring to free the villain from his grasp, but Shea held on, his shouts for help mingling with cries of pain as the knife was plunged again and again into his body by the merciless rufian.
 II @,I,s o1, la< in Shea's side to the hilt, he sank exhausted to the sidewalk but so determined was yet his grasp that the murderer, as he shook of his half-insensible burden and fled, left one of the sleeves of his blue flannel shirt in his yictim's hands, The three thieves fled to- csther toward Canal street, but separated on the way, the man with the knife running alone up Mulberry street The bloody scene, enacted within few feet of crowded Chatham street. had attracted crowd of men and wo- men who followed on his heels with shouts. Officer John Shea joined them at Worth street and led the pursuit. The fugitive ran for life, but his race was brief At ''The Croak" in Mulberry street, in front of No 56. the fugitive was over taken and seized by the policeman, and by a well-directed blow of the latter's club was disarmed and reduced to subiection. A stretcher was hastily inn provised of shutter, and the wounded man, who was bleeding profusely, was carried be- hind the officer and his prisoner to the Mul- berry street station house, followed and sur rounded by an immense. throng of excited people, An ambulance had been telegraphed for, and upon it's arrival the surgeon dressed Shea's wounds The wounds were six in number each deep and dangerous, and the mans chances for life are few. He was car ried to St. vincent's Hospital, but not before the murderous thief had been put face to face with him and fully identified. If anything was missing to confirm the assailant's guilt, his sleeveless arm and the missing sleeve yet firmly held by his victim furnished full proof The prisoner gave his name as James A. Wells. aged twenty three years,a plumber securely in a cell in the station house. and this afternoon was committed to court to await the result of Shea's injuries. Detec- tives are securing the Fourth and Fourteenth wards looking for his two accomplices, who escaped