, 1881-04-10
STABBING AFFRAY.


| Il Kough-and-Eumblc Fight on Lib
| erty Street.
! Michael Kennedy, u te!rnster % years of age,
living with his parents at No. ., Liberty street,
was severely, and perchancc fntutly. stabbed ut
/ o'clock yesterday afternoon, on the corner Of
Canal and Liberty streets, by Jncob Sill. Il He
| brew, =. yeurs Of age, living with his mother ut
I No. =, Liberty street. That section OF the city
| is known as the New 1erusale1n,' anu is fre-
| quea.ly the scene OF boodthlfsty ai:rays be-
! people who nhub!t the district 1t Is nearly
always Impossible to Eet ut the facts concerning
any Of their tights. and there are lis MANY
versions Of yesterdays occurrence rs there were
participants and Witnesses 1t is Claimed that
William Rose and Il fellow einp!oy6 on the Alton
Railroad nu1ued Whitman Whte, uu their way"
back to work after dinner were crowctl OIL the
uarrow sidewalk along Liberty street by Sill
amt number OF bis companions who were loaf-
sault, and when the rnlroaders attempted to
protect themselves by lighting back he drew
ne ana III eexan e4is of fSnng Snt F nao
came up just rs Rose was about to get the
worst OF tho battle, md interferea "n bis
the right side. x lnrge crowd gathered, and
Sit. 10 escape from their vengeance, ran away.
William :lonecr, OF No. = Liberty street. pur-
have lost MI rcason. narrowly escaped being cut
by him. The Police Patrol were summoned. and
Officer Carey In atttp,pfn, a,' 10 nrrest stti, also
tended ut his home By Drs. Folhrecht. Murphy,
and Lee, who found an lIglv wound nearly two
inches in length nnd one deep In the right side,
jus, over the rtgnt kidney The blade Di1st
hive punctured the kidney, but not to any Sc
rious extent it is Thought Th, wound bled pro-
f,lsey, aud for Il time it WAS thought that the
stab was much moro serious thnn 1t really
proved to be.
Kennedy was resting comfortably nt his home
some hours later; aud. though refusing to talk
in reference to the utfrly. was Kl,bly convers-
ing with some Of his chtltus. He had been only
five minutes out Of the house after dinner when
he WIS carried back wounded. and cUnld not
have tuken any active part in the assault upon
Sir He told his mother TINT he cut while
whom Sill and his companions bud made what
he considered an unfair and 'lnWarrantable as
Sault-
Sit was seen in his cell ut tho West Twelfth
Street Station, and his nrpcarance is altogether
i'll his favor ue is Il steudy, industrious fellow,
named Piac;nsky, ut No 576 Canal street. lils
slory is to the effect that while returning to his
work he was met by Il r.llirOnd cInployE. whose
name he does not know, who had just come
from Il fight somewhere in the nejghbOrh0od
From what he heard since the aGr7ty. Rose was |
there we're tifty r,tirondri'5 ON tho spot, R1,t he
was knucked down and kicked like II football
amongst them. Upon regulating big feet he drew
bis puckct-anIfe. which he purchased Il
few duys ngo for 10 cents. and WIS defending
himself With this when kenndy came nD. He
knew him, and called upon htsn for assistance,
bur Kennedy seemed to blunder US to the cause
Of the disturbance, and taking. part with the |
rurundcrs struck ut him with bis fists several
times. sill suys be fenred that be would agnin |
be knocked down, nnd after warning Kennedy |
in vain to t}esfst~ Stabbed him.
The doctors are unable to say how the injury
will terminate, but the police holding SiU |
without bail to await the result.