The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-11-13
MASSACHUSETTS.
Fatally Injured.

Fatally Injured.
WORCESTER, Nov u.-John, son of Samuel
Sullivan, aged 13, was fatally injured by fall
ing under the cars of the switching train on
the Worcester & Nashua railroad.
A Bronson Alcort
CONCORD, Nov. H. Mr.. Alcott remains
about the same, his condition on the whole IL
regarded as more favorable.
Gone to New York.
BOSTON, Nov. H. A young man named Full.
ton, hired as janitor at Hotel Huntington,
slept in the upper part of the building where
valuables are stored in trunks. A week age
he disappeared and valuables estimated at
$4,000 TO $4,000 vanished also. One trunk was
traced to Albany, and it is thought Fulton is
in New York.
Newspaper Change.
Mr.. Edward Payson Call, private secretary
to Col r. M. Pusifer of the Boston Herald,
will become publisher of the Daily Advertiser
Monday morning, Mr.. +. P. Waters relinquish-
ingEthe treasurship on account of i'll health.
Stabbing Affair at Lawrence.
LAWRENCE, Nov. 12.-This afternoon q
stabbing affair, which may result fatally, oc-
CURED in saloon kept by Thomas Looney on
Chestnut street. 1t appears three young men
named Michael Jordan, Daniel Coleman and
Thomas Kennedy went into the saloon and
called for drinks which they received but re-
fused to pay for. "A man named Michael
DO nahy was sitting in the kitehen adjoining
the barroom, and demonstrated with them,
when he was attacked by the trio. He drew a
knife and inflicted two wounds in Kennedy's
back and one in the abdomen, the latter the
physicians state, will result fatally Douahy
was arrested shortly after the affair was re-
ported at the police station. He is 43 years old
and has wife and five young children He
claimed he used the knife in self defence and
says he was attacked because one year ago he
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his assailants were connected. Kennedy is
very low and his death is momentarily ex-
pected. He is % years old and unmarried.
Charged With Child Murder.
Sergt. Wyman and Officer Adams of station
9, arrested John j. Dacy, janiror of Hotel St.
Botolph, Upham's Corner, Saturday afternoon
upon the charge of murde ring his stepson,
Robert Smith, aged 4, on TIL ursday last. The
story, as first ELECTED, was to the effect that
the child fell over an iron pan while playing,
and received the injuries from which he died.
The circumstances from The first were very sug-
plcious, but it was not until yesterday that the
authorities felt justified, in view of evidence
obtained, in procuring a warrant for Dacy.
Sergt Wyman, who investigated the case
thoroughly, says twat two children, who were
playing with the Smith boy at the time he re-
ceived his fall, say that they were in a large,
shallow, iron pan and were plying "b att: that
they commenced to play "fall overheard, !" and
himself and cried for few minutes, but soon
went on playing again, and continued to play
for about half an hour, when he ran home
From this time the children knew nothing
more about the case, and Sergt Wyman says,
that, as the facts appear, no one saw the child
but its step-father from the time he reached
an alley-way leading to his home, until his
mother, being called by her husba nd, found
the boy in the basement covered with bruises.
Dacys story as told to the officers, is to the ef-
feet that he saw Robbie enter the basement
door, and, going down into the basement
shortly after, he saw the child ON his knees,
with his head on the squirrel cage, and that as
he went near him, the boy looked up and said:
Papa, I'm in before dark, and that be re-
piled: II see you are.' Dacy continued that
after the boy said this, he lifted him up and
put him on the table, and, finding him bruised
sent for Mrs. Dacy, who, in turn, sent for a
physician. The child died in about an hour
from the time his father saw him enter the
house. There we've bruises on the child's legs
and one, quite large, on the breast bone. The
autopsy showed that the liver was torn, and
Sergt. Wyman states that DIR. Draper says
that ii the fall was produced the inju-
juries, the child could not possibly have
walked home. Mrs. Dacy tsld Wyman that
husband had stick with which he was in the
habit OF correcting" the child. An inquest
will be held Friday, when more facts may be
brought to light. Dacy is % years old. In
Dacy's behalf it should be said that two of the
lady occupants of the hotel saw a strange man
enter the builning Thursday afternoon at
about o'clock, and one Of them called Dacy
to attond to him. The ladies describe the man
as being short, hunchbacked, and about sc
years old. He was dressed in ratherI ordinary
clothing, and came from Boston in a horse ca r.
When first seen he gas acting peculiarly and
walking wildly about. Who the defermed
man is, what he wanted and whore he went.
are still matters Of conjecture, and may serve
to form prominent point in hunting up the
case. The occupants speak of Daey ss an hon.
est man, and several offered to go bail for him
last evening, but this was refused The arrest
was made at the cemetery, Immediately after
the burial of the child.
No Chance for Him.
WORCESTER, Nov. 12.-Dennis Clifford dan
gerously stabbed Timothy Sullivan in the neck
in drunken fight to-day. Clifford was ar
rested with the knife in his hand before he
could eScape