New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-13
Stabbed IN THE DARK.

A WOUND THAT MAY RESULT FATALLY.
THE ATTACK OF THREE DRUNKEN MEN ofoN
CHARLES S. MANY AT SING sING-oNE OF THE
AssAILANTs HELD FOR TRIAL
At Sing Sing on Wednesday night there was
stabbing affray, which will probably have ta'ai
result. The victim is native OF the village
Charles s. Many. son Of Joshua IT, Many
Supervisor of Ossinning, quiet sober, inoneh-
sive Young man about twenty-five years
of age. The man VINO did the stabbing Is straii-
ger, a Swede who gave the name of John Johnson
Between and 10 o'clock on Wednesday evening,
young Many was standing in the bar of the PhGnlx
House, opposite the depot, when three
men entered and sought to engage lodg-
ings from the clerk. They were rough-
looking laborngmen. the worse Tor nqnor
and because of their bosterous manner, rooms were
refused them. Mary suggested mat they ilgnt
find rooms at the American House,up IN tne VliaHr'
and after an exchange of words with the cleISi
thew were mt out of the house. Outside they fell
to abusing hack-dryer who offered TO drive tneHl
and then they crossed Main-st and entered the WIZ
lam Tel House. Here they were again elected ABOUT
this time Many started tor his home IN Waier-st'
distant a block and half from the PhGnix House.
He had walked about half a block and was passlhe
under the awning IN front of Chedype's store wheh
the three men arcOsted him. lie tried TO pass on
but they took hold of hlm. Two of them he man
aged to throw off; the third he said he would take
np the hill until he could find policeman INT o
whose care he might give hun, But the man fought
firrceiy, and drawing n knife IRON nS pocket,
stabbed Many and broke away. The three men
then took to their heels and were lost III the urK-
ness.
The noise had drawn to the spot a boy named
Denis Marin. who overlook Many at the corner Oh
Water-st. Many had just strength enough le1t 10
say that he bad been stabbed aIn thn
then tainted away. The boy dragged the
wounded man into the house OF
neighbor named Grady. and the two carried MN
home unconscious and blee.,lng profu5ey Pnysl-
clans sent Tor at once and an alarm was gwen
to the police The report spread rapidly that young
i.Il ..n and nh,F-
ioined in the search for the three assallants'
Up an down the railroad tracks and the flver
front the searchers wenl, but the men doubled on
their pursuers. and about midnight were discovered
N hiding near the depot, only few yards away
fronthe scene of the struggle. IL was fortunate
for them that the police were at hand, ,forthe peop
were much excited and threatened violence. Chlef
Mclean hurried the men away and took them to the
bedslde of the victim. Here johnson was identl-
fled by Many as the man who had done the stabblng;
and upon searching nm, the knl1e was 1Ouhu
in his pocket. 1t was an ordinary pocket
knife with white bOne-handle obtaining TWO
blades and a corkscrsw. The larger blade, with
which the staObmg was done, was about three
inches long and the edge was slightly concave Inc
wound inflicted by il much torn at the mouth,
The blade entered under one OF the RIBS
and is thought to have penetrated
the the left lung The handle of the
knife was stained with blood and as johnson :
hand was seriously cut, 1t was supposed that In
striking a second blow the knife doubled up IN his
hand and wounded him. OF the other two men o o
ray The former Is Swe0e; the latter Is an lrishmaL
johnson cannot speak English and the other Swedc
is used an Interpreter III communicating with
him. 1t wls thought that tine three men had been
working together on the west side of the river, but
Johnson said that he had been working on farm
1t Pougnkeepsie Murray said that he belonged TO
FlshkIh, and had not met the other two
before Wednesday night.
Yesterday morning the three men were arraigned
before Justice Hyatt, charged with assaultng and
staUbing Charles ). Many. Benson and Murray
pleaded not guilty. Johnson pleaded guilty,
but said that lie struck in self defence,
and when he committed for trial, he tainted.
The three men then taken to the county prison
at White Plains where they viii be held TILL the
Grand Jury meets III November.
Dr. Isaac G. Collins and DR.. George j. Fisher
were III attendance upon Many Wednesday
night. They said at once that there was very ut
tie hope of his recovery, and Coroner Hyatt took
his ante-lnOrtem statement. In this he says that
he gave the men no prOvocatlOn, ana, as
sertIng that Johnson was the man who stabbed
him. he says: " feel that my life in the hands OF
my physcIans."
Up to IA late hour last night Many was still alive,
but little hope entertained of his recovery.
Many IS a truckman in business with his father,
and much resi- lected. He has wife and one child.
In the pocket of Johnson,
beside the knife. found a set of Photographic
views. some time tickets made out in his name aud
an empty envelope addressed to Mr.. Marin
Williams East Poughkeepsic Dutchess County, n.
"" and post marked August %, Guildford. Conn.