New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-02
ANTI-MORTEM STATEMENTS.
THE SEQUEL TO DRUNKEN FIGHTS.

THE SEQUEL TO DRUNKEN FIGHTS.
BARTENDER SHOT BY A NATIONAL GUARDsMAN
AND A NEGRO STABBED IN FRONT OF DIsREP-
UTABLE RESORT
Coroner Merkle went to st. Vincenps Hospital
yesterday, and took the ante-mortem statements OF
two men who are at the point Of death in that instl
tuition. One of them is negro and one white man.
The first deposition taken by the Coroner was that
of Henry Whalen ago thirty, of No. 90 Edrldge-st.
He has been in tho hospital since the night OF feD-
ruary Q, and IS dying from septicamia, caused by
bullet wound in the back Of the neck.
On that night. shortly after II o'clock,
WhaleD, who is bartender at the
Sultan Divan, low resort in tho Bowery, was at
his place of business when o quarrel arose among
the frequenters of the place. There were NUMBER
of people present of both sexes all OF whom we re
more or less under the influences of liquor. Several
OF the men wore uniforms of the National Guard.
The fight for the most part was in the hall. Whaien
left the bar and went out to en-
deayor TO alay the trouble. There he
found that number of men had
crowded William Carter, one of the walters, into
corner. Whalen went back into the barroom and,
securing two bottles, gave one of them to the be-
seged waiter. BY using these vigorously among
the drunken men, they restored order. Whalen
then went back behind the bar. He had scarcely
reached his place before of tho men in uniform
came into the room and walked toward him. The
man had his pistol cooked aud, levelling 1T at
Whalens head he pulled the trigger. The
weapon failed to go of. second attempt equally
fruitless followed, but at third trial the hammer
exploded the cartridge and the ball buried itself IN
the bartender's neck The assallant ran out and
disappeared.
Whalen was taken by friends to the Mulberry
Street Police Station and from there sent to ST.
Vincents Hospital. At daybreak on the same
morning, Charles Parks, of Kingsbridge, member
of the list Regiment, was arrested in tho Tenth
Precinc, for the shooting. He was locked up IN the
1ombs but az hopes at one time entertained
of Wharn's recovery he was subsequently let out
on IL 900 bail. . .
After taking Whalen's statement Coroner Mcrkle
went to another cot in the same ward, and took the
| deposition of Henry Cant, age Twenty-Five young
negro barber Of No from o tbreo Sf00Tei, sab.
| penetrated the left lung. and two wounds in the
back. Cant said that he hld no expectation OF re-
| coyery At the time that he received his wounds
| he partly drunk, aud his recollection OF inc
| airay indistlncf soon after midnight yester,
day morning he in Eiliots bar-ro0ln nj NO. 50
| Suivan-st. Several persons were present. Dotn
| negroes and white men and women. In some way
quarrel started between Cant and some
white men. They, dared him to come ONE
| ont on the sidewalk. lie went out, aud then two
| white men held him while third stabbed hlm liis
! assaIlants then let him drop on the sidewalk ana
| ran away lie was picked mp by the police ani
| taken 10 the Eighth Precinct Police station, and
| from there sent 20 81. Vnccnts Hospital
Elliot's place is trequsncd by degraded ana dls-
| sOlutc persons of both races. FROM descrip,
! tions of the which were secured
! by the police Detectives Moran and Dunn arrested
| John Ker-igan, age nineteen, at u clock IN the
| morning at his home. No. 273 BrOomc-st lilo was
| taken to he Prince Street station and locked up.
| The officers soon aftcrward locked up
| Peter Moore age eighteen. WHO was found at ms
| home No. 66 south kith-ayc. Kerrlgan admitted
| doing the stabblng. He said that Cant was very
! drunk, as eyefybody else III the
place at the time that The aiair
| occurred. Tho negro aourished stick ana
| drew n knife also. The men who were quarIe'ling
made so much nose that the proprietor hnally OF
| dered them out of the place. They all went to the
| sidewalk where KerrIgan and Cant cnchcd: Inc
| young Irishman said that the negro struck him
| over the head with his stick, and then cut hlin
| twice across the back of the hand with his knife;
lie finally took Gants knife from MN, ana sashed
| HIM about the body with IL.
Moore told story similar 10 hcrrl-
| gau's He says that the negro struck
! hIm several times over the head with MS
| stick He then GOT hold of the stick and broke lt
over Gani's head The quarrel arose over one OF
| the women in the place There had been bad blood
| between krrrigan and Cant before. The police
think that the two p iSOners the only ones who
| had ANYTHING To do with stabblng tho negro. both
the wounded men are unmarried.