New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-18
MYSTERY ABOUT 4 MCRDER.
REFUSING TO TELL WHY HE WAS SHOT.
DEATH AT THE ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL OF MAN
FOUND WOUNDED ON ELECTION EVE.

DEATH AT TIE ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL OF MAN
FOUND WOUNDED ON ELECTION EVE.
At 10 o'clock on the night before election police
man saw young man sitting alone Oh the sidewalk
at Tenth-aye. and Forty -sixth-st and holding ms
head with his hands. The officer thought at first
that the man was drunk, but when he went close to
him he saw that blood was flowing between his fin
gers and down his face from pIstol-shot wound in
the eve, The young man was half insensible from
pain aud he lost consciousness before he could be
removed to the Roosevelt Hospital. All the
night was that the wounded man was
Bernard Mcdonnell, twenty-five years old, who had
regular employment and who lived with his
parents on the top floor of the big tenement house.
No. 533 West Forty tfth-st. He had associated
with young rutfians, but the police had never
found cause to suspect him of crime or TO arrest
him. None of the inmates Of the buildings at
Ienth-ave and Forty -siXth-st would admit that
they knew anything about the shooting. MELON
nell remained insensible in the hospital for many
hours. The surgeon thought from the first that
he could not recover. When he came to his senses,
detectives from the Twenty second Precinct ques-
toned him about the shooting but he refused dog
Killilea learned that before Mcdonnell was
found by the officer at renth-ave. and Forty
sxth-st., he had been taken III a coach by some
friends to Seventy-second-st and back to the place
where he was shot. The men who accompanied him
said that they went at his request but they would
not tell the object of the journey and they declared
that they did not know the name of the person VINO
had shot Mcdonnell.
The injured man was told last week that he could
not I'VE, anu WAS aNNiseu 10 uell
shot him. lie asked that his mother might be al
lowed to see him privately, and to her he said that
he was shot by Richard OKeefe, young brcklayer,
whose home is in Tenth-ave, between FOrty-sXth
and Forty sis. Mrs. Mcdonnell told Captain
Killilea what her son bad said, and policemen who
knew O'kecfc by sight were sent Immediately TO
search for him. 1t learned that Okecfe had
left the city. He was traced 10 lOnkeTs but search
was made for him there i'll vain Mcdonnell was
firm in his refusal to tell anything more about the
shooting. Ii said by some of his acquaintance
that he and OKcefe had quaTclcd about young
woman, whom they both knew well, and that they
came 10 blows some weeks before Mcdonnell was
shot.
Mrs Mcdonnell was summoned to the hospital at
l D. M. yesterday and told that her son
was dying 1t was, then too late for him
to utter more than few incOhcrent
sentences. He lapsed into iusensibility again and
died at 1880 p. The police said late in Tie after
noon that they still were in the dark regarding the
hidmg-placc ofOKeefc. Even if they could cap
turc hun, they said, it would be difficult TO convict
him because no witnesses of the shooting had been
found ana Mcdonnell did not make any statement
to a coroner previous to his death. coroner was
summoned 20 the hospital after Mcdonnell was
dead.