New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-05
will be in the nature of tour for himself and wife
over the old field. ..,,
Deyonia this afternoon at o'clock. and old friends
will attend to bid them final farewell.

KILLED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY
POLICEMAN FRANCIS MALLoN SHOT IN CATHARNE
sT.-uIs AssAIIANT SECURED AFTER SHARE
STRUGGLE.
Patrolman Francis MallOn, of the Oak stree,
Police, shot in the head and instantly Eliieu
early yesterday morning n front OF NO. o.
About LAO a. III. Joseph Sullivan, a 1ongshoreman'
of No. 55 Oak-st., was passing through Catharhe11
ST. when he saw the two men taiking In nan II II
he lived there and the answer, Yes" Inc ponce
man then told the brass-fnisher TO go INTO tne
house. Sullivan refused The officer rad b,s eet
ne drew revolver and fired at Mallon VINO lei,
face down into the gutter. Then sullivan s:oou u
over the fallen man and fired two more shots INTO
Special officer Clarker, who was at East Broad
way and Catharine-st., heard the shots ana ran 70
ward AZ saw Sullivan standing over officer MAJ +;
Ion exclaiming: 'Pve got you now you - -.
rushed upon him. and we grappied, selzIhg MS
right hand which grasped the revolver. eaSe
Sullivan the foot, and he fell heavily against tne
curb and the steps. His weapon went OH as ne Iel
sending bullet through my clothing, Jus. IN iTCn
of the left shoulder At the same moment Oincer
Gilbride, who had come to my aid, shot sullivan
in the head, in6icting scalp wound"
After desperate struggle the two officers sue
ceeded in subduing Sullivan by a vigorous use OF
their clubs They took him 10 the police station
and they also locked up Joseph Sullivan as wit;
ness Clarker said that the dead policeman could
not have dubbed the prisoner before the latter
fred because his club was in his belt as he lay dead
in the gutter. . .
Joseph Sullivan was taken before Coroner Martin
later in the d ~, and was committed TO the House
of Detention q witness. Michael Sullivan, VINO
had been sent to Chambers Street Hospital uncon-
scious was found to have six eight cuts upon the
mouth cheeks and head. and bruises ON the legs,
besides the scalp wound made by the outlet Ills
condition was considered not at all critical.
Michael Sullivan has wife and one chlid living
at No 249 Frontst., Brooklyn. Mrs. SULLIVAN
went to the Oak Street Police Station Yesterday
and said that she had not been living with her
husband since 1876 He was forty-one years DID,
she added and had been employed as brass
fnisher at Centre and White SITS; He had been
industrious and sober In August 1876.
cessiye loss of eight of their nine chill
dren and had been committed to Wards Island;
Since 1881, Mrs. Sullivan stated, her husband had
had no home, and he occasionally called on her TOT
aid. On Monday night last he had gone TO a theatre
with their little gir had refused to enter the mouse
van SINCE =,
The body of the policeman was taken to the
house of MS sister, Mrs Patrick Brady, at No. 49,
First-ave., where DR.. jenkins made the autopsy
He found three bullet wounds in the head. One
bullet had entered the angle of the left eye and had
passed through the head another had entered q
inches higher, and the third between the two ana a
little further to the left The funeral Will be held IN
St Brdgefs Church near Eighth,st. IN Avenue
b., tomorrow afternoon, and the 9Ody
Mallon, who was thirty-three years old, joined
the police force nine years ago. lie was single
aud lived with his sister. Sullivan's revolver was
fve-chambered and sef-cocking. Four chambers
were empty. Only one chamber OF Malion's re-
volver was empty. aud there was no shell IN 1t.
with the hammer i'll an empty chamber, as nearly
all policemen dO.U