New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-16
CHOKED TO DEATH IN A HALL.
THREE RuFr1ANs ROB AND KILL A MAN.
THE THIEVES QUARREL OVER THE BOOTY AND ONE
is SEVERELY INJURED.

THREE RUFFIANs ROB AND KILL MAN
THE THIEVES QUARREL OVER THE BOOTY AND ONE
Is SEVERELY INJURED.
Eddy Jewell school boy who lives in the tene-
ment-house, No. !, 977 Third-ave, near One-bun-
dred- and eghthst.. ran home for his dinner yester
day noon and found the street door shut; ne rang
put her head out of an upper window aud told him
to come in. AT that moment the door was opened
from the inside by tall, man who wore blue
flannel shirt, pair of old trousers black soft hat
and heavy brogaus. , -,
"Come. in here and get upstairs" the the
as he passed through the hall he saw two roughly
dressed young men bending over the body OF an
old man with white hair ana beard and Up ne ooIed
sharply at the boy, who told his notnor mn I .ho
had seen. She went down stars and found ony tne
dead body of the man. Her ontcrX aI, d" hed
persons An examination showed that the man NAG
been choked to DEATH His coat ana snoes , nne
been carried away by the muTdererS anu Tue SSarsI
of his trousers were turned inside out. SeVeia
people in the neighbOrhood had no tced hl!n
Staggering along the avenue, apparently S ooa
the three robbers hasten out of the hallway ana go
through acknowledgements 'o"aru "oo-
The BODY Of the murdered man was carried the
Fast Eigbty-eighth-st police station. AL the st4-
tion two prisoners were st1unS o 90 tI norsonS
who had caused their arrest. The men started ana
showed signs of dis nay wnen the body was carried
past them. One of them was Michael AheaTh, an
ex-conyict twenty-six years DID, who lived IN a
shanty at Fifth-ave. and Nlnety-thlrd-st; his
companion was James Grady, repuslve looking
youth of nineteen years, who was known TO be a
thief and who lived in a tenement-hou IN seven
tv. third-st near the Eastern Boulevard. About
l2:I5 D. M they had entered the beer-shOp OF
George Griss at No 2,1SS Second-ave, with Mi
chael healy, young junk-dealer VINO nad snop
and ving-roOms al the foot OF East seventy third
st. The three men had several glasses OF
beer and Grss heard them disputing about some
money. They had called for dice to decide the
matter. The result did not please Healy and ne
hoo 70 when GRADY
returned the blow, but he was knocked down win
a chair and Kicked in the face by t Anear s GTaIS
on the floor. Mrs. GrIso saw them get on a
Second-ave. car going down town. she called
Michael DOnohue, gTocers boy, and told him TO
follow the and have the rutfans arrested e;
Donohue ran to Ninety-thrd-st where he found
two policemen, who stopped tie car and arrested
Ahearn's shoes were bloody. GRADY had a cut on
his nose, inflicted by Healy. AS they were being
searched, Ahearn slyly took pocketbook out OF
his bosom and tossed 1t under the desk;
Captain Saunders picked 1t up ana lOunu
that { contained 81 and two pawn tickets Soon
after the prisoners had been locked up young man
entered the station aud asked 70 see the body OF the
murdered man. He identified 1t immediately as
lived at No. 2 ,O26 Third ave- The young mans
father afterward went TO the station and made ar
rangements to have the body taken TO an und eT
takers shop. Policeman Farrell OF the lwel1tn
Precinct was sent to inform Captain Saunders inat
Michael Healy had been removed TO the Ninety
ninth Street Hospital, insensible and probably "a
hs
ants sent to his station. Captain saunders repned
that he would have TO hold them for another muir
der He was convinced by that time that the PITS
pners and Healy had killed and robbed Mr. Barring.
Eddy Jewell at the station pointed out Anearh as
the man who had opened the door for MN, ana
Grady as the one who was robbmg the dead man;
The prisoners looked anxious but suilen, ana sald
nothing. Mr.. BaTling's son 1dentlhed the pocket
book aud pawn tickets, which Ahcam had thrown
AWAY as having belonged to his father. Henry
White, boy who had been hired 10y Healy to drive
his wagon, said that llealy and the two prisoners
left the wagon at SecOnd-ave. ana One-hunured-
and-ffteenth-st about 11:l5 a. M, and went 10
ward hiId-aVe. They returned IN about an n0ur,
and Ahearn had coat rolled up about something.
He wanted TO put the bundle lii the wagon, Dui was
Iold not to do ii. The boy was then t0ld 10
drive the wagon TO the foot of East SeVenty-tnrd-
st.. and they left HIM and entered the beer-shOp.
Other witnesses siren gthened the evidence against
the prisoners. Captain saunders sara that II IieaIy
recovered. all three of the murdcrers would IN
doubleday be hung, as the killing of q man whle
in the act of committing robbery was murder IN
the first degree. An examination or the Dody
NehoWed that one of the ribs was broken, evidently
by a kick before he chOked to death, Nhen
the thieves quar- eed and fought over their Sp9iisI
they probably did not know that they had Killed
fhe man. Word was received from the hospital IN
The afternoon that Healy probably would recover,
although he was still inSeuslble and suffering from
dangerous conclusion of the brain. In the evening
he was improving and there was little danger OF
his death. =
Joseph Barring, the murdered man. was sixty-fo
wears old and native of Ireland; lie had hFed
in this city for many years and had Dech lGi-
MORAN & co. at No. 90 Duane-st. In recent years
he had INDUCED in frequent spTees and on sucE
occasions would be drunk for days at tune. lie
had been away from home under the influence
of louor for more than twenty -four hours when ne
was killed. Beside his pOcketbook, which con-
famed small amount of money, he mad only
silver watch and few articles OF small value In his
pockets when he left home