Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-03-19
JAMES 4. BoURKz assaulted.
One AsaailanG n Member OF the
hoard or Education, the Other of
CITY C0unchl.

Board or Education, the Other 0i
Caty Council.
James A, Bourke, bartender at the
saloon No. Ia Maryland avenue, left 4
newspaper man at the p W. Il b
station at 8 O'Clock q. m. yesterday wset
with the remark, ~ haven't an enemy
In the world" Before he reached hii
home on Maryland avenue he was way
laid by couple Of rufians who assaulted
him with bricks, doing him serious In
jury.
When . GAZETTE reporter called Thurs
day morning Mr.. Bourke was suffering
much and was too sick to be seen.
Mrs. Bourke, who Is in possession Of the
facts Of the assault, said that when her
husband was passing the old stotsenburs
foundery, after leaving the station, he
was intercepted by William Kyne Of the
Board Of Education, and City Councilman
John M. Newell, who followed up their
vollsy Of oaths by assaulting him with .
perfect shower OF bricks.
The helpless mAu was struck on the
head, shoulder and side, after which hia
Assailants fed, leaving him stunned and
wounded, to get home as best he could.
The enormity Of the offense is greatly
aggravated by the fact that the perpetra.
tors os the outrage had lain in wait foE
Bourke with their missiles with the In
tsntlon Of doing him injury.
Mrs. Bourke said the cause for the as
aAult was that Bourke changed his
politics.
Councilman John N. Newell gives the
following account of the affrsy bstween
himself, Kyne and Bourke:
81 met Kyns that evening and he
asked me If was going to q party al
Third and Adams. / said didn't care
aud we started out there. We left the
party about O'Clock, Kyne being pretty
iull and l started to take him home.
We got as far as Front and West when
Bourks came up and, showing some kind
Of badge, said in joking way: Where
are you fellows goins at this hour I've q
notion TO run you both in"
We joked together for Q little while
and then Kyne and he got to arguing
about something away back and finally
they got mad and called each other Liars,
and went between them and said :
"You fellows remind me Of two school
boys you're both friends; what are you
quarrsling this way for ="
While / was trying to paeify then
they struck at each other and Bourke
hit Kyne over my shoulder. got Kyns
away and he broke from me and hit
Bourke.
Then / got Kyne away again and tool
him down the street toward his house
but he insistsd on going back to hgh-
Bourke and went back part OF the way
Then Bourke came up with man from
the gas hou.s carrying bricks.
persuaded them to throw their brioki
away, and they did. Bourke then go
mad at me and called me liar, and I
damn liar. / took this off OF hin
cnoe but when he said 1t the second tint
got mad. Then he struck at me and
struck him and that's all there wa
Of It,"
"How do you account for Bourke beini
In bed now II that was all Z" Mr.. Newell
was asked.
"He's drunk" was the explanation.
Mr.. Kyne was seen Friday, how
ever, and gave his version o
the story. II agreed substantially will
that Of Councilman Newell, published
Thursday, SO far as the events Of tina
night were concerned, with the exception
that Mr.. Kyne emphstically declares tina
he was not intoxicated.
| ION the afternoon Of the next day,
Mr.. Kyne continued, "when came hom
my wife told me that Bourke had been II
the store three times to see me. 30
went over to Bourke's place between
s 80 and 6 O'Clock in the even
ing, in company with q friend, to Sc
him; VS. drove there In . carriage. When
opened the door / saw his (Bourke's
wife behind the bar and five or six mel
sitting around the room. Mrs. Bourk
said to me '.Didn't you hit my hus
bHnd with brick this morning 7"
"No, ms'am," said, 81 didn't hav
brick in my hands,"
"With that she called me all th
names imaginable, and got ont Of tn
place as soon As | we'll could, and, as
was getting back into my carriage, tw
fellows came up In front Of me and or
other one hit me In the back, and the
knocked me down and beat me all owe
the street. never attempted to strik
them at all.i
As to Bourke's being in bed from III
injuries, Mr.. Kyne says there is no trut
in 1t that he (Bourke) was going abou
the next day drinking with the men VIII
beat him and whom he threaten
to prosecute for deadly assault. Mr.. Kyr
claims that he and Mr.. Newell were th
assaulted parties all the way through, III
stead OF Mr.. Bourke. The trouble aroi
out Of dispute about politics, Bourl
having gone over TO Blaine and havir
forgotten some past favors Kyne hh
shown him. g."