New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-02
INJURED IN MANY BRAWLS
SOME FIGHTS THAT MAY END IN MURDER.
THE coRoYERs HAVE a BUSY DAY AT THE HosPI-

TAILS.
ASabbath quiet pervaied Police Headquarters all
day yesterday, and stranger there would have
supposed that the lew year had brought profound
peace to the city, but In some of the precincts the
police bad plenty of work on hand. Several at
tempts at murder were made by drunken ruiIans
IN the early morning hOuiS. The wounded men
were carried to hospitals and the police III various
parts OF the city spent the rest OF the day In search
steam whistles, which announced the birth of the
new year, had scarcely ceased on the west SIDE OF
the city, when William Engledar, young GerndD
of No. 428 West FOrty-slxth-st was shot IN the
front OF his home by an unknown man. tngie9ar
who is eighteen years Old had gone out to the side
walk to hear the noise. rufian, who was said to
and recklessy discharged some shots from a re-
vover. One of the bullets struck Engledar
in the left shoulder INJECTING serious wound. Be
fore policeman could get to the place the rUiiian
had escaped Engledar was removed to tie Roose-
welt Hospital. 80
West Sixty-nInth-st., was taken to the same hos
ptal suffering from IL severe scalp wound. bullet
fired By an IN known man at Tenth-ave. and Sixty,
fourth-st., had struck him on the head and had
glanced of. Again the police were too late TO get
satisfactory description of the assaiant Foster
had n narrow escape from DEATH but tie surgeons
who examined his wound said il was not dangerous.
At 1:30 q. H. Martin Schmidt, youth, of No. 444
OF a window of his home and fired shots from
pistol luto the back yard. One bullet struck De-
dIick Hoist, of No. 4Sl East One- hundred and
fOrty-Seyenth-St., and wounded him slightly in the
arm. Schmidt did not attempt to escape aad the
police locked him up OIL complaint of Mr. HoistI.
trail of blood led from the sidewalk in
Twen1y -SiXi hist. to the entrance OF Bellevue
Hospital. Fonr men, VINO mad been hurt seriously
in street encounters were taken to the hospital be-
fore daybreak. Francis McClusky, young steam
filter, OF No. 80 East Thrty-ninth-st., one of
item. He said he went out OF the house soon after
midnight to help usher in the new year. While he
stood on the sidewalk, near his door. two young
women accompanied by two men walked past HIM.
lie made remark which angersYd the men and they
turned back to assault him. McCluSky defended
"a rs as a cOuld
stabbed in the breast. The women soon as
the men attacked McCluSkv and the assallants also
escaped. They were strangers to the wounded
man AT the hospital 1t was said that McClusky
was intoxicated when he was taken there. HIS
wound was serious but it was not expected to prove
fatal Immediately.
Thomas Collagan, q boatman. twenty-five years
of age. whose home is at No. CSC EAST sixteenth
ST., carried to the hospital az a. m. suffering
from stab wound In the left breast.
policeman had found HIM bleeding from the
wound at Avenue and Seventeenth-st Coagan
sand that he was attacked by a stranger VINO
fled before the policeman came along. The sur
gcoDs at the hospital Thought at first that the
wound was not serious. but later IN the day they
put HIM under the Iu!iuence OF ether III order 10
make an examination and later Coroner MESSENGER
took the mans statement. The police arrested Carl
Tmm, sailor, who was Identified as Colldgan's
assaiant COllagan told the Coroner that he was
stabbed by the sailor after q quarrel in liquor
store in the presence of several other men. IL was
ascert lined that rimm had used large clasp knife,
the blade of which had cut deep cash. o...-..,
Mack an lrisbmap of middle age whose home IS al
No. SiJ First-ave Mack walked to the corner OF
Forty-seventhst at $50 a. H., and got into quar-
rel with 4 stranger who Knocked him down ana
broke his arm. The stranger escaped.
John Meschlcr, Il German laborer of No. 7l3 Sec
ond-ave.. went 10 the hospital at 1870 a. M bleed
ing from an ugly scalp wound. lie SAID that he
had been beaten with n club by George Waller, of
No. 715 Sccond-ave. The surgeons dressed MeSch-
les head and said ms skull probably had not been
fractured. Before going to the hospital Meschier
had Informed the police Of his injury. They went
TO look for the assaliaHt, but Waller had escaped
In the afternoon the surgeons at the hospital sent
for Coroner Nugent tn take the statements of the
wounded men, lest some of them mlght die without
making explanations 10 the authorities. Another
patient who Dem luded the attention of the Coroner
was John CAM. age twelve, who was taken to the
hospital before midnight. lie was shot IN the yard
OF Ne 90 Goerck-St. by Charles II. Koch er,
yong becr-seller OF No. 62 GOerck-st. keehler
was firing gun and reckleSsly sent one charge
into the side of young CAM directly under the lett
arm. The boys wound was considered dangerous
when he conveyed to the hospital. Koehier
arrested.
D. j. Mulvey. of No. II Westinghouse, and
James Dougherty, of No. 20 Washington-st., both
young men, were found at Dougheriy's home at
2:3U a. m, suffering from several cuts on their
heads and bodies AS they were drunk, 1t looked as
they had cut each other but they claimed that they
had been cut by an unknown man 40 had escaped.
Their wounds were not serious and the young men
were locked up in the Church Street Police Station
on charges of lntoXicatIOu.
In the afternoon the sergeant on duty in the West
Thirty seventh Street Police Station telcgraphed
Thrtv-sixtL-st. had beaten his wife so badly that
it necessary to send her to the Roosevelt Hos
pita. lie did not say anything about arreStng the
husband.