New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-29
DEFENDING HIMSELF AGAINST A GANG.

MAN WARNED NOT TO LIVE WITH riVokcEo
woMAN-Hnw HE WAS LED INTO THE TRAP.
Help murder !" followed by several piercing screa''
were the cries that Officer saase heard he was walking
through stanton-st about o'clock last evening He
found crowd standing in front of alley at No. Zoo
stanton-st
There is man dying in there" said bystander to the
officer who pushed his way into the yard Several peopc
were standing around and the officer appeared they
made dash for the street barred the alley entrance
that could get out and drew his club Inc ero
fell back. Lying on the stone walk lay young man. ~
face deahy pale and he gasping for breath nc
held his hand over his heart and his fingers we're seu
with blood
I'm stabbed" said the PROSTATE man, feebly
"who did II 7" asked Officer saase.
There the man." he replied, in husky voice. point
ing TO short thickset young man who stood near tho
fence In the yard with his hat pulled over his eyes anu
his hands in mis- pockets Officer Saase brought the ac
cused before the the ground. who ralsed
his head slightly and again identified him his assaian
Leaving the wounded in charge OF another officer
saase took the prisoner the Eleventh Precinct Station
There he said that he Charles Warner that he was
married and lived at No. s5 Columbiast Brooklyn He
is brass moudcr He refused to say anything about he
quarrel and locked up
An ambulance took the wounded man TO Bellevue Hos
pital There deep wound in the left side ana inc
lung had been aceratcd. The wound was bleeding pro-
filsely externally ana III was Thought theIc was
able internal hemorrhage The house surgeon ran MS
finger into the wound without trouble and did not get to
the end of it. 1t may prove fatal At the hospital ue
wounced man said that he Richard Powell OF No 5oo
East Eghthst He was weak to give any account oil
the trouble. 49,,
captain Schultz set Detective Brennan at work on the
cae and he soon found out that Powell wasa enDe on
n desperate gang known as the :. Bowerys one Oh n u
chief spirits OF this gang is John Young wn9ls
man in a shoe store in Chambers-st, near Pearl h9nng
married pretty east side girl several years ago
never lived happily together and about wear aeG 'S
senaracd Mrs Young soon after applied Tor ulNoICc
and cot il about six months Since leaving his We
Young has annoyed her considerably and ehdeaNoteu "
regulate her conduct the same as II he was g3ou hr
band. Afterthc divorce lie kept closer wach Oh ncf
an before forbade her speak ng 10 any one vi
her male friends Mrs Young did as she pleased ana seN
eral Young men called upon her one OF theih was was
Charles Warner who was living in Brooklyn with Ills SIS
ter. Young formed an intense dislike ior warner WI, 1
warned him TO keep away from his divorced vie. VII
ner did not pay any attention to the threats that were
made and about a month moved to No. 80 Stahton
St and took rooms In house. Mrs Young Mene s
there and Warner and she nave since iiNeo osect.
for an opportunity TO lay out warner IL came i"S'
evening. IL, -, oor,o
back 10 his home about o'clock. He brought Martin
Vlaieck of No. sos GTand-st, Jersey city, WIN MN.
About an hour after he reached home Mary Clark VINO
door and told him several OF his friends were dow"
in the yard and wanted tOsee him. warner Went uoN II
stairs behind the girl followed py Nlalck As Tht,
started the yard one OF the men SAID & lnat
him fcers Give il TO him." The gang fell on Warner
and Knocked him down. He staggered to his feet me
gang pressed him hard. Powell strlfk nln III the race.
Warner drew pen-knfe from his pocket and ma'lc Il
vicious blow at Powell who fell on his face moaning.
Somebody called for help and women IN the rear rear
house screamed from the "inuoWs, ~
gang became alarmed and stopped the
the assault. Young info the rear house ana got
away, and in the confusion attending the arrest OF Mar;
The other members Of the gang escaped The ponce
looking after them.