The evening world., 1888-01-23
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SHOCK killed him.
Dempsey's Death Said to be Due
to Swipes's Blows.
The Men We're Drunk When the
Fight Took Place.

County Physician shepard, OF Broohlyn,
says that Death Resulted from Heart
Failure Following Upon Excitement, or q
Blow, or B~oth-swipes Tells His story.
Simon Besser, known to sports" 40
" Swipes the Newsboy," who is charged with
homicide, sat weeping in a cell at Precinct
Station /, in Brooklyn, this morning when
an EVENING WOMB reporter called to SEQ
him.
His story of the occurrence at Fort Hamil-
ton. which ended abruptly yesterday morning
in the death of BILL" Dempsey, differa
somewhat from that of the other known
parties. He said, punctuating his statement
with sobs and applications of handkerchief
TO his eyes.
II am nineteen years old I live at the
Newsboys' Lodging-H House in New York, and
! amt got no friends. / guess my fardeT's
told by Eddie Mcdonald dat deere was to be
q fight over Jamaica way Saturday night.
told my friends dat we could all get in, and
we went. Dempsey was with us.
We drank and got pretty full before We
left New York, and when we got over to
Thompsou's, at Fort Hamilton, de mem
Patsy O'Brien and Dan Gushing. Mikes
SrSshsr and nss S so1ni; w Tse Ra saiS i0I me 9 9'sSs
was for q gold watch and chain.
Den dey put up for o fight between me
and Dempsey. We didn't care. / didn't hit
him more'n twice. -Dey told me TO 'cut,'n
and vent ssH' to bed at u the Windsor lodging.
house on the Bowery. IL was Q O'Clock or 30,
and Eddie Mcdonald pulled me out at 1
O'clock"
room of his decently furnished home, second
floor of 30 Hicks street, Brooklyn. His
rief-stricken, pretty little wife Of sixteen
months wanders from room to room. Her
babe in arms completes the household.
Dempsey was twenty-four years old and q
steady, decent young husband. His father
Is Daniel Dempsey, who was retired from the
New York Fire Department on half pay in
1884 for disabilities received by suffocafion In
the Windsor Theatre fire in 1880.
He was famous once in hunting down the
Ludlow-stree irebugs. He is now in tine
packing department at Ridley's, and lives
with his wife at Ill Madison street. He bears
no i'll .feeling towards Swipes. He says that
he did not know his son ever fought.
Young Dempsey had been eight years in
the employ of an evening newspaper. Last
room with a nice increase Of salary. He had
lived with his. young wife and baby at 20
Hicks street only one month.
County Physician A. W Shepard con-
Quoted an autopsy at noon. He found no
evidence of violence on the body. The
brain, heart and stomach were healthy. There
were traces of alcohol in the stomach and
consequent congestion. Death resulted from
syncope or shock (heart failure) following
upon excitement, or q blow (f one were re-
ceived) or both.
Swipes's story Of two blows, one on the
chest and the other on the right side of the
neck, seems to be mistaken. There was O
black ala blue spot ON the neck. but II had
no effect further. There was NO sign of the
blow on the temple described by those who
saw the mill. An inquest will be held to-
morrow evening.
Thu funeral will occur Wednesday at q
O'Clock from the house and the interment at
Calvary Cemetery.