New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-15
QUINNS IGNOr '5LE DEFEAT.
PULLED OUT OF HIS FORT BY THE HAIR
TWO OF HIS FOLLOWERS PITCHED OUT OF
WINDOW AND PYTHAGoRAs HALL
RFCAPTCRED.


WINDOW AND PYTHAGoRAs HALL
RECAPTURED.
Last Friday James Z. Quinn, Master Workman
of District Assembly No. 40, aided by deputy
marshal with q dispossess warrant and some
friends, took advantage of the weak garrison hold
ing Pytha goras Hall and captured the premises IN
spite of the gallant resistance OF the rival faction
of d. A. 40. Once in possession Quinn furnished
his old office with wire mattress, bought on the
insta1ment plan, which he padded with stale copies
of Solidarity and this constituted the sleeping
arrangements for himself and other defenders OF
d. A. 49's battlefield. Saturday was passed In
tranquility, no attempt being made to recapture
the hail. was expected, and the Quinn faction
spent the day in congratuating themselves.
Saturday night the garrison consisted Of James
f. Quinn, captain; John Russell, John O'Bricn,
William Adams and Dyer d. Lum. vigilantly
they kept their watch in the office on the left
hand side of the entrance, Dame Rumor whisper
ing that they passed the time playing an old
fashioned game with black bottle. However,
when the "dog-watch" in the early morning ar
rived and the stars grew pale, the small but de-
termined garrison passed the bottle for the last
time and composed themselves for well-earned
sleep, the captain taking the mattress At half
past yesterday morning small army Of fifteen
desperate, well-armed men, led by James j. Fitz-
gerald, Of the prominent opposition leaders,
silently congregated in Nolan's cigar store, from
which there is an entrance into Pythagoras Hall
by back door. Marshalling his force. Ftz-
gerald led the way to Quinns Office, where the un-
locked door only separated them from their un-
conscious victims From the opposite side of the
hall Fitzgerald made of himself battering ram
and as he struck the door with his shoulder
turned the knob and the next moment picked him
self up on the further side of the room somewhat
subdued and exceedingly surprised
COURTEOUS COMMAND TO GIT"
\ With as much courtesy he could command,
Fitzgerald informed the astonshed inmates who
woke up at his unccremOnious entrance that
they would have to get out, giving them to
understand that their presence was obnoxious
For an answer he was struck over the eye with
an iron cuspdore in the hands of one of the men
who had been sleeping the table and who re-
membered the conspicuous sign on the wall,
reading: Please use the spittOons" As their
leader was felled the attacking party charged
through the open doorway and in the dim light
piled their blackthorns on the heads of their
astonished foes.
Jumping up from his soft plank, OBricn threw
up the window and shouted Police!' and
Murder!" and while doing so was seized from
behind and thrown out on the sidewalk where
Officer Lane and five brothers officers found him,
but refused to interfere at his request. Meantime
the free fight inside carried on with vim
dctive fercencss that threatened broken bones
and cracked skulls. John Russell defended him
self with chair and then cl1nched with Philip
j. McGrath for possession of the club OF the
latter, but the next moment was knocked down by
Longshoreman Cooney and as he attempted 10
rise was struck on the forehead and rendered in
sensible, and after being trampled on was thrown
out 1t took seven stitches 10 sew up the cut
on his f0rshead a. the Ldrdgs street fccc s
with great eft ct until he Was overcome and thrown
through the window.
GErTING INTO QUINNs HAIR
Three active participants In the fight being
thus disposed Of, the victorious anti-home club
bers-who, in this instance, certainly at home
clubbing-tangled their horny fingers in Qulnn's
uxuriant locks and dragged him from under
the table, and in spite of his peadings for
mercy half carried, half dragged, him across the
hall and kicked him down the steps and into
the muddy street.. Fitzgerald's heavy
face Quinn and his comrades were
destitute OF the ornaments Of dress and repaired
haste than grace, in their trousers and had Their
wounds dressed by an ambulance surgeon rom
Gouverneur Hospital; Fitzgerald, the leader OF
the Anti-Qulnntes, had an ugly CUT over the
eve dressed at druggists . 90
At 6 a. m Quinn returned to the hall with two
policemen and detective and demanded his
clothes which, except his shoes were gwen nm
they. and n revolver which he had been unable TO
use. were afterward sent to the station-house Tor
him. as were the clothes of the other men Qqinn
denies that there was any whlslSey drunk Dy MIN
or his friends in the office that night, as he never
allows liquor to be brought into the hall, ana
saws the black bottles must have been carried there
nolice outside the hall unwarrantably used their
clubs on the vanqushcd Quinnites to subdue
their excitement, but this was Indignantly denied
at the police station last night :,
The entrances to Pythagoras Hall are now all
double barred, bolted and boarded up, and peace
reigns on the bloody battlefield. the spols, OF
war being several old socks, bottles, and broken
furniture Mr. Quinn refuses To say what his
next move will be, and denies that he will take
the case to the courts. A checkmate will I'M
doubtedly take place, but the knights" are still
on the board" and lively times may be ex-
pected