The morning news., 1889-05-04
TWO PARTNERS FIGHT.
Lawrence J. Dunn stabs William J.
Harty, Jr., in the Head.

Lawrence j. Dunn stabs William j.
Harty, Jr., in the Head.
Ae exciting alteration took place be-
tween Lawrence j. Dunn and William j.
Harty, Jr, at an early hour yesterday
morning, at Abercorn and South Broad
streets Mr.. Dunn cut a cash several
inches in length in MIR. Harty's head, and
reaching down gashed the left eyelid, the
pupil narrowly escaping the blow.
The wound cut through the scalp and
went to the bone, seVering an artery. The
wounded man was taken TO DR.. Duncan's
office where surgical aid was rendered. The
hemorrhage was profuse, and last night at
o'clock, when reporter called at the
Harty residence, Young Harty was weak
from loss OF blood, but his injuries are not
believed to be necessarily fatal. He is
under the care of DR.. j. b. Read, the family
ph ysician. The wound was made by a
sharp knife or an ink eraser, but as Mr..
Dunn declined TO make any state nent either
at the mayors Office when he was arrested,
or at Justice Naughtin's Office, where he
was brought on a warrant sworn out by the
father of the injured man. Opinions differ
as 70 the weapon used.
Lawrence Dunn, father of the assailant,
became his surety on bond for $500, to
answer in the superior court on a charge of
After the release of young Dunn he i'm
mediately swore out a warrant against
young Harty, whom he had stabbed, and
also against JOS. Z. Harty, youngest brother
of the injured man, charging the brothers
with assault and battery on the Goth of last
month. He alleges that the brothers came
to his Office on that occasion and said they
came there TO get blood, and that they as
saulted and beat him. VIM. J. Harty, Sr.,
o. L. al, H.
being too weak TO be brought to the magis
trate's office.
Young Harty gives the following account
Of the alteration. He says that he was
coming down Abercorn street and meeting
Dunn. although they had had a previous
difficulty and bearing no Rnimosity against
him, said Good morning, Lawrence" III a
friendly spirit To his surprise, Dunn
slapped him in the face and called him "a
dirty, contemplate liar putting his hand
behind him as if in the act Of draw
him with a light walking cane,
which broke in two, and at the same time
Dunn cut him, and was advancing upon
him when, clubbing the broken cane,
although bleeding prnfusely and almost
blind from the hemorrhage, he warned
Dunn If he advanced farther be would
brain him. Dunn then turned away. He
was afterward arrested, and at the instance
OF John F. Harty, a brother Of the wounded
man, was held by the mayor until the war
rant was issued by Justice Naughtin.
The difficulty was the outgrowth of differ
ences arising over a dissolution of CO part
nership. The two mon did a commission,
brokerage, real estate and collection
business at No. 81 Abercorn street, the
partnership having been dissolved by
mutual consent April Is.
One of the customers of the firm had
placed his business in the hands of w. J.
Harty, Jr,, and the latter went to the office
to got The sa nples belonging to his patron
Joseph E. Harty dropped in to tind a dis
pute going on about the samples, Dunn
having later letter than Harty's, in which
the cOrrespo ldent said the matter would
be further considered. Mr.. Harty claims
that be proposed to leave the
samples until the matter Of the agency
should he more definitely settled and ad-
justed amicably, but Dunn said he was
Saturday night Harty then said he would
take them home, and picked them up a ID
walked out Of the office Dunn followed
and tried to take them away from him.
The two concluded to settle their difficulties
then and there. and a. it they went. Joseph
| Harty finding that Dunn was being pun
ished rather severely went between them
| and holding his brother called on a by
stander to hold Dunn, but Dunn said he
hadn't enough and the two came
together again, and being hard pushed by
his late partner sprang into his office door
and closed it. This is the statement of the
Hartys, and they claim that it can be sub
stantiated by several witnesses, the father
Of the Harty brothers having investigated
it and corroborated the statement Of his
sons that Joseph E. Harty had not taken
any belligerent part in the difficulty. The
| Hartys claim that the warrants sworn out
| against the brothers yesterday is an after
| thought, not justified by the facts and only
| done for effect to offset the unfavnrable
impressions left in the public mind by the
| character of an unproyoked attack on
Young HartY YestardaY morning