The morning news., 1889-05-06
M'ENENNAY's STORY.

McFnenauv was seen at the Jail last
night He was then weak from loss of blood
ami complained of suffering great pain
while talking. He said that he was just
| 30 years cid on Saturday, and had not
| touched drop of liquor for ten months
until Saturday night Then he drank both
whisky and beer. He said that he and
Armstrong visited the Barnweil house
sometime after midnight, and while
| there got into game OF poker
with DoDson and others. He had brought
twenty-five cents worth OF chips and had
lent two of them to Dobson, which Dobson
nfterwaTd returned but Dobson got broke
and raised a quarrel. McEnenany said that
te knows nothing about the game, although
he won in the only round he played,
and then he quit. DoCson raised quarrel
with him aud, following him out Of the
house. pressed hlm for a fight He began
to take off his coat to fight, when Arm
strong tried TO persuade Dobson not to
attack McEnenany, as DoOsJu was a large
man and McEuenany a small one. AS
Dobson persisted Armstrong came between,
vas cut, and began to cry murder" and
Police"
HE STABBED DOBsoN
McEnenaDy said that while he was taking
off u is coat he was cut over the eye, in the
shoulder and in the face and blinded with
the blood, be tried TO get back into his coat
advanced, when he received the stab
in tie side. By this time he had
got his own knife out of his
pocket, aud as Dobson struck him
behind the right ear. knocking him down
and into the gutter, coming down on top OF
him ne struck al DObson, but did not know
whether he had cut him or not, and as soon
as he could get up he ran off without his
bat and went to house in Yanacraw, as
he was too weak from loss Of blood to go
any farther He said that he acted on the
defensive
Dr. B. F. Sheftall was sent for, and found
McEnena1 ny in a very weak condition, but he
accompanied the prisoner to the barracks
on foot as be said that he feared to risk
the jolting police ambulance in the condi-
ton of McEnenany who was then in the
custody of Patrolman Maher. DR.. Sheftall
said that McEnenany is cut in the left lung,
and it is a serious, but not necessarily fatal
wound. Yesterday afternoon he requested
the jail officials to remove the prisoner to
the hospital room, but as he is committed
for murder, in the absence Of the sheriff, at
o'clock last night he was still in bis cell.
DR.. Sneftall said that the cash is long
and deep one on Armstrong; forearm, and
narrowly missed an artery.
THE MURDERED MAN.
Frank Dobson, the murdered man, was
we'll known as the driver of an ice delivery
wagon, but owing to his Incorporate habits
lost his place with the Knicker booker Com
pany, and expected to get employment with
the new bre wing company IL a few days.
He lodged with Eli Arvaniti at No.
IA Bryan street. He was S2
Gileusville, S. c., but has lived in Sa-
vannah since boyhood. Ho has a brother.
Andrew w. Dobson, whose family lives
here. AGdy returned home last night from
Cedar Keys, where he las b5sn engaged in
the fisheries The deceased had one sister,
Laura Dobson, WHO resides at No. 23l
Charlton street, where tue remains were
taken yesterday afternoon, a-d where the
funeral services viii take place at o'clock
this afternoon.
The members of the family say that Dob
sons death is the result of al old grudge of
the Lubs' corner roughs against him, and
that on Christmas day, 1884, they tried to
get him out Of the house, threatening to cut
his entratis out, and that his life was saved
on that occasion by MS keeping in doors
all that day. While McEne ANY and Arm
strong were not principals in that difficulty
they hang out with the Lubs' corner gang"
McEnenany is a harness maker, who was
in the employ of o. F. Kuhlmaa. He is
about % years Of age. Armstrong is a
shoemaker in the employ of Samuel Cherry,
81 ho was burned out on Whitaker street
last month. All three of the parties who
figure in the tragedy are unmarried.
Armstr ong has not yet been committed
to jail, and Coroner Dixon expressed a
doubt whether the evidence justified fhe
jury in finding him an accessory in the kill
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