New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-02
NEW-YEAR BLOODSHED.
MURDERED IN A FAMILY QUARREL.
WILL THE SLAYER BE EXECUTED By ELECTRIC
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ITY-HATED FOR Ills INDUSTRY.
The New Year was ushercd in at Forty-eighth-st.
and First-ave by street fight, in which at least
two men were stabbed, one OF III, fatally.
The fight the result of long-standng family
leud, although the immediate occasi on OF the
trouble seems TO have been too much ! ave.
whislley. Most OF the spectators as wei IS the
participants appear TO have been drunk 'i the
time and about the only thing known GER
tainty is the fact that Michael Grove was Stabbed
near the heart by some one, and died soon after
ward. while William Grove, his brothcl-in-law,
received a slight wound in his shoulder Michael
WAS carried TO his home on the fourth floor of
tbe tenement house No. 81 East Fortycighth-st.,
where he died in few minutes, and as soon MS the
police learned of the case, they locked up every
body whom they conld find who appeared TO be
in any way connected with the fight. These
men were taken before Justice German at the
Yorkvillc Police Court yesterday morning, ana
SIX of them were there remanded III tie
custody OF the police of the Twenty-thrd
Precinct 1t was at first supposed that
James Grove, another OF MlchaeIs prothers-ii
law. was the one who had killed him, but doubt
was afterward thrown on this theory, ana the
police began n fresh search for the murderer
of the East Side, and they have badly tangled
>family- tree, owing 10 intermarriaSes SOME Vi
the members of the family arc also exceedingly
had characters and have always had grudge
against Michael because he worked regularly at
his trade as pasterer and also becuse he would
rive them more advice than cash when they
were ont of money Last June Michael was
stabbed in the thigh, il is said, by jeremiah
Grove his first cousin, and three months later
he was cut in the face in another family quarrel.
The last time Mrs. Grove saw her husband alive
was at 1 80 Monday night. lie had Just brousht
home little chair which he had bought as
present for his twO-yesT-old daughter, and he
said then that he had just met James and Jeremiah
a few blocks up Frst-avc. They had made faces
at him and uttered insulting remarks as nc passed
by, and he announced his intention of e" hammer
ing James Il the offence was repeated. Nlthln
an hour he was brought TO her, dying.
The man now suspected of the murder is Henry
Vogelgesang alias Hans the Barber who is only
nineteen years old. Mrs. Grove says that her
husband told her it was Hans or
IIannis,7 who stabbed him. and James Grove
also said that Hans the b. rber' was the man
NO one knew where Hans lived but half dozen
policemen were started hunting for HIM; Inc ne
following men We're renamed on suSPio'9 2, ",
having been concerned in the crime; james
Grove twenty years old, of No 697 tlrSt-avc.;
Edward Cole, twcnty-onc, of No. s73 Fiist-ave;
Albert Pfeilrcr. nineteen, OF No. 1874 East Forty
cightb-st and Thomas and Joseph Harmon,
brothers, nineteen and seventeen years ola re-
spectivcly of No. 1,416 Second-ave. Joseph
Harmon is also charged with stabbing William
Grove. who is detained witness -,
There is a possibility that tins case VIII some
time assume considerable importance from legal
point of view If the murderer should ever DC
convicted and sentenced TO death, it would be-
come question whether he should be hanged or
put to death by electricity. The stabbIng was
done lust about midnight. while the man Is SAID
10 have died few minutes after the time the new
law went into effect There will still be hangings
in this State bur only for crimes adludeed to have
been committed before the close OF the year sSs,
and il may be difficult to prove the precise Time
of the murder in question