Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-31
THE FATAL BOTTLE.
A Sunday Drinking ARRAY Resultsin
Another Case of Murder.
THE MURDERER STILL AT LIBERTY.
Cinnamon Assaulted for Trying to Regain
Stolen Opium.
ALL CONCERNED UNDER HEAVY BAIL

Another murder is placed TO the credlt OF
Allegheny county, as the stock awaiting
trial is running rather short just now.
Thomas Garrison, aged 10, died at his home
in Bradysville, two miles above Mansfield,
yesterday afternoon, from the effects OF
wound received during quarrel last Sun
day at Hastings station.
1t appears from the best information tosbe
obtained at the late hour at which the news
arrived, that he became involved in quar-
rel with Edward Abbott last Sunday while
both were drinking. The latter. becoming
euraged, struck Garrison in the neck with q
bottle which broke from the force of the
blow. The sharp fragments cut an important
artery. Drs. Newcomer and Cadeau at
tended the injured man, but the loss of
blood had been so great that he sank rapidly
until his death yesterday at P. NJ.
Coroner Mcdowell was notified, and he
sent his clerk, Grant Miller, to the scene of
the death at once to obtain the necessary
information for the inquest, which will be
held this afternoon at Bridgeville. Officers
are in pursuit of Abbott, who escaped inn
mediately after the cutting, and is expected
to be caught early this morning. The Coro-
ner has wired warning in all directions.
There is no clue yet to the cause OF the dis
pute.
LATER PARTICULARS.
A telegram from Mansfield says: Thomas
Garrettson and his brother were walking the
track at this place on Sunday, when they
met Edward Abbott, aged % years, with
whom Garrettson had q rough-and-tumble
fight. Pretty soon Abbott grew desperate
and produced quart whisky flask which he
threw at Garrettson, striking him on the
angle of the left jaw and severing an artery.
Abbott then left the neighborhood.
The father of the boy arrived at Mansfield
last night and made information against
Edward Abbott, who threw the flask, before
Squire Andrew W. McMullen, and also
notified the Coroner. An inquest will be
held Thursday.
MURDERoUs ASSAULT.
One of these cases in which the judgment
of Solomon himself would be regarded as
only deuce high was taken into the Central
station last night in the shape of VIM. 81.
Todd, of 13 Ross street; Ye King, of No.
4OH Wylie avenue, and Ye You, Of Wash
ington street, the latter two being Mon
golian laundrymen by profession.
The trouble occurred about 8 P. M, when
Officer Yeager was called to quell dis
turbance at 13 Ross street, and found two
Cinnamon with bleeding heads and Todd
defiant and erect awaiting, as he said,
another onslaught from the heather. The
law, as represented by Yeager, was no
splitter of hairs, and all three were taken to
the Clearing House of crime in Diamond
street, where the stories told by both parties
were heard, and we're widely different.
The Todd statement Is that the two China
men entered his room and demanded some
money which they claimed he owed them,
and upon refusing which one Of the Celes-
tials drew a knife to enforce the Shylock
liquidation act. This Todd resented with
piece of board, thus explaining the dilapi-
dated appearance of the Cinnamon.
THE CHINESE STORY.
The Mongolian side of the disturbance
was gathered carefully and with the usual
result, that when a question was asked
which could be answered favorably to the
Chinese side the reply was fluent and easily
understood, while any effort to CLEAN infor-
nation leaning the other way was answered
by5a ztolid stare and riyulet of liquids in
sound signifying nothing. The Chinese
side was that Todd was an inveterate opium
fiend, who had been addicted to the drug
for years, and had been an inmate
of Dixmont in consequence, until
few weeks ago. the further claim was
that Todd last night entered the place of
business of Ye You and feloniously appro-
priated a cigar box containing about S13
and some opium. The drug was, they
claimed, seconds, or what was cleaned out
of unfinished pipes left by the "bitters."
When the two Cinnamon went to claim
their own, they got, instead, clubbed over
their heads with the butt of revolver, and
offered the heads in evidence.
DR.. McGough, who was called to dress
the wounds of the Chinaman, said that Ye
King had lacerated scalp wound on top of
the head and Ye You a dangerous wound
over the right ear.
All parties to the disturbance, in default
of definite information, were held in s., 900
each until morning. The Central station
was, as usual on such occasions. crowded
with Cinnamon all evening seeking to re-
lease their compatriot on any cash basis,
but nothing except real estate would be ac-
cepted on the bond.