The evening world., 1889-02-06
SNYDER SHOT HIM..
It Was the Polioeman's Bullet that
Killed MCGOWAN.
Conductor Walkers Pistol Was Too Small
to Have Fired II.
Driver Kindorf Had No Pistol and Was
Let Go To-Day.

IOlOCcUn'h Dny utE htou ~ buiios Wh'Nh
killed James MCGOWAN, on the cor
ner of Sixty-second street and the
Western Boulevard, during the attempt
OF the mob to wrecks car OF the Forty-second
street green liue yesterday afternoon, as al
ready reported in THE EVENING WORLD.
This is stated positively, despite Under
taker Louis Brennan's sworn declaration, that
it was the conductor, Charles Walker, who
fred the fateful bullet.
Mr.. Brennan is wrong.
Conductor Walker only carried q small
seven chambered a. calibre weapon.
DEPUTY Coroner Weston at the Roosevelt
Hospital this morning probed for and found
in McGowan's brain the bullet which caused
II is of 3s calibre, proving conclusively
that 1t could not have gone from Walkers
little pistol.
More than that, the car-driver Frederick
kindorf declares positively that Mr.. Brennan
got of the car at Sixty-ffth street. and, there
fore. could not have seen as much Of the riot
MS I would seem he did from the statements
made Yesterday.
Mr.. Brennan stated that both the driver
md the conductor had fred at the people.
Upon the strength of this statement q
variant was issued for their arrest.
Central Office Detectives Killilea and HAM
ley took them in custody late yesterday after
noon.
They were arraigned in the Essex Market
Police Court before Justice Patterson this
morning.
PRESIDENT John Foster aud Director Jacob
Fleishauer were there to look out for the in
terests Of their employees.
The driver easily proved that he had fred
no shots, for the very good reason that he had
no pistol;
used it. sure. You cannot imagine how dan.
gerous our position was for II few minutes. "
When we got to Sixty-second street our
further progress was blocked by several over
turned trucks.
street. There was not a passenger on board:
Not a hostile demonstration was made until
the car came to n ~standstill:, Then a hig, be-
whiskered. red.shirted fellow jumped into
the street and yelled Fire ="
DO Won know who he was ?" IN EVENING
WORTH reporter asked him;
81 know him by sight. He used to work
on the Belt line. bad some trouble with
him about a month ago. be answered
You bet they did. 4 volley Of stones,
sticks and mud came sailing through the air,
and ] was kept busy holding the horses and
trying TO dodge the missiles. SNYDER tried
shooter, but they wouldn't scare then be
fired at them in dead earnest"
did you see any one drop after his
shots ?"
i cOuIQnG zee, i WAS TOO Duby uCuRlnB
the rocks which ratified about the car like
hail. Fortunately the attack only came from
one side Of the street, and ! managed to
escape serious injury" he concluded.
Mr.. Foster said he was an old and valued
employee and he was promptly discharged.
The conductor stoutly maintained that he
had only fred one little bullet at the crowd.
IL would have fired every one at them"
he said. " but the one ! fred caused them to
fall back. and ] would not use my pistol un-
less ! WAS obliged to to save my life"
He was held for a further hearing this after
noon.
He is twenty-five years old, and lives at e5s
Third avenue. He has been with the car
Company for q long time. Kindorf is
twenty-eight years old, and lives with his
wife and children at l41 Ludlow street.
One of Mr.. Brennan's strongest points Is
that Snyder could not have shot MCGOWAN
in the left side of the head, because he was
on the right side of him.
Well, Deputy Coroner Weston, after exam
ming the body this morning, said that Nc
Gowan had been shot in the right side of the
head. proving Mr.. Brennan wrong in another
essential particular.
Snyder is thirty years old and lives at No.
1O5 First avenue. He went on the force on
Oct. 20, 1886, and hi3 record is good.
He will also have q hearing at Essex Mar
ket this afternoon. The probabilities are
that he will be discharged on the ground Of
justifable homicide.