New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-26
SHOT IN SELF-DEFENCE.
A DEADLY FIGHT IN A LIVERY STABLE.
MICHAEL GALLrWAN KILLS ONE AssAIIANT AND
SERIOUSLY WOryDs Ivorurp

MiCHAEh GALL1WAN KILLS OSE AssAILANT AND
SERIOUSLY WOUNDS ANOTHER.
messenger boy ran TO Policeman Martin In
Slxth-ave, near Forty -fourth-st Yesterday after
| noon, and told him that two men had been shot
| In Michael Gallivan's livery stable, No. l2l West
forty-hfth-st. Martin gave an alarm rap for
! assistance, and went to the stable. crowd was
at the door On the floor Of the stable lay the
, proprietor, Galivan, with his face covered with
Blood Near him the dead body of James
Cummings, driver who formerly had been en-
poyed in the stable He had been shot dead by
Gallivan. At water-trOugh not many feet away.
was Edward Hurley. another driver who was
washing the blood from a bullet wound in his
face. lie also had been shot by Galivan. John
McCarten. sableman, who was half-drunk, began
TO tell the policemen about the shooting but
Gallvan cut his story short and said Shot
those men in self-dcfence. They hit me with
a bale-stick, broke my nose and kicked me abous
until | was nearly dead. They would have finished
me if had not used the pistol
Lucky Baldwin, the millionaire sporting
man, who formerly had kept some of his racing
horses in the stable entered the place in time 10
hear what Gallivan had said. He expressed his
belief that Gallivan telling the truth, and
added that he knew Gallivan as a man who could
be believed
More policemen were called 10 the stable and
an ambulance sent for Gallivan and Hurley
were taken to the Roosevelt Hospital. The body Of
Cummings was carried TO the police station in
West Forty-scventh-st. McCarten was taken to the
station and kept there as witness His state
ments 50 contradictory that he was locked
up.
At the hospital the surgeons found that
Gaivans nose was broken. Two Of his teeth had
been knocked out. his eyes had been blackened
and four Of his ribs had been fractured. Hurley
was suffering from bullet wound in his cheek,
and the surgeons found that the bullet had gone
into his mouth. He also had received an injury
10 his abdomen. He had little TO say about the
shooting. but he gave his twenty-three
years and said his home was at No. 252 West
Forty y-frst-st. The quarrel. he said. grew out Of
Gallivan's refusal TO pay money which belonged
to Cummings and him. Hurley was transferred
TO Bellevue Hospital Gallivan was taken to tbs
police station and thence TO Bellevue at later
hour.
Gallivan is n rugged man Of middle age and has
lived lately with his wife and two daughters at
the st. Cloud Hotel. He told the story of the
shooting with apparent frankness last evening.
About two weeks ago. lie said. he discharged
Cummings and Hurley, who had been III his en-
plOY drivers. ABOUT lnc same time lie "ds
assaulted with a monkey wrench by another driver,
who was arrested. Hurley had disobeyed orders
and Cummings was suspected Of theft. The two
drivers went back 70 the stable several times tn
demand money. which Gallivan refused to pay.
They went into the stable office together at ?
D. m Yesterday and kicked over stove. Both
had been drinking. Galliyan ordered them to
leave and they went away. About an hour aud
a half later they knocked at the door leading from
The sta bic 10 the office Gallivan opened the door
and Cummings struck him in the face with
bale-stick knocking him down and breaking his
nose Then the two men dragged Gallivan out on
the floor of the stable and kicked him on the head
and body He rolled under a carriage, drew
small revolver from his pocket and fired two shots.
One bullet entered the right eye of Cummings.
who fell dead. The other struck Hurley in uhe
face. ana he got out OF the way at the end OF tho
watPr-trOu2h.
McCarten said that he saw Cummings and Hur-
ley knock tiallivan down and kick him. but he said
that Galivan was standing at the door Of ohe
office when the shots were fired. At another time
he said he did not zee the shooting. He was sent
back to cell 10 get sober.
Cummings was twenty seven years old, and his
home was said 10 be in West Forty nnth-st. bnt
the police could not find out N be married
single At two stables in Forty -ninth-st., where
he said he had been employed, information
about him could be obtained. His body was in
the police station last evening awaiting examinar
tion by the Coroner.