New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-10
DYING WITH THE SECRET.
HE WILL NOT TELL WHO STABBED HIM

A CASE OF HONOR AMONG THIEvES"-MYst
Terry SURROUNDS FATAL AFFRAY.
A closed carriage drove rapidly through West
Eleventh-st. at o'clock on Saturday morning
and pulled up in front of ST. yincent's Hospital
Two men jumped from it, ran up the hospital
steps and pulled the bell vigorously several times
They told the attendant who answered the call
that there was a man dying in the cab,
and a doctor was wanted Immediately. House
Surgeon BcclSman hurried to the cab and found
a man living in n semi-consciOus condition on
the rear seat. The sick man was carried INTO
the hospital, and his two friends who seemed
to have plenty of money engaged private room,
and said that they did not want the patient
disturbed by outsiders. The sick man was
aroused by shaking. and said that he was George
Harris and lived at the Barrett House. at Forty
fourth-st. and Broadway. The patient was taken
to his room and DR.. Beeknan discovered that
his clothes were saturated with blood. The
clothing was removed and n gaping wound was
found in the right side of the abdomen.
The doctor did not probe the wound, and in
order to get an idea of its depth asked the
patient what kind of a weapon it was
made with He replied that his wife had stabbed
him with n carving knife which had been ground
down to n sharp point, as he was leaving his
room at the hotel They had Guarreed. and his
wife came up from behind and stabbed hlm dur
ing fit of passion. lie said. The wound was a
dangerous one; its location indicated that the
inicstincs had been laccratcd, and there was only
a small chance Of the patients recovery. The
patient was greatly exhausted from the severe
hcmorrhage and lay in a scmi-comatose state
most OF the time. There no improvement
in the wounded mans condition Saturday or yes
torda, opd bc will nrobahv die from the injury.
The stabbng was not reported to the police
from the hospital or from any other source. and
they did not take any action in the matter until
late Saturday night Detectives Hayes and Brett,
of the West Thirticth-st. station. were told by
an old gambler in Broadway on Saturday evening
that George Harris had been stabbed by " Tom
Mccormick the bank burglar, in John Meteor
mck's liquor store at No. $40 Sixth-ave or In
front Of the place. early on Saturday morning.
The detectives Investigated the case. but no one
could be- found in McCormicks store or in the
neighborhood who knew ANYTHING about the stab
bling McCormick's bartender. Harry Hope.
"A son of tac notorious Jimmy Hope
said that hc heard that Harris had been stabbed,
but he did not know where or by whom. Inc
officers visited several hospitals and finally found
Harris at ~. Vmcents. They Identified the
wounded man as Gcorgc Hopper. otherwise known
sim Harrison, anu 'ut'u 4Nt''"'' ''''
known expert plckpocsct who came here from II
Canadian prison three weeks ago. Ihe pa'ieAo
persisted in the story that his wife had stabbed
him at thc Barrett House but the detectives soon
fouud that the statement was false by Visiting III"
hotel The proprietor sad there had h"1 uccH
any >iabhing in the hotel. ana no one HN'" tl,i'
hy the name Of Harms, or tA"t ahS"'i'" Ms
The detectives became convinced that the stab
bing had been done 10y Tom Met ormlck ai'cI
"a. ind
caught in Clarks restaurant, NiNih-aVe.' near
Thirty y-hrst-st.. at o'clock yesterday morning.
Mccormick would not answer any questions ahn
AT : O'Clock he WAS taken to ~. Vincent Hospital
aud stood up al the bedside OF Harris Harris vas
awakened and asked il hc could identity Motor
mick as the man who stabbed HIM. Harris
scowled fcrccly at Nc' ormck ana tnen ,usncu ,,r
lis face to the wall. Monc than h"lf an n"ur
clanscd before he could be induced to speak. and
then he said. was not stabbed by that man;
Ne, c,'ormicl vas taken t. Jefferson MaIkct Police
Court but as tie detectives SAID that they did
rot have any evidence against him. ne was uis-
Wcsf Thirticth ST. station that they believed that
NcCo>.ick stabbed Harris. but thai the plcA-
pocket would not give his enemy away III
view Of this belief. II seems strange mat the % nr
,ccfivcs did not ask have Met ormick "uaHdrd
until "a further investigation could hc nt,c NC
Cormick kept gambling paIl"r ~ 10; @ -"
SiNth-avc. until two weeks ago "h'n ''r. H's US
made on il bv the police nnd the game w3s nr"heh
nm Mccormick Is nity years old. ana ne mas
spent many years IN prison. lie was 'harte1 wiz VII
the murder OF BIZ" john Casey, thc ban" nn gar
who was killed ai SiNth-avc. and Me>, lwen'N,
s.Nthsi. in l47l. in DISPUTE over the division o'
the spols from the kcnsnatop savings INSTITUTION
lIc ,o. cortured with san Pcrrls ahas
, = Xv,rrcstor sam. in Ncw-Ilaven in 1s-?, and
sentenced to prison for cish, years Tor roG9ln-
- .,,o in W,lnoic Y IT, Worcester Sam es-
".,'.I frnr iail and the police In the country
," Eayc BEEN sT looking for him since lie is CHARGED
With the murder Of Cashier Brown at pcAlrr, d,c
Me- McCormck gave his address as ~" ,,cre
Vest Forty-tlird ST. bat no one knows hlm 'hei'