New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-25
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
A SAILOR STABBED TO DEATH.
THE CRIME COMMITTED EARLY IN THE MORN
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aCrles OF . Murder! Police IIelp' from woman
living on the east side Of God-st about 10 M yes
tcr,ay brought Roundsman Mclaughlin ana rooenio''
Dooley and Cougllin to Sands and Goid su'' mo
Woman had seen scullc from across the street. ~
the corner Is LIQUOR store, kept by Assembymah Jo
j. OConnor. 1t shut up, but about ioo iec0 away
on the west side OF Goldst lying In the gutter II o
foot Of an awning post lay the BODY Vi ha" "''N
a stab wound in the right side by the groih' iohs
slash on the left side of the abdomen ana another o
the back OF the left hip. lie was also severely cut IN
other parts Of the body. lie quite dead
Two men were seen fleeing ROundsman Mclaughlin
stayed with the body and the other two pohceheii
gave chase TO the Coughn caught MS prisoner
at Gold and Prospect sts lie said that ms name wac
John McGauy, glazier, forty years old, OF NO.
Nassau Place. The neghbors that IL he IS eazer
they never grew 1t. lie was thought to be ounger
Doolcy chased his man to a lqnorstore ~ NO. loo
Goldst where the fugitive entered and slammed inc
door, Locking IT, Dooley scaled the fence entereh TIC
door aud the top floor found John Psrklntoh'
thIrty.nne years Old painter. lie was giving some
thing to his wife and had Just washed his hands lie
arrested aud with Mctiarry taken to the Second
Precinct station
The murdered man was identified as Andrew Bolton,
twenty years old sailor the United states snip
Boston, now lying at the Navy Yard HIS isther'
Thomas j. Belton mixer. lives at NO. So2 "aVrs@
Young Bolton obtained leave from the ship on saturday
night and with his father attended wake at the house
Of Michael Bonner, No l53 Prospect ST., where hite
Rosy Bonner lying dead. The father went home
early.
little before . O'Clock Bolton, lie had done sew
ega times before, took graneware pitcher holding
about gallon and went out to find liquor store open
where he could get some beer. Nothing further Is
| known Of his movements. His body was taken nome.
He was well known In the neighborhood before lie
entered the Navy and probably Wac acquainted with
both the men arrested. although the prisoners deny H.
Parkinton taken back TO where the body was
found and identified hat lying BY II "a his own lie
had not been told that the dead. and nc
marked whats all this fuss about? something
serious must have happened He was taken 10 the
station There II found that he had q cut on his
right thumb. Ills right trousers pocket was also
bloody, well his coat although he said the latter
was caused by the nose bleed \ small knife was
found with marks OF blood which had been left after
wiping the blade. handkerchief was found. Also
with marks, rs II used 10 wipe the knife.
Captain Eason advised him to tell his story truth
fully lie said he was sitting Oh doorstep next TO
OConnOr's saloon when the sailor came along and.
without word oi waning stepped up and strIck
him. H. says he answered That Is not righ. You
OIs,ltn't 70 nit me- and Bol,On replied In abusive
language, and added: III hit you again,' and then
knocked him down. Parkinton got ny again and
cnched with Bolton, but found the other was TOO big
for him. he broke loose and away. lie denied
thinks That 1o knife found was large enough to do
the work, If used with force II has been suggested
that another knife used aud thrown into culvert
By. The captain Is going 10 clean the cuivcrt 10
day.
Mccarry says he knows nothing Of the affair. but
only ran away when he heard the disturbance. The
| police inclined % believe him parlinton says
him at all. but when they met at the station Mo
carry recognized him and said they were old school
The woman across the street could give no informa
ton about the fight, IT was too dark for her To see
The funeral OF the little girl held YESTERDAY
afternoon The basement va, not yet entirely ds-
serted by the men who lad been the sailor com,
panons Il few hours before Little could be learned
there II j. said that he was greatly under we u
nucncc VI liquor when he made MS last trip with the
reporter found Mrs. Psrkinton on the top floor OF
the three story tenement house No 1916 Coolest.
where her husband had been arrested. The apartment
one Of the most .qualid Ia the city She WIS
fourteen and the Youngest mere babe She said her
husband good man and always brought her HIS
money ON that night he had gone out for htl,
while, and when he eame IN had bis face bruised and
his nose bleeding. she never knew MIN 10 carry
knife
The two prisoners will 10 taken before Police jus
ticc Walsh At the Adams ST. court to-day. There are
now six men held awaiting uial for murder ~ the
second Precinct
Despite The denials of Parklnon that he ever knew
Bolton IS thorsht tGt thcrc must have been trouble
living the nnghborhoOd before he entered the Navt.
sy that S RSah Ko " GgS a n, 1d s and
| sands sts and gave the alarm. substantially con
a opS ha rnnGS sws 81 tier cRypq W.T. pore .e
however and she could not recognize any one ar that
n, L Sc wilson iS 4 bcane Of 2 7 Y
| ST. had been witness 10 the murder lie was
! taking a drunken COMPANION home on thc opposite
side of the street. He SAYS that he saw a man n
sailor costume and man I'm citizens Clothes cnch"d
and clearly saw the civilian draw knife ana ,ah the
other He + positive as To the knife. DOnncl picked
out Parkinton from number Of men, saying That IS
the man ! saw with the knife -,. ...,u. -, ..o.,,,
give no further account of the affair. except on the
advice Of counsel.