Telegram-herald., 1890-08-18

t--+tT NALtEf Atl+t s4t e-a-A-
same TREAD asked me to h4nNs
Id me TO so o4t, and went
but lie followed ne ngnt up.
snd struck nae q blow here and knocked
me down" Here the boy showed 4
bruised place on hsnght forehead
which looked as If lt m ght have been
made With \ hard substance. "Ihsp,+
he continued, "DFMsnn pulled on he
coat aud told Reinke il there was gong
10 be a ngat. he would take hand too
Then klckhng and DeMann went Al T.
bat l couldn't see what they did, De-
cause kelnke kept on pitching into me.
] Went out into the road as soon as
could get away, ana when DeMann gOt
hls coat hack, We a1d Nan breeee
started OF, and l bad no hat. Van
Bregge stopped At his house on CROSBY
81. and DeMann and ] went on down 70
LeOnard-st. On the way DeNsnn sad
be had eat somebody, and sad We had
better skip. But / dldn't want 10 do
that because 1 had not not done any
thing, and said / was gong home. 10
We parted and ] started a0fOss the
country back afteT my hat. ! cOuldn
/ lind il, though, and heard that Kennedy
/ found il. / know Reinke denies be
struck me, but he did, though, and
/ strnck pre- tty hard. ! am awful sorry
ali this happened
The scene OF the tragedy was visited
IN company with Constable Masten-
I brook Yesterday afternoon. Reinke's
/ place is on Power s-st., the street run
! ming next east of West-st., and parallel
with it from Crosby-st. The barn
Of Relnke IS mucn better structure
than hIs house. standing on the
brink of steep decliyity, with stables
J in the basement. The floor above the
| basement is divided into one large room
and two small ones. One of the
| smaller rooms is occupied by ''old man
| johnson" dependent colored man IN
| the chicken business. This old man
was in MS room all the evening, and
/ knew of no row until after the stabblng
occurred. Indeed, the one remarkable
/ feature of this whole transaction Is that
warfare between the two half
| drunken crowds existed, with n con-
! flict which resulted in murderous
bloodshed, and still the occupants Of
! that room were all ignorant OF any dis
turbance until after the stabbing had
been done. A dozen people were inter
viewed who were present IN that
| small room when Kicking
went out TO his death, and not
! one of them had even noticed
his absence until he came staggering
! into the room soaked in blood, and ex-
claiming, BOYS, Pm done for" VIII
! ham Schroeder's testimony, of 206 Sim
clair-st., is that Of dozen others. He
said: 81 was in the room all the time,
and heard no disturbance whatever,
and the first 1 knew OF ii was when |
saw Rickllng come into the barn cover
ed with blood"
Little Fred Reinke, 10 years old, was
| in the house, about three rods distance,
and is the only one who heard loud
talk He said: 81 heard father and
another man quarreling. Father SIM
/ ply told the other man to get out of
this. When asked if the quarrel
frightened him, he replied: "No, not
till / heard man was killed" The
bow said thev had a half barrel of beer,
two sths and one 4th.
Old man Johnson says that, although
| he heard no actual quarrel, some one
came aronnd TO his window and warned
him to look out for his windows, be-
cause there might be stone-throwing.
But il did not occur.
Capt. Johnson, of the police, says he
has known DeMann since the latter was
a boy, and looked upon in no other
light than as q common free and easy
| person OF that particular grade of socl-
| ETY.. He once served Il a20-dsys sentence
in Jail for a drunk and disoTderly, but
has not ranked as specially tough
fellow. The captain saw DeMann and
ms two comrades carrying off keg of
! beer, which the boys afterwards admit
| ted that thev dranks
The body of the murdered man was
visited by Coroner Locher about 4
! o'clock in the morning. The horror of
its situation, on barn floor, drowned in
| blood, surrounded by Relnke's thirty
dogs, rendered its immediate removal
an absolute necessity. 1t was accord
ingly removed to VIM. kOch's under
taking rooms on West Bridge-st. 1t
was visited by two brothers, and by the
wife during the day. There are two
wounds on the body, one a mere nesE
wound on the right breast, and another
on the left side OF the neck. The coroner
thinks the carotid artery was severed
The wife of Rickling was at the iall
Yesterday afternoon, and had an inter
view with DeMsnn. She takes the
whole calamity with much fortitude.
and attaches most of the blame to
Reinke.
| Coroner Locher empaneled a Jury at
. o'clock Yesterday afternoon, of the
following gentlemen John w. Hol-
comb, 4. II. Cady. William Haines,
William Morrison, Edward b. Reeves
and Ira y. Burnham. John ". Hol-
comb was chosen foremsn. A post
mortem examination Will be held 81 g
O'Clock this morning, at which all the
iurymen are expected to be present.
To await the resultOf the post-rnortem,
the inquest was adjourned TO the coro-
ner's office this afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
In an interview with the wife Of the
murdered man, that lady said thst her
husband had gwen her a great deal Of
trouble by his irregular habits. "Police
and Court has, IN days past, detailed
some of these troubles ION Saturday
evening" said Mrs. Rick ng. 81 felt
as If some mysterious mischief
vas brewing When my husband
left the house, asked him particularly
as to where he vas gong. and begged
him not % 60 ont thst night. ! told
bim I was afraid he was going 70 some
bad place. But be assufed me he
vas only gong ont on an er-
RAID. and would not he gone
{ long. Not satisfied. + followed him
nearly q block. coaXing bIm 70 come
back home But when he tod me -
strongly that he vas not gong into a1v
bed company, I made myself think
. bsH Heved 'h5na. and so left And no~ hf
isdesd. vsh be had never net thai
nan Reinke-
DeMann vii not he arrs irued untf
after the rerd ct Of she corouer's 11rs