The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-13
KILLED With A BRICK.
The Manner Of Thomas
FlYnn's Death Made
Clear by the
Inquest.
hEDiCAL AID LONG DELAYED.
Friends Of the Desperately Wound
ed Nan Put Him In a Freight
Car and Left Him.
MEDrtAL AID LONG DELAYED.

The inquest as to the killing Of Thomas
Flynn BY Thomas Donohne, on the even
ing OF Decoration Day, is attracting un-
usual attention Rocne's Hall last night
was crowded TO its utmost canacity when
Coroner Fiaherty raped for order.
The first witness put on the stand was
Michael Hanrahan. He testified that on
the evening in question be was sitting in
his rooms, which adjoin the house where
the trouble occurred, wnsn he heard the
screams of somebody downstairs he
rushed down, and the first person he met
was John Gallagher, who found Flynn
after be had been struck He asked Gal
lagher what the trouble was. and was In
formed that Denny" OF Donohue, had
struck Flynn with brick
II asked Flynn to 20 home" contfnued
the witness, .4but this he refused to do.
/ tried to get him to 60 20 doctors with
me but he would not. He told me that
he had not been home In two days, ex-
cepr for minute that morning, and that
he would not 20 home In the condition he
was in. He was covered with blood and
/ wanted to get him hxed MP he finally
asked Gallagher and myself 70 put him IN
q lfc1Snt EaE OfeE III b4t ELtt lAe<<AI6<t84
yErd- We carried him over there, put
him IN q car and left him l did not see
him after that"
Michael O'Day, who lives at No. 121
Ninth street, where the trouble occurred.
testified that he did not see any OF the
trouble and that he was arrested Sunday
morning, when he went 10 the station
house to see who had been hurt. O'Day
is held as a witness by the police, as IL Is
thought he knows more than he cares to
disclose.
LACKED A SURGEONS CARE.
Mira Spinner. sister of Fiynn's. Of Ne
545 Pavonia avenue. was the next witness
sworn She testified that her brother
came home Monday morning. cut and
bleeding and scarcely able to walk from
the loss OF blood.
II wanted to send for q doctor,p said
the witness, but nay brother would not
let me, telling me that he would be all
right in day or Bwo. He was not drunk.
and when / asked aim who had struck
him. he told me that Donohue had done
1t. He denied 70 me that there had been
"T6s next day Detective Clark and Or.
Hoffman came up to see him. DR.. Hof-
man did net examine him, and when ne
was leaving he said he would come again.
but be did not. / knew my brother could
not live unlsss something was done, 70
went for DR.. Holcomb, and he told me
that my brother could not live unless he
was moved TO the hospital My brother
heard him say 1t. and told me after the
doctor left that If he was going 70 die he
wanted to die near his mother. On
Thursday he was moved 60 tns hospital,
and on Friday he died His habits were
all right. The gerst thing he did ges 70
take glass Of beer occasionally"
Mrs. Jennie Smith. who lives in the
same house with Mrs. Spinner testified
ff..e el.ar 4~.f ~ hrsss ~ hor r
Clark and DR.. Hoffman called and she
corroborated the statement made hY Mrs
Spinner thar Dr. Hoffman did not exam
fns Flynn's wound. Sne also heard Flynn
deny to DIR. Hoffman that he had been
drinking. but heard him say that it was
Donohue who struck him with the brick
Captain Kelly testified that ~ soon a.
he heard that Flynn was dangerously
wounded be sent Detective Clark 60 the
house TO find out what he could from
Flynn. On Friday when Flynn
died, he took Policemen Dooley and
Mahoney. and searched al the places
which Donohue frequenred- He flnally y
went 70 Donohue's house in Twelfth
street. The prisoners mother told the
policemen that her son was at work on
the ice dock In Hoboken- The policemen
were about TO leave when some one
locked a door. Captain Kelly ordered
the house searched, and In closet
At the station house Donohue admitted
ha wing struck Flynn with q brick
Detective Clark testified that flynn
told him that Donohue had struck him
with brick in a fight over five cents.
AN UNWILLING WITNESS
Michael Keeian, who was arrested as a
witness 70 the ARRAY, testified that he did
not see the trouble, as be went 70 bed az
seven o'clock. Captain Kelly interrupted
him at this point and informed the Coro-
ner that Policeman Cox had chased Keel
an of the corner of Provost and Ninth
streets the night the fatal dght occurred
| at ten O'Clock. Keelan was crosse ues-
| toned and contradicted himself hopeless
ly. The man evidently knows more than
he viii tell
John Heslan testified that he was at Z
picnic when the trouble occurred, and
| that he knew nothing about its origin.
He was about TO leave the witness chair
when Mrs. Spinner informed the jury
| that Heslan and a man named Corrigan
called at her house 70 see her brother.
and during their conversation she heard
HesIan say that he asked Flynn Tor five
cents first, snd that Donohue asked him
for five short time afterwards. Flynn
refused TO give Donohue the money, and
the kght ensued, in which Flynn received
the fasal wound. Heslan, In reply 70
Mrs. Spinner. said that he might have
said that when he was drunk.
Michael Donohue, anoEner member OF
tho gang, also professed Ignorance about
thetrouble, and stated that he was told
that DonohRe hit Flynn with a brick
The inquest was postponed until next
Tuesday evening, when ali the principal
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