The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-24
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Iohn Reach, a Pole, Resents
Ruffianly Insult and
is Fatally Hurt.
STRUCK DOWN WITHIA SHOVEL.
His Sick Wife Left in Sore Dist ress
With Three Little Children
to Care For.


8 John Reach, Pole, twenty-five years
old was assaulted by s'growler'' gang
on Canal street early last evening and he
now lies at the City Hospital, unconscious
and dying.
The place of the assault is be-
tween Grove and Barrow streets
The block is occupied by numerous
large frame tenement houses.
The canal runs along close to the
houses The roadway is piled with dirt
heaps and ashes and the sidewalk Is I'M
even and narrow. The street is very dark
at night.
In No. 20 Reach or Starcney. as ne was
called by his neighbors, lived The hou Sc
/ is three story brick with two famines
on a tioor. Reach lived on the first floor
with his wife and three chriidren and
had the reputation Of being quiet and N
dnstrious.
Next door to No. 20 is large white
] frame house three stories high.andd ensely
populated with colored people and whites,
and next to this is large empty lot
Grand street, and in front OF these two
houses and in the lot the crime was COM
rnitted.
THEY JEERED HIM.
About five O'clock Reach walked along
Canal street. with companion. He was
guyed by gang of men who were stand
ing in front of No. g. At half
past SIX O'Clock Reach came back through
the open lot alone, and again passed the
gang. They attempted TO stop him, and
made some jeering remarks. Reach
replied In broken English, and the men
faorro IN n nh 44fy7o fNfnsr+
He broke away and ran into his house,
and soon returned with large club.
!. The gang scattered and then ran
into the empty lot. but still shout
ing at Reach. He followed them
into the yard and a struggle for posses
of the people of Canal street crowded
about the fighters.
The Pole knocked two of them down
and struck William DAILY, of No. % Canal
street, with the club, and next turned
towards Edward Shannon who held a
heavy iron shovel, which he had picked
up in the yard. in his hands.
THE FATAL BLOW.
AS the Pole approached him Shannon
raised the shovel and dealt Reach blow
on the head, telling him TO the ground.
Shannon and the rest ran away.
Reach meantime slowly got up and
dragged himself into his house to his
sick wife, who gave birth to a child on
Thursday last. and threw himself upon
the bed.
At this time Roundsman FIannelly and
Policeman CavanAgh were standing on
the corner OF Grove aaa Grand streets. q
little boy, painting and breathless. ran AZ
10 them and said; "Dey's q pig fghl
round ON Canal street"
Roundsman FIanneliy started runnin g
to Canal street followed by Cavanagn.
When they reached the scene of the
Ill
knew nothing or any disturbance.
An investigation gave Fiannelly an in
timation of what had occurred, and he
went into No. 20. where he found Reach
still conscious, though in great pain.
Flannelly said:-"Who struck YOU" an d
he answered, 1.-The man in No. 81 II is
Shannon who lives in No. 81.
Cayanagh started off to Longstaff's
drug store on Grand street to Telephone
for an ambulance. While in Longstatf's
he learned that three men had called at
DIR. Peteres office to have wounds
work and sent them away. The ambu-
lance came, and Reach was taken to the
City Hospital.
THE ARREST.
Meantime Cayanah saw three men who
looked suspicious going along Barrow
street toward Wayne. He followed them,
and when they saw him they ran. He
gave chase, and caught one of them
named DAILY. de had wound on his
head. The other two Zone Of whom was
Shannon) got away.
Roundsman Flannelly arrested at the
scene Of the murder John Allan, of No.
"a Canal street, as a witness of the affair
Daly was brought to the station house.
Superintendent Smith was notified aud
MS soon as he learned all that the police
man knew about the affair he sent Detec-
tive Mcbride to the place OF the affray to
get Shannon. Mcbride went at once 70
saannon's nd house Ss caught No . him Canal
his rooms. He admitted that he struck
the Pole with the shovel, but said he did
IL in self-Cefepse, as the Pole was coming
toward INN with the club.
Sergeant Kelly was given description
of another one OF the assaliants ana ne
Grove street. whom he found at home.
DAILY admits being In the gang
POOR MRS. REACH.
The saddest circumstances of the affair
is the helpless condition OF Mrs. Reach,
the injured mans wife,, she lies SICK and
unprovided for, with tnfee nays oto ,. pa t'
and two other children, po1n unuer hFe
After the ARRAY last night the neigh
bors were unusually reticent, and all
protested to be entirely Ignorant OF rhe
affair. Some blood was on the sidewalk
in front of No. 81, and tDus Tue STONES
told moro than the people.
Inc nelga a,o aroSrle y. experts who hang
around there and annoy the honest
residents. The mother OF Allan,
arrested as witness, Is
respectable woman, and sne was
broken down by her boys arrest, as she
fears they will Try 70 mp tSyo members s of
the gang Ia be arrested. Reach has a
compound fracture Of the skull.