The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-10
ALL GUNPOWDER AND GORE.
THE GREAT CORRIGAN FT0HT PROMPT
IF TACKLED BIZ TINE POLICE.

| Getting EvIoeeeo Ter t6o seurt
General Sesslons-Two Men Shot.
| There waa smash OF glass In the rooms OF
John Corrigan. on the second floor OF tho tsne-
ment at Ga West Broadway. about $3.50 o'clock
last ight. Tho people IN the street heard 1t.
and then they heard three pistol shots. Patrick
| Hughes came tumblng down stairs, bleeding
| from the nose and from n cut on the head.
Policeman CARLY ran m TO Hughes. and.
Selling him hy both shoulders, demanded:
Did you do That shooting!"
mo didn't said Hughes.
| woman cnmc flying down tho stairs.
lyon did! You did!' she screamed. "You
! shot my father! You shot my fatleri Oh my
| fntheri my father" and sho wruug her hands
! and nonned and cried.
crowd OF 300 or 500 men and women had
gathered. and one young fellow said 10 Ger
rlty:
"You let that man alone. Don't You sec he's
shoty"
The crowd closed in on the policeman
aud Hughes. Gerrity raped for assistance.
Tho sound OF his club was heard at tho Leon
| ard street police station. which Is only a block
and half away. Just then two boys rushed
in and said there had been two or three muir
! ders down the street.
That's him calm for help" said ono boy.
They're KILN klu now" said the other. as
| tho RAYS sounded.
Tho Sergeant was just about sending ten
policemen out on 81 ecial duty with Detective
! Dunn. Ho ordered tllem all into West Broad
way. They found mob trying 10 take Hughes
| nway from .Gerrity. Two or three men had
qses AND abon s
S ra%n as sSsasd ss
man as my ana
Three men SGT Hughes around to tho poIics
up stairs to Corrisnn's rooms.
Arrest everybody in the room." was the
two.thir,ls "i tho ienants OF the house were in
the rooms by this time: They tnshe,l In among
1 sd ~ s he ont Hn on !hs MnoR
stills. The reserves had their hands full IN
rstshng ten In o the lining room so1 he! io%nd
hsaviIy and bleeding from . would In tie lace
Mrs. CorriGan was. In another room nursing
courle. stool in the room by his fathers body.
Old SSfri sSn1 1 yeaE:d %nd paeSuon
MY son." said CorriRan.
No, didn't father; look Mt mo. did shoot
Yes, you sho: NO." said Corrisan. turning
You, is" exclaimed Mrs. corriSon. coming
Franz didn't have anything to do with t.!
lie shot NO." said Corrigan, again looking
You pHwned your watch and coat to get
tnht pistol ana you Il enot Tue WuOle lhnlly
4 over the room we're blood. broken glasses.
broken dishes; and broken furniture; Mrs.
torrigan and tho son and daughter all began
"Taks them all to tho station" said Detec-
tiye 1 I9nn nm. and then call AN ambulance for
Frank Corriean said he, hadn't done any
sd land him hcsa ana
.SsPsd ds q Ss sas Rs sSs ssns:
and LANDED In tue station house.
m Mrs. e. corriGsn said she hadn't done ANYTHING
Other POLICEMEN who had gone to the station
the rest OF The crowd all protest. Ing and kick
s Tsiv s" q. aoS the
WSers i ' the Dis tho detective asked
pistol ' Ss'e ct b..
hoy ana l yard and the street but could
.e. Rs sfs s: asnS s sh x tss Dc
sssa I'm
sssid 10 hadn't very eeSr idss q how It hh sdd
ssIsi III nsH
the station Mrs SorrSan told the ds.sS,
Il. Old aed sss
said and drew his rovolyeE, "He pawped bis
-" He shot Hughes md then We all came to-
getaer. and in the excitement he shot himself
The daughter said she didn't know how It
had come about. She was out walking and
got in Just In timo to 500 her father fall and
gee Hughes who boarded at the house. run
done the shooting
Hughes SAID he didn't know anything at all
except that there had been fight and he had
been shot. Young Gorrigan said no had been
out and came In and found his father smuggling
his mother. He rushed at him to save his
mothor. md his father drew thu pistol and
came int! TO the fight Young CorriCan had sue
old man; Hughes seized the revolver from
him. and began shooting into tho crowd. Tho
two shots he fired struck tho old man In the
face. Hughes also was taken around to Cham
bers Street Hospital. Tho doctor had lust
were not serious; he sGd. Hughes's wound
wasn't serious either. He and old man Corri-
gan and young CorrIRan were locked up.