New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-10
HIS BROTHER'S MURDER AVENGED.
DENNIS J. sULIvAN's THREATS AGAINST HuN
LED TO HI5 ARREST.

DENNIS J. sULIIvAN's THREATS AGAINST HUI
LED TO HI5 ARREST.
A murder Of five years standing was avenged
the murder of Thomas Hunt, in EaXterst Oh roeS
day. Hunt was a jall-brd whose death could seares
he loss to the community. AS memer " I"
no, orious WhyO" gang in the sixth "afl nc VA
known as kid" Hunt. lie grew up IN Baxpf,t
and was a boon companion of Danny Lyons IN
police Of tho Elizabethst. station have photograph
which shows the Kid" in group OF dozen per
sons in the backyard Of No. 30 BaXter-st, among
them Beezy" Clarity, the young woman WHOSE mar
der was avenged by the hanging OF Lyons mum
was sent TO prison in 1856. when he was lad ID h'
teens, for helping Dan" Harrington and another
" WhyO' to rob man In a coach lie had been o'' "
prison less than year when he got into quina
with Daniel sullivan, better known Poll SUB
van, at Centre and Leonard sts., and shot sullivan
dead That murder was committed on November ~
1885, Hunt got oil with sentence Of Imprisonment
for term of four years and six Hlontlls ior mA1
slaughter. He was released from prison again soou
year ago. Recently he had been living with Vh WIZ
at No. W. 64 Lexngton-ave.
At D. m. on Tuesday Policeman Nugent, OF |"
Eighteenth-st squad, found Hunt lying on the sa'
walk in front OF Chinese laundry al No. Al baA'e
ST. Hunt was insensibe and bleeding RON
scalpwound People in the street said that Hunt hAa
been Knocked down ana Kicked Ill a hk"' "
stranger, who had run away. An ambulance carr"
Hunt 10 the Chambers street Hospital The surse"
found that his skull fractured, and Dis .a"0O
was broken in two places. lie remained mseDsON
or delirious in the hospital until he died, soon INV
midnight.
Captain Brooks of the Elizabeth-st squad was W.
informed OF Hunts death until nearly o a. NJ ses''
day. Then he and Detective Price set 10 ""A
make investigation Within an hour they sne'~
Dennis J. sullivan, aged twenty-five years y,
| home, No. 81 Baxter-st. Afterwari they a"'s.
Dennis and Michael Harrington, brothers, hi1s
No. 1872 Mulberry-st. The police had been iD'n w..
that sullivan brother Of ;hc man VINO ~"' No..
by Hunt in 1886, and had been utterng 'hi''s -.
vengeance since Hunts release from prison.
Buzzi n bootblack, OF No. 40 BaXterst. sad nc -
sullivan running away just after Hunt was a''A"s
and the two Harrngtons were there at the ume. "A
prisoners were taken to the Tombs Police Oolr' '-s
were remanded until today. sullivan had w. 49,
trouble to the police since his brother wa IN
Captain Brooks said but the HarTingtons Lao - -
arrested number Of times for felonlous a''Is "a
bory and other offences The prisoners W.
talk about the murder Of Rupt. xn
In the afternoon, Captain Brooks said tAs' ..sd
nesses. whose names he refused to iel h'' S-,u,,n
sullivan as Hunts assaant They had seen -. -,
knock Hunt down on the sidewalk and KICK I"' .,
the head. The detectives were trying 10 10" IA
sulllvans aeaIiantances, who said 10 ~ on
coyed Hunt into BaXter-St on TUESDAY snisr ne
Hunt in Chatham square, SomewiA' ny WITH
influence OF liquor, II said, and went 70 sae hin
man who told him hat friend wlshea y n. glep
| In Baxier-tt. cunts body was taken W "'
home in Lcxington-ave. yesterday