The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-27
TOM GOULD CONTRADICTED.
WITNESSES BACK UP sELLLN0'S AC-
COUNT OF WOGAN'S LAST SCRAP.
Ten made Selling Ran After the shooting
wogaa Had aripped seiiisg's Sore
Throat-A WOMAN who Says She h
Mrs. woran Fa0ls 10 Get the Body.

Samuel J. Kohlcr. the roommate and com.
panton OF Joseph Selling. who killed J. j.
Wogan at Tom Gould's dive on Christmas
morning. went TO Coroner MESSENGERS office
about 10 o'clock Yesterday morning and gave
himself up. He had Just learned that he was
being looked for. Kohlcr told Coroner Messe.
mer that no was with Selling whom Wogan
was shot Ho says that when Tom Gould ran
up tho basement stairs after the shot was
fred Selling was standing on the sidewalk
with the pistol In his hand. The dive keeper.
far from making an effort to seize him. called
out excitedly:
Run away from hero as fast as you cant"
Whom Selling started up Twenty third street.
however. and the crowd began running after
him Gould Joined tho chase.
In other words. according to Kohlers story.
- soon as tho ARRAY occurred Tom Gould's
first thought was for his dive He did not
know how badly woGan was hurt, but he knew
that II the man was caught there with his pis-
tol aud q fuss was made about the affair no
and his dive would be tho sufferers.
When the man couldn't get away fast enough
and was arrested. In spite Of Gould's advice.
and wogan was found to be dead. there was
ss Il Ts sss e ssa d sas so S% 81
Eyssythins was psacsaele, Thos , WA, Vas no
sssistent msnsSor and headed the chase, /
shs on his asss when be- was caught
eaSH d ' ssSna great lborte.
With tho facts. When KohIor came TO the
psnsr o. ne r Tas soD Sy
Bond street. He was sent up to Coroner
Messengers house. whore the Coroner listened
ia sSis story to . sgS reporter: ','l 40.
III have known WI Selling only four weeks. and
no Is nothi1 Whatever to me an not not con
thefur business In Loipsic. and am oyerln this
rooms and mot selling that way, I shared lis
I' had sass ssav snd
Sscsahy hs %ade, W his mind e leave New
hurt him. and no oeuidnt sleep. He wok S mo
s = oas T1sS hss '3s a risS tss
SSe Sf S eRs S aT sa
there Selling nss 'E s!s wiz sES
SSis III diS L II iun and was y not It Tall I'll
sna HIM out q tho pIase. Saa IL see%ed
to Ike the opportunity OF making big time
don't think woran was in the room at tho
y, When Selling ard ! started e 60 70 the door:
DO gave Woean wrong Impression Of what
had taken, place. Just as we were about to
him Hs
against the bar. and then came for him again
up The ss H got
es SGas Sc ting Re d
Cub or revolver :eH TRen ss Rsf red
though he had missed Woean. Wogan didn't
s SANS Il sss wssS Tbs s sm a6SS
came H2 and told Selling to run away as fast IS
There was no reason for me to stay around
and stayed There. until II O'clock. Then Iwent
1o xtss
Sas Sesd Is sRss DsDs1: tSs
IN Sss 81 sS tsf House 2, o PstsptGS
Sssfs OF the affair were taken to
IT The tntsre.stting crowd comprised Tom Gould.
ssns sSs ave. snf aoWsrd g.
Ss SheqE fsSE
the trouble. and James OConnor and James
q "managsE,s;" or floor walkers in the es-
: 5rot6es 81 Mary Fink Mil!spsush, the woman
SescR e iss
Top Gould informed Justice Hogan that no
was the only witness that had seen the shoot |
ts% the ah
leaving him to tell the story all alone. His re-
%a sesn ana the witnesses
4 small blonde woman. dressed In black and
Be- ye at hs e e1af snd
eitsdIy whether the murderer was in the court
Inc tTat t. be held She repeated to
husband. She put her hands to her head i' once
Or Or tST dcS ssxcafmins' my God! am losing
She was directed to Coroner, Messemer's
Deated her previous behavior and demanded
IN that man ever gets. ont OF prison" she
.sid wildly. LII swing for him. and don't
%hee ?as S iss me rss down to his
psmed Turner who was there to offer bail for
slso thers to ask 'I iss corSasS for MAs
Mr.. Wosan' had sSmsthins t to say trs fo %
81 ths permit 6srcnsr MISSIONER said. indi.
Why, III & NJ: wosan's wife. and sho
recognition. I'm his brother" no said. And
ne Coroner after moments reflection. savs
INA tue paper. |
The troop OF Witnesses wore brought TO
Joroner Messemars huuse ut about IL o'clock. |
md he ordered that all should he kept In tho
House 81 Detention until the inquest ut 1880
!. M Monday.
Ida Adams was detained by tho Coroner
lfter the others ,weLo led Off md was asked
or Sr written affidavit Of what sho know before
lQw the whole thing really happened.
In her statement she described the row that
occurred before tho shooting practically as
{ohler and Selling had described II. She said
he had not left tho dive and had not seen the
hootlne; Wogan she said: bad seized selling
" the throat In front Of the bar and had
ushed after him MP the stairs.
The autopsy shows that the bullet entered
H0gan's abdomen four inches above the UNI
'ilteus and two inches 10 tho right Of thaJ
nsdian line and lodged In the backbone. The
'ody WAS taken to 4S5 Henry street, Brooklyn,
vhere the funeral will be-.
Mr.. /. NJ Hornthal. To whom Selling frat |
ent word for assistance when he was arrested.
aid yesterday:
David Selling. the father OF Joseph Selling.
vns at ono timc u prominent merchant In this |
ity. Ho died about ten years ago and loft
,ss apEolstod esecator % Mrs. E sse.iiing's
Pill In 1884. knew worry little about Joseph
telling until dispute arose over the mothers |
WILL There were two sisters both married.
rho combined againat him. Ho acted very |