The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-18
SHOT DOWN AFTER THE BALL.
A TRAeTC ENDING TO FksTIVITTEs
IN GRAND OPERA HOUSE HALL.
FLOP" Dovviise, = YouaE west side n ruSh.
Refused 90 go Home and Janitor Tynnn
shot Hiua-The Mas VIII Probably Die.

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'FIop" DovviisR, = YouaE west side Rrush.
| Released 90 60 Home and Janitor Tynnn
shot Hin-Ths Mas Will Probably Die.
On cot in the New York Hospital yesterday.
sorely wounded and Mt times delirlous. lay
William H.. otherwise Flop" bowling west
aide rough, who was shot early yesterday
morning by a man whom he was trying to stab
with an Ice pick DowllnR's assailant, who Is
locked up in the West Twentieth street police
station, is James lyman. night janitor OF tho
hall in the Grand Opera House building at
Eighth avenue and Twenty-third street 1t
was there that the shooting occurred. and, ms
far as can be ascertained. Bowling was the
aRgressor.
He is a powerfully built man. 2 years old
Ho worked M n laborer. when he worked
at all. and lived with his mother aud two
brothers at go Tenth avenue. Twenty
seventh street IL regarded as the divid-
ing line between two gangs OF young
roughs VINO live on the avenue and the neigh
boring side streets west OF Tenth avenue The
locality Is known as the lower end OF " Helrs
Kitchen" The gangs members belong to
various social clubs. and. according to oil ac-
counts. It has been the habit Of each gang to
try to break up the balls and other entertain
ments given by the other. bowling belonged
to the gang whose stamping ground is south
of Twenty-seventh street lie has bad repu-
tation. and was known as quarrelsome man.
Several times recently when the other gang
gave n ball in the Grand Opera House hall,
Bowling. with numerous companions. attend
cd and raised a disturbance On each occasion
Jnnitor lyman put the Bowling crowd out, and
II was said yesterday that after the last con-
iiict which occurred about two weeks ago. tho
Bowling crowd threatened to be revenged upon
lyman.
Satnrdav pIrht ha riuh ha
members OF which lived In and near Tenth
avenue north Of Twenty seventh street. held
their first annual ball in the Grand Opera House
building. A usual. bowling and his friends
attended, and during the evening. failu to pick
fight with any one else they had several
time and stopped the dis t Sr .' The SSii
wound up between . and q o'clock yesterday
erSi hours before hat howsy SU To- attend
wake, so that only few persons were in tho
AHIl room when tho orchestra began playing
Before the last strains OF the m usio had died
away Janitor lyman started TO put out the
when he came upon Bowling and few others
ia side room where refrcshments were
OF what followed was volunteered by lyman
after his arrest lie SAYS that he told tho men
that the bail was over. and that they would
All excent Bowling imm edlatoly started to
with an oath that h" would not 90 Then
lyman took hold OF him to nut, him out. lie
broke away from, me- said lyman, and ran
the pick he turned aud rushed Mt me; ! be-
lteved that he would kill me. SO In self-defence
l drew my revolver and fired twice"
lowing staggered down stairs and ran
southeast corner Of Twenty-third street lcav-
ing trail OF blood behind him. As he entered
the office Bowling said to Might Manager VIII
you send for q doctor Never mind how il
happened. u get square when recover"
An ambulance was called. and the surgeon
Sons. hurried him OF to the New Yorl; Il osplta.
There DR.. Chamberlain found u bullet wound
in the mans neck and another in the ahdo-
men; The patient refused to give any explana-
ton beyond saying that his wounds Were not
self-inflicted, and that they we're the result 81
an accident. Mo:3O o clock in the m orning his
brother John, who is a bartender. and Detective
Madden OF the West Twentieth street station
called to see bowling. but no further informa-
ton could DO obtained from him By dint OF
hard work the police succeeded in discovering
the iacts OF the case In the afternoon. and at
3:3O o'clock lyman was arrested. He said that |
he had Just heard that Bowling wns sernnSly !
wounded. and was going to the station house |
to give himself up when the police met him.
Iwehty-iifth. street who. with Thomas l.. |
Hamilton, builder living at 342 West Twen-
ty-seventh street leases the hall and employs |
lyman. said last night that the Ianitor was
sober industrious man Of a peaceHble dispo-
sition. He had been in his employment for
eighteen months lyman IL an unmarried !
man. AZ years old. and lives at 253 West
Twenty-ffth street.
Dowling's mother was with her son In tho
hospital nearly all day. Io became delirious
anything about the shooting. The hospital
doctors. owing to the mans serious condition,
were unable to probe for the bullets or to per
that DUWlllK cannot TeCOyeF