The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-28
O'BBIEN'S DEADLY STAIRS
James Dougherty, Their Third Victim,
Perhaps Fatally Injured in the Saloon
Carried to the observation-disclosures
Of the Brsin-Katie Logue.

Another man has fallen down that fatal
stairway lesding from Dennis O'Brien's TO
the room above. and is seriously if not fatal
~ injured. AT 1925 o'clock Sunday night
O messenger from OBrlen's saloon came
into Collier & Murphy's undertaking es-
tsblishment and secured cot. saying that
mar had fallen down the stairs and hurt
himself. and that they wanted to bring him
to the undertaking establishment and have
his wounds dressed. The account of the
affair as given by persons about the saloon
is that James Dougherty. the man who
was hurt, came into the saloon
short time before the accident and
went up stairs, whore Katie Logue.
q waitress employed at Keever q Figgs
restaurant, on South Illinois street, had
previously gone, and that drinks were
taken ND to them; that shortly thereafter
Dougherty fell down the stairs. striking
upon his head at the foot of the steps. Tho
saloon people say that Dougherty was
drunk when he came into the saloon.
This statement is denied by several Der.
sons who saw him short time before ne
was hurt and by the attaches at the IN
dertakers, W no say that he was not drunk
when he was brought INTO their place.
DIR. Hodges was called TO attend the in
jured man, and found him still uncon-
scious. There was q semi-circular cut
upon the forehead. which looked very much
ss If it might have been made By the bot
tom of beer glass. His left eye was
bruised and badly swollen, and his right
eye also bruised, but not swollen. His
nose was not scratched, and his friends
argue from this that he must have
been struck by come oDe and that he did
not fall down the stairs, as stated. A door
keeper In the lower house of the Legis-
lRture, who was in the saloon at the time.
says that Dougherty fell down the steps,
and landed on his head In the saloon below.
About the body were several bruises.
Obrien was the first man to reach Dough.
erty whom he fell. at the bottom of the
stairs, and picked him up and sent the
messenger to the undertaker's. He was de-
tanned at the undertaker's bout two hours
before being taken TO his home, which is
In the block adjoining the saloon.
The saloon his family sent there
TO learn if he had been in the place during
the evening. and the messenger was IN
formed that he had not He remained IN
conscious all u ght and until noon yestcr-
day, at which time he recovered for awhile
and again relapsed into unconsclousness
During the afternoon he talked In a ram
bling, incoherent kind of q way and was
only conscious at III tervais. Katie Logue.
the girl who was In the room above the
place with DouGherty. was taken to the
police station and hold merely as @ witness
IN case IL was necessary TO use her. She
says that she went to the saloon
sbont 7:30 o'clock and remained there till
Dougherty came in. and that she had q
couple of drinks with him, which were
brought up stairs by OBrien. A few min
utes after, she says. OBrien went down the
last time, Dougherty started to leave, and
reached for the railing alongside the stairs.
and missing &c fell down the stairway. The
room above the saloon Is vacant. and the
only furniture in 1t is three chairs. The
only means of illuminating il Is by natur-
,Rl-gas stove In the room. She said she
never saw Dougherty before that night.
and that while she was In the room OBrien
came up and told her that he had friend
down stairs whom be would like to have
her meet. He then brought D0ugherty to
where she was.
Ii was sought to keep the affair secret,
but It became known yesterday morning.
Three men have been I'M ured on these
same stairs. and eli of them were said to
have fallen down them while Intoxicated,
yet Thomas Burton is now serving q term
of seven years In the penitentiarv for hav-
ing caused the death of one of them. Samuel
Clayton
Last night Dougherty was slightly i'm
proved, and was In q fair way to recover
unless the injury shonld cause gestion
of the brain. which, DR.. Hodges said, was
the only thing to be feared. Dougherty's
friends and relatives refuse to believe that
be fell down the stairs while intoxicated.
and are confirmed in their belief that he
VISA knocked down.