The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-18
WAS DTLWORTH CLUBBED ?
Hrs SKULL rs FRACTURED, AND HE
BIxMEs a POLICEMAN.
The Man Was Arrested, After n struggle
In the street. While Chasing Hts Step-on
with n Razor-Tbe Poicr Say He He
cciyed His IuIurie- before They saw Him.

| The Man Wac Arrested, After n Struggle
| In the street. While Chasing Hts Step-ou
with n Razor-The Poicr Say He Re
| ccived His I"Juries before They saw Him
George r. Dilworth. n mulatto. 30 years old.
| who lives at 351 West Fortieth street. is lying
| at the point OF death with n fractured skull IN
the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital Dtl-
worth was arrested on Saturday night by fo-
liceman Michael Broen OF the West Thirty
| seventh street station. on charge OF larceny
preferred by his stcpson. John Thomas Wins
ton. Yesterday morning he was arraigned in
| the Jefferson Market Police Court Then 1t
| was discovered that he was suffering from a
fractured skull. caused. he said. by tho club OF
Policeman Breen.
The story told by Dilworth In his ante
norton statement to Coroner Mckenna at the
hospital yesterday afternoon aud that of Capt.
Price and the police OF the West Thirty sew
enth street station differ materially Accord
Ing to the latter. as Policeman Breen was
patrolling his beat near the corner Of Thirty
seventh street and Eighth avenue. his atten-
ton was attracted By cries OF stop thief" A
man ran around the corncr OF Thirty eighth
street followed by crowd. The man carried
an open razor In his hand. and seemed to be
looking for some one. Breen ran up behind
him and grabbed him by the shoulders. The
man turned suddenly and made q vicious slash
at the policeman.
Look out there. officer" yelled several In
the crowd. hes got knife and razor
Breen grabbed the uplifted hand OF his as
sailant and fierce struggle followed In
which the mulatto made several attempts to
cut his captor. Finally another policeman
came and tho man was overpowered. A dozen
witnesses are ready to swear that Policeman
Breen did not have weapon OF any kind in
his hand during the struggle. and did not
strike the prisoner: The latter. who said his
Thirty-seyenth street police station. whore he
tba Ss nm by Cart Pr Ice was nSt lied
there was some blood SV on his face eve anu 'a'
John Winston. Dilworth's 16year-od step
26s IS m
ormer said that e b Sf1 had stolen his
him about IT Dilworth denied the theft Hot
STss 9sd ns ss Soy Pulled
Id up big ornamental shell which lay on
+ at h hs
down stairs and into the street followed by
The prisoner was, held in $500 bail on
charges of Larceny and attempting to assault
up in the Jefferson Market prison It was no.
ticed that he was very white and could scarce
y sta nc An ambulance from Bellevue Hos.
called to examine the prisoner. He said that
Dilworth was suffering from severe fracture
OF the skull. Atthe hospital it was found noe
As it was feared that the patient might not
survive it. notice was sent to the Coroner to
take Dllworths anti, mortem statement.
In the statcment the injured man says that
he and his stepson had q quarrel about a coat
and waistcoat. The latter picked up some
hing to throw at him. and he ran to a pair of
trousers hnnEinG against the wall aud took out
q razor Then the boy threw something at
him which struck him In the head. lie ran
down the stairs after Winston The |
statement continues:
turned down Eighth avenue. walking slowly when |
Michael Breen 81 the vast Thirty star
lion Thinking was Winston or some o: his friends
razor In NV hand. Tho officer grabbed my wrist !
nnd ana A. SOM fTas one tock the razor away The
times. hitting at least twice ON the head with his
club lie also struck me in the Jaw with his
the station house Breen told the Sergeant that l
Of lex at the Gu, . a and s.ny
now The Sergeant hell mo me on tho charge Of
took me to cell After they We're out of view Of the
Serge ant. Breen struck the head with his club
ing me /. vile name The doorman struck mo on the
law with his ist and struck at me wi the cell key.
was then put In the cell and loo ked up.
:, This statement was contradicted by Capt.
Price. Policeman Breen and Doorman, Hag-
Rerty last night. Capt. Price said that the p0-
iceman did not accompany the prisoner to his
,ell. 1.-THE hospital it was said that In the
he fracture. were two clean cuts. which
ooked as though they had been made by the
Jagged edge Of some heavy object As these
nts could not haze been made bya cun in
,ansed by the rough edge Of the shell which
Winston threw at Dilworth. The police were
IN the lookout for the boy last night. but it Is
cared that he has got wind Of his fathers CON
litiOn and fled,