The evening world., 1894-05-03
ON A BLOODY TRAIL.
Policemen Find Hugh Dcuchogty
S~enseles in the Stree.
Crimson Stains Led 10 the House
Where He Was Assaulted.
David Mark Escapes After Slasliiug
Him with u Huge Knife.

Hugh Douchcrty, twenty-eiEht years
old, an anSin"cr, of l5 West one Hun
drod and Thirty-fourth street, is in the
Manhattan Hospital with Il terrible cash
in his head. lie viii die. His injury
was inflicted by David Mark. twenty
years old, of 81 Manhattan avenue.
Mark lives with his wife and onc-year-
old child on the second floor of the
observation-disclosures at n Manhattan ave-
nue.. His mother, sisters and brother
Frank live on the third floor at l5 West
one Hundred and Thirty-fourth street.
Two months ago Mrs. Mark took to
board with her Hugh Dougherty, who
off and on works for the Hudson River
Railway Company.
Frank Mark and Dougherty room"d
together and soon became fast friends.
The married brother. David. used to 20
to the house several times a week.
Early last night Frank and Dnugherty
left the house together. They said they
were going to meet David and go to II
theatre
1t was almost IL o'clock when they re-
turned. They sat down in a front room
only been sitting. there a few minutes
when a loud knock came at the door.
who's there" asked the girl,
II s !, Dave, WAS lnp answer.
Don't open the door cried ~D5ugherty
But he was too late. The door had been
room. He looked as If he had been
Where is the short fellow?' he asked
excitedly. Before anyone coud answer
he went up to his brother, Frank. and
with q blow in the face knocked him to
the floor. Then he turned around,
opened n closet door and grabbed n
carving-knifc, with an eiight;inch blade.
the sight Of the knife, but just as ne
reached II David was upon him. The
knife descended on Dougherty's head
and struck him sguarely on the top;
bounded down the stairs. He was bare
footed and in his shirt sleeves.
At the corner OF one Hundred and
Thirty-fourth street and LenoX avenue
he ran into the saloon of Fred Benger.
There were half a dozen people in there
ty entered. They shrank back at the
sight of the bloodstained clothing and
the great, garing wound in the head; ,
the bartender. But the injured man
didn't wait. He ran to One Hundred
and Twenty,ninth street and Lenox ave
nue., to the drug store of l.. NJ. Hannah.
Dougherty, weak from the loss of blood,
fell in a heap OF the street.
the time. They screamed and Police
man liuckridge, who was half a block
away, ran up with two men. The police
men tried to tie up Dougherty's head,
while one of the men went for DR.. Beal,
of one Hundred and Twenty-eighth
street and Lenox venue.
In the meantime Policeman Harrigan
had arrived at the scene and sent for an
ambulance.
no Policeman Buckrldge Doughcrty
said; My name is Dougherty: Marks
cut me-" Then he became unconscious
When Ambulance Surgeon Nolio came
he said the man was dangerously hurt
and took him to the hospital after bind
ing his head.
Policeman Gallagher came, and he
and Harrlgan started out on a search
for the man who did the cutting, These
policemen are attached to the West one
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station.
Slowly they followed the blood trail
up LenoX avenue. IT led them first to
the saloon, which, by this, time was
on the outside told them how Doughcrty
had been hurt before he reached there.
So the policemen went, on. seeing the
blood well enough near the, lighted lamps
lights, they struck matches, =.
1t was nearly ! o'clock when the trail
brought them to the One Hundred and
Thirty-fourth street house. Up the
stairs to the third floor the blood was
Trick.
Mrs. Mark, her son and daughter were
awake. They said at first that the cut
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man Gallagher went into the front room,
and on n shelf in the closet found the
bloody knife wrapped in a towel. Then
Mrs. Mark broke down and told all about
it. But she said she didn't know where
her son David lived.
Frank Mark was taken to the West
one Hundred and Twenty-ffth street
station. to. be detained as a witness
Sergeant GrOO at once sent defective
Buckley ana Patrolman HarriGan out to
find David Mark.
Then the trail was taken up from the
ono Hundred and Thirtv-fourth street
house. They found that David when he
left there had boarded Il car and ridden
to one Hundred and Twenty-nfth street,
1t took them only half an hour to find
nOrth-hound cable car and TO find the
conductor of the car. He remembered
the man, who had aid to him:
1.-TWO men tried to do me, but ] got
the best of them,
The conductor had seen him enter the
house q Manhattan avenue after hc
left the ear.
When the policemen reached the
house. David was evidently on the wait
for them, for while they were trying tC
get in at the front door, he escaped
hy "A side window, and got away over
the roofs of the adjoining sheds. He
was climbing over these sheds, while
his wife was telling the policemen that
he had not been home at all.
But the policeman saw the open win,
dow. and a man i'm the mex house told
them he had seen David getting away,
The police are sure they Will capture
the man to-day. -.
Later in the morning Mrs: Mark said
had cut DouEhertv. Her sister said she
thought there might have been somt
throuble ovcr money matters.