The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-06
kid" IOGAN'S LAST FIGHT.
,ur MEASURE M Melted WIN
MS ME1ED 10 MN AGAIN.

go. rJe HAD Hrsn Plying Murderoui
IN. In the Bstties OF the stable Gnus
katie Ia HIs Throst Faded Iiin
.r,ao Hogan. whose death from a stab
"a vas told OF yesterday morning In THE
Wv Gas killed in the stifrest flRht East Four
.,b street has seen in many day. So al
p,,h. inhabitants say. Hogan was what il
s,ocn In the for east as wicked mug,
d. means in this case that he was handy
'n'. tni,s. He was member OF the stable
Wv rblch hangs out in Fifteenth street. and
the gang had any leader he was it's
", He earned the place by pronniscuous
d.bbing. an, ,,.
nidnieht on Sunday. Ever since the
y. bafors Christmas there has been some
~, Al i.ud between the Hogan family and
an eoba.ffer family. Tho Schaeffers live on
~ y. .scond floor front at the corner OF First
'..,u. and Fourteenth street. Hogan lived at
~, Fast Tvventy-ninth street, but Fourteenth
-, "a, his hang cput. and the hallway OF the
,.S..rsr house was a, favorite place, for mixed
4. nsrti.s Of the Stable Gang.
Ts,nes we're very dull the latter part OF last
-, And The Kid hadn't stabbed anybody for
10 Than a month. lie was losing caste with
-. o.ns The night before Christmas William
s,hssfT.r. the youngest Of the four Schaefrer
S,n,hsr, came home late and found The Kid
so,dlns a mixed ale party at the foot OF the
.,aIrs The Kid promptly held him up and
,obbsd him OF SL70. Schaeffer objected. and
IN. Kd drew knife and slashed him along
.,d.ths head. The Schaeffer family started out
act 10 have The Kid punished in the legal
"a, hut influences were broughtto bear and
her lot up on him.
Is.t Sunday night The Kid and Ed Corr q
,J.nd OF his. were out looking for scrap.
Th,y ran across August SchsefHer. the young
NJ az the SchaefIer boys. in Fourteenth street,
nat below First avenue. and. according to all
n. other schaeffer boys. The Kid walked up
! august and hit him In the face with q pair
tbr,ss knuckles. The Schaeffers didn't want
,ny trouble and they went home. The Kid
,,Iled them towards. This was at 10 o'clock
N the evening. The Kid and Corr had little
nl,.d ale party all to themselves In the
sehsener hallway after this. 1t was quiet
y ,noush until young fellow who lives across
me street came along. Hogan didn't like him
and threw q brick at him. The brick struck
ns Young man In the head and laid 1t open.
But that's q mere incident. a depression from
the story.
Whom the mixsi ale began circulating freely.
The Kid made up his mind that he would have
another whack at Schaeffer. 30 he went up
stairs and pounded on the door and yelled that
he'd lick the whole family "one at time or all
Syss together"
There was no response to that challenge.
The Kid went down and stood In tho hallway
| srd yelled up the challenge again. Charles
schaefrer. the eldest Of the Schaeffer boys. was
going to bed. August schaefrer. who had been
nursing his cut face said he'd 60 down aud
,lssn out the gang.
So far the story Is told by that part OF the
sehss1er family which was not in the fight.
The Italian who keeps the fruit stand on the
corner SAYS that the first he knew he saw q
out Of the hallway and across the walk 10 the
guttsr; where IT separated. 1t consisted Of
lad I no sooner separated than they We're to, to.
is "s wind mill 'S The KID apcEsd his head and
banged The Kid In the jaw and sent him down:
Then he banged Corr in the jaw and landed
That was only the beginning OF the fight
There was crowd around In q IN mute. Hogan
and Corr were up almost as quickly as they
at. A dozen in tho crowd Ieaped at them.
nato pull them OF. but Just to have part in
August schastrsr landed ON The Kids Jaw.
The Md butted him again. Up the street they
fought TO the corner. and then across to the
they came, August chaeffer still the centre OF
% asGt Was v. ws sSs
isIiIy rom the windSw a6Sve The excite
%sps eee.%s 100 Sow much fSf
Just as he reached the walk Kid Hogan drew a
knife and Owed at August with Il. Charles
ne! him a! and Eieked him in the stomach. Down
Tho Italian ran into the liquor store on the
corner and didn't see any more. No Intelligent
witness was found yesterday who could tell
what happened after that. somebody yelled
PoilceP which indicates a desperate state
out Of the crowd. IocSing as II he had tackled
rus. At the yen Of Police p the crowd melted
There are those who rem member that he got up
.ter schae1er kicked him. but nobody re-
Corr was less than half a block away when
Policeman Porter OF the Fifth street station
met him. Porter reached for him and Corr
him To- Ss East Psyss
street station. In the mean time other police
men IAN lame and fQurd Hogin lying II the gut
sent ior an ambulance and Hogan was taken
to bellevue Hospital but he got there dead.
pital; He had been stabbed too. But Il was
OAfs s d h5S ne vital part d had bo been Ss9
stabbed him. and he Wo@dnt S tei s MSf mag
ao9ut the hight Tho police arrested Charles
and August schAeifer. and they were ar
toawait the result OF the inquest. An autopsy
va, ns made on hid llogan's body, 1t was found
ma hat no nae been stabbed probably with PEN
knle which had been yiciously turned In the
wound; The examination o; Corr's wound
.ho"eo That the knife had been turned in that
too Maybe the little trick OF turning the
anle may suggest that the same gentleman
VGelatsI In 10th instances
,.Capt cross OF the Fifth street station spent
we whole day yesterday inyeGtigRttng the
...s. ana late In the afternoon he said he was
n1usnso that the stabbing was done By ona OF
Ms nehaeners, though by which ono he hadn't
yyet,nlned. The Schasners both insisted
mat they had had no knives and that they
iought lair. The police found no knife either
"a thsm or at their home and they could find
s sUns n ne street Tho two Schaetfer broth
az n va. dld not take part In the fight and who
80 hot arrested say that The Kid must have
Az sIAooed by some one in the crowd OF
~ Itans ~. VINO had grldge against him. Even
A4!puhed some OF them.
was he surely the leader OF the gang ?"
Dun reporter ask ed them.
vn S114te SAID William hchaeffer. why |
iSpp ne Dc II he cut as many people as he |
AL, hld Hogan never did time for any Of his |
E'hss' ana tho police don't know how many |
u4s com mltted. One OF his alleged victims
u.s. bartender named Meyer, whom he |
SOsd IN the head. He stabbed a man
Ss asd flmeral twice. II took sixteen stitches |
6,osnn 10 one cut. He stabbed a man named |
TShsna,d shJ lives In Fourteenth street He |
ISoU another man named Gillen. lie shot |
80 oSurE man named Mc(ilynn on an eXcur-
NNeu-- Llther liz anOthAr n fha 0anU All hhad