The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-26
A BULLET IN HIS HEART.
yoHS DBLHoRE FOUND DEAD IN THE
HkLLWAT OF HCyTys SALOON

Ne witnesses or the Xvi -r, Sst shs Petite.
Are Arer ~BuIi- Powers, whs, They
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John Delmore IS years old. Of 502 East
Fighty-Hrst street was shot and instantly
killed about $3.50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
IN the hallway o. 43o Fast Seventy ninth
street By a man supposed TO be William J.
Powers
Delmore was q laborer employed on the new
Ninth atenuc cable line. and had wife and
Eve children. all grown. He got home from
work at o'clock on Saturday night. and was
not out Of the house again until ii O'Clock yss-
terday morning Then he went out 10 get
shaved returning within an hour After the
midday dinner he started out again. walking
down Avenue A. What he did within the next
hour In not definitely known. but there are
persons. the police SAY. who saw him with
Powers In the ne ghborhood Of Thomas Hunts
saloon on the northwest corner Of Avenue A
and Seventy ninth street
It 10 believed that the two went into the sa-
loon together. The rear door Of the saloon
opens into the hallway where Delmore's body
was found Il IL said by the same persons
that the two men uusrrelled in the saloon
ordered them to get out. The police think the
shooting was done in the hallway, as the ball
pierced the heart. and death must have been
Thomas Hunt lives over his saloon, He told
the police last night that he Vas sitting up
members this was at $50 o'clock. He rushed
body. which lay fiat on the floor beside the
door leading into the saloon. He then called
ing at the East Eighty. eighth str.et station.
In making q staten emit to Capt Pickett Hunt
then admitted that Il might have been been; open pen
without his knowledge. lt was open last night
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closed. The door leading into the hall 10 the
only rear entrance. and II Delmore and Powers
were ordered out It was By that door that thsy
Powers is sometimes called Ball" Powers.
has a bad reputation. He was arrested about
three years ago ior, sts.lins Iron frSm the
some t time ago o an sssi:tant in the boiler room
OF the penitentiary on Blackvelrs Island. but
pIoyed as = wstchmsu o along the East River
front from seventy-hfth street to Eighty-siIth
II is said that there has been bad blood be-
tween Delmore and Powers for some time
Delmore was for eighteen years a T.tch@.n
months ago he lost his place. aud IT is said that
.n..sd s X. .S;S Sew q koe ,f
Prison at si:buay 2 &. va, n me m. IsS:
OF Farnham Post. u: A. r.
describes him as a smoot b faced man Of 5 feet
o. weighing 100 pounds. Two teeth are
missing from his upper Jaw on the RICH, side.
Capt. Pickett took John II. Hogan and James
German into custody at midnight Hogan 10
the lunch man ut Hunts saloon. and lives at
!, J07 Avenue A. German is the bartender for
Hunt. and resides At 424 East seventy. seventh
street.
Capt. Pickett questioned both men at length,
and each denied vehemently that he had any
knowledge OF a quarrel between Delmore and
early in tho morning and left early. turning
the keys over to Hunt.
He didn't return to the saloon till . late hour,
when he heard OF tho shooting. German said
he was not near the saloon all the afternoon.
The police OF the East Eighty eighth street
station learned at Q late hour last NIGH that
Powers had been seen in East Seventy-nrst
street. near First avenue.
II Is believed that he 10 trying to escape on
one OF the scows which put out from the foot
of that street. number OF officers were de-
tailed to watch the river front