New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-26
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
"A LABORER ON THE EAST SIDE KILLED
BY HIS OLD FOE.
NO WITNESSES TO THE ATTACK CAN BE FOUND
THE MURDERER ESCAPEs-GOOD CHAR

NO WITNESSES TO THE ATTACK CAN BE FOUND
THE MURDERER EscAPEs-GooD CHAR
AcrER OF THE DEAD MAN.
- John Delmore a laborer forty-eight years Old of
No SOP East Eighty -frst-st shot and killed at
345 o'clock yesterday afternoon by William Powers,
alias Bull Powers, twentyeight years old. who is
a Waterman along the East River docks The
shooting is supposed TO have occurred in the hall
way In the rear of a barroom kept by Thomas
Hunt on the northwest corner of Seventy-ninth-st
and Avenue A. So far could be learned last
night there eyewitness 10 the shooting al
though several persons saw Powers run away I'M
mediately after the shot fired He escaped. and
had not been captured up a late hour last night
Thomas Hunt. the barroom keeper. who lives over
his store was taken to the. East Eghtyeighth-st
station and questioned by Captain Pickett and In
spector Williams Hunt said that he was sitting
In hts kitchen. which Is on the second floor OF the
building and directly the rear of the barroon.
when he heard shot and went out of the door and
downstairs AS he got the head OF the stairs he
Powers running out of the door into Seventy
- ninth-st. He saw Delmore lying in the hallway
but passed him and called Policeman William Ho-
den who was around the corner An ambulance
surgeon from the Presbyterian Hospital said that
q Deimore had died instantly
- Captain Pickett and Inspector Williams who
rived at the station about O'Clock. questioned
Hunt and Delrnores eldest John J. DelmOre
thoroughly. 1t learned that there had been
bad feeling between the TWO men Tor several years
Delmore was for sixteen years. up 10 two months
ago employed a yardman in Nathaniel W
Weisss brickyard at Seventy-ninth-st. and the
East River. He had excellent reputation in the
neighborhood. He served in the war in the 18th
New-York Regiment OF Volunteers, and was i'm
prisoned for three months at Salisbury y. c. Del
had been working for the two months just
past on the construction Of the Nnth-ave. cable
road.
Powers. on the other hand bears bad reputa
ton. He ncknamed Bull " on account of his
fighting procvities He was arrested about three
years ago for stealing iron from the electric-light
company. Whether he was convicted Or not Is not
known The police were unable TO find out last
Delmore went to his home at O'clock Satur-
day night and did not leave the house again until
Yesterday morning when he went out to get
again at o'clock. telling his wife that he would
so for short walk. Where he met Powers. and
what happened between them are not known. Hunt
advanced by him is that the men were trying to
get in the barroom when they began TO quarrel,
In contradiction OF this there is a rumor in the
neghborhood that the two met in the barroom and
got into quarrel. and the barkeeper ordered them
out. Detective Bruner tried three times yesterday
10 get into the liquor store but the door locked.
At $50 O'Clock the back door was open. for
porter saw two men come out OF 1t with pitchers
OF beer.
A general alarm sent out for Powers's arrest
last night. Delmore leaves a wife and five children.
The bullet which killed him evidently went straight
through his heart and lodged somewhere in his
back Powers was known always to carry re-
volvsr OF a large calbre, and after shooting Del
more yesterday he must have put II in his pocket,
for ii could not be found. There evidence of
struggle in the hallway Of the barroom. nor was
there any blood on the floor. although Delmore,s
for evidence of struggle inside the barroom was
made last night.