The evening world., 1894-09-29
ACCUSED
BY Apo.
Continued from First Pu1e)


bartender speaking about some cutting
that had just occurred there. l had
noticed that there seemed to be a sort
Of air Of suppressed excitement around,
but did not know what 1t all meant
until one of the men exclaimed, in d
somewhat louder tone than he had been
conversirg in. Yes, 1t made a good,
deep cut: there's some of his blood on
the hoorr
IL did not imagine that Apo was the
person spoken of, or ! should have made
more inquiry. | ina gined that some
ordinary West street rowdy had been
cut in a fraCas."
81 did not cut my own throat. l
was givn Knockout drops in that wine
room and done up by Mike Riordan,
and l know the proprietor OF the place
wanted me done up
This is the statement made to-day by
Apo when asked by an Evening
World" reporter as he sat in the Tombs
Police. Court how he received the stab
wound in his neck.
As was fully told in THE Evening
World" Sporting Extra vest erday, Apo
was taken from the North River Hotel,
at Barclay and West streets. to the
Church street station about 4.3O o'clock
with a cash in the left side of his throat
just over the jugular vein.
Michael j. Riordan a former saloon
keeper and Aldermanc candidate. and
at present employed as a bartender. who
was with Apo when the cutting was
done, and Proprietor Baar, of the North
River Hotel both told the police at
the time that Apo had cut himself in
an attempt at suicide after a quarrel
with Riordan.
They also said that he was crazy drunk
at the time
Appo's statement to the Evening
World reporter. in which he denied
having cut himself, and the same state
ment made by him to Justice Ryan In
the Tombs Police Court to-day. puts a
somewhat different phase on the whole
affair and the police will have plenty of
work to do in sitting the matter to the
bottom. They will be assisted, too, by
Lexow Committee detectives.
AS Capt. O'Connor and the police OF the
Church street station accepted without
question the statement that Apo had
cut his own throat in an attempt to COM
NIT suicide, Apo was placed under ar
rest. and spent the night as prisoner in
the Chambers Street Hospital
Appo's story.
At $50 o'clock this morning Apo was
taken by Policeman Filan. of the Church
street station. from the hospital to the
Tombs Police Court. While Apo was
sitting in Il little ro,m that opens out
of the courtroom proper, waiting for
Policeman Filan to have charge of
drunk and disorderly and attempted
suicide drawn up against him, he made
the statement with which this story
opens.
Continuing, Apo told the following
story of his movements during the day
and the circumstances leading up to the
cutting:
II left Mr.. COTS office about 1870
o'clock with several subpoenas to serve.
also had some blanks to take'to Sen
ator Lexow's office.
II went there first and left the blanks,
and later went to Mr.. Moss's office.
After that l went uptown to serve a
subpoena upon Gus Heintze. a barber,
at 134S Third avenue.
Afterwards I came downtown, and
|
Riordam at the corner of Liberty and
West streets
He asked me to take drink. I at
| first declined but finally went into a
saloon on that corner and Il took one
drink"
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Con
and his associates have insisted since the
cutting occurred that Apo has not beer
drinking at all OF late This part of his
story will therefore bear rigid investiga.
| ton
When we came out OF the saloon
he continued, Mike and l walked UP
West street towards Barclay.
He asked me to go up to the North
River Hotel and have another drink.
told him l was then on my way there
When we arrived at the hotel l hac
another drink, and l remember seeing
a second glass of liquor set on the bal
in front of me.
| After that l remember but little. Ny
memory is not very distinct as to tn,
cutting, but l remember a struggle with
Riordan during which he cut me.
Says His Hands Were Tied.
THE next that remember after tina
I was in Chambers Street Hospital
And as to the hospital, / want t,
say that l was Treated cruelty there
My hands and feet were tied-you cal
see the marks on my arms"
Here Apo showed his wrists, which
bore marks such as might have beer
made by a cord tightly tied arounC
them.
when I protested apaipst haIpo ito,