New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-21
WHO KILLED JOHN CARBERRY Y
A MYSTERIOUS FATAL SHOOTING WHICH
PUZZLES TIE POLICE.
THE VICTIM GAVE A FICTITIOUS NAME AND
TOLD FALSE STORIES BEFORE HE DIED
4 QUARREL IL 4 sTONEYARD.

THE VICTIM GAVE A FICTITIOUS NAME AND
TOLD FALSE STORIES BEFORE HE DIED
QUARREL IN a sToNEYARD.
John Carberry, a driver for the Department OF
Street Cleaning Of No. 442 East Seventy-eghth-st'
was mysterousy and fatally shot in the back, late
Saturday night during quarrel with some
unknown man. men. in a stone-yard. in Avenue
A. between Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth-sts.
The police OF the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
station were informed of the and Detectives
Mooney and Smith found Carberry at the house of
Michael Scanlan No. SO9 East One-hundred-and-
hrst-st., whence he taken TO the Harlem Hos
pital. where he died at 1:2o a. m yesterday.
Carberry told the detectives a strange story which
subsequently proved to be false lie said that ne
had been out walking with his wife. who left him
in Third-ave. and went home. expecting him soon
to follow her. He met Seaman and they had sew
eral drinks together. They parted in Ninety-ninth-
ST. between First and Second-aves.. about 1880
o'clock Carberry going toward Frst-ave. and
Seaman in the opposite direction. When Carberry
reached First.ave.. he said he heard
report OF a pistol, Immediately felt
to the Sidewalk. After he lay the ground for
several minutes two men came along hepei him
to regain his feet and walk to Scan.an's home
Carberry also said that he with no one but his
wife and Seaman g., the two men found him
Carberry It seems also tod scvera. other stories
and the officer who took him to the hospital 70 the
effect that his name James Mclaughlin, and MS
conflicting statements greatly mystined the poice
Seaman. who was arrested. denied being with Car
berry Saturday nCht.
Detectives Pickett and Gl.igan late last night
learned that the stories tod by Carbsrry were fase
From a source which they would not divnge they
learned that CarDerry with gang or men IN
the stone-yard mentioned at 1880 o'c.ock Ihls
ward is opposite the stables of the SreetCleaning
Department. What the men We're doing in the yard
4, such an nour is not known. but 1t IS known
that Acht occurred there. and that Caroer'S
received his death wound during the quarrel" Two
men. whose names unknown. haTnessed morse
from the Street-Cleanng Department stables anu
putting the wounded IN the wagon. drove not
TO Carbery's home close by. but to Scanlans house
in Observation-Disclosures. There Carberry vas
niaced on a bed ana the police were Informed. Why
The wounded man carried such a distance u 4
mystery II Is not known whether seaman "ds one
OF the two unknown men IN the wagon "' NOT ~.
il Is suspected that he was. Ihat t.se '"V ~. M.
who were in the gang when The shot was hreH were
being searched for last night ,-
The discovery Of the place where tl.e ~b'oo1 ~ y. rs
actually occurred led 20 the transfer OF the case 10
the East Eighty-eirhth-st police station where De-
tectives Glligan and Smith took up the case az the
point where the police of the One-hundred-and-
fOurth-st. station left OH. -, ,,,- - .-,.,.,
Carherry at first regarded his injuries as Trivia
and IL was not TIL he Informed or their GanBer-
ous nature that ne disclosed his real name Inc 20
lice were az loss at late hour 10 account TOT th
shooting and had several theories one DeihS that
Carberrv was shot while running away after a
nght and another that there was a woman il ~. -.
"a 50 and that ne gave false name IN orcer 10
conceal his escapade from his wife.