The evening world., 1894-05-03
ON A BLOODY TRAIL.
Policemen Find Hugh Dougherty
S~enseless in the Street.
Crimson Stains Led to the House
Where He Was Assaulted.
David Mark Escapes After Slashing
Him with a Huge Knife.

Hugh Dougherty. twenty-eight years
old. an anglneer. OF ll5 West One Hun
dred and Thirty-fourth street. is In the
Manhattan Hospital with a terrible cash
in his head. He will die. His injury
was inflicted by David Mark, twenty
one years old. of 81 Manhattan avenue.
Mark lives with his wife and one-year-
old child on the second floor OF the
nue.. His mother, sisters II brother
Frank live on the third floor at l5 West
one Hundred and Thirty-fourth street.
board with her Hugh Doigherty, who
off and on works for the Hudson River
Railway Company,
together and soon became fast friends.
The married brother. David. used to go
t, the house several times a week,
left fia the insi @'t toseth ls"N They said they
were going to meet David and go to a
theatre.
It was almost y o'clock when they re,
to talk with Franks sister. They had
only been sitting. there a few minutes
When a loud knock 20. came at ths door.
ITS I, Dave was the answer
Don't open the door, cried Dougherty
But he was too late. The door had been
H Toom. He f Iooked d'v as Il h'S Re had ini' be eee
Where is the short fellow" he asked
he went up to his brother, Frank, and
with a blow in the face knocked him to
the floor. Then he turned around.
c cprHHa ifo' with ham an e!sht,ifnch blade;
Dougherty ran towards the door at
the sight OF the knife. but Just as he
reached d 1t Dayid w was no upon him. h Ths
and struck him squarely on the top.
The blood streamed over his face and
sSlS1 h down los; w the s { rsy a Ge w Ra'pb; ar he
footed and in his shirt sleeves.
At the corner Of One Hundred and
he ran into the saloon OF Fred Benger
There were half a dozen people in there
as the door swung back. and
sight Of the bloodstained clothing and
the great, gaping wound in the head,
Take him to the drug store shouted
d dIsn, faT Weit1 He G ran the to ONE ,neuT Hand %ed
and T~wenty.ninth street and Lenox ave-
nue.. to the drug store Of L. NJ: Hannah;
Bout sis Weak Wesk fT was the loG iess OF W lo sad
fell In a heap on the street.
A woman and a girl were passing. at
man BuckrIdge, who was half a block
away. ran up with two men. The police
man tried to tie up Dougherty's head.
while one Of the men vent for DR.. Eesl;
VI IN "iAA o'N
street and Lenox avenue.
In the meantime Policeman Harrigan
had arrived at the scene and sent for an
To Policeman Buckridge Dougherty
said: MY name is Dougherty; Mark
cut me-. Then he became unconscious
When Ambulance Surgeon Nolio came
he said the man was dangerously hurt
and took hin. to the hospital after bind
ing his head.
and Harrigan started out on a search
for the man who did the cutting, These
policemen are attached to the West one
Slowly they followed the blood trail
up Lenox avenue. 1t led. them first to
the saloon. which by this time was
closed n ed fast 6n,a But i6,d 5h tbe Snri bo% sae ehe
had been hurt before he reached there.
SO the policemen went on; seeing the
in H1'Dth the street. Where there were no
lights they struck matches. :,
II was nearly ! o'clock when the trail
took them to the One undred ana nc
stairs to the third floor the blood was
Trick.
Mrs. Mark. her son and daughter were
a ,,%S boa T not yoe saia : ed n there. .nf But th Police Hee:
man Gallagher went into the front room,
and on a shelf in the closet found the
M SIpso Mark nR'I broke down and told all about
it. But she said she didn't know where
Frank Mark was taken to the West
One Hundred and Twenty-ffth street
} station. to be detained as n witness
Sergeant Groo at once sent Detective
. buckley and Patrolman Harrigan out to
Then the trail was taken VI from the
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street
house. They found that David when he
left there had boarded a car and ridden
10 One Hundred and TH;enty-ffth street.
II took them only half an hour to find
!, that from there he had jumped on a
n~orth-bound cable car and TO discover
the conductor OF the car. He remem'
/, bered the man. who had said to him:
1.-TWO men tried to do me. but l got
the best of them
!, The conductor had seen him enter the
house 81 Manhattan avenue after he
When the policemen reached this
, house. David was evidently on the walt
r for them, for while they were trying &c
get TX at the front door he escaped
BY a side window, and got away over
the roofs OF the adjoining sheds. He
was climbing over these sheds while
his wife was telling the policemen thai
he had not been home at all.
But the policemen saw the open win,
dow, and a man in the. next house tolc
them he had seen David getting away
The police are sure they Will capture
the man to-day. .
Later in the morning Mrs: Mark sale
she could form no idea why her sor
had cut Dougherty. Her sister said she
thought there might have been some
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