Connecticut western news., 1894-03-08
SHOT AT THE POLLS.
FATAL ROW AT THE ELECTION ln
 TROY, N. Y.

One Man Was Killed, and Three Other Men Were Shot, Two seriousiy-Moiloy, the Regular Democratic Candidate, Elected After an Exciting and Bloody Contest.
 TROY, N. Y, March 1.-The local cleo n,n fight in this city was most bitter and was one of the severest struggles witness I'd in years. The excitement throughout the. city was intense. The adherents of both factions of the Democratic party con tested every inch of ground for the mayor alty. Hand to hand fights took place all over the city,
 Murder was also added to the horrors of the event. This sad occurrence took place in the Third district of the Thirteenth ward. It was at l2 o'clock. A nnmber of strange men entered the polling placeat that hour.
 One insisted on voting. His name was Jeremiah Cleary. Another of the party was Bat Shea, u well known local charae- ter. Clesry's vote was challenged by the Republican inspectors. The men went from the place.
 Row Ended Fatally.
 A heated argument which had been be- gun within was continued on the outside
 
 It included, in addition to Shea and Cleary, Robert and John Ross, brothers and active Republican workers, J John:A. McGough, a Murphy man, and John Rowland, a sup porter of the Whelan faction of the ward. The Ross boys are supporters of Whelan, the independent Democratic and Republic an candidate for mayor.
 In the midst of the argument clubs and revolvers were drawn, and desperate en- counter ensued. Robert Ross fell to the ground with a bullet in his brain. He died almost instantly.
 His brother William was shot in the neck below the left ear, nd Bat Shea TO ceived a scalpwound. All three were shot in the back of the head. The police ar rived in large numbers at the conclusion of the murderous occurrence, but the prin- cipals had been spirited away. Neither Shea nor John Ross Is thought to be nor tally wounded. Ross, the murdered man. is 30 years old and is unmarried. No one seems to know just who fired the shot that killed Ross. Chief Detective Markham said that as far as the police could learn Rowland fired four shots, and they think he is the man who did the kill ing. Rowland gave himself up to the police. Hewas held on the charge of nun i der.
 Judge Fusman of the supreme court r,s fused bail for him.
 John Ross made a statement, in which | he accuses Shea of firing the, shot that ' killed his brother. He says he saw him fire it.
 | Elias ID. Hayner, stone cutter, was an rested immediately after the occurrence i He was about to hit & spectator of the nfr fair with a wrench The greatest constelr l 4l-- xsI-. -. ' 1t is said that more arrests will be made oi those thought to be implicated
 Mayor wheian In a wrnngic. Mayor Whelan, the independent Demo cratic and Republican candidnte .or mayor had all but fist encounter with Edlnunu |, Stanton, a leading Murphy supporter oi the Fourth ward. This is Whelan's ward. Prior to this election Stanton had been c Cleveland man. In the local contest he has taken the side of Murphy Whclan oh jected to permitting some men to vote. Harsh words ensued between the two men, | and it is said that one was about to strike the other when friends parted them.
 It is charged that the city was full of re. ] peatcrs The Republicans charge that the Murphy inspectors stuffed the ballot boxes in the interest of Molloy, their candidate, and tha, repeaters in his interest roamed in the town
 In the Second district of the Fourth ward the Republican watchers were eject ed by the police for protesting against cer- tain voters. John Bartlett, respectable citizen, claims that a tough voted on his name before his eyes and that he was pow erless to stop him. Such occurrences art most frequent in the city.
 McGough was shot in the back and is very badly hurt. He insists that John Ross and Rowland started thu shooting.
 John Ross said: 'I did not fire pistol It was murder--deliberate murder-and it was premeditated. Only about an hour and half before this man Shea struck my brother William full in the face. dragged William away and told him to take the blow and say nothing. as the blow would not hurt him. did not think at the time that they would start in and use their guns"
 Mayor whelan said: "It is only the nat ural result of the determination of the Murphy heelers. to carry the election by fair means or foul. It is a stain on this city :
 Senator Edward Murphy said, ''Itis 6 most deplorable affair, and l am greatly grieved at it.n
 Third Victim Dying.
 It has been asoertained that another mar | ward tragedy. John McGough, one of ths alleged gang of repesters who participated in the bloody riot, was found at his hom, suffering from the effects of bullet wound in his abdomen. The bullet had penetrat ed the kidneys and the physicians say h, cannot recover.
 He is insensible now, but before he be came unconscious he stated that he did not have revolver and did not do any of tho shooting. He says that he felt the bullet and started to go home. He fell by the roadside and was carried home by friends The election was aquiet onewith the ex ception of the fatal fight in the Thirteenth ward. The vote boiled was as heavy as that cast in the presidential year. With $ few districts missing the rote for mayor shows that Molloy. the regular Democrat has defeated Whelan, the independent, by 1,400 votes.
 French viscount Arrested.
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