The evening world., 1894-07-02
DONNELLYS PERIL.
Lawyer Stein Wrested Away a
Pistol Pressed to His Abdomen.
Says II Was Held BY One 81 the
McArdlss or Freedman
Declares, Too, that Donnelly Did
Not Fire the First Shot.

The resumption of the trial Of Michael
Donnelly for assault upon Patrick Nc
Ardle was delayed to-day. in Part 1. Of
the Court Of General Sessions, by the
business Of swearing the July Grand
Jury. and several pleadings.
c. w. Brooke. counsel for Donneily.
said he had three or four witnesses be-
sides Donnelly. himself. who was on the
stand when an adjournment was taken
Friday.
BY these witnesses Mr.. Brooke ex-
pected to prove the presence Of another
pistol in the hands OF one OF McArdle's
friends, and to clinch the proof that the
first shot was fired. not by Donnelly,
but by one Of the McArdle party.
Mr.. Brooke withdrew Donnelly to call
Richard T. Green to the witness stand.
Mr.. Green is a lawyer. He entered the
Common Pleas courtroom. where Judge
Bischoff presided, q minute after the
shooting. He clicked up one bullet from
the moor directly under hole in the cell
Ing close to the chandelier. presumably
a bullet hole. There was plaster on the
bullet.
David w. Wilson. clerk Of the Delevan
He found by the register that Donnelly
was guest at he hotel in September,
1898, and remembered that Donnelly
asked for a room different from the one
on the book because he was in fear Of
men who were said to be lying In wait
for him. He left Instructions at the
were to be told that he had left town.
Ex-Assemblyman Meyer Stein was the
next witness with sensation: Mr..
Stein Is also a lawyer. at 80 Park Row.
coat-pocket. and he testified that he wah
in the Common Pleas courtroom during
the shooting, and that he wrested the
revolver from one OF the McArdie party.
of the McArdles. father and son. or
Fr iedman, the private secretary.
Il was sitting on the south side Of the
and Michael Donnelly, who sat opposite,
and facing towards the east" said Mr..
Stein.
Donnelly and Severance-from the north
or Chambers street side OF the room"
The McArdles. father and son. and
Friedman were on that side.
up and faced about towards Chambers
street. Donnelly had a revolver In his
hand, and Severance grabbed him:
There was an old gentleman u after
Ardle. Patrick McArdiel in the middle
OF the room VITA a revolver In his hand
Then there were two pistol shots, one
from Donnelly's revolver and one from
old man McArdle's. McArdle held his re-
volver up straight in the air. Severance
was on Donnelly's back.
"Then some person held revolver
around me from behind and pointed
close up TO Donnelly's abdomen.
Il grabbed that there was scufiie
and / got II away from him. l will
not be sure whether II was Stephen
McArdle or Friedman"
Stein produced this weapon. 1t was
just like Donneliy's, a Ss-calibre Smith
& Wesson revolver.
I'm the scuf'ie table was over
turned. l saw old man McArdle sprawl
Ing on the floor and near him a re-
volver and watch" continued Mr..
Stein. II don't know what became Of
them"
Prosecutor Weeks cross-eNamined.
Mr. Stein. who said he heard four, per-
haps FIVE, shots.
Mr.. Weeks struggled with Stein to get
him TO determine at Just what In
slant he first saw Donnelly's revolver.
although STEMS description OF the
shooting indicated that only four-fifths
Of second elapsed while three shots
were fired.
nelly arose, turned three-quarters
around, pulled his pistol and facing Nc
rdle, sr., nred almost simultaneously
With the latter.