The herald., 1895-04-15
SURROUNDED BY MYSTERY
A Stabbing ARRAY Near East
Los Angeles
TWO MEN BADLY WOUNDED
Matt Mccormick and Henry Murray
Victims of an Encounter
A Very Beautiful Woman Is Supposed to
Be at the Bottom of the
TWO MEN BADLY WOUNDED

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at the receiving hospital with cuts and
bruises. and the police are trying to lind
out how they received them. They re-
fuse to tell straight story OF the ARRAY
that resulted in both OF them getting cut
up; so they will be held until the matter
is invest gated.
1t was about 6 80 o'clock last evening
that the police were notified that cut
ting scrape had occurred at Sycamore
grove. beyond the Arroyo Scco IN East
Los Angeles. Officers were on the look
out and soon horse and buggy was
driven up to the drug store at GIG Downey
avenue. In the buggy were three men
and one woman.
Two of the men. Matt Mccormick and
Harry Murray. were bleeding profuscly
from wounds and injuries they had re
ceived, and the woman was very much
excited. She put in her time crying
aloud for medical assistance, and insisted
that both men would die. The third
map OF the party was Ferdolin Jenney. a
barber employed in shop in the Stm-
son block.
A cursorv examination OF the bleeding
wounds of Mccormick ahd Murray as
closed the fact that they were not st rlous'
and the patrol wagon was telephoned 1or'
All parties were brought to the police sta
ton. A.,
Dr. BRYANT dressed the injuries. Nc
Cormick had a cut back of the ear that
was evidently inflicted with blunt m
strument. The scalp was cut ana the
doctor brought it together with several
stitches.
Murray had three stabs in the back ana
one in the right breast, all inflicted with
a knife. but none OF them very oau' al
though he had lost considerable blood;
The barber was not injured, put ne anu
the lady were covered with blood
Just how the scrap occurred IN when
Murray and Mccormick received thes
slashes is a mystery Not one of the Jour
PARTIES brought to the station told the
same story. The woman in the case Is
a handsome brunette, but absolutely &c
clned to give her name to the reporters.
Captain Roberts had lengthy converse
ton with her, and the mayor dropped III
and had chat with her After TINS she
was allowed to go her way.
CAPTAIN Roberts stated that he had not
prevailed on her to give her name. She
has rooms near the corner OF FIRST ana
Broadway. -,
The story she told was to the effect
that she had gone with her friend McCor-
mick in buggy to view the grounds OF
the RAYMOND. and on the way back she
asserted that two masked men held up
Mccormick and herself Just the other
side of the Arroyo Seco. McCormlcS, IN
obedience to a command. stopped his
horse. but gave fight to the hghwaymcn
While he was struggling. Murray and the
barber, Jenny drove up and came to
their rescue. She says that i'll the scram-
BILE with the robbers both men were
stabbed and that she tainted.
This sounds like a fairy tale and does
| IL ri ipl.'s tnIp
which is to the effect that he and the
woman went to Sycamore grove TO a
butchers picnic on the street car. When
they were starting back his friend Muir
ray invited him to tide with him in
buggy, and he and the lady consented TO
do so. But before they got in, Murray
got in fight with man who had been
holding his horse. about % cents he owed
for the vigil he had kept on the rig. In
this fight Mccormick claims he and Muir
ray were both stabbed.
Murray claimed that their horse and
buggy had run away and that they wee
thrown out and received their injuries in
that way.
| Jenny, the barber, says he knows moth
| ing about how either of the parties got
! the stabs, and insists that he saw no
| fight but merely got in the buggy and
rode to the city with them to help them.
/ His privaCe opinion was that the men got
| INTO melee over lnc Nol'di. anu do 10 h
were under the influence of liquor the
! fight resulted.
One thing is certain, Mccormick and
! the woman did not ride out in a buggy,
as she claims they did. Murray and the
barber secured their buggy at a South
| Spring street livery stable.
| The police concluded tn keep all three
of the men locked up until an investlga-
ton can be made today Why they let
the fair lady go without securing her
name is not known. The whole affair is
very mysterious and the release of the
woman, who is a newcomer here accord
ing to her own story, tends to further
shroud the facts.