New-York tribune., 1896-09-03
SHOT IN THE SIDE AND MAY DIE.
A SALOON PORTER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED BY TWO
OF 4 BAD GANG.

A SALOON PORTER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED BY TWO
OF A BAD GANG
"Eipp' Murphy twenty-five years old. of No
ll3 Bowcry. and Maurice Fitzgerald. allas 'h'
Ro>ton Kid" of the same address, Doth memDeis
Of a gang Of ruffans were locked up last night
In the Mulberry-st station for the shooNns Oh
Henry Movers forty-four years old, a porter OF
No s.; Powerv They may have to answer for MS
murder as the man is badly hurt. the bulle; having
entered his righ, side lie has identified the boS-
ton Kid" as ne man who shot him.
or Tuesday night the saloon of Aaron HerzDere
al No lOS Bowery, entered by thieves. zen
dollars in change and pearl-handed revolver
were stolen. "Kipp' and ''the Boston kid were
seen in the saloon and lettering about IL all ''d'
afternoon. and lhey were suspected 1heN "'"t
there again about o'clock last night ana aSheu
for a drink The bartender James Doyle VINO
know them refused 10 serve them and told both
men 10 leave the place. Instead the thugs Wake"
through the saloon to the rear, where theie II 4"
kind Of a su imer garden. They shouted al DoFie'
and seemed to be trying TO attract him into that
part Of the place. Doyle would not go i"o'e
was no one in the garden. and "Kipp ana the
Kid began 10 practise shooting with revoiVer'
They extended repeated invitations 10 Do9le !"
come into the garden, but the bartender 'hous"'
they might shoot him ana RENAME" III
side.
II was about : o'clock when Meyers went INTO
that part OF the saloon light the single gas JET
there He was warned by Doyle not 10 so' d. -
might cos him his life. The two men, Myers was
warned were desperate and lawess chara'S nara YER,
and would no. hesitate 10 shoot MN II tI'E 80
tbat VIZ Meyers said that there was nothms 10
fear as IN. men could have nothing against "i''
and fakinL a match he walked out; ,
lie was unmolested by the fuhians IN ihf s'i",
while he crossed 10 the place where tho IA" J''
was He got a chair. and from that 70 ne ei,Is, %
having 10 do this to get at the llsnt lie hau Ju9'
siruck the match when he heard shot ara
hullc, vhizzed by his head lie turned 10. Iook az
tho TWO men and saw. he says, SMOKING T,''o'Ns
I'm the right hand Of '"The Boston hiG beIoie ~, ne
could sneak two more shots Mcrc hied' ana WIN
The fhird Meyers dropped on the Ient1 ,e u '"'
ground He had been shot IN tn' ilsht rao. 9i" an,
The men then walked calmly into the sflo9n 3 In, %
cat down Doyle did not know What hdH r n"r y.
nened but again told them 10 go away! nc.'r" r,,
i"no =, rearcd Umping and almost falling az eEci!
sten ana said 10 Doyle that he had poon sii&yt, o. h
Lor,nndcr lea ned over the counter i'aIhS 'nat u'
n, u nooh, shoot MIN, and ran out OF the saioon,
~ III W. 1ext corner ne met policeman, 10 "i,oI
10 ,oId what had happened. When me- iney reacnodd od
t' III naronn The men were gone lh,N "srd ~"
.inn .nr he garden over the fence 10 thza netn-st,
at,er was communicated 10 the police OF ti
:, ~ m' rr%st station and Captain thompson Sn,'
" Mu,irIes Sloan. Lynch, Vernon ana S@n'r'Td @ f
!et,' ~ the saloon. An ambulance" was sehl ioi'
ven !" "sonn arrived from St. Vincent iosI',,"J6
ana rToor !. said that Meyers had serious "ouIr our
the SUR, djc Roth Kip" and the KID ",rS
Ss.d Sl,u = IN ,'unningham's saloon az oiINr'- W
f0unu -, -, couare soon after the shootnt