New-York tribune., 1896-11-16
ALAW STUDENT BADLY HURT
MYSTERIOCSLY ASSAULTED AT THE
DOOR OF A RAINES LAW HOTEL.
THE INJURED MANS HOME Is IN BOSTON. AND
HIS FATHER Is SAID TO BE WEALTHY

THE INJURED MANS HOME Is IN BOSTON AND
HIS FATHER is SAID To Pc WEALTHY.
James W. Foster a law student at the Uni
versity of the City Of New-York. is In the Roose-
welt Hospital in critical condition as the re-
suit of assault made on him early yester-
day morning on the sidewalk in front OF the
side door leading to p. NJ. Bradys Raines law
hotel at Forty-ninth-st. and Eighth-aNe'
Young Foster came to this city from Boston
five years ago. His father. who is said To J."
wealthy. still lives ir Boston. Since roster
came TO New-York he has lived In comfortably
furnished apartments in the Benedick al No.
80 East Washington Square. His suite ad)oihs
that OF United States District-A'torney Wallace
Macfarlane who is one Of Fosters friends The
physicians at Roosevelt Hospital consider Eos
ter's condition so serious that they sent for
a Coroner yesterday morning to have his ante
mortem statement taken They think that he
is suffering from a fracture Of the base or the
skull.
Policeman Banks Of the West Forty-sevenih-
st police station found Foster lying on the
sidewalk where the assault occurred at 4:l'
o'clock yesterday morning He was in semi
conscious condition. and the policeman called
an ambulance and had him taken To the hos
pitai
Foster had an ugly wound on the back OF his
head. and spots OF blood which came from II
were still visible on the sidewalk late yester-
day afternoon
Policeman Banks reported to the station that
no one was with Foster when he found hlh'
but investigation yesterday afternoon prove"
that several persons saw the assault ana NM"
Of Foster having fallen on the sidewalk. b''h
George and Matthew Kenny who have an all
night lunch stand on the opposite side OF
Forty-ninth-st, from where the assault oc-
Cured saw the blow struck They saw several
men come from Brady's side door They were
quarrelling. one OF the men struck Foster
hard blow and ne fell to the sidewalk at once
The Kenny brothers We're not acquainted with
any Of the men.
Foster lay the sidewalk twenty minutes
before the policeman came up and called an
ambulance. People living at No. 2Jl West FOR
ty-ninth-st who declined 10 give their names
heard loud voices and the noise Of shutting feet
Then some one cried "Police.' and there was
quiet until the ambulance came.
Brady and his bartender. Terrence McQuade
said Yesterday afternoon that Foster. accom-
panied by four other men. entered the saloon
early yesterday morning and began quarrellIng
They denied that they knew what they were
quarrelling about. They said they refused 10
serve them with drinks and made them leave
the place Brady and McQuade said thai they
had never seen the men before. ana that tnes
would not be able to Identify them again. Al
ter the visitors reached the sidewaI, the saloor
men said more qulrreng was heard ana
some one told them that "A man had heen
knocked down. They denied that they knew
ANYTHING further or that they even looked out
to what was going on
When Coroner Dobbs called TO see Foster ne
said that he was not dying. and wanted I"
know II the Coroner trying 10 throw
scare into him" He said that he went ou,
last Saturday night with Edward oGorman. OF
No az Washington Place. and after taking
several drinks he remembered nothing more"
lie said he did not know where he had been or
how he hurt.
pr G. W. Cutler. " NO 30 West seventy .
sixfh-s, friend uf Foster called nj IN" nos
initial Yesterday - see him. Dr cutler was uh-
,hln TO learn anything from Foster about Inc
aeeault Edward OGorman does not li'' 'it
tho address given 10y Foster. hut Detective
Kcar. Of the West Fortv-sev"nth-st STATION
fnund O'Gorman yesterday. and h" ana an
other man who. the detective thought. mlsh,
havn been with Foster. visited th" patent a
IN, hospital Foster declared that the men
vcre his friends and had nothing to 90 Win
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