The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19


go away a little distance as he was
feeling sick and wanted to vomit.
The permission being granted, Gill
gan withdrew. He had not gone far
when he called for the officer and said
he was getting weak. Patrolman SAL
try suggested taking him into the
house and binding UP his arm before
starting for the police station which
is quarters of a mile away.
AS they were going into the house,
the officer noticed large blotch of
blood on Giligans shirt Weren't
you cut more than once Tom" he ask
ed. mo, l guess not" he replied
feebly. "Only on the arm" The Off
Ger called for a light. and barring
Gllligan's breast discovered a jagged
hole in the heart region, from which
the blood was fairly squirting.
Gilligan never knew that a knife
blade had entered his heart or even
that he was stabbed the second time,
until the officer disclosed the wound
TO him. At sight of it he began TO
grow weak in the knees and but for
assistance would have fallen.
I'm done for, John" he said cody
and without n tremor 81 feel myself
going.
A stretcher was improvised from
loose boards, Moran helping In the
work. Four of the large crowd that
had now collected picked up the
stretcher and started with the wound
cd man for his home. On the way over,
and when within forty yards of the
house. Gilligan raised himself to a Sit
ting posture, gurgled something about
his back paining him and, as if struck
by club. dropped back dead. He never
said word relating to the fight.
TWO KNIVES FOUND.
Patrolman Saltry was hurriedly
dressing, intending to follow and get
a statement from him. when one of the
crowd came back with the word that
he had died on the way to his home.
The officer put Moran in charge of two
citizens and began a search for the
weapon. He found a yellow. bone
handled, one-b bladed knife, with the
blade closed. and blood on the handle,
lying near the sidewalk. He showed it
to Moran. but Moran failed to identify
1t as his knife. The search was re-
newed and another knife was found
near the middle of the road, just oppo-
site the scene of the scuffie.
1t was a small black, odd-shaped
knife. the handle being curved like the
Zine of beauty" in the stem of capital
letters and the largest of its three
blades being so ground down as to have
concaved edge. This largest blade
two and one-half inches in length, was
open and there were slight traces Of
blood at the hilt. Moran identified IL
as his. He went out with the officer
and selecting stone weighing ten
pounds, said Gilligan had hit him with
1t. and asked the officer to keep II along
with the knives which the officer
agreed to do. The stone had a few
drops of blood on it. He also declared
that Gillgan had a billy, but no trace
of it could be found.
On the way to the station house
Moran caved in and had to be given
stimulants. From that time on. though,
he held himself together well, only oc-
casionally giving way to crying. He
frequently, however, expressed the
wish that he might exchange places
with his victim.
DR.. +. u. Bower arrived on the scene
soon after the occurrence. but too late
to be of any good. DR.. John T. Nc
Grath, acting coroner. made an exam
ination of the wounds and found that
the thrust in the breast had passed be-
tween the fifth and sixth ribs and en-
tered a distance of three and one-half
inches, showing that ain inch of the
handle must have followed the blade
into the wound or else that the blow
was SO strong that the breast was
forced in an inch when Moran's fist
grasping the handle struck it.
Moran was committed to the county
jail by Alderman Roberts and was TAX
en- there in the patrol wagon yesterday
afternoon at two o'clock. He would
not say anything when a Tribune re-
porter sought to get his story of the
affair, except to pitifully repeat For
Gods sake don't speak to me about It,"
Moran sustained two cuts on the
head besides several bruises. The cuts
have the appearance of being made by
blunt instrument, rather than a
knife.
A MARRIED MAN.
Gilligan was thirty-eight years of
age and leaves a wife and two chill
dren. Moran is forty-two years old
He is a married man but has no chill
dren. Both are miners and both came
of very respectable families.