The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-07
HE LOOKED FOR TROUBLE.
Gay Young New Yorker Found All
He Wanted

New York March 6.--Hamilton Fish, jr.
badly cut and bruised about the face and
head, was a prisoner in the Jefferson Mar
ket Police Court yesterday, accused OF
assaulting Joseph KERN, conductor Of an
Eighth Avenue car. The conductor at
tempted to put young Fish off the car
at Twentyfourth Street, but he refused
to so. Then scuffie took place, and Fish,
who seemed dazed, fell against the dash
board.
Officer John Londergan, of the West
Twentieth Street station, told Magistrate
Deuel. that Fish was a sanguinary sight,
and that il seemed as Il his head was
broken. Londergan took him to the New
York Hospital. where it was found that
his scalp on the left side was torn and
his nose badly cut. The wound on his
head was sewed up and he was taken
to the West Twentieth Street station and
locked up
When placed at the bar yesterday, Fish
who gave his name as Hamilton Fisher"
although he gave his correct address No
81 Irving Place, said that Friday he had
gone to Jersey, and that when returning
he had gone into saloon in Twenty
third Street.
After taking drink he remembered
nothing. He found that he had been
robbed of his pocketbook containing s25.
and said that ne felt sure he had been
given knockout drops and assaulted.
How he reached Eighth Avenue and why
he assaulted the conductor he did not
have the faintest idea, but he wished to
apologize.
As Conductor KERN said he was salts
fed with an apology, young Fish was dis
charged.
Hamilton Fish is well known. His ca
reer has been eventfui during the past
two years, during which in company with
his chum, Harry Thaw, he has done va
rious things. He is son of Mr. and Mrs
Nicholas Fish, of Irving Place, nephew of
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. and Hamilton Fish
and member of a dozen clubs.
Another case, which looks like knock
out drops, happened at an early hour yes
terday, when Policeman Vanderpoel, of
the Macdougai Street station, saw a we'll
dressed man lying against the door of II.
TeXiers glove store, a No. 449 Canal
Street. The man appeared TO be drunk
His head was bent forward. so that his
chin rested on his chest. and his legs
were stretched out at fun length on the
sidewalk, while his back rested against
the door of the store.
The policeman tried to raise him and
discovered he was unconscious Fearing
that something unusual had happened he
sent a hurry call for the ambulance from
st. Nincent's Hospital DIR. Zenn said
that the man had been given q dose of
knockout drops.
At the hospital stomach pump was
put into operation and it was long time
before he was revived. The man proved
to be Thomas Geary, a drummer, In the
employ Of the Parrett Last Works at No
% Spring Street. He is member of the
Xavier Club and of the Commercial Tray
elers Association.
Last night the detectives found that
Geary was with two other men who had
crossed with him from the opposite side
of Canal Street and had left him in the
doorway where he was found. The three
men were seen together by a workman
living in the neighborhood, who had left
his house to go TO work. This man no.
ticed that two men were carrying another
between them and, thinking they were
taking home a drunken friend paid no
particular attention to them.
Charles. a brother of Thomas Geary