The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-19


his wife went to New York, as they
had previously arranged. He did not
know that he had wounded Healey un-
til news Of the latter's death reached
him in New York He Immediately re.
turned and surrendered himself to
Squire Gildea. 1t is also alleged by
the defense that Tealey on his death
bed said that no one should be prose-
cuted for the killing as he himself was
to blame. Another collateral conten-
tion is that the wounds We're not neces-
sarily fatal and had they been attended
to properly death would not have re-
suited.
MEDICAL TESTIMONY.
DR.. j. J. Kelly,the first witness called,
and the physician who attended Healey,
admitted in a measure this last-men-
toned contention by saying that it was
some days after he began treating
Healey that he discovered an intestine
had been punctured.
Anthony Barrett, the second witness,
was present at Curran's house when
the trouble broke out He said HealeY
pulled Kcnny's hair and when Kenny
said What are you doing that for?'
Hcalcv pulled II again. Healcy next
caught Kenny by the wrists and while
Kenny was struggling to break away
| EEcaley used him roughly and finally
struck him twice in the face. Kenny
lLsat down at a table and burying his
face in his hands started to cry.
\ moment later Kenny Jumped up
with a pen knife in his hand ana said
with an oath Il can't stand this any
| longer" Before he could make a move
| Healey lifted a chair from the floor
| and raised it above his head. The
| chair struck and Broke the incandes-
cent light globe and cast the room in
| darkness.
Curran, the proprietor of the place,
now irterfcrcd and taking Kenny by
the arm put him out. He also said to
| Healey that he could go to, that there
was not going to be any bother allow
ed around there. Healey left by the
side door half a minute after Kenny.
Both men had been drinking. The wit
ness did not leave until late in the
| evening.
Mr.. Murphy tried to bring out on
| cross examination that Kenny was en-
gagged in making a sale of mining tools
to a man named SterrCi when Healey
interfered and made an insulting re-
mark to Kenny, but the witness denied
having ever seen Sterrick there.
a POWERFUL MAN.
Hcalcy was q large powerful man.
| the witness said, Weighing about one
hundred ana eighty pounds, which
would be about sixty pounds more than
| I>anny.
DR.. $. p. Longstrcet. coroner, de-
eCribed the wounds discovered at the
autopsy on April 16. There was Il
slight wound high ON tho right breast
and another in the abdomen which
punctured n small intestine and al
| lowed an eXudaton OF fuctal matter
which lodged in the abdominal cavity,
| decomposed and caused general peri
tonits and was the primal cause Of
death.
on Cross-eXamination by Mr.. ConrY
| DR.. I.on%street admitted that had the
wound been promptly and properly
treated, that is, had the abdominal
cavity been opened and the foetal mat
ter and coagulatcd blood washed out.
Healcy's life in ell probability would
have been saved. In other words, the
knife wound was not necessarily fatal
Patrick Judge, the bartender. an eye
| witness Of the affair in the saloon, told
that Kenny wanted to box with some
body and Healey began to spar him.
| During the boxing Kenny Knocked Oft
Healeys hat and Healey Knocked Ken
ny to the floor. Neither was angry, the
| witness said
This was about 6 o'clock in the even
| ing. Both men left shortly afterward
| Kenny returned about 80 o'clock ard
Healey half an hour later. The wit
ness did not see any Of the occurrences
described by the witness Barrett, hav-
| ing been in a side room off the bar
room, while the occurrences in Ques-
tion took place in the back room. He
did, however. see Healey take his coat
off at one juncture and ask Kenny to
| wrestle him.
| He admitted that Kenny showed him
| q knife but would not explain what
occasioned the exhibition of the knife,
Saying simply that Kenny just showed
| il to him and that he was trying to
| induce Kenny to make him present
of it.
AN EYE WITNESS.
William Mahon, the other eye wit
ness of the trouble, at Curran's place,
stated that he was sitting in the back
room reading a newspaper about 8
o'clock when Kenny came in and
started to make speech. Barrett
suggested that he mount the table to
finish his speech and Kenny adopted
the suggestion. While he was on the
table Healey came in the side door
and going up behind Kenny pulled his
hair.
Later he laughingly slapped Kenny
in the face. This was while Kenny was
bent over the table crying Kenny sud
denly raised up from the table, exhib-
tied a knife in his left hand, opened
the blade with his teeth and then jab-
bing the point forcibly into the table
said if it wasn't that he thought some
thing of Healey he could cut his bloody
heart out without his knowing any
thing about it. Healey raised the chair
at this juncture and then Barrett and
Curran interfered Healey went out
five minutes after Kenny
!, The witness on cross-examination
/ admitted having seen William Sterrick
in the rear room before the trouble be-