New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-22
SALOONKEEPER'S HORRIBLE END.
WHILE DEAD OR UNCONSCIOUS HIS po'
WORRIED AND MUTILATED HIS BODY

Mon ,ova of,en been found dead in New-forK
md from various causes but few cases recently
have been more remarkable than thht OF JOHN
Pfennine "A saloonkeeper thirty-two years 'u'
who was found dead late yesterday si'e'"o' "
his room, nm the first floor OF the tenement-house
AT No az Ens, Twelf,h-st.
Last Monday Pfenning who was known All over
tho Eas, Side sold his saloon at No 80 East hes-
snths, for sg25 lie had been In business therc io
inward Of seven years. and IT Is SAID hau ii"'o
a great deal of money. His chief reason lol S'''o
the saloon II T. said was that ms wHe' "r'' ~
wears of almost constant quarreiilhs. IA" "
her three children and left him. flehHiis ~
,b,oe rooms on the ground floor OF the mouse III
which he was found dead yesterday, and hVeu AZ
mos, alone His only companion was large co"o"
o, roted for it's extremely vicious nature.
Mrs Mary A. Riley, who lives across the nan
ON tha same floor Pfennng. heard .''',"0
noise I'm the mans room AT o:o o ciocN '''
a,,or,oor. The barking and yelplng of the Saloon
keepers dog uppermost She r"" 49,
stricken into the street and called foNcen""
bIq and Roundsman Mcclure. They went VIII" '"e
- and standing on a chair. looked through
,h .rarsor, of Pfenning's room. Lying OH '"e
door with his head near a window ana res''hs VI"
a inflow as though asleep. they saw inc s"V''
keeper dead. He wore only gauze uii"e''"' - -
pair of trousers and pair OF SOCKS anu Wv 80 80,
mart of his body terribly mutiiateu me ne
was racing about the room p"' Mus ~ -.
in n terrible rage. white hecks oil iod" "'iF
from his laws Five feet away from "herc '"'
Indy Law was A pool Of blood. There was ITO wv
donce whatever OF a struggle or marks such az
u,,,,ld have been made had the mar beeh hu""'
ed before death -
What TO DO in the puzzled the pohceli'"'
hut tbev finally decided TO shoot the dos. i"'!
dared M, omen the door 90. securing an axe 'heS
broke IN a panel and the brute flew AT inc "pe''-
,ro ,hus made the put FIVE bullets In the animal
rd kuled II The door then forced ana al"
oxomiration made II revealed very little Ellhe'
the man had died from natural causes or Ia"
roieored himself or had lain In s'"por
and as he Law there. dead or UNCONSCIOUS ''e "oe
had worried him. An attempt was mace 10 p'"'p
.hat the man had been murdered ana ;eas,t
hv human hands but all sane people VINO i''eS"
gated the case laughed at the SUE 80, hnurs and
pf.nning had been last seen awe wv" "o tI I'D
boT before his body discovered re n n
~ trocked AZ Mrs Riey's door and asn'd her
10 send OF her children TO se' Nh and he
wont into his rooms. Early In the norths ~ ,,
visited Votz's saloon nearby. the COG ~ 80 u 10
ACCOMMODATING him. While he was seated M ,,o
dog got into a fight with NoliZ : COZ anu w wv
,nsn Mad hard struggle to get them apart 80,
"Vyhy don't YOU xiii that d-m dog VOTE nau
said ancrily 1T is no good and dangero"S' iou
t,ov IL has bitten a number OF people -. ~,
~ would not take hundred dollars for IT, , sa,d
prennine. Il love that dog. lie is the only fr'end
The pelice say that Pfenning had often REFERRED
s's ii,o II is ais, said that he tried 10 shoot
himself about year ago but was preVen'SSu Gu 10y on,
friend An autopsy Will be hein oo,4' n The mans
whether not poison had any part IN ,e ~ ex
death Coroner Fitzpatrick made superllciaa CA Sn
aTiration of the body last night, put couu "''o
no trace OF poison