New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-11
4 FATAL BLOW WITH A STONE.
PROBABLE MURDER AFTER 4 FIGHT IN A
HARLEM SALOON FIVE ARRESTS MADE.
Prince and Broadway.
Warren and Broadway.
Thirty-second and Broadwa!

HARLEM SA1IOON-FTVE ARRESTS MADE.
Policeman Frye. OF the West One hundred and
twenty-ffth-st. station vher near One-hundred-
and-forty-ffth-st in Bradhurst-ave. about a. m
yesterday heard the rafting of Il stone on the
pavement followed by cry of pain. He ran I'm
tho direction OF the cry, and at Bradhurst-ave. and
One hundred Land forty-fifth-st. he found man
lying unconscious on the pavement with blood
streaming from a wound the back Of his head.
The man unconscious. Frye blew his whistle
for help and Policeman Murray. OF the West One
Observation-Disclosures station responded.
Frye a running through One-hundred- and
forty-itth-st toward Eishth-ave., and started
after him. Murray summoned ambulance from
the Manhattan Hospital. Frye lost sight OF the
fugitive bat at Onehundred- -fortyfifth-st. and
Eighth-ave. WAS told that the man had run 10 the
elevated station. Frye followed. and in a frame
structure built on the track above the station he
found hidden under a bench He arrested
him. and took him back 10 the scene o. the assault
In the time Murray was Joined by Police
men Cummings and Won Halle and Detective Sam
uel Doherty. There the sound OF brawl in
the Raines law hotel OF Charles Horstman. on
the northwest corner OF One-hundred-and-f forty
snS tha nronretor vainiy sn5esvorne To- ston hon
The proprietor placed under arrest for violation
9rrested On snsoion Of be,1r conrnrnnd in fhe
assault in the time DIT. Ramsay arrived
with an ambulance from Manhattan Hospital
compound fracture OF the skull the bones at the
back OF the head being driven into the brain. The
unconscious man taken 10 the hospital. and
the police began investigation The hat belong
ing 10 the man who was arrested on the elevated
taton found In the saloon. He described him
self Adam Hager, twenty four years old. OF No.
2G5 West OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES xih-st. lie ac-
know dged having been in the saloon. but denied
sssaulting the injured man The proprietor OF the
pa said that the injured man WAS David Shine.
teamster. tweny-four years Old. % No 2.l1
Eighth-ave The other prisoners arc Warren Ran
dell. twenty years old, Of Ionkers Richard Casey.
twenty-four years old Of No S2l West one hundred
and forty-hfth-st., stephen Jones. twenty-eight
years old OF No. 2.7l7 Eighth-ave. John r. Tim
Minis thirty-one years old. or No. ~ Manhattan
ave, and Joseph CASEY twenty-eight years old. OF
No 3o1 West One-hundred- land forty -hftn-st
The police learned that Haser had been sitting |
asleep in chair IN the saloon, and that Shine ~
OF mischief had struck him on the back IN |
order TO startle him. Hager jumped 10 his 'eet |
and struck Shine, whereupOn general fight took |
place. Shine left the saloon followed nv Hager.
Shine died in Manhattan Hospital at o'clock |
Yesterday morning without recovering conscious |
ness The prisoners were taken before Magistrate |
Simms, IN the Harlem Police Court when the pro. |
prietor Of the saloon. Horstman. held in 500 |
bail for examination charge OF violating the |
excise law and the six other prisoners were com
nitted without bail for eXamina ton this morning.
Some time after the assault was committed Police
man FRYE found a stone. about three pounds IN |
weight and stained with blood lying in the street
q few yards away from the scene OF the assault.