New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-07
SINGULAR CONDUCT or TWO POLlCENbN'
THEY ALLOW WOUNDED MAN TO LIE HALF
AN HOUR N THE STREET NEAR HOSPITAL.

THEY ALLOW A WOUNDED MAN TO LIE HALF
Az uor.R IN THE STREET NEAR HOSPITAL
Peter Brady. a driver. twenty-nine years OLD. ~
No 345 West Forty -ninth-st. lay for half an hour
u,,bIn two hundred feet OF Roosevelt Hospital on
Monday night about II o'clock. suffering from
probably fatal stab wound IN the right eye. while
two policemen refused 10 carry him to the hos
uital or to allow citizens 70 do 80. but insisted
uron waiting for the patrol-wagon 10 carry him TO
the station house. The policemen were fairolnen
John Kennel and owen Burns. OF the West sixty
eighth-st station.
Brady. who had apparently been drinking.
staggered through West Fifty-ninth-st presum-
ably on his way Roosevelt Hospital for treat
ment handkerchief was bound over his f!sht
eve from which a stream Of blood tricklcd. stain
ing his face and clothing. At the southwest cor
ner OF Fify-ninth-s. and Nir'h-ave., close 10 Tie
entrance 10 the hospital he fell exhausted TO the
pavement An inspector Of the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company who him lying on the side
walk notified Policeman owen Burns who Is de-
tailed at night on he elevated railroad station at
that point. Brady was lying on his face. ana
Burns dd not see his blood stained features lie
pushed the PROSTATE man with his foot. and BraGy
croaned Burns decided that the was drunk.
and went 10 n ne!g 'lhoring drag store to summon
tho pa; ro-wagon by telephone While he was In
the drug store a crowd Of citizens gathered about
Brady Some one 'urned him over on his back, ana
It was then seen that his right eye was hanging OUT
on his cheek. FIfty-ninth-st. is The dlHln!hg Inc
between the West FORTY -seventh-st. and the West
Sixty-eichth-st stations Brady was lying In the
former precinct Policeman Kennel appeared on
the northwest corner Of Fifty -nnth-st and Ninth
ave. a few minutes after Burns entered the drug
store Several citizens ran across the street and
told him OF Brady's condition and suggested that
the Injured man carried AZ once Into the nos
pidi ,.. $500. - =.
Hes out Of ny precinct. and darent CROSS the
street was Kennels response
But the man is in bad way. and may bleed
TO death" urged The Spokesman OF the crowd
IT'S out OF my precinct. tell YOU DO you wan,
lie changed his .1ind however moment later
about crossing the street. ana Joined the crowd
that surrounded the injured man. ~
why don't you take this man 70 the hospital:
asked woman IA tho crowd 'Its p shame 10
leave lin here In This way
"I3e's drunk and well take him to the station
house In the patrol-wagon when II comes an
swered Kennel ,
'''.you usople can't teach Ms our business" said
Kennel roughly IN fespons" TO more urging by
the crowd several Of whom volunteered 10 carry
Brady TO the hospital
DPniiceman Burns agreed with his comrade that
the station house was tho proper place for brady.
rbe injured mans eroans became so loud after
fifteen minutes had elapsed that even tho two po-
hurt Fifteen minutes later the patrol wagon ar
rived and IN II :h-y took him prisoner TO inc
hnsnitaI into which they could have carried him
hall an hour sooner. When thc surgeons saw
po;iccmen wanted the doctors 10 drc9s h.s wounds
and then let them take him 20 cell, but thelr r"-
ouegt was Indignantly refused. Brady was able TO
tell his name and address, but could no, teiI now
,ak II was learned frat he lived with his sister,
Mrs Iackoy at the address mentioned