The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-07
FOUND LYING UNCONSCIO
A Man who Had Evidently Fa1iei

Down Stairs In the Lamar Block.
Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning
Patrolman Philip Lautenbach, while
standing in front of McKee's news store
on Crown street, heard humping
sound across the street. and n few sec
onds later something which he thought
at first was large bundle rolled out
on the step leading into the stairway OF
the Lamar block, near the corner OF
Gregson alley and Crown street Cross
ing the street Lautenbach found that
conscious and badly hurt There was a
deep jagged cut over the right eye and
blood was pouring profusely from his
mouth, The patrolman had just rolled
the man over so that the clotted blood
would come out of his mouth, when
Walter r. Marsh came down the stairs
down which the unconscious man had
evidently fallen or been pushed.
Telling Marsh to watch the PROSTATE
police signal box and called the police
ambulance, which responded at once in
charge of Sergeant Bowers. The intur-
ed man was taken to the New Haven
hospital and had not recovered con-
seriousness at 2 O'clock this morning.
At that hour DR.. Heery, the house ply
stefan at the hospital, was still working
over him, and while the man was badly
and perhaps seriously injured, the ply
stefan could not say how serious the
injury was.
Before the injured man had been
taken to the hospital he was searched,
but no letters or other means of iden-
tilication could be found upon him A
gold watch, about a dollar in change
and several cigars were all that was
found In his pockets Patrolman Laut-
enbach questioned Marsh, who said that
the man was stranger to him Marsh
said that he had met him with a man
named McKiernan at Savin Rock early
in the evening and that the three had
come to the city together just before II
O'Clock and gone to the Manhattan club
in the Lamar building, where the stew
ard refused to serve them with drinks.
Marsh said that they had come out of
the club rooms, which are just at the
head of the stairs and that they had
started down the stairs, he first, McKier-
nan next and the stranger last He said
that he had gotten partly down the
stairs, with one hand on the banniSter
on either side when suddenly the stran-
ger fell striking him on the arm and
knocking his hand off the bannister and
then fell on down to the foot of the
stairs where he was found by Lauten-
bach.
While Lautenbach was calling the am
bulance, McKiernan came down the
stairs and went away. His first name
is not known and the police could not
find him this morning.
The place where the injured man was
lying when found by Lautenbach was
just outside the door leading into the
stairway and about three and one-half
feet from the foot of the stairs. He had
bled so much that the stone steps out
side the door was covered with blood,
but no marks of blood could be found
on the stairs, down which Marsh said
he had fallen. Marsh said that the
man had been drinking some, but was
not intoxicated The injured man is
about thirty-tive years OF age, five feet
eight inches in height with dark hair
and mustache. rather poorly dressed,
wore a brown derby hat and weighs
about It's pounds
Although the circumstances in con-