The evening times., 1899-08-11

The body OF Kirby Mobley, who died at
Emergency Hospital this morning from
wound received during melee last night,
was received at the city morgue at
o'clock today. Acting Coroner Glaze
brooke has directed that an inquest into
the cause of death shall be held tomorrow
at II O'Clock at No. 6. police station.
Acting Deputy Coroner Mcdonald will
make a postmotem examination this az
ternoon. The following persons are under
arrest at police station No. /: Arthur +.
Fenton, fourteen years old; Charles Ma
lalle, fifteen; Gordon Krause,. seventeen;
Levy Krause, thirteen; Abraham Ham
line. fifteen; Malcolm Hamline, seven
teen; George w. Lucas, seventeen; Samuel
F. Stiles, twenty-three; David Towle,
twelve; William CREDIBLE, seventeen. OPP
posite each name is the charge. which is
suspicion.
The fatality was the result of conflict
between rival crowds of boys and youths
representing different localities. There
was an encounter On Tuesday night, and
last night, Mobley, with several compan-
ions, it is said, renewed the difficulty, and
in this conflict Mobley lost his life.
The scene of the fighting was the tri-
angular reservation bounded on the north
west by New York Avenue, on the south
by | Street, on the east by Tenth Street
and on the west by Eleventh Street. This
little park is rallied off from the sidewalk
by an iron post and chain fence. 1t is
thickly planted with silver and field ma
pies. In the center where the concrete
walks converge there Is an old fountain
basin, in which Gamma plants grow. few
feet to the north of this and toward New
York Avenue there is a field maple, and 1t
was close to the trunk of this tree that
Mobley was found by Policemen Edwards
and Adams, of the First Precinct, and by
DIR. Beeman, of the Palace Pharmacy, at .
o'clock last night.
Dr. Bceman and Policeman Edwards
were at the corner of Eleventh and l
Streets. The former was telling the lat
ter of the bad conduct OF boys In the
neighborhood. Policeman Adams was at
the corner of Eleventh and Streets.
Suddenly a crowd of boys appeared in the
park, there was a brief struggle, heavy
blow was struck, and cries of murder
and police" were heard. Suddenly the
crowd scattered and citizens and police
men gathered where one of the combatants
lay. 1t was Mobley. and he could not get
up, though he made the effort. When lift
ed from the ground by the police he was
asked how he had been hurt. He replled
that he had fallen out of tree.
On the way across New York Avenue to
the drug store Mobley said THE fellow
that struck me was a -" Then the
injured man feebly repeated the profane
phrase. and lapsed into Inconsistencies.
He never spoke again He was conveyed
to the Emergency Hospital where he diei
at 2 a. N. Mobley was struck on the left
side of the head behind and somewhat be-
low the ear. Cerebral hemorrhage was the
direct cause of death.
Several weapons supposed to have been
used in the ARRAY were picked up by the
police One was a stout hickory spoke from
| carriage wheel with the hub end wound
| with wire. Another was a similar spoke,
| but with no wire on it. One weapon was
| a two-foot section of iron scrap, evidently
| from some old vehicle. A fourth weapon
was section of broomstick freshly broken.
| William Credible, messenger, admitted
| today to Policeman Edwards that he had
| struck Mobley with this. The wire-wound
spoke, it is said, at first was in possession
of Gordon Krause. He gave it to Lucas.
| who turned it over to Towle who told
| the police today that he dropped it in the
street. 1t was found in the park.
| Mobley was about nineteen years old,
and lived with his mother and stepfather.
| G. G. Osgood, 719 Rhode Island Avenue
fHe was employed as a lather by his step
father, who is contracting plasterer.