New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-03
NAY DIE FROM HIS WOtNDS
Sullivan SAYS HE WAS STABBED BY
A THIEF
MAN ARRESTED LATER coNFEssES 'S'N'
KNIFE. AND PLEADS sELF-DEFENcE.

KNIFE AND PLEADS SELF -DEFEN'h'
rro,,as Sullivan fifty years old. a lsborer. &C
cupying a furnished room on the top moor u ~
hye-storv tenernenthOuse NO 20 Ellzaoe'h-S'' va
taken TO St Vlncents Hospital yesterday mo'"."s
suffcrlng from the effects OF several WOUNDS Oh MS
head and hands which he said. ne had received
from butcher knifc'in the hands % an unknown
man shortly after midnight Sullivan has lived IN
Tho tenement house for a considerable time. ABOUT
I2:i5 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Annie FIoyd the
housekeeper and others IN the house were aroused
by the noise Of a fight coming from Sulllvan's
room Mrs. Floyd says she did not dare go 10 HIS
room for fear OF meeting with bodily harm her
sell, Henry Keyes and Andrew Hanson also ten
ants in the house. heard the racket. but made no
attempt TO interfere.
As Sullivan did not appear yesterday morning
Mrs Floyd the housekeeper sent her son out for
a policeman t. see what had happened 10 him
Detectives Jackson and Summers. % The Mulberry
ST. station, went 10 the mans room and found him
lying on the floor In a semi-conscious condition
with blood covering his face and clothing ana spat
tered all over the apartment in which most OF the
furniture had been broken overturned. IA II there
had been a desperate struggle An ambulance from
st. Nincents Hospital was speedily summoned ana
the s1rgeon-in-charSe found tnat the man was
suffering from a wound on his right cheek, which
no peyere wound in his right wrst which had
cut deep the bone. besides several otner wounds
Late Yesterday afternoon the police were Informed
by the physicians at Bellevue tnat Sullivan would
not live, and also summoned Coroner Bausch The
Coroner went TO the hospital. and with difficulty
Sullivan told the following story In the shape OF an
ante-mOrtem statement:
He said that on Saturday night he was IN the
barroom OF the Puritan Hotel at stanton and
Broome SITS. taking a drink He had paid for his
book when ne was touched on the shoulder by a
tail slim Young man. who asked him to have
drink He told the young man, whom he had never
before seen, that he had just had n drink and ala
not care TO take another. The young man was per-
sistent. and he at last acquiesced Ihey had a
drink and then another. and finally went to Sui
Alter closing the door Sullivan said he was sud
denly attacked and thrown TO the moor The young
man then drew knife and ordered him TO hdnd
nver his pOcket book he would kill him He tried
TO rise TO his feet and defend himself. when the
young man drew the knife across his throat and
stabbed him several times IN the head. face and
breast Then he again ordered him 10 surrender
his pocketbook Sullivan seized the knife with both
h1s bo nda in desperation but the young man pulled
il from his grasp. cutting his hands IN terrible
manner Then. the young man stabbed him fuIi'
at him with the knife. This time he feIl back
, ynUr man took his pocketbook and escaped
This was the story the old man told to the Cor
oner and nc sank back on mis- cot, and the doctors
acknowledgements Murphy and Mooney he gave a
meagre description OF the man and they went out
In his statement to Coroner Bausch Sullivan said
that q the time he got the knife In his possession
he stabbed his assailant In INC hand with u.
Wurphv went 10 the Bowery Young Mems Chris
tian Association. and there seeing man who tai,
lied with the description given by sullivan and
having his hand bandaged. arrested him. He gave
his as James Curry ana sag ne mved al 20 10
3 West of re tho ,o P nGG, The
old man asked him TO have drink. he said lie
refused and the old man seized 2 klife and at,
tempted TO stab him. Hr pached the man ana had
n drink with him and then went to the old man
room. Here tho old man picked M knife and
defence he picked UP another knife. with the result
known.