The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-19
THE JOHN CONROY KILLING.
THE INQUEST CONCLUDED ny Jts-
TlCE wALTER MALscH.
Death at Unknown Hands II the YER
dict--A Post Morton Ex-
animation. d.

Justice OF tho Peace walter Malsch re-
sunned and concluded the inquest ycsicr-
dsy upon the body OF John conroy, who
was shot and killed in the rear OF Hud-
dlestor's saloon on Congress avenue OPP
posite the International and Great North
ern passenger depot, Tuesday night
The testimony taken at the inquest was
as follows.
T. Flaherty testified: / went on in the
hack ward to the closet aud fell over
body. examined IT. and found II 70 De
1ohn Conroy. He had told me about TWO
hours previous he was going to Kill him
self and begged him not to do ~. I'M
mcdiateiy after finding the body went
10 the switch shanty and called }. II,
clark and told him Conroy was dead.
lin Clark, John Clark j. j. Hayes,
Thomas Hennessey and Mchllister then
accompanied me to where the aeau lla,
was In a few minutes John clark ana
wont In our room and to bed. Jim Clark
came in a few minutes later and laid down
ON a sofa. The officers came little
later on. .
i. II. Clark testified: About II o'clock
D. m. January IL l went into the rear OF
Uuddleston's saloon and found T.. Fra
herty asleep in chair. We are rooming
together, and seeing that he was unucr
the influence OF liquor. l aroused him, IN
tending to take him TO our room. When
we got over to the International and Great
Northern depot ,Flhherty said to me: Con
roy Is dead as hell" At first ] did not
believe him, but on questioning him FUR
Their decided to Investigate. called FRED
McAllister and told him what Flaherty
had said. McAllister and then tod
Thomas Hennessey and J. j. Hayes, ana
we, with Flaherty, went over to the back
yard of Huddleston's saloon and found the
deceased know deceased to be John
-C,onroy board at his house. He Is about
"a years OF age. Deceased and Fialierty
had several fights within the past few
years
John Smith bar keeper at Huddleaton's
saloon. testified: He knew deceased to pc
John Conroy Between . and 10 O'Clock
on the night of January n he was wait
ing on crowd when he heard pistol
shot fired. but he had no idea IT, was IN
the back yard Of the saloon. as II sounded
as though II was further off, consequently
he paid no attention to II. The first no
knew of Conroy's death was about II
o'clock when someone Mt the front door
called 10 him that Conroy was dead In
the back yard. Witness then went back
and found II to be true. Witness heard
some talk In the saloon the day before
about F'laherty and Conroy having fight.
Between . and 10 o'clock Conroy passed
through he saloon and went out into tho
back yard. About ten minutes later Wit
ness heard the shot. He did not see
F,laherty al that time. But about 1890
he went in the next room to fix the iirs
and saw Flaherty sitting In a chair asleep.
About II o'clock Clark came and got him.
County Physician Or. e. w. clarendon
examined the body yesterday and found
that death WIS caused from Eunshot
wound in the neck and In his opinion
tpp nta Tho sbot
fired at close range, as his neck was iire-
burned.
The bullet extracted from the neck of
the deceased was a 3S-caliber bullet.
No pistol was found with which the kill
Ing was likely TO have been done.
The verdict OF tho coroner was that
Conroy came to his death from a gunshot
wound inflicted by some unknown party.
~
Upon the conclusion of the inquest
Deputy City Marshal Ray made an afn-
daYit against Tom Flaherty. who was ar
rested the night before. charging him with
the murder OF Conroy.
Flaherty and his friends stoutly protest
his innocence. Flaherty stated to re-
porter at the jail yesterday that Conroy
had told him that he intended To Kill him
sell. against which he (Flahertyl pro-
tested He believes Conroy put, his throat
into execution and strongly AYERS his in
nocence of the crime. He admitted that
he and Conroy had had some trouble, but
they were simply drunken brawls from
which no hard feeling resulted
Flaherty has every confidence OF coming
out OF the trouble all right and having en-
ployed counsel he will be given pre-
limipary hearing today or tomorrow.
The body OF Conroy Is still Mt the un-
dertaking establishment Of Ross d. Wright.
The deceased has a wife and two children
living here. but his domestic relations
were not pleasant and his wife had left
him only shortly before the killing.