New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
FOUR MEN SHOT IN SALOON.
ONE DIES, ANOTHER IN HOSPITAL
AND TWO CANNOT BE FOUND

,.,,. xononnel hfty-one years old, of City ISL
and was held yesterday without bail by Masis'ra'e
Meade in the Harlem Police Court to await the re-
| suit OF the shooting OF Edward Courtney twenty
| eight wears old of No. 592 East One-hundred-ahd-
twenty-fourth-st. in the onawa cafe at Park-aNe'
and One twenty -ffth-st early Sestef-
dav morning Courtney is now In the Harlem hos-
initial with a bullet wound In the abdomen, ana VIII
nrobsb,x die Coroner Hart has been asked to take
his ante-mortem statement. The police also accuse
Mcdonnell of shooting George Price thirty years
old. of No 215 East one-hundred-sno-tweh'y-s
ond-st who received bullet wound below the
hesrt FROM, which he died at his home yesterday
afternoon and Thomas Kennedy. forty-nVe years
old. OF No. 213 East OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ST, who wounded in the right leg fourth
man. Edward McGinnis, alias Edward McMulien
tvsr1tv-seven wears old of No f2S East One-hun-
dred- and twenty Is said TO nave re-
ceved bullet through the right arm and a hesh
wound in the right SIDE McGinnis and Kennedy
cannot be found
According to the stories given out the shooting
originated In a fight between Mcdonnell and Ken
nedy( in which the friends of each took part 1t Is
said that Mcdonnell was drinking with two or
three friends the end OF the bar. when
Kennedy came in with several of his friends. There
had been bad blood between the two men for some
time, and the friends of each were much surprised
TO them sit down together at a table to one
side and talk together in apparent amty
They soon became angry however, and Kennedy,
although smaller than Mcdonnell suddenly took
him by the collar and threw him TO the floor. The
. friends of the men then rushed forward. with
drawn revolvers, and excited fired
shot. and the fight was on.
II is said that than fifty shots fired.
Price. shot fatally in the left side helped by
his friends to hiding place, and later taken
to his home.
Policeman Maher, OF the East One-hundred-and-
twenty-sixth-st station, who duty at the
New-York Central Station across the street, heard
the shooting, and drawing his revolver, rushed
into the saloon. He found Courtney on the floor
and Mcdonnell in the back crouching in a
with his revolver drawn Maher ordered McDon-
nell TO. give up his revolver and took him into the
front room, where some men had propped Courtney
up in chair. Courtney recognized Mcdonnell and
In reply to question from Maher said: yes, Miles
Mcdonnell shot me-" An ambulance called
and Courtney taken to the Harlem Hospital
1t until after the hearing In court yester-
day that the police learned that any one except
Courtney had been shot. The physicians who were
called in to attend Price yesterday told his wife
that she must inform the police Of the shooting,
and 1t was thus they learned of the other men,
The police got an order from Magistrate Meade
brother Harry and Prices mother opened the door.
Harry Price looked at Mcdonnell and said You
did 1t at last They went to the room of the
dying man. Price had thermometer in his mouth,
but the doctor took 1t out. He nodded when he
was asked If this was the man who had shot him.
Price died at $3.50 p. m. when the doctors were
preparing TO perform an operation on him.
Mcdonnell is man who bears a bad reputation
with the police and is said TO have figured In other
shooting affairs. In his own account he says that
he was first fired on. and then drew his
volver and fired in sef-defence. He alleges that he
was thrown down by Kennedy, and that when he
got up and ran toward the door Kennedy fired
and got behind the luncheon counter and fired in
his own defence.