The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-18
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Brooklyn Man Killed in His Own Home
by a Detective
A MINISTER DISAPPEARS.
Whereabouts of Rev. james LIE Baron
johnson IL NIystery-Brook'yn De-
mocracy and Talninany Han
in Open Hostility.

NEW YORK, December 11.-flmothy
Desmond a police detective, shct anu Ia
Ia wounueu James McMu1ien'
'ty-nine years old, at one ciocn
terday morning, in the kitcl'en Li
house in which McMullen lived with ms
| wife and two small children. Both men,
it is said. were intoxicated. McMuliesl
! was shot beca1,se he had taken DESMOND
shield and would not give 1t oack.
His wife had pleaded with the detective
not to shoot her husband, anu had peea
called from the scene OF the cohiilce De
tween the two men by the screams u iisi
babies When she left the room, accord
ing 70 her story. Desmond had her nus
hand under him on the floor and his pis-
tol in his hand.
Desmond is fifty years old, and belongs
to the Fifth Avenue Police Station, IN
Brooklyn. 1t is said that as result OF
the general police shake UP Desmond
drank considerably. Across the street
from Desmond's house, at Bay Seven
teenth Street and Benson Avenue, is the
handsome home OF Assistant Corporation
Counsel Martin Flanagan. Flanagan
| moved out of the house when the winter
| approached, and asked Desmond to keep
| his eye on it. Flanagan then asked his
| brotherin-law, MdMuiien, VINO is ship
| the house and take care of it for the
| winter. McMullen moved in with his
| family. which consists Of himself, his wife
| and two small children
AS Desmond passed the house yesterday
morning he saw ArcMullen sitting on the
| stoop and demanded to know what he
| was doing there. McMulen repeated the
! query. Desmond. who not in uni
! form, displayed his badge. McAIullen tore
| it off.
| Desmond drew his club and struggle
| ensued for its possession. McMullen ran
| to the kitchen. Desmond followed him
| into the house As, he did so he drew his
| revolver.
MeMullen tried to catch the pistol and
the two men clinched. They fell on the
| floor, McMulien underneath. The police
man still had his pistol hand free.
Don't shoot him. Mrs. McA;ulen says
! she exclaimed. Il will get your badge
| and give it to you
Il will not leave the house until / get
it. she says the policeman replied, land
| if he does not give it to me l will shoot
him..
Just then Mrs. McMullen heard her
babies screaming and ran up stairs, and
as she was returning she heard pistol
report.
! Her husband was lying on the floor I'M
conscious when she re-entered the room
! lie had been shot in the left temple Des-
mond was standing over him with his
! pistol in his hand
| Desmond went to the Bath Beach Sta
sion, where he said he had shot man
| who had held him up and taken his shield
and pocket stick from him
| MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
| Much speculation is being INDUCED in
| by the friends of the Rev. James lie
Baron Johnson as to the whereabouts OF
he.
| Church and former chaplain of the Fire
| DeI>artment, who was last seen about one
! week ago at Watkins, n y, where he
| mas been a patient OF a sanitariunl hay-
! ing gone there several months ago be-
| cause OF a most serious attack of ner-
| vous prostration.
Mr. Johnson left the sanitarium ten
days ago and came to New York for some
| purpose, and after remaining here for
| one day returned TO Watkins He stoDped
| at the sanitarium for two days and then
| went away. taking all his baggage with
him lie left no address, and his reIa-
tives in this city and elsewhere are Won
uellhs what has become of him.
CFt.N HOSTILITY.
As a result of the unex0acted shaEe-r,r
in the Police Department. brought about
by Chief Devery, Tammany Hall and the
| brooklyn Democracy are arrayed in omen
| hostility
Hugh Mclaughlin has answered Tam
many defiance with defiance He openly
charges mat a deal mas; been arranged be
tween Richard Croker and Senator. PIa+r
Runners are still persistent that otFIe!
important transfers are 10 come ana thar
nearly every police captain now doing
duty IN Manhattan will be affected
chief Devery will take a vacation be
snhins to-day, and there are reasons 70.
believing that he Will not return to Head
quarters again to take charge. He mas
informed many of his friends that ha !,
tired and is'-more than ready to resign his
posihon, He was the guest of honor at
small dinner party given by his friends
IL an uptown restaurant last night.
|! JoAn - Sexton, representative of Pirh
ara Croker in the present Police Board
VIII be the first executive of the cintyI
c .s1uTo P3ate commission if the Republi
| can Legislature enacrs the police bin ra
Gently prepared. Mr.. Sexton asnires r.
| me position, and the promise has bear
! him. - "9po't-t
Bernard J. York had hoped that he
-its'sau OF Mr.. Sexton, would be placed
at the head of the reorsanizad da-'a,t
| ment. His hopes have been st;m,1a+a4
oS Mr. Mclaughlin, but they nevertheless
stem doomed TO disappointment
| CAPTAIN MCLUSKY'S ERROR
aolhe light has been cast upon the
C CS lor the summary removal AZ
tta g Mcclussy from the command o.
No. Detecuve Bureau. Captain McCluskv
MADE MADE the mistake of his life when he ia
s eh war upon the Wall Street buckle
slops The profits from those concerns
81 l.5.o the pockets which also gather the
ptoceeds Of the gambling houses.
| r,i,,y friends dema ndIsd of MIN Nc
!. head upon a salver, and he CAV.
tso+ - mem The former chief of the De-
s, vct.se Bureau generously speaks of his
the nIsos Z: as the best equipped man for
'ite piace in all New York.
WE, RACE FOR LIFE.
| o,hir desperately wounded man in the
| tl.sd ne e,e flashing sicop Maggie Bell bat
mort a ana stiff northeast gale to reach
tars. anu physician for three hours YES
| no ~ morning. She finally made land
w. a. inner Park, whence the sufferer
| H, aa .sAsn in an ambulance to the Nor
anoon.. hospital, while his companions.
49, mem the man who had accidentally:
11oN Inn, We're locled I'm in, tho