The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-22

Student Edward Corrigan Bail Fixed
 at S6,OOO-Hearing Probably To-mor-
 row Morntng-An Autopsy to be Per-
 formed This Afternoon,
 Edward Corrigan of Willimantic, a
 student in the Yale Law school, died
 early yesterday morning at New Ha-
 ven hospital, it is said as the result of l injuries received about o'clock Sum-
 day morning by being thrown down the
 steps of a lunch wagon on Elm street,
 back of Peabody Museum. Henry Mo-
 Donald Sedley of New York city, a freshman in the Sheffield Scientific
 school, is under arrest at police head quarters, charged with manslaughter,
 and 1t is alleged that 1t was he who threw Corrigan down the lunch wagon steps.
 | The skull of the unfortunate young man was fractured and he became un- | conscious, remaining in that condition until his death occurred yesterday 1 morning. MT. Corrigans mother and sitser came to New Haven Sunday and remained at his bedside until he died He was vice president of the Kent club the Law school debating society and was member of the Yale battery dur ing the Spanish war. He was de- batter of considerable promise Sedley's widowed mother lives at 127 East Thirty-first street. New York city. She arrived in this city early last evening and visited her son at po- lice headquarters. He was arrested yesterday morning at the order of Cor oner Mix, from his room at 152 Grove street
 The story of the affair at the lunch wagon is that Sedey, Corrigan and some other students were in the lunch wagon when Sedley became angered at something Corrigan said and pushed him down the wooden steps in front of the wagon, to the brick sidewalk. Jo- seph J. Goldsmith, companion of Cor rigan, looked out and saw the latter lying on the sidewalk with blood gush- ing from his mouth and cried out that Sedley had killed his friend At this Sedley and his friends ran.
 Dr. Moulton was called to attend the injured man and after an examination ordered him taken to the hospital
 An autopsy will be performed on the body of MT. Corrigan this forenoon and Sedley will probably not be given a hearing in the city court until to-mor- row morning.
 Last evening Sedley's bail in the case was fixed at s5,0oo
 Bail in the amount of $5, 900 was furn- ished for young Sedley last evening by Sally Y. Henderson of this city, and the young man was released.
 Edward F. Corrigan was we'll known In Willimantic. He studied law in the office of F. J. Kelly there and at one time was a newspaper correspondent. During his course In the law school he had done some reportorial work for the Journal and Courier He enlisted in Co. F of the Third Connecticut in the Spanish American war and served with distinction He was for term in Mi agara. university, and later went to Yale, He was twenty-seven years of age and a prominent young republican in Willimantic. He leaves a mother, a widow of Patrick J. Corrlgan, brother and six sisters.
 New York, Oct. 21.--Henry Mcdonald Sedley, the Yale freshman under arrest at New Haven charged with man. slaughter in causing the death of Ed ward Corrigan. is resident of this city and nineteen years old. When here he lived with his widowed mother and a sister Both these went to New Haven Sunday to attend the bicentennial