New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-03
HUNTER MADE THREATS
HAD SAID He WOULD KILL
DARCY ON SIGHT.
MKENNA, ONE OF THE INJURED. HAS
HIS EYES CUT OUT-TEN WERE
HURT IN BATTLE

Jerry Hunter. the sfxty-year-old negro
who Monday shot four policemen and three
citizens at Bowery Bay. near North Beach, in
Queens. was yesterday held without bail to await
the result of the injuries of Patrolmen John
McKenna and Thomas Briel Magistrate Mat
thew j. Smith. of Long island City, at once
issued a commitment to the county JAIL and the
prisoner was placed behind the bars by the
Sheriff without delay.
When arraigned Hunter demanded that his
lawyer John ]. Trapp. of Flushing be sent for.
but the magistrate said there would be time
enough to consult with the lawyer before the
examination.
Hunter although his wounds are not danger
Gus. was a badly battered looking man when
brought into court by Detective Edward Burden
and Patrolman Lynch. Of the Seventy-fourth
Precinct station Astoria These officers we're
the captors of the desperate negro. and led him
before Magistrate Smith in irons. Hunters
wounded hand was covered with blood stained
bandage. and his face and head were smeared
with blood from the numerous contuslons and
cuts inflicted by the officers in their final strus
gle with him before he was subdued
Mrs Hunter. who. the police said. loaded the
guns for her desperate spouse and herself hred
on the officers, taken 10 St. John Hospi-
tai Long Island City where she is prisoner.
head and from numerous bruises and contu-
sions inflicted by Patrolman Cassidy in subdu-
ing her after she had emerged from her burn
Ing house and attacked him with a sabre After
her capture she was taken 10 the hospital at
NewtoJvn but the surgeons there regarded her
injuries as so serious that they ordered her re-
novaI 10 Long Island City
Pztroin1an John J. McKenna, whose home is in
Montague-st Brooklyn, was operated on in ST.
Johns Hospital yesterday morning Both his
ewes protruded from their sockets and had to be
taken out. His tace literally riddled with
birIshot. No. s in size. and the surgeons ex-
pressed fear that some of the missiles had
penetrated the mans brain. They entertain but
d slight hope for his recovery Patrolman Nc
Kenna's helmet was shown a Tribune re-
Porter by Captain Darcy at the Astoria police
station II had been struck by no less than 112
shot of which all but about dozen had pene-
trated it, a few the top of its crown hav-
ing passed entirely through. Captain Darcy
said most of the charge had struck below the
rim of the helmet and had entered the un-
fortunate poHceman's face and neck The fact
that nearly all the shot had struck the patrol
mans face and helmet shows how close he was
To the uould-b murderer when the gun was
DISCHARGED The pool of blood on the ground
where he fell was plainly visible yesterday and
about thirty lrtI lIulll lHe foundation wall
of the ruins Of Hunters house. The charge was
fired from a second story window. it was said.
and the shot which glanced fro mthe helmet
marked ~ I'm a line almost exactly parallel with
it's brim showing that the officer was looking up
at the window when he received his wounds
Patrolman Thomas Briel. who was also in St
Johns Hospital. is also i'm a critical condition
one eye was destroyed by the charge of shot
which struck his face. and it is feared by the
surgeons that the other eye is so injured that its
sight will he lost
Policeman Thomas Grogan and PatroIman
Ward. of the Seventy y-fourth Precinct, who were
slightly wounded by shot from Hunters guns
we're receiving trea tment at their homes as was
also PatroInan Cassidy, who received a cash on
the head from the abre in the woman's hands
CAPTAIN Darcy was much exercised over re-
port that he had ordered Hunters house burned
THAT is not true, he declared. with great
warmth Il Iray not be Very good man. but
am not guilty Of arson. don't know how the
fire started. | was very near At the time and
the first 7 saw Of any fire inside the house
The story that l ordered infamma BILE material
brought and set FIRE to the place is unquaIffiedIy
false While am about it I might as well saw
also that the story about our attacking the
bouse with rifles is also made of whole cloth
Neither | nor any officer in my command had
rife or gun of any kind. We bad only our re-
volvers and sticks. There were three or four
shotguns in the hands of citizens about the
place. but my boys had nothing of the kind.
was in the house after II was afire I searched
all over il for Hunter. who, l believed. was
hiding inside This was after the woman was
arrested. 1 don't know whether the boys from
Newtown had shotguns or not know they had
no rifles. I wanted one badly, and none was 10
be had"
When Hunter was captured he had large
number of loaded shells. l. gauge in his
pockets. They are at the Astoria police station.
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