The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-17
HE WAS WORTH MuII
Head of One of America
 Distinguished FannilI
Thomas !. sharksy, . Rzivats q tive and Two Women srs Azz ed in connsction M1th
 the Killing.

New York. Sept. 1s.-The deaeA oe
 olas Fish. as the result of . que<f
 saloon and the arrest of Thonas q
 key, a private detective. on tho q
 of homicide in that connection. h4E
 the subject of close police inye)(1
 and conjecture all day.
 MT. Fish was the head of ono ok
 most distinguished families fu tho u1
 States. banker worth miI1ionss A1 < one time a minister at the Court ~
 gium. He died at the Roosev6lt
 tai from the effects of injuries rec1I during an altercation with GtranU Erhardt's saloon at the corner of x|@ Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street. According to the information En<1G by the police. Mir. Fish's death wss to blow struck by Thomas ,. GhexI a private detective. who. with two W men who were present at the Gina. arrested after the death.
 Found by Policeman. policeman found Mir. Fish Iy1u1
 conscious on the sidewalk in front u<
 saloon. He was taken to tho Roo60@ Hospital. where his identity war reV<1
 by papers found in his pocket. "
 patch was sent to Mrs. Fish, who Wo6| Tuxedo, who reached the hospital M after midnight.
 According to the police. Mr. X
 in his wife's absence, was living at town home in Irving Place. enkered ! saloon yesterday afternoon accomped| by Mrs. Phillips and a Mrs. Casey. t women who live in West Thirty-fo1lj
 Street. There they sat drinking o1|
 they were joined by Sharkey at the i4 | tation of one of the women. Nr. E| continued to treat his companions Nr| on discovering that his money wes { hausted. he announced that he wd> draw 8 cheek and get the bar-tender | cash it. This provoked derisive re1ii8 by Sharkey. who was ignorant Of
 Fish's identity. and high words follow A blow was struck, by. whom tha ucI do not know. and the two men rsiHhet each other. the women screaming and H l ing to separate them One of the WezU | succeeded in dragging Mir. Fish to sidewalk. There he was confronted | Sharkey who had broken away from | companions and they clinched- 4 ixlqp1< | later MT. Fish reeled as if from bi4 1 and fell prostrate to the sidewalk | ing him lying unconscious and fe1ri | that he might be killed. his late co3 panion fled. leaving MT. Fish where | fell until a policeman came along summoned an ambulance
 Hunt for His Companions. As soon as the fact of MT. Ffsh's ideI | tity was established dozen detecfsH l were sent on the trail of his companl2I | and before daylight they were trace@
 the house in which the women hpca | were arrested After being arralgnea
 the police court they were brought | fore Coroner Jackson. who. aftcr 4 2] iiminary inquiry. held sharkey m slv. | bail on the charge of homicide and women as witnesses.
 l To the coroner Sharkey stated he M | MT Etsh and the two women in the sz109 l and after verbal altercation with A'| | Fish they left the place by different ooc| ] He denied striking Mir. Fish and dscia< | that he must have fallen as nc M | leaving the saloon. Detective Iro< | who made the arrest, declared in | affidavit that Sharkey admitted 70 A' | that he struck Mir. Fish. Roth fhe women made sworn st*E|
 ments, but these District Attorney Jer0'' has refused to make public. Coroner Jackson, after perfofmin& autopsy, pronounced Mir. Fish's dee to be due to cerebral hemorrhages xntlo ing concussion of the brain and nor t@ fracture of the skull as was at nrst Fu posed by the physicians and surgeons
 the hospital. The coroner deciare4 N conviction from, a careful examinatiQ1 the condition of the. brain. that the inl4J was caused by a heavy blow ana nes contact with the sidewalk In fai. the latter case he said there wouiu sH most certainly have been exterior " ries and a fracture of the skull.
 The inquest will be held Friday. Fish Is prostrated.
 Mir Fish's body was removed 10 ms AH] home in Irving Place. The funeral he held tomorrow in St. Marks Chsisd in Second Avenue. The burial will ne the family plot at Garrison. N. Y.
 Was of a Noted Family.
 Banker Fish, who was 52 years ol was the descendant of one of the olde| and most distinguished of American fan ilies. His grandfather, Col. Nichola Fish, fought with distinction in the ba| ties of Harlem Heights. Saratoga al1 Yorktown, and his father, Hamilton Fie] was the first Secretary of State unAi President Grant. Mir. Fish was the f| ther of young Hamilton Fish who WI killed at Santiago in the Spanish Ane1 can war.
 After several years in the diplomat service, he entered the banking busIne| in this city in 1887. Of his hrotheN Hamilton Fish, is former Republiod Speaker of the New York LeglslatHy' ant Stuyvesant Fish is President of tN IuInoiS CentraI Railroad C0nlDary. sN