The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-17
DEATH OF BANKER FISH
THE RESULT OF f QUARREL IN
 4 SALOON.

and Two Women Arrested-DeRth Due
 to u Blow Struck by Sharkey-Fish
 and the Two Women Sat Drinkin 2
 When the Detective Joined Them
 Words Follow Fish's Intention to
 Cash Check.
 New York. Sept. 16.-The death of Nicholas Fish as the result of quar- rel in saloon and the arrest of Thomas J. sharkey, a private detective, on the charge of homicide in that connection, has been the subject of close police in- vestigation and conjecture all day.
 MT. Fish was the head of one of the most distinguished families in the Unit ed States, banker of great wealth and at one time minister at the court of Belgium. He died at the Roosevelt hospital from the effects of injuries re- ceived during the course of an alterca- tion with stranger in Erhhardt's sa- loon at the corner of Eighth avenue and Thirty-fourth street. Mir. Fish's death was due to blow struck by Thomas J. Sharkey, private detective, who with two women who were pres ent at the time, were arrested after the death
 A policeman found Mir. Fish lying un- conscious on the sidewalk in front of the saloon and summoned an ambulance in which he was taken to the Roosevelt hospital, where his identity was reveal ed by papers found in his possession. despatch was sent to Mrs. Fish, who was at Tuxedo, and who reached the hospital soon after midnight, remaining at the side of her husband, who never regained consciousness before death took place.
 According to the police, MT. Fish, who in his wife's absence, was living at his town home in Irving Place, entered the saloon yesterday afternoon accompa- nied by Mrs. Phillips and a Mrs. Carey, two women who live in West Thirty-fourth street. There they sat drinking until they were joined by Sharkey, at the invitation of one of the women. MT Fish continued to treat his companions until, on discovering that his money was exhausted, he announc- ed that he would draw check and get the bartender to cash it. This provoked a derisive. remark by sharkey, who was ignorant Fish's identity, and high words followed. A blow was struck, by whom the police do not know, and the two men rushed at each other, the wo- men screaming and trying to separate them. One of the women, clutching MT Fish by the arm, succeeded in dragging him out of the saloon to the sidewalk There he was confronted by Sharkey, who had broken away from his companions, and they clinched. A moment later MT. Fish reeled as if from a blow and fell prone to the sidewalk. Seeing him lying unconscious and fear ing that he might be killed, his late companions fled, leaving MT, Fish where he fell until policeman came along and summoned an ambulance.
 As soon as the fact of MT. Fish's iden- tity was established dozen detectives were set on the trail of his companions and before daylight the trio were traced to the house In which the women lived and were arrested. After beng arraign- ed in the police court they were brought before Coroner Jackson, who, after preliminary inquiry held Sharkey in $10, ,O00 bail on the charge of homicide and the women as witnesses.
 To the coroner Sharkey made a state ment that he met MT. Fish and the two women in the saloon and after a verbal altercation with MT. Fish they left the place by different doors. He denied striking MT. Fish and declared that he must have fallen as he was leaving the salooon. Detective Trojan, who made the arrest declared in an affidavit that Sharkey admitted to him that he struck MT. Fish. Both the women made sworn statements, but these District Attorney Jerome has refused to make public.
 Coroner Jackson. after performing an autopsy pronounced Mir. Fish's death to be due to cerebral hemorrhage follow ing concussion of the brain and not to a fracture of the skull as was at first supposed by the surgeons at the hos pital. The coroner declared hls convic- tion. from a careful examination of the condition of the brain. that the injury was caused by heavy blow and not by contact with the sidewalk in fall. In the latter case, he said, there would almost certainly have been exterior in- juries~and a fractrue of the skull.
 The inquest will be held Friday. Mrs. Fish, who was completely prostrated, remained at the hospital all night and this morning went to her home accom- panied by her brothers-in-laW, Hamil- ton Fish and Stuyvesant Fish. After the autopsy MT. Fish's body was re- moved to the house.
 The funeral will be held tomorrow in St. Marks church in Second avenue. The burial will be in the family plot at Harrison, N. Y.
 The New York state society of the Order of the Cincinnati, of which MT. Fish was president, has issued 8 gen. eral order requesting members of the order to attend the funeral.
 CONTROL OF DELAGOA BAY.