The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-17
DONOVAN DEAD; EASTMANFREE
CORONER LETS MONK GO, BUT
HOLDS HIS THREE PALS.
Another Dying Man Accuses Policeman
Division Of Primary spells Ono
Cause Of the Trouble. the Police Say
Fresh Case Of Robbery Turns Up.

cause Of the Trouble, the Police Say
Fresh Case or Robbery Turns Up.
One man is dead and two others are in
HOSPITALS as result OF the activity OF Monk
Eastman's gang on Tuesday night and
early yesterday morning. In addition,
Eastman himself and three Of his friends
we're arrested Monk was released late
last night by Coroner Scholer.
The murdered man was Mike Donovan,
who died in Bellevue at $50 yesterday
morning without -squealing." The police
say that he was an enemy Of Eastman
and that he was a brother Of Piggy" Dono-
van. who once threw Eastman out Of his
saloon at 81 Bowery. Donovans family
say that he never knew Eastman and that
the saloonkeeper was not his brother.
OF the two men known to have been
wounded, one, Anton Bernhauser,
named al his assailant George Meyer,
one OF three men arrested with Eastman
at l4l Allen street after the row was over.
Bernhauser says that Meyer. who is known
as .Lonnie," shot him through the cheek
at First street and First avenue early IN
the evening.
The other wounded man ia George Carroll
driver, of 30 Third street. He is in Gouver-
neur Hospital. and the doctors say that he
ia diving In his ante-mortem statement
10 Coroner Scholer last night he accused
Policeman John W. Mccoy Of shooting
him and later picked out the policeman
a. his assailant. Mccoy denies that he
shot Carroll
Coroner Scholer after his investigation
decided to discharge Eastman, but held
Never and the other two prisoners, 1sidor
Bernstein Of a Broome street and Henry
Lewis of ~ Norfolk street, for hearing
this morning.
Never is charged with shoe ting Bern
hauser and, in addition, with a robbery COM
mitted in front Of "a Stanton street at 12:4S
o'clock Yesterday morning. Antonio Mama,
an Italian living at the Stanton street ad-
drees, swore that Meyer had showed
revolver in his face and robbed him Of As.
The police believe that the gang had
two rows, one early! In the evening
and one late at night. Inspector schmitt-
berger thinks that the second fight was
over a division OF primary day profits
while the first was planned with the idea OF
doing up Donovan.
Side all day, according to the inspector
They are too we'll known to do any repeat
ing in that district. 1t is said that they
were on the West Side. Primary voting
stops at o o'clock, and the gang got to the
East Side about $50 o'clock. ,
OF them jumped of a Stanton street cal
going east and went into Livingston
saloon at First street and First avenue
Livingston and his bartenders said there
seemed to be half a dozen OF them. All
he could tell yesterday was that the gant
had no sooner entered than there was
mix-up. They knocked over chairs ant
went pushing and fighting out through thu
back room into the street. Then he say
he heard two shots.
Bernhauser, who went to Bellevue after
ward with hole through both cheeks
says that he was shot as he was standing
In the saloon when the gang entered.
The gang was quiet for while ate
this mix-up. The police heard OF then
next at l:4O. when man ran up to Patrol
man Mulvey and told him there wa
a wounded man in the drug store at frs
street and the Bowsry; Ih shs was ano
was bleeding to death. Donovan said
he had been shot In a fight.
He did not say where, but George Dav1f
of 50 Stanton street. who called the police
man, said that it was at Rivington ant
were on their way home when Donovan
was hit by a stray bullet. In the light
later developments the police think tina
Donovan was shot in the First street hght
Donovan was hustled to Bellevue. Bern
hauser was there at the time getting M
face dressed Hospital attendants tolt
the police afterward that when Donovan
was brought in Bernhauser walked Owe
and shook hands with him. Bernhausel
told the police that he didn't know him
When the hospital people asked Dono
van who shot him. Donovan replied:
Il know who did 1t, but you WONT &c
il out of me-
What the gang were doing between
esO and o'clock yesterday morning the
police can only guess. In some way thel
worked down to Allen street, near Rlying
ton, favorte hang-out OF theirs, and tina
neighborhood was awakened by series
of shots which seemed to come from group
Of men lodging around the pillars OF I'M
elevated road.
Policemen Breuck and Mccoy, whom
Schmittberger has had out in plain clothe
Watching the gang ran up, they say, Jus
as Carroll emptied his revolver into CROWD
He turned it on the policemen and then m
according to their story, Mccoy pule'
his revolver and shot twice in the air,
While the two policemen were carint
for Carroll Acting Captain McDermot
arrived with the reserves, but the henper
Of the gang had skunk away In the GRO"
that filed the streets.
The police heard. however, that som
had gone to Movers room at l4l Anel
street, and it was there that they ARRESTED
Eastman, Never and two others.
The police hustled them to Gouverneu
Hospital, but Carroll, who WAS there. dc
CARED positively that none OF them wa
his assailant The prisoners were the
taken to Bellevue, only to find that Done
A "a
Bernhauser picked out Meyer.
Inspector Schmittberger said yesterda
that he would give half OF his salary !
land Monk Eastman This gang, sal
Schmittbarger, ia one OF the worst tho
ever existed Why cant we rid the cit
Of them For this reason: They Away
shoot one of their kind, who never squeaLI,
With an outsider it would be easy. l
corral them all on general principles sin
ply reaul.s in their discharge by the Mag
istrates and roasting for the polioeme
who do it