Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-09
WILLIAM 0'NE|L DIES FROM STAB WOUND

William O'Neil. 27. of q John street, a waiter in the lunch cart of George Driscoll, which stands in sShetueket street near Shannon's corner, was stabbed Saturday night little after midnight by Sidney Howard Galloway, g. a sailor from the submarine base on the Thames and died Sunday morn- ing about 10.30 o'clock at the Baskus hospital, where he was rushed imme- diately after the stabbing.
 Galloway and another sailor with him, Gilbert Witt Coleman, 21, of Martinsburg, W. Va. were at once seized and held by MT. Driscoll and others and handed over to the police who arrived quickly.
 Galloway used an ordinary jack knife with a blade a little over two inches long, but sharpened to point and a razor edge. slashing O'Neil in the abdomen on the right side and cutting through into the liver, where the sharp blade made cut about three inches long. AS soon as the doctors at the hospital had made complete examination it was seen that O'Neirs condition was critical. and about 5 o'clock Sunday morning Galloway and Coleman were taken to the hospital. | where O'Neil identified Galloway as 1 the man who stabbed him and Cole man as the one who started the alter cation in the lunch cart before the stabbing.
 Medical Examiner C. c. Gildersleeve also took ONeirs ante-m mortem state ment, which he turned over to Coroner ] Franklin H. Brown later in the morn- 1 ing when the coroner started an in- l vestigation after O'Neirs death. According to the story gathered by i the police and through witnesses of 1 the affair. the trouble that ended ir 1 the fatal stabbing affray started ir i way and another sailor, all said tC i have been intoxicated, were noisy and i troublesome. Coleman is reported tc l have been the trouble maker, having an argument with man named Me l Manus who lives on Jail Hill. Me Manus ignored Coleman's attempts. tc pick a fight. laughing him off. bu Coleman grew more abusive. The thirf sailor in the party told the other twt 1 that he would quit them if they start 1 ed any trouble. Proprietor Driscol finally told them to eat up their sand wiches and get out.
 This angered Coleman still more ana he swung around with a punch tha
 was just in time to catch John Mur phy. son of Policeman Patrick Mur, phy. who had just entered the luncl 1 cart. Murphy returned the punch ant | O'Neil also landed one and then thu sailors were put out of the cart. On of them ran down Shetucket street an' has not been seen since. although tn police have his name.
 MT. Driscoll stepped out to look fo a policeman, as Galloway and Coleman
 wanted to come back into the cart
 and as he did so O'Neil followed hin
 out and was apparently stabbed b,
 Galloway as he stepped to the side
 walk.
 In his nte-mortem statement O'Nei
 said he went out to help Driscoll, a
 he thought Driscoll might be attacke by the sailors.
 l Galloway, it is understood, had littl
 to say in the cart, but James P. Have . claims to have heard him tell O'Ne: if he would come outside he would GU , him up.
 DriscoH was at the farther end c
 the cart looking down Shetucket stree for the police when O'Neil was stab bed and as he turned back the wound