oved him, and the young man pulled a revolver and |
|shot Gene in the face, and he died before Father |
|Rafferty, of St. James's, got to him, God rest his |
|soul. A lot of policemen heard the shot, and they |
|all came running with their pistols and clubs in |
|their hands. Policeman Laux--I'll never forget his |
|name or any of the others that ran to help |
|Gene--came down the Bowery and ran out into the |
|middle of the square where Gene lay. |
| |
|"When the man that shot Gene saw the policeman |
|coming, he crouched down and shot at Policeman Laux,|
|but, thank God, he missed him. Then policemen named |
|Harrington and Rourke and Moran and Kehoe chased the|
|man all around the streets there, some heading him |
|off when he tried to run into that street that goes |
|off at an angle--East Broadway, isn't it? A big |
|crowd had come out of Chinatown now and was chasing |
|the man, too, until Policemen Rourke and Kehoe got |
|him backed up against a wall. When Policeman Kehoe |
|came up close, the man shot his pistol right at |
|Kehoe and the bullet grazed Kehoe's helmet. |
| |
|"All the policemen jumped at the man then, and one |
|of them knocked the pistol out of his hand with a |
|blow of a club. They beat him, this Billy Morley, so|
|Jerry says his name is, but they had to because he |
|fought so hard. They told me this evening that it |
|will go hard with the unfortunate murderer, because |
|Jerry says that when a man named Frank O'Hare, who |
|was arrested this evening charged with stealing |
|cloth or something, was being taken to headquarters,|
|he told Detective Gegan that he and a one-armed man |
|who answered to the description of Morley, the young|
|man who killed Gene, had a drink last night in a |
|saloon at Twenty-second Street and Avenue A, and |
|that when the one-armed man was leaving the saloon |
|he turned and said, 'Boys, I'm going out now to bang|
|a guy with buttons.' |
| |
|"They haven't brought me Gene's body yet. Coroner |
|Shrady, so my Jerry says, held Billy Morle