The New York Herald

MURDER IN CHERRY STREET.

Bloody Stabbing Affray-A Man Cut to Pieces.
Full Particulars of the Affray-Scene in the Station House and Statement of the Prisoner.

Just before midnight a man was found by the police of the Seventh precinct at the corner of Monroe and Market streets, in front of a drug store, who was literally covered with wounds and blood. He was supported by a group of three youngsters, and was apparently in a dying condition. He was at once conveyed to the station house in Madison street, carried to a rear room and placed on a wooden settee. Dr. Wyckoff was then sent for, and Captain Warlow began to question the wounded man. He gave his name as Timothy Driscoll, and bystanders among the crowd usually following the police in such a case stated that he resided in Cork row, between Montgomery and Gouverneur streets. The boys stated that they had found him lying in front of

A SAILORS' DIVE OR BUCKET SHOP

kept by Dick Welch, at 132 Cherry Street. In the confusion incident upon his arrival at the station house Driscoll mentioned the name of "Keeffe," but a moment after, imitating the reticence of the youngster who was killed a short time ago in the Sixth ward, he would not give the name of the man who had assaulted him, saying

"I WON'T GIVE ANY ONE AWAY."

At this time he was lying upon his back on the bench, with a folded coat for a pillow, and the spittoon near by was covered with clotted blood, while the floor was stained with red blotches and spots of gore. His shirt was of a uniform dark red color, being soaked with blood, and torn open in front, revealing a small hole in the right breast, from which

A DARK RED STREAM WAS TRICKLING,

One of his ears was full of blood and his forehead was saturated by its crimson flow. He was a smooth-faced man, of twenty years of age, and reputed a hard character. He gave his occupation as that of a pressman in an oil manufactory. Dr. Wyckoff soon arrived and proceeded to examine the wounds. The man was found to have been stabbed in fifteen places, and the doctor, as he examined the wounds, asked how they were received. In reply the man said, in a rough attempt at reticence and cunning,

"I FELL DOWN ON THE PAVEMENT

and hurt myself"

The doctor probed a wound in the right breast, which he found to be three and a half inches deep, and, as the man winced, asked,

"What struck you here?"

The man tried to put him away, and said,

"HOW IN H-LL DO I KNOW."

"You have a deep wound here," said the doctor.

"Yes, I've got a good many of them." "Well, this one is in the lung." "Yes, I know it is; but I've got deeper ones." The man was now lifted to a sitting position, the blood trickling down in a darker rivulet from the breast, while a bag containing lint and adhesive plaster was brought from the store room and his wounds were rapidly bound up. The doctor probed a deep wound in the shoulder and said, "That was a long curb stone went in there." "Yes, and a pretty sharp one, too." The most serious wounds were the one in the breast and

A FRIGHTFUL GASH IN THE HEAD,

an inch and a half in length. The arteries were tied and the man was, at two o'clock this morning, sent to Bellevue Hospital.

ARREST OF KEEFFE.

No sooner had the prisoner dropped the name of Keeffe than Captain Warlow, with officers Wild and Moylan, started in pursuit of him. They discovered him under a bed in a room in Cherry street. He was brought into the station house quietly smoking, and answered the usual questions of the Captain. He was then interviewed by the Herald reporter, and made the following statement:-

STATEMENT OF THE PRISONER.

He appeared repentant of his crime, but feigned a degree of nonchalance on being interrogated which showed that he did not fully realize the magnitude of his offence. He said he had been playing cards, and that Driscoll began to cheat, whereupon a quarrel ensued between the prisoner and the latter, in which Driscoll said to Keeffe, "You son of a b-h, I want this fifty cent stamp." He (the prisoner) then grabbed at fifty cents which Driscoll held in his hand. The stamp was

TORN IN THE STRUGGLE

Driscoll holding half, and Keeffe the other. Driscoll then attacked the prisoner, and Keeffe ran away and sought shelter in the saloon 132 Cherry street. In running away some men got hold of him and asked him why he ran away. Driscoll overtook him, and escaping from those who held him, he hid in an entry. Driscoll passed by the entry and did not find him. The prisoner went back to Walsh's saloon and found Driscoll there again. Wishing to make up friendship with him he said,

"HOW DO YOU DO, DRISCOLL"

upon which Driscoll struck him twice and knocked him down. When the prisoner got up after his fall he ran away again, but was followed by Driscoll and overtaken. Here the probably fatal wounds were inflicted. The prisoner and Driscoll closed and came to blows. Keeffe was thrown down and beaten severely. Unable to recover himself he pulled out his penknife and inflicted the murderous wounds on Driscoll. The prisoner, at the close of the Herald reporter's interview with him, displayed feelings of sorrow, and even shed tears. He said that Driscoll had taught him how to steal, had given all his experience in roguery, and had induced him to remain out of employment in order to follow evil practices. The prisoner also stated that he had been imprisoned in Chicago under false pretences, but was honorably acquitted.