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The Gangs of New York
Cappucina, your link 3. is most interesting
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...brothel&st=cse
But not before another murder occured there, Wolf.
HOTEL KEEPER IS KILLED
Man Caught Running Away and Held on a Homicide Charge
William H. Keyes, thirty-nine years old, who for eighteen months had been proprietor of the East River Hotel, at Catharine Slip and Water Street, was shot through the heart and instantly killed while sitting in front of the hotel at 12:30 o’clock yesterday morning. His pockets were turned inside out and $250 taken. Policeman Ray of the Oak Street Station, hearing the shot, ran toward the sound and caught a man running away. He took from the man a pistol which, he says, was still warm and from which a .32 calibre bullet had been shot. At the station house the man gave the name of James Kelly, twenty-three years old, a stonecutter of 90 Division Street. The police insist that he is James Breen, a brother of David Breen, who a few days ago shot down “Jocko” Byrnes, who he had succeeded as the leader of the Cherry Street “gang.” The police also took into custody Joseph O’Toole, a bartender at the hotel; John Murphy, a boarder; William Pendleton, a pilot, and John Breen, a plumber.
An autopsy was performed on Keyes’s body, showing that death was due to a .32 calibre bullet that had pierced the heart. The prisoners were arraigned before coroner Brown yesterday morning, and the man who gave the name of Kelly was committed without bail, while the others, with the exception of John Murphy, were sent to the House of Detention as witnesses.
New York Times
Sept 17, 1903
Cappucina, your link 3. is most interesting
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...brothel&st=cse
Originally posted by Wolf Vanderlinden
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HOTEL KEEPER IS KILLED
Man Caught Running Away and Held on a Homicide Charge
William H. Keyes, thirty-nine years old, who for eighteen months had been proprietor of the East River Hotel, at Catharine Slip and Water Street, was shot through the heart and instantly killed while sitting in front of the hotel at 12:30 o’clock yesterday morning. His pockets were turned inside out and $250 taken. Policeman Ray of the Oak Street Station, hearing the shot, ran toward the sound and caught a man running away. He took from the man a pistol which, he says, was still warm and from which a .32 calibre bullet had been shot. At the station house the man gave the name of James Kelly, twenty-three years old, a stonecutter of 90 Division Street. The police insist that he is James Breen, a brother of David Breen, who a few days ago shot down “Jocko” Byrnes, who he had succeeded as the leader of the Cherry Street “gang.” The police also took into custody Joseph O’Toole, a bartender at the hotel; John Murphy, a boarder; William Pendleton, a pilot, and John Breen, a plumber.
An autopsy was performed on Keyes’s body, showing that death was due to a .32 calibre bullet that had pierced the heart. The prisoners were arraigned before coroner Brown yesterday morning, and the man who gave the name of Kelly was committed without bail, while the others, with the exception of John Murphy, were sent to the House of Detention as witnesses.
New York Times
Sept 17, 1903
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