A FATAL CHRISTENING.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5017, 28 September 1887, Page 3

A FATAL CHRISTENING.

There was a christening last night (says the N*ew York Herald) at No. 642 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, where William Mullun occupies the top floor with his two sons Morris Mullen and John Mullen, Mrs Annis PoarJ, William Mullen's married daughter, also lives there, and it was the christening of her child that was celebrated. A number of friends were on hand, and there was plenty of beer to drink. Everything passed oft* smoothly until late in the night, when Dennis Dillon and Daniel Mullen appeared on the scene. These men had had a fight with William Mullet* six months ago over a pack of cards, and they thought it would be a fine thing to have the matter out as a sort of wind-up to the festivities of the evening. TtlE WASTED FIGHT. They went upstairs to the Mullen domicile and quickly picked a quarrel, which it .was sought to settle on the staiis. The fight continued here as long as there was room for it, but the. engagement soon became general, and more elbow rooiii was necessary. - ; So the ruction was adjourned to the street. Here it continued with unabated, an 3, indeed, increasing fury. Tha women screamed, the men swore, the bystanders shouted, and pandemonium reigned. ■ «* ,' COLD STEEL. Knives were brought into play, and soon the weapon, which, it is supposed, in the hands of Dennis Dillon, had done ita bloody work. Michael Mullen, the grandfather of the unfortunate baby whose naming was go tragically celebrated, was stricken to the ground, fatally stabbed. James ! Mullen, the son, was also stabbed, and that the tragedy might lack no element of horror, Mrs Annie Pearl, the mother of the baby, was so badly wounded by the desperate, merciless brute that her life was despaired of. DIED IN THE AMBULANCE. : An ambulance was summoned, and the unfortunate victims, all of one family, W6re placed in it; but before it arrived at St. Mary's Hospital, whither the wounded persons were taken, Michael Mullen had breathed his last. Mrs Pearl aDd James Mullen were received at the Hospital, but the woman was pronounced to be fatally hurt, and her death before morning was predicted by the surgeons. James Mullen was thought not to bo so seriously wounded as the others. SEVERAL ABBESTS. The police were on hand, if not in time to step the fight, at least in time to arrest five of the participants. But Dennis Dillon, who was thought to have done the stabbing, escaped immediate arrest —escaped, probably, to Bidgewood. Detectives were sent after him, but up to a late hour last night had not succeeded in apprehending him. The neighborhood of the tragedy is respectable—most of the' ■ residents occupying their own houses. The events of last night were not such as the neighbors are accustomed to, and it created the wildest excitement.