A TRAGEDY AT A CHRISTENING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1675, 29 September 1887, Page 3

A TRAGEDY AT A CHRISTENING

There was a christening last iiUhl (wye a late number of the "New Yurk Herald") at No. 642 Gates avenue, corner of •Summer avenue, Brooklyn, where William Mullen occupies the top floor with his two sens, Morris Mullen and John Mullen. Mrs Annie Pearl, William Mu'len'a married daughter, also lives there, aud it was the christening of tier child that was celebrated A number of f deads were en j hand, and there was plenty of beer to drink. Everything passed off emoothly until late m the ni^ht, when Dannis Dillon and Daniel Mullan fcppeared on the scene. These men had had a fight with William Mullen aix months ago over a paty£ of carch, and they thought it would be a fino th n.» to have the ma'.ter out as a sort of wind up to the festivities of the eveulng. They went upstairs to the Mullen domicile and quickly picked a 'quarrel, which-lt was soaghfc to settle on i he etairs Tho fight continued here bb long aa there was ro m for it, but the engagement soon became general, and more elbow room was necessary. So the ruction wa3 arij urned to the strebt. Here it continued with unabated, and, indeed, increasing fury. The women screened, the men swore, the bystanders shunted, and pandemonium reigned Knives were brought Into play, and boob the weapon whlc^, it Is supposed, was m the hsnds of Dennis Dillon had done Its b'oody work. Michael Mullen, the grandfather of the unfortunate baby whose naming was so t-acically celebrated, was 6t lk«n to the ground, fatally stabbed. James Mullen, tha son, was alao Btabbed, and that the tragedy might laok no element of horror, Mrs Annie Pearl, tha mother of the babj, was so sadly woanded by the desperate, merciless brute that her tife was despaired of* An ambulance was summoned, and the unfortunate victims, a'l of one family, wore placed In it but before it srriveri at Ht Mary'B Hospital, w' lher the wounded p?rs >ns were taken, Michael Mullen had breathed his laet vlrs Pearl and James Mullen were received at tha hospital, but the woman *aa pronounced to be fatal. y hurt, and her death before morning was predicted by the surgeons. James Mullen was thought not to be so Berioualy wounded aa tho ol here. The police were on hand, if not In time to stop the fight, at least m time to arrvst five of the participvnts. But Denuis Dilllon, who was thought to have done the stabbing, escaped imrreifata arroet — esoaped, probably to llidgewood. The neighborhood of the tragedy ia respectable ra itt of the residents occupyicg their own houses. The events of the night were not suoh as the neighbors arc accustomed to, a d t ore*t. d the wildest excitement,