John Carney of the Hemingray glass works in fight

BRAINED WITH A BOWLDER.

John Carney in the Covington Jail

Accused of Killing Tom

Anderson.

A Terrible and Probably Fatal Wound.

An affray occurred yesterday evening about half-past four o’clock on Scott street, between Third and Fourth streets, Covington, opposite the door of Geo. Huber's saloon, which will probably result in the death of Thomas Anderson, known better to many as "Leaner” Anderson, from the fact of his being of very slender build. He was struck in the head with a bowlder [sic] boulder about the size of a big man’s fist, and the skull crushed in to an extent terrible to look upon. From the information we can gather it seems likely that the bowlder [sic] boulder was thrown and the wound inflicted by John Car­ney, a young man who lives on Thirteenth street and works at the Glass-works. Anderson works at Senour & Noonan’s tobacco factory, and lives at No. 40 West Fifth street, Covington, with his mother. He is a brother of Dan Anderson, de­ceased, late of the Covington Fire Department, and is twenty-three years of age. Carney and Billy McDonald were arrested soon after the difficulty by Deputy Marshal Goodson, near the corner of Sev­enth and Scott streets. The police say that they ran from the scene of the deadly blow west through the alley opposite Lower Market to the alley be­tween Scott and Madison streets, thence up to Sixth street, thence cast to Scott and thence to the point where they were taken. Several others are also in custody awaiting developments or held as witnesses. The case is set for this morning in the Mayor’s Court.

THE SEVERAL STATEMENTS

Either coincide or dovetail so well as to leave no doubt of the main facts. Anderson, Carney, Mc­Donald and others were in Fallon’s saloon, and McDonald was teasing Anderson or working on him, as the boys say, about having had a horse and buggy taken from him during the afternoon. Anderson and "Peggy” Ryan had been out a buggy­ riding, and manifesting a disposition to be a little wild. Marshal Bolan made them take the turnout back to Wieck’s livery-stable, where it belonged. Anderson didn’t relish the fun, and showed that he didn’t. A light ensued, in which Anderson received his wound. McDonald says that Anderson threatened to whip him, and dared him to come down to Licking. At this Carney interfered, as he and McDonald say, merely telling Anderson that Billy didn’t mean any harm and was a good friend of his, &c. Thereupon Anderson knocked Carney down, and was kicking him in the ribs. Then McDonald in turn inter­fered in Carney’s behalf and pulled Anderson off, and while he was doing this he was himself kicked or hit in the mouth, splitting his under lip, and somebody hit Anderson with a bowlder [sic] boulder. McDon­ald and Carney agreed in their statements up to the blow with the bowlder [sic] boulder. At that point they cease to know any thing about the affair, and only deny that either of them did it. Billy was anxious to tell his story, hailing our reporter as soon as he caught sight of him at the Marshal's office window, and insisting strenuously upon talk­ing, despite sundry friends all around roughly and repeatedly demanding of him to keep his mouth shut. He declared that he wanted the whole truth known.

Mr. John H. Stevenson, the young lawyer, says that Carney struck the blow; that there was a fight going on between Anderson and another man, when Carney picked up a bowlder [sic] boulder, held it behind him as he walked up to where the two were, and then let fly with it.

John Spencer saw the fight going on and Carney with the bowlder [sic] boulder, and then his attention was at­tracted to something else, and when he looked again Anderson was wounded and down.

Mrs. Cynthia Israel says she was walking along and saw the blow struck; that it was done by a small man, and Anderson was doing nothing to him; that some other man had thrown the small man down across the gutter, and that Anderson was walking along the sidewalk with his back to them, and turned apparently to look, and just as he turned the blow was struck; that she picked up the bowlder [sic] boulder with the blood on it, and a man with a light coat on accosted her roughly, and said "G— d—you. put that down and go home," and she put it down and left. Carney is a very small man, and McDonald wore a light coat, if our recol­lection serves us right.

Wm. Glenn says he saw something he never wants to see again, but would say nothing more.

Our reporter questioned Carney and McDonald closely, and, among other things, asked Carney if he was acquainted with Anderson. He answered yes, that Anderson had been going to see his sister for several months. Anna Carney is the sister. She was the kitchen maid at Mr. Comingore's when the Peak-Williams burglary, of which Joe was acquit­ted, took place, and it was said then that Joe was a beau of hers.

AN AWFUL WOUND.

The injured man was removed quickly to his home, where the operation of removing the frac­tured skull was performed preparatory to tre­panning. Dr. Charley Thomas operated, with his father and Dr. W. A. Hall as assistants. There was a deep cross-cut incised wound and an indenta­tion large enough to lay a walnut in, a little above and to the rear of the left temple. Ether was administered, and after about an hour and a half's laborious efforts, the broken pieces were removed, and a throbbing brain membrane surface of irregu­lar shape, fully two and a half inches in extent, exposed. The patient struggled and groaned desperately at times during the operation, and once came dangerously near choking to death with vomit lodged in his throat and mouth, and coagulated blood in his nostrils. He heaved a deep and affecting sigh of relief when the last scrap of bone was lifted and the pressure on his brain removed. With all the skill and kindness of the surgeons it was a shock­ing sight, and the distress of the family in the humble little home was itself enough to move a stone to grief, if that were possible. The public in­terest and excitement were wide-spread and lively. The case was in statu quo at eleven o’clock, with the chances decidedly against Anderson in the opinion of the doctors, though they say that worse cases have recovered.