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SELF PRESERVATIONWas Probably Barry’s Motive in Striking Oscar Dickey.Coroner Downey Conducting the Inquest Today.Eye Witnesses Tell of the Deadly Fight.Coroner Downey is conducting an inquest today, to determine the cause of Oscar Dickey's death, which resulted from injuries received in a fig lit with John Barry on the night of September ISfch,The most important witnesses examined were Timothy Sullivan, James Roach, Michael Graney and John Jaun, eye witnesses and JameB Sullivan and David Hallam, the Eighteenth street ealoonist, Sullivan's story is as follows:4‘John Barry, James Roach and myself were sitting on the north end of the Eighteenth street bridge September ISth, about 11 o’clock at night wlien03ear Dickey and Michael Graney came up. Barry and Graney began scuffling and Dickey said to Barry, ‘Who arc you?’ Barry answered; lYou know who lam/ They then sat down but kept on talking, and Barry said, ‘You had better not monkey with me or I will hit you with a rock/ I started toward Barry to ask him to take a walk to prevent trouble. Dickey started toward Barry too, and foil aoon afterwards. Dickey acted in a throating manner. He weighed over 200 pounds and $ Barry about 140.The testimony of Roach and Graney was corroborative of Sullivan’s account. John Jaun testified that he was near the bridge and saw Barry stand up and say, Where is Dickey/* Diekey jumped toward hire and was struck with the rock when about three feet from Barry. David Rallam testified that Barry came to his saloon that night to telephone for a doctor, saying that he had hit Oscar Dickey and hurt him so badly that be might die.AH of the witnesses testified that Dickey had been drinking, that he was the aggressor, that Barry warned him to keep away, that Dickey was Barry’s superior physically and was quarrelsome when drinking.There are several witnesses yet to be examined, but it seems highly probable that the coroner’s verdict will hold Barry’s act wholly, or at least partially justifiable.
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Logansport Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 01, 1896
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