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The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Scott in New York. (search)
False shooting affair. --A young man named Thomas Morau was fatally wounded by a pistol shot in Drumheller's bar-room, Broad street, near Brook Avenue, last Thursday evening, about 7 o'clock. It appears from what we have heard that a person who represented himself to be a captain of a military company, had a dispute with the proprietor of the house in the morning, in regard to making change for a note, and on leaving said he would see him again. He returned at night with several others, and commenced a violent demonstration, in the course of which young Moran, who was acting as bar-keeper, received a pistol ball in his stomach, from the effects of which he died on Friday, at 4 o'clock P. M. The deceased had taken no part in the difficulty, and the shooting appears to have been an unprovoked outrage.--An inquest was held by Acting Coroner Sanxay, assisted by Constable Freeman, but the testimony furnished no clue to the apprehension of the murderer, and a verdict was accordingly r