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Angry Chicago Crowd beats Two Men Who Stabbed a Horse.

Sticks His Knife Into a Horse

James Keating, of Chicago, tried to carve his initials on a horse’s hip with a knife and when the police arrived he and his companion, Michael Hinckey, were in the hands of a mob of 500 men and boys who were trying to stamp the pair to death with their heels. Isaac Hoffmann, a peddler, left his wagon and horse standing while he went home to supper. Hinckey and Keating, laboring men, wandered along Canal street much befuddled with liquor. Keating carried an open knife in his hand and was whittling a stick of wood when he spied Hoffmann’s horse. He plunged the knife blade into the horse’s flank and drove it about so as to form part of a letter. The injured horse sprang into the road and hundreds of persons on the street turned upon Keating. He passed the knife to his companion and latter threw it away, but the crowd was not searching for evidence. They piled themselves upon the two men and used fists, heels and clubs. Half a dozen riot calls were sent into Maxwell street station and Operator McInerney dispatched the patrol with Officers Thieme, Keefe, Gara, Connery, Boyle, Raftery and Leng to the scene. The officers had to club the crowd for fully five minutes before they could reach Hinckey and Keating, and then it was a struggle to prevent their being pulled from the wagon. Both men were terribly bruised and beaten and were attended by a physician before they were locked up.

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