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CONNELLY, Jeremiah and SHERRY, George

Connelly, born on August 15, 1859, at Bantry, “reland; was brought to

the United States by his widowed mother when hé was a small child,
Put out on his own at an early age, he earned a living on the docks

before going to Ghigago where he was employed in a packing house and
became friends and room mates with Sherry, born in Cincinnati of Iris
parents in May, 1855, and also a packer, On S aturday night, Jane
19, 1878, the two men had been on a protracted drinking spree and had
insulted and threataned a number of strangers including several women,
After crea ting a ruckus in a butcher shop, they left, taking a sharp
knife with them, Shertly afterwards, they encountered Hugh McConvill
a 30-year-old painter who was out walking with his neice on 37th St,
They began abusing the young girl verbally and when McConville attemp
ed to protect her, they stabbed him several times, inflicting wounds
from which he died the next night. The afternoon after the affair
and before McConville had died, the police received information that
definitely fixed the blame for the assault on the two young men and
they were taken into custody in a saloon near where they lived on

ter being cautioned by the coroner, Sherry insisted on making a state-
ment in which he claimed that Connelly had inflicted the wounds and

CONNELLY, Jeremiah and SHERRY » George

at Bantry, “reland » was brought to

ther when hé was a small child,
he earned a living on the docks

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ed to protect her, they stabbed him several
from which he died the next night.

and before McConville had died,

definitely fiXed the blame for

they were taken into custody in

Lowe Street. They

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