Aboard the Havana and Vera Cruz Company steamship Manhattan, moored at a New York City pier but preparing to sail that evening, a stoker was shot and fatally wounded. Disgruntled stokers had attacked the ship's second mate Henry Curwin who defended himself with a revolver and shot 24-year-old Irish-born Martin Daley in the head. Daley soon died at the City Hospital and Curwin was arrested. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Local News: Affray on Shipboard," New York Times, January 24, 1866, p. 2.