Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-07-27
RUN CRAZY.
TERRIBLE aoRsR ON A SCHOONER,

There was q most exciting afifay IN
Jersey City before daylight the other day
between q party Of policemen and q
liquor erazed sea captain, A number OF
schoOners have been mOored alongside
each other OF the Adirondack steel
company's works at the foot Of Warren
street, The ono futhest from tho shore
IL tho River Queen, commanded by
Henry Taylor, Capt, TAYLOR h q tall,
stout, muscular man, lilo had been
drinking TO excess with party OF
friends who escorted him at q late hour
at night to his boat, and ied him,
The next morning Frederick II, iiaed.
or and Noah Cranmer, the masters OF
two other vessels lying bctWoen the
River Queen and the whnd, were
aroused by an uproar In ihol neighbor'
hood. They dressed hastily aud went
on deck, They heard Capt Taylor ours
Ing and shouting on board his schooner,
supposinP that he had been attacked by
river pirates, they hurried TO his assist
ance. When they reached the River
Queen an extraordinary spectacle met
their gaze, Capt Taylor was standing
w the quarter deck, swearing and
threatening at tho top OF his voice, A
double -barclled shotgun stood In front
OF him. In ono hand he held large
revolver and In the other an axe, A
heavy club lay on the bulwarks before
him. Raeder and Cranmer at once per-
ceiyed that he Was drunk and did not
deem II safe to approach too near.
Taylor, however, saw them, and their
presence seemed TO intensity his fury.
He deliberately aimed at them, and dis
charged two shots from his revolver.
Without stopping to notice whether his
fire had taken effect, he then threw
down tho revolver and began TO execute
war dance on the deck, while ho
waved the axe about his head, and cut
savagoly to the right and left at imagin'
ary foes. After using the axe in this
style for some moments, he drove II
into the bulwarks. and picking up tho
club, attacked tho masts and rigging,
and beat them until he had broken the
club to splinters, Then ho picked up
the revolver.
Cranmer and Raeder, in tho hope Of
auieting him, made another attempt to
board his schooner, but he began firing
at them as soon as he saw them ap-
preaching. One OF tho bullets struck
Raeder in the heshy part OF his right
leg. His companion assisted him back
to his own vessel, the Yankee Doodle,
and left him in the cabin while he went
to summon surgeon and the police.
As he was traversing the different YES
sells that lay between him and the
wharf, Taylor opened fire upon him,
and Crnmer, in dodging, fell and broke
his leg.
The noise of the shooting attracted
throng of people to the shore, and one
man, believing that somebody was being
murdered, ran up to the First Precinct
police station on Gregory street, and
gave an alarm. Policemen Speer and
Short started for the scene. They
jumped on board the schooner nearest
the pier and had crossed over to the
next vessel, when somebody among the
crowd cried -
"Look out look out! There he
comes"
The policemen looked up, and saw
Taylor rushing at them with pistol in
one hand and an axe in the othcr. He
was not more than q dozen PAGES from
them, but when he saw that he had been
discovered, he sprang back behind q
spar and began firing at them. Speer,
who says he was unarmed, retired to q
place Of safety, but Short stood his
ground and returned the drunken mans
shots. None of the bullets took effect.
After ten shots had been exchanged,
Short retreated, and he and Speer went
back to the station. Sergt. Marinus,
Roundsman Coward, AMI Detective
Bowe returned with them to the vessels.
Bowe and Speer succeeded in reaching
the River Queen without heing seen by
Taylor. Then, as they We're looking
around for him, he suddenly appeared
on the opposite side of the vessel,
armed, as usual with his axe and re-
volver. He made dash as if he meant
to attack them, but almost Immediately
stopped and stood irresolute.
GLANDS up, or I'll fire" shouted
Bowe.
The captain made no response, but
fumbled with his weapons.
The detective, thinking to frighten
him, fired shot over Taylor's head,
but it did not produce the desired effect.
It seemed, on the contrary, to throw the
captain into another violent passion.
He advanced toward the two, and
struck desperately at them with his
axe.
"Knock him down with your club"
said the detective to Speer. 81 don't
want to shoot him."
Speer attempted to do so, but no
sooner had he got within reach of the
axe than Taylor brought it down on
him with such force that the club which
Speer raised to ward off the blow from
his head was cut in two about an inch
below the handle. Bowe then tried to
seize the furious man, but he wriggled
away, and after jumping upon the out.
side rail aimed his revolver at the de-
tective. Before he could pull the
trigger, however, Bowe fired at him. An
instant later the captain sprang over
board
The policemen watched for him little
while, and as he did not appear on the
surface, Bowe and Policeman Reynolds,
! who had Joined the party, leaped into
yawl boat and went in search of him
among the shipping. They found him
between the bows of two of the
schooners, but on seeing them he
dived, and again they lost all trace of
him.
After while they discovered him at
the stem of their own boat, but as soon
as he was noticed he dived. For fully
twenty minutes he remained in the
water, diving whenever the yawl ap-
preached him, until at last he became
exhausted and was seized and dragged
ashore. At the station it was found
that Bowe's shot had taken effect in his
right thigh. The man was removed to
the hospital, where the bullet was ex-
tracted, and then he was confined to his
cell in stnitjacket. Later in the
day he was arraigned, but, as he still
complained Of the pain Of his wound,
and was in very low condition, be was