Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-08
Man Shot by a Detective,

A dispatch was received at police head
quarters In New York late yesterday afternoon
announcing tire fact that citizen had been
shot In his tracks and instantly killed by De-
tectfve samuel j. Campbell, of the twenty
eighth precinct, In an attempt to arrest him.
It appears that Detective Campbell was lying
in wait In Sixty-first street. near Madison ave-
nue.. for person whose description he had,
and whose suspicious actions had attracted the
attention OF the police. The mans name was
preached. and the detective stepped forward
and arrested him. The stranger sprang back
and. putting bis hand to his hip pocket
shouted: II will blow your brains QUIZ He
was In the act OF taking out a pistol, when the
and shot the man dead. The bullet crashed
through his brain, and he fell nfelesS In the
street. Els body was taken to the nifty ninth
street station-house, and Detective Campbell
surrendered himself pending the coroner's in
vest1gattOn. The man was five feet seven
inches high, with light hair and moustache,
side whlskers. dark clothes and gaiter shoes.
The n. Y. S,ut OF to-day says that Louis
StTasburger, a jeweer at IS Maiden Lane, is re-
pute0 10 be a millionaire. He Is Hebrew, and
lives with his family in the handsome residence
a. e. 80 .so. IA uue Cay bafafe last
SHiis'i3aS rs vile received al a.0ny Inu..a,
Ieller demanding $1,000. and threatening taat
something dreadful would .happen 20 her family
II the moneg was lot furnlSnt1- she was much
alarmed, Out nothing further occurred TO excite
her fears until Sunday, March %. Her daugu.
WI hoStii IL SeeI pIu, tu latelugeuI ana allfac-
tive gin, attends q school held on that day OF
The week by the Rev. Dr.. Huebsch In the syna-
gogue at 18th street ard Lexington avenue
The Sun then relates at great length no " an
eiloFt was made TO decoy this girl from school;
now the family was threatened with her abdGc-
uon, unless tLey paid 100000. etc.; how The
police were called on and detectives en-
ployea; now a package purporttng TO
contain ontan t the rooney was carried Miss
burgers family, to man On the street, as di-
iecled by the blackmallers; how the detective
was In waiting, and seized the man, and now a
sculile ensued, resulting In the shooting. The
oelecllve says: 81 drew my revolver. aud as
came up TO him l seized him by the collar with
ny lett hand and pointed my pistol az his head.
AS did SO he struck down with his left hand
TO clinch nay right, which held the pistol. That
movement made my revolver go on. The ball
entered mis- left eye, and he fell dead Without
struggle" Another man up the street" nred
pistol at the officer, and this man Mr., Vogel was
subsequently arrested. An envelope was taken
out OF the dead mans pocket addressed TO Mrs
StrasDurger. There were found in his pockets
also, besides revolver, and the letter dropped
by Miss Spelten, documents which make it
probable that his name was Edward Her
man Johannes Sagert. Vogel said that ne
Where Ni n Rosa stras aSUg was 0' to hsvs
been kept after being kidnapped. He said that
Sagert was more involved In The plot than him
self. BE had, however. Informed Sagert OF Mr.
The Information on which he was arrested WAS
given by Mr.. Strasburger Mr.. Strasourger says
that VOsel came over with BIN from Europe In
the steamer Republic. last UGtooer, ana tnas ne
he says, came the acquaintance shown with the
family and the governess By the writer OF the
letters.
the conspiIators, and who gave the name Of
Solomon Cob. n, was arrested In beer saloon
in Houston street.