New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-01
SHOT BY HIS woULD.BE REsoUERs.
A RIoroUs STRIKER GETS A BULLET in HIS
LEG WHILE BEING ARRESTED ATTEMPT

TO SLAB a 1OLlNb1An~''
Inspector Steers, Captain Klllea ana sersean.
Kesr mounted guard with two hunnreo :.
the broadway and Seyelthaye stables al :3o O'CLOCK
yesterday morning. and Immediately afterward prepa-
rat,ons were made the first car since last Mon
day over Jacob shaTp's "boodle" tracks There were
nearly 1000 people around the stables Car Nc %Ss'
driven by e. A. Harvey, driver, was the nist 10
leave the stables, at 10 a. m, and the track was
ruarded on either sdo by policemen who stood at dis
tances of about ten feet apart far down as Forty
secondst. The car only ran as far as BroomesI
-Four more cars were out and made trips 10 the
Battery and back, when they were called In and
housed for the night
Fred MeItenberg, who was standing ct Fifty
third-st was taken by the crowd for " scao'| he
was numerically whipped, but the police chioDen tne
crowd vigorously and he rescued. NO arrests
we're made The first real boodshed took place about
2 o. m A party of strikers overturned truck be
longing To the Curtis Furniture Moving Company
across the track at Forty nnth-st ana sevehn-aNo.
Officer Patrick Lynch immediately chased the men
down Forty-ninthst. to Elghth-ave, where he caught
and held James Nesdale, driver on the Broadway
Railroad who said that his address was NO 200 nes'
Forty-sxth-st No sooner did the crowd see Nesaaie
arrested than they charged the officer and knocked him
down one Of the strikers then attempted to KICK inc
officer ON the head, but he luckily drew II BACK ana "
escaped the mans foot. Lynch then drew MS ps'oi
and fred in the air. This brought onicer thompson
of the Forty-seventh-st station to the rescue. 'A
pulled olcer Lynch to his feet and Just caught Mes
dale who was on the point Of escaping.
The crowd then made another attempt 10 resouo
the prisoner, and both officers fred their reviewers
IN the air, and at the same time some OF the mon
fred reviewers at the officers. One OF tne ounc'S
hit the prisoner Nesdale just above the right Knee
The noise of the firing brought squad OF poicemch
from Broadway, who soon dispersed the croWd oy
vigorous clubbing. Officers Lynch and thompson
presented dIapidated appearance after their gallant
tcbt with the mob, but fortunately were not seriously
injured. Thomas Reardcn, of No. 252 West Forty
seventh-st. a Broadway road hostler, was arrested
for participating in the riot and both prisoners were
taken TO the Forty -sevenih-st station Nesdale was
subsequently removed TO Bellevue Hospital, where
SUPERINTENDENT Newell said that he wonlo nave
fun force Of men by this morning ana "ouu onuosFoi
10 run GERS as early possible M,
Every few minutes during the afternoon the pohco
voild charge upon the crowd about the oeventn-aVo
stables and many heads broken AS RUE
the Victims were able to walk away without hcip,
but about O'Clock man was cluooed SO severely
that a DOCTOR who happened on the scene, sasa ne
would die. The men John. kerwlck, stfi1ns
cardriver, whose home at No. t9S sewen tt ave
Precinct tried 10 drive him away, be drew 4arge
pocketlEnife and tried 10 stab the ronnnsinah ing
biade cut through the officers cOatSleeve, put only
erazed HIS skin and moment afterward half dOL5h
policemen rushed UP and began TO Club him lie
was taken to the Twenty second Precinct Station ana
Hospital The ambulance surgeon said the sknll was
not fractured however, and refused 10 take him TO
the hospital and after his head had been carefully
bandaged the man was locked up