New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-10
An ARMED MADMAN LOOSE IN BROADUA1
HE CHAsEs THREE WATERS WITH A BIG KNIFE
AID THROWS A CROWD INTO PANIC.

HE CHASEs THREE WATERS WITH BIG KNIFE
AND THROWS A CROWD INTO PANIC.
A powerfully built German waiter named Herman
Eretraube age forty three went mad yesterday morn
ing and nearly caused serious trouble. and certainly
made great deal Of excitement from No. 800 Broad
way 10 Wakcr-st. The place Is a restaurant hop'
by NJ :. Lustie. and among his walters was hfeI"'p'i
Yesterday morning at half past the man. VINO mn
been acting strangely for some time. suouehN "'I'
mad. He was in the kitchen at the Time ana S"'
denly cried out 10 three other walters: - h''I"''
Henry Chris hear my father and mother In heaven
calling me- The men laughed AT him. whercul'h ne
seized hold Of a long badcd carver ana c"l'u ""'
Yon laugh at my father and mother III MI YOU
III Kill you!'
There was a lively time In the restaurant i"r
minnie or two "a the mailman a,cd the three walters
around the tables and buffet. THEN the pursue" "''"
for the street and as they gained the open air SCI
I'D a combined yell Of murder Tribune Fep'r'''
happeicd 10 be on the opposite side OF the street anu
AZ first could not account Tor the sudden pane a""l-
the pedestrians. Men. women and children were rus"
ing in all directions screaming and Yelling "I' "'o'
the din rose the cry OF Look out Tor t'c I""" WIN
the knife" Many people dashed into the st"F'' N''''
others regardless Of the tra. fed across Br"ad"'F
suddenly three white aprOned men were seen fn.'.H
with ALI their might for the Annexed District Will"
man in his shirtslecves and with mnrdcrou' VohInS
knife I'm his right hand was In full pursuit i"o
man was running amuck. lie made vicious diss AZ
those whom he thought within his reach, but n'hN
he did little harm. The reporter saw one man no."
oyer whose coat had biz sit caused by thc hili'
II WAS impossible to say whether th' man Va d"
iured. for he was pale with fear, ANA was HH""l"s
the hest time on record down Walker IL, west ~
uroadyay At Walkcrst. the maniac, seeing IL '""''
NOT catch his fcnow-waitcTs, gave IN, undl'ld'd q"
,cntion' Ia the large crowd That had collected I'S
fed in every direction. bat pucky tutkinai sc'Nhs
behind the would be murderer. drove MS nook '" mo
hack of his shirt and waistcOat and 'iKcd MN u u'
.,ound At the same moment Policeman, J""h
d McIanrhn bounded on the man There was
desner,te struggle for few minutes some NAN oo"'"
,f the spectators going 10 the help oil inc Policeman
and ,ruckmau and il was not I'll Policeman Donovan
rwehcd in that the frantic man "as oNcfPp"cI'u
Ihe climbs came down with one or Two sollu 'l""'
on mo Germans head but hc st held urn ZIP oI
the Knife and IL was only after several severe bIV"H
W, the wrist that he dropped h weapon
Tho crowd had In the meantime Ih'Ir".r" '"n
,idcrahly and traffic .tand, still i"r hIlh nit'c
,nirntc. Ereraubel Wa eventually hand'uhed anu
"a ~ 70 .ie Tomb, between the Two policemen Is
lao ,rcnt along I've declared that he heard MS id-'F
and ,uotltrr calling for him IN heaven
Policeman Mclaughlin va, IA almost a, toFIl I"
,lirl, a.. the Inadnan. 20 far a. NJ unH"H W."
pai,rscorrcd and il is To his credit that nc ga nov
strihc the maniac once, although IL was "u'V'"''p
ncrc..ary for some one 10 do 20.
" Al the Tomba the prisoner wa, heId ior 'lI' ON
,tcsinncrS OF Charitic. and Correction 10 oc'c'"''
whether the was mad