The sun., 1891-01-19
PHILIP MANN CAPTURED.
An HOUR LATER AND HE WOULD HApL
EsCAPED TO THE MOUNTAINS.

ESCAPED TO THE MOUNTAINS
Constable Garrett II. Acker,nan Holds q
Pistol In His Face with Ono Hand and
HnndcuTs Him with the Other.
Philip Mann. the jackson white" negro.
who is accused Of numbering Robert MELON
aid In the little old house at Cherry Hill near
Hackensack. was captured late on Saturday
night, ten miles from the scene OF the fatal as
eault. Sheriff HarinG's posse searched the
houses and the hills about Hackensack and
Cherry Hill on Saturday, and concluded that
Mann had succeeded In reaching. tho Ramapo
Mountains. twelve miles away. They were
going to have man hunt through the noun.
tains when word came from Ridgewood
that Mann and his wife and family had reached
tho Paramus road and were seoreted In the
old Andrew Zabriskie house, near John Acker-
mans hotel. Garrett II. Alderman is the con-
stable at Ridgewood. and Sheriff Haring tele-
Rraphed tho Information to him. asking him
whether he needed assistance. Constable
Alderman is stocky buit man, who hos the
Repatriation OF never being AFRAID OF anything.
He elegraphed that he would mako the cap
ture alone. and started down the Faramus
road. He had big revolver with him. The
Zabriskie house is two miles from where the
constable lives. and he had plenty OF time to
think OF what he would do
He know the house was rented by q colored
man named Preston. and he decided to make
Preston produce Mann. There are eight or
ten coored tenants In the house. Constable
Alderman raped hard on the door, woman
answered.
rs Preston here ?" he asked.
"No. he sin't," said the woman. She opened
the door q little bit wder to zee what was
wanted. and tho constable got a look into tho
room. Mann was sitting ut the foot Of q bed
His wife and two other co!ored women and
four children were in the room. Mann has
S ff hs back to sas doo n II. s
push@sa 60 his way into the room. and said sharp.
big revolver from his oyercoat pocket Mann
Aekerman neary jammed the revolver down
s HeSs SPsSss a. I'm inrh iaSntfq Snd will kill you"
he stood perfectly still. while the women and
sSs children ddsa in saoi s I'm hIs
irons on the .negro's wrists with the other.
Then he led him out doors;;, .
assuming an air Of Innocence.
You com" nlong" se;d y tho =, constable.
Il don't need u wRtran 10 take you" replied
with his prisoner. Mann called 10 his wife.
On fhs way to Rideewooi to vet a carriage. In
which to take the man TO the county Jail at
Hackcnsack, Alderman kept his hand on his
lovolvor. Mann all the while protested against
his arrest. He couldn't imagine what ho was
arrested for; he snfd. unless It was because OF
:. n little racket" he had had with his vile Mt
Cherry Hill. He thought that she might have
sworn out warrant for him. Constable Ack-
erman did not tell him what he was accused
ensack tho constable took his prisoner before
squire Cummings, who road q complaint
thing about McDonald.
,s We'll. yop have done him ,up," said tho
whssher yon Know ANYTHING about Il i or not" sO
Mann. still insisted that. he knew nothing
about Nc Donald. Finally he said he had seen
two Germans humping the old man. He
.idn't know their names. he sold He was
% The jail G locked up while
latlons OF the sheriff on his capture.
Mann and his family walked over the hills
from Cherry Hill to the house where he was
:sDtured. It took several hours 70 mako The
RED. They got to shelter Just In time TO escape
the storm. 1t was rough journey at best. II
they had been an hour later they would have
suffered terribly. Constable Alderman says
Ramano Mounta;ns. where 81 It wa was Sup SUPPOSED @ he he
II had been an hour or 80 later" he said.
al, ne would have been away sure and he knows
the the mountains IKE e book. He could have
Mann will be kept in jail until Wednesday.
ed he not wss
He died OF pneumonia. and not OF the blows
s she
2 cot the second day afterward. covered with
blood and without fire.