New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-02
CHASING A BOY PIRATE.
AN URCHIN CALMLY FACED HIS BULLETS.
THE LAD WITH THE PISTOL TRIED TO SHOOT
EVERYBODY WITHIN REACH ONE
VICTIM HIT IN THE HEAD.

case of juvenile piracy that nearly ended in a
tragedy occurred on the Passac River at Newark yes
terGay between A and p. m. John Lewis, eleven
wears old of No 60 Muberryst., Newark, with Roger
Hurst nine years old and John Cannon, eleven years
old all pupils in st. Johns Roman Catholic school in
Newark hired a rowboat in the afternoon and went up
the river their return they had reached the vicinity
of the Morris and Essex Railroad bridge and were OPP
poste the pier Of the Yantacaw Ice Conipony, where
another rowboat in which sat two boys was pulled
out from the Kearny shore their bow The boy
at the oars in the second boat was Henry Jordan
fourteen years DID, Of No. 10 Howard-st. Newark HIS
eompanion was & small red-headed urchin.
When his boat had intercepted the other boat Jordan
shouted halt and the other boys stopped rowing.
Then deliberately pulling In his oars, Jordan put his
right hand to his hip pocket and said, "Tm detec-
tve.s The next instant he leveled a revolver ana
fred at the boys. Two of them dropped Nat INTO the
botom of the boat to avoid the shots, but the Lewis
boy sat upright and faced the assassin seconu ana
third shot missed and then fourth shot struck Lewis
in the head TO the right OF the left temple Inc O
glanced over the skull, ploughing up the skin, ana
nossod ont at the top Of the head. The blood
nuted from the wound and Lewis fell stunned into the
bottom OF the boat.
Two men standing on the pier Of the Yantacaw Ice
Comnany witnessed this strange scene. When theS
recovered from their arnazement they shouted 10 Jo
dan that he had killed boy in the other Doat foi
renly the murderOuS urcDn lOducu Hlo iS''-'NA '
fired two shots at them. One Of the men spIang mo
boat and pulled out to where the boat containing te
three bows was drifting with the stream JORDAN had
exhausted all the cartridges in his revolver ana ses
the oars rowed TO the Kearny shore Inc Hau SC
cured the other boat and flowed 1t TO the pier
The other man, Peter Brant, kearny ice-oeaier,
had meanwhile run to the railroad bridge and croSssd
q n Inherent Jordan He reached the otrer shore
after the latter had landed, and pursued hh' Inc
red headed boy disappeared Jordan loaded MS weapon
m he ran and when his pursuer was near him ne turned
and fred shot Brant upon him the next lnstaho
o,d sezed him. but did not dlsarm him, as he mad
sunned the revolver into hs pocket again. Brant
raled his prisoner TO the Bridgest footbrdge, where
no was met by a Newark policeman who had hastened
to the bridge for that purpose
As Brant was handing Jordan into the oricers Gus
tody the boy suddenly produced the revolver and at
tomnted 10 shoot the officer. The latter promptly dis
armed him. At the Second Precinct police station
ninety-fve cartridges taken from his pockets
He explained that he worked In an umbrella factory
ond had taken a day of for sport lie mad pr
chased the revolver at second hand store IN MARKET
st and also the cartridges 1t was evident that the
boy had been drinking. -.,,
Meanwhile young Lewis was taken 10 the s'atlon anu
tho norce surgeon sewed up the wound In his head
tIo as pluclzy child and told his story with perfect
% ohaIance Ills face greatly swollen from tle
rnS md his ewes were nearly closed lie was taheh
10, 10 ne ed before Justice Conlan When asked why he
had done the shooting, he replied " Honest 70 %oa a
nn +he Ribil I didn't shoot He denied that ne had
either , the pistol or the cartridges In his possession