The evening world., 1891-08-08
RUN DOWN BY THE DUMMY.
The Night Before Thiel Was As
saulted in Prospect Park.
Did n PolIcemnn's Club Assist in
Causing This Mans Death?

The dummy engines which run through
Third avenue, Brooklyn, from Twenty-ffth
street to Fort Hamilton, have claimed another
victim.
william X. Thiel, boss mason and plas-
terer, was run down and instantly killed at
IL O'Clock last night at the corner OF Third
avenue and Fifty-seventh street.
The wheels OF the engine passed over his
neck and body, severing an arm and mutilat-
ing the body In horrible manner.
Engineer Thomas Glynn, Of 15l Twenty
NTH street; Conductor Neil McGuinness, OF
140 Twenty-flrst street, and Brakeman Daniel
Major, OF $50 Nineteenth street, were ar
rested on charge OF homicide.
When arraigned in the Butler street Police
Court this morning they pleaded not guilty
and were released IN $1,000 bail
Thiel is the man who was found badly
wounded in Prospect Park at l.30 o'clock yes
terday morning and told the police he had
been assaulted and thrown into the lake.
His head was covered with blood and there
was large and ugly-looktng cut across his
forehead. He was sent to the Seney Hospi-
tai.
He was discharged yesterday afternoon,
and 1t is supposed that he started for Fort
Hamilton. At any rate nothing was heard
from him until he was run over and killed.
A train OF cars drawn by engine / left Fort
Hamilton at 1O.45 last evening. AS the train
neared the corner OF Fitty-seventh street the
engineer began to slacken speed, there being
several persons on the lower corner waiting
to board the train.
just as the train reached the upper corner
man darted out OF the shadow and started
across the track
lie was stepping out OF the way when the
train struck him and he was dragged under
the wheels.
was ON the train, telegraphed for an ambu-
lance. The man, however, was dead.
The body was removed to the Eighteenth
Precinct Police station. In a small hand
sRtchel, which the man carried, was found a
card bearing Thiels name and business ad-
dress, 80 Cranberry street, and his home ad-
dress, 1870 Broadway.
The police said the case looked like suicide.
Granville F. f. Williams, Thiels sterson,
who called at the statiOn-houSe and idenIlfled
the body, said this morning:
my father never committed suicide. There
was no reason why he should. He was pros
porous. He had no enemies. He leaves nc
| family.
MY mother died two years ago, and since
then he has been living at my house. He was
| in the habit OF visiting Prospect Park and
Fort Hamilton.
"He LETT home Thursday night, saying he
! was going to the Park. / heard nothing OF
| that he had been assaulted. At the hospital
| ! was told he had been discharged.
From what he told the hospital surgeons,
] ain inclined TO think he was assaulted
| by park ofiiCer. He was asleep on
| q bench, when two men came along, woke him
| up and demanded to know what he was de-
| ing there.
" He replied 1t was none OF their business.
| Then he was struck on the head with a club
| He could remember nothing until he found
| himself crawling out OF the lake.
hn W " n a %
mained there until his clothing dried"
MIR. Williams said that his stepfather had
been drinking lately, but had not drank much
| this week.
Thiel was born in Germany and came tC
this country thirty years ago. lie was nifty.
| nve years old.