The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-31
Two MORE CRANKS BOB Up,
One Shoots a Man and One Threatens
Edwin Gould.

TIE Letter Demanded $1,000 and
Threatened to Kill the Multi Million
aira if Not Paddle Was Jailed.
The Superintendent of the New
Postal Telegraph Building Fatally
Wounded by a Lunatio Who Fan
oied BE Wanted to Arrest Him.
New York, Oct. 30-This afternoon at
S:30 o'clock crazy man, emulating the
example of the man who on Saturday
night shot down and killed Mayor Harri-
son, of Chicago, fired two shots from a
6-barreled revolver into the stomach of a
man, whom he, in his insanity imagined
had done him a wrong
The man who was shot was Frederick
Matthews.
The man who did the shooting is said
to be Thomas Bradley.
Matthews is superintendent of con-
struction of the new Postal Telegraph
building at Murray street and Broad
way
But for the fact that ten policemen of
the Broadway squad, with their bodies
and batons defended the postrate,
bleeding, mangled and shrieking form of
the would-be murderer an infuriated mob
of over 800 men armed with sticks, clubs
and stones would have lynched the fell
low. The police had all they could do to
keep the struggling crowd back and, as it
was, many head was cracked by the
police in their struggles to get the crazy
man through the crowd.
MAKING THE ARREST.
The police cleared the place and
marched into the basement. Behind the
pile Of cornice in the northeast corner lay
the man who had attempted to murder
Superintendent Matthews They took
up positions behind piles of cornices,
which had been rapidly thrown up as
breastwOrks. The man had hidden him
self behind pile about 10 feet high, 3
feet deep and about 10 feet
long. The man behind was crouched
very low down, and in one hand he held
his pistol already cooked. To scare the
man out, the police opened fire and about
twenty shots were fired. The man did
not come out at the first volley, but
when a policeman got up on top
of the pile while the others
were averting the mans attention
and pointed a pistol at his head
already cooked and told him that unless
he came out in three minutes he would
be dead man, the man threw up his
hands. The policeman took out his
watch and called out at the end of one
minute; then at the second minute, there
was heard an ominOus clicking, as every
policeman in the crowd cooked his re-
VOlVpF The Cfaptp6 will nj
haste.
DESPERATE FIGHT.
Policeman Dan Gillespie made a rush
at the man about ten feet before he got to
the exit of Broadway and hit him on the
head with his stick. The man shrieking
and crying, striking out right and
left with his fist was felled
to the ground, and lalf a dozen
policemen fell on top of him. 1t required
three minutes steady clubbing to subdue
the man, who struggled like a wild cat
Then ensued another wild rush and the
crowd Uried to get at the man to lynch
him. The policemen had the greatest
difficulty in getting the man through the
crowd to the station house.
THE STORY OF THE SHOOTING.
From witnesses of the shooting, men
who had been working at the place all
gay long, II was learned that the man had
been loafing around the building all day.
He had been hiding behind piles
of bricks and saying that the police
man and the superintendent were
after him, trying to murder
him for stealing $500. The men
paid no attention to him. At $3.50 o'clock
the man came from behind a pile and
stepping up to the superintendent delib-
erately fred two shots into his stomach.
Waving his umbrella and yelling for the
men to keep back he took refuge behind
pile Of bricks.
The man was locked up in the city hall
police station last night as a suspicious
character. He tcid the same story about
the policeman try ing to murder him for
$500 he had stolen
Supt. Matthews is in a critical condition,
and will probably die before morning.