The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-12-02
TO DOWN THE RICH
A New York Crank Express His Dis
like for Wealthy People.
HE CAUSES A SENSATION
Shoots Unfortunately at the Fashion
able Diners i'm DelmonicO's
Restaurant.

New YORK, Nov. GA short, stout,
clean shaven man, wearing a SLOUGH
hat and light overcoat, with the col
lar turned up, buttoned closely around
his neck, walked around the corner of
Thenty-sixth street into Fifth avenue
shortly after o'clock this afternoon
and stood for a moment looking into
the Fifth avenue windows of Delm onico's
and saying things to himself, The man
finally stopped Aon the corner of Twenty
sixth street and began unbuttoning his
coat. Then he unbuttened his under
coat, and, reaching around to his hip
pocket, pulled out a revolver. Waving
this, he came at the group of clubmen
shouting at the top of his voice:
'Down with the rich, down with the
rich" He rushed up and down the
sidewalk, waving the pistol over his
head and calling down maledictions
on the heads of the people who were
getting their lunch at the restauran t.
With another cry of "Down with the
rich" he leveled the gun at the second
window from Twenty-sixth street and
fred. The bullet went through the
glass of the upper sash and buried it.
self in the ceiling of the dining room.
The people in the dining room did not
know what had happened at first, but
the cries of "look out" which came
from the street warned them that some
thing was wrong. Most of the peo-
pie in the restaurant had come from
the horse show. A number got up and
made for the hallway. When the
crank got into the hallway he found
clear field.
1t was only clear for a moment, how
ever. A little Frenchman in evening
dress came running through the hall
way from the cafe and tackled the
crank without hesitation. The crank
seemed surprised and tried to throw
the man off. The Frenchman held on
until the crank finally succeeded in
tripping him up and throwing him face
down on the floor. He paid no more
attention to the Frenchman, but ris-
ing his pistol pointed it in the direc-
tion of the dining room and fred. The
bullet struck the woodwork around the
door. The crank began to tear around
like a maniac, shouting; "You rich
have too good times. The poor starve.
Throw down the rich. Curse them"
The crowd in front of Delmonico's was
by this time enormous. No one seemed
anxious, however, to enter the pace
and "bell the cat" Felix j. Jewett, of
223 East Twenty-ffth street, engineer
of engine 16 of the fire department,
came along and pushing through the
crowd asked what was the matter.
"There's a crank inside with a gum"
shouted somebody.
"Well, why don't somebody tackle
himl" asked Jewett, and he dashed up
the steps and entered the lobby. The
crank was waving his pistol and de-
nouncing the rich when Jewett entered
Jewett grabbed him and tried to get
the pistol. The man held it out at full
length and pointed it into the dining
room. Jewett struck his arm just as
he pulled the trigger. The bullet sped
close to Head Waiter Eugene and he
made for the other end of the room.
He had fred his last ball and he tried
TO use his weapon to knock Jewett out.
Then a policeman appeared and the
crank was ouerpowered and taken to
the station. At the station he gave
his name as G. A. Roeth, that he was 2S
years of age, and that he was a stone
cutter. Up to a week ago he said he
had been in the employee of the dock
department. He resigned he said, be-
cause he wanted to make more money
doing something else.
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