The evening world., 1893-10-31
That Was His Purpose When
Nabbed in the Street by
a Policeman.
Erwin GOULD'S CRAZY CALLER.
Bowery Clothing Store Win
dows Smashed by..a Crank
This Morning.

FL TX Lewis Mathes, victim of
the murderous crank, Thomas Bradley,
whose shooting in the new Postal Telc-
graph Building was told in THE Even
ing Worlds & O'Clock Extra yesterday,
was reported to be doing well at Cham
bers Street Hospital this morning.
The operation OF laparotomy was per-
formed last evening 10y DR.. Simpson at
the hospital. 1t was found that the A.
calibre revolver bullet fired by Bradley
had entered the abdomen. but had not
penetrated the intestines.
Policeman Franklin cornell, of the
Church street squad, visited tho hos
pital this morning. and was given a GER
tihcate stating that Mathes had passed
a quiet night, sleeping gently and re-
freshingly. and that unless peritonitis
set in he would eventually recover.
Bradley, who was taken to Bellevue
Hospital, was not brought down to Po-
lice Court in the early morning hours.
He will be held to await the result of
the wounds he inflicted on Supt. Mathcs.
The certificate signed by House-Sur-
geon Bersinado. of Chambers Street
Hospital, stated that it would be i'm
possible to determine the outcome of
Tile ullt "blli'l III WI NldNLltN : bip
men inside of IL week. but all present
indications were that he would recover.
Mr.. Matthcs' wife and daughter were
notified last night. They came over
from their home, at - South Second
street, brooklyn, and found quarters
near the Chambers Street Hospital tina
they might bc near the sick man. They
were with himthis morning.
There was no cause for the murderous
intent Of Bradley. The man he wounded
seriously, perhaps MORALLY. Frederick
Lewis Mathes, of - South Second street.
Brooklyn. had lone him no injury other
than to order him away from the build
ing, which he had doggedly fixed his
mind upon as a %loungine place by day
and a lodging place at night. ,
When the crank was finally SuDduci
and taken to the Second Precinct police
%sation, 1t was found that, although he
was, tattered and dirty, thin, hollow
eyed and weak, apparently from starvd-
tion, he had SIS in money on his person.
Bradley was rambling and incoherent
in his account Of himself, and he was
crank crank of the same variety as
Prendergast. who murdered Mayor Car
Ter II. Harrison. Of Chicago, and like
the crank, Henry Frank, who visited the
once of Edwin Gould, in the Western
Union Building, yesterday. asked for
George J. Could, and demanded 5000.
Policeman Mccarthy. who visited Bel
lcvue Hospital, appeared before Police
Justice Martin at the Tombs Court at
a little before noon ana reported that,
hurt, he had = bad scalp wound and a
wound in his right arm, ana that tho
physicians would not consent to his be-
ing taken to court to-day.
The examination of Bradley was ad-
journed until tomorrow.
ON the night Of oct. u Policeman
Quinn saw Bradley proving about In
Exchange place, Jersey city. acting in
a suspicious manner. The policeman ar
rested him as a disorderlY person At
found on him.
The next morning Justice O,ponnell
cealed weapon, In default, Bradley
was sent to Jail for ten days and his
revolver was contisCated.
Bradley was released from Jail on
Saturday. At the First Precinct Police
had been robbed OF a $500 draft on a
San Francisco bank by II man Of the
name of Lynch; He said Lynch tried
10 bride the Hudson County Grand
Jury to indict him. lie gave his place
Of residence as 10 Hudson avenue,
brooklyn. The man was looked upon
bradley il thirty-seven years old, He
Vas born in Ireland, and has neen in
that he had lived with Johnny Lynch
IN Brooklyn for the pas, nine weeks.
that ne was tlfte years Il sailor on
the United States steamship Trenton,
and down 20 the time when the Tren-
Samoan Islands; that he lost $GW WORT
OF clothing in tlrat disaster, and ma,
Just received $500 from the United states
Government In repayment Of the loss.
The man then told an inCOhcrent story
about how he had intrrstod the 500 t.
the safe keeping # Johnny Lynch; that
Jury TO have him indicted, and had paid
500 to men for killing him, and that
these men lay in wait for him at the
entrance to the East River Bridge. He
couldn't tell when he purchased the pis-
toll, but said ne got 1t 10 protect himself
from the hired assassins at the Bridge,
The man was hin and cadaverous. He
complained of being. starved. yet he had
Sl5 in the pockets OF the miserable rags
a. he HOSPITAL ana identiied. He toit