The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-31
.LUNATICS At LARGE
A New York Builder Shot Down
by Crank,
IT IS FEARED HE CANNOT SURVIVE

Iolcemen have Hard Tussle with n
Mob to Prevent a Lynchlng-Edwin
Gould waited Upon by Crank who
Demanded Five Thousand Dollars.
NEW York, Oct 3l.-.At $3.50 o'clock yes
| terday afternoon a 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 six
/ barreled revolver into the stomach of q
| man whom he, i'm his insanity. imagined
/ had done him a wrong The man who was
| shot was Frederick Natthics. The man
/ who did the shooting is said to be named
/ Thomas Bradley. Matthies is -u.arn-
| tendent Of construction of the new Postal
/ Telegraph building, at Murray street and
! Broadway
| But for the fact that ten policemen of
| the Broadway squad defended the pros
| trate, bleeding, mangled and shriekiug
( form of the would-be murderer an iufur-
/ lated mob of 500 men, armed with sticks,
! clubs and stones, would have lynched the
/ fellow. The police had all they could do
/ to keep back the struggling crowd, and as
! it was many head was cracked by the
| police in their struggles to get the crazy
man through the crowd.
! The police cleared the place and marched
| into the basement Behind a pile of
| cornice in the northeast corner lay the
man who had attempted to murder Super
intendent Matthies. He had taken a
| position behind piles of cOrnice which had
been rapidly thrown up as breastworks.
! Bradley was cronching very low down
and in his hand held his pistol, already
cooked. To scare him out the police
/ pppDp1 fire. npI nh t,yarfyr gbptg ,y-ova
fired. As the man did not come out at
the first volley policemen got on top of
the pile and told him that unless he came
out in three minutes he would be a dead
man. The policeman took out his watch
and called out at the end of one minute,
| and at the second minute there was heard
an omnious clicking as every policeman in
the crowd cooked his revolver. Then
| Bradley started out with all haste
Policeman Gillespie made a rush at the
man and hit him on the head with his
stick. Bradley, shrieking and crying,
striking right and left with his fists, was
felled to the ground and half a dozen po-
| licemen fell on top of him. 1t required
three minutes steady clubbing to subdue
the man, who struggled like a wildcat.
| Then ensued another wild rush, and the
crowd tried 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.
Bradley had been hiding behind piles of
bricks all day, and saying that the police
men and the superintendent were after
him, trying TO murder him for stealing
$500. The workmen paid no attention to
him. AT $3.50 O'Clock he came from behind
pile, and stepping up TO the superintend-
ent deliberately fired two shots into his
| stomach.
Then waving his revolver and yelling
for the men to keep back he took refuge
behind a pile of bricks Bradley was
locked up in the City Hall police station
Sunday night as a suspicious character.
he told the same story about the police
trying to murder him for the $500. Mat
thies is in a critical condition, and will
probably die.
Shortly before the police captured Brad
ley Edwin Gould, second son of the late
Jay Gould and coheir of the latter's mill
ions, had his first startling experience with
the genus crank. Mr.. Gould was sitting
in his private Office in the Western Union
building at ? o'clock, when he was dis
turbed by the sudden entrance of a slight,
understood man, shabbily but neatly
dressed with pale face and small black
mustache.
He walked steadily towards Mr. Gould,
and when he got close to him said in a
threatening manner, Give me that 50, 900,
and give it to me quick, or give me the tip
on the market"
"Sit down just a minute" said Mr..
Gould until get the money out of the
safe" The crank sat down and Mr.. Gould
stepped to a side door. He opened the
door and out walked Detective William
| Clark, of the Central Office Come with
me and we'll get the money" said the
detective
The crank bowed his head and walked
out of the office. In the hall Clark put
the handouts on the wild eyed young
man, and half an hour later be was at
police headquarters. Mr.. Gould had been
prepared for his crank visitor by one of
his clerks the crank having called twice
before.
AT police headquarters the crank said
| his name was Mongolia Andrews, and that
he is "a years old. His object in going to
| Mr. Gould was so be repaid 1000 which
| he had lost in Rosedale, Kan, while work
| ing on a railroad in the Gould system
| When searched there was found a note in
! Andrews pocket addressed to Edwin
/
to 100 l want to get a small smash at
bucket shops. Please answer"
There was also a note book containing a
| list of names, beginning Vanderbilt Oil
! yer Ames Depew, Astor, Bliss" Beside
| each name was letter which correspondent
! to a scale of amounts in another part of
| the book, and showed how much each one
whose name was mentioned was worth.
| The police think Andrews lis insane.
! A dispatch from Kansas City, No, an
nounces tba, Andrews is a telegraph oper-
| ator, employed by the Western Union
company there, and now on a leave of alb
/ senCe.
Triple Tragedy Narrowly Averted.
| PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 81 - Mrs. Paul
| Spearing, 30 years of age, attempted to
! end her existence and that of her two
children by throwing herself and them in
| front Of a south bound express train on
| the Reading railroad at the Dauphin
street crossing. The gateman and spec
tator succeeded in rescuing the frenzied
woman in time TO save the lives of them
all, although she fought them desperately
Murdered by MOOnshiners.
MADISON, Ind, Oct. 3l-About the 9TH
of last August Hosea Hildreth, of this
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