St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-31
ANOTHER MANAGES DEED.
FREDERICK MATTHLES, OF NEW YORK
cI7Y SHOT DOWN.
BARE ESCAPE FROM LYNCH1NG
The Victim Was superintendent
OF the New Postal Telegraph
Building = Ed GouId's En-
counter With O Crank Who
Demands $4,000 - He Is
Quickly Arrested.

New YORK. Oct. 3O.-At $3.50 o'clock
this afternoon crazy man, emulating
the example of the man who Saturday
night shot down and killed Mayor Har-
riSon, of Chicago, fired two shots from
siX-barreled revolver into the stomach
OF man who he in his insanity i'm
agined had done him wrong. The
man who was shot was Frederick Mat
thies. The man who did the shooting
is said to be named Thomas Bradley.
Matthies is superintendent of construc-
tion of the new Postal Telegraph build
ing, Broadway. But for the fact that
ten policemen of the Broadway squad,
with their billies and batons. defended
the PROSTATE, bleeding and mangled
and shrieking form of the wouldbe
murderer, an infuriated mob of over
1,5OO men, armed with sticks, clubs and
stones, would have lynched the fellow.
The police had all they could do to keep
the struggling crowd back. 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 the pile of cornice
in the northeast corner lay the man who
had attempted to murder Superintend-
ent Matthies. The police were behind
the pile of cornice which had been
thrown up as breaSwOrks. The man
had hidden himself behind pile three
feet high and about ten feet deep. The
man was crouching very low down, and
n q n dx
cooked. To acare the man out the po-
lice opened fire, and about twenty shots
were fired. The man did not come out
at the first volley, but when police
man got on top of the pile while the
others were attracting the mans atten-
tion and pointed pistol at him 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 end of the second
minute there was heard an ominouS
clicking as every policeman in the
crowd cooked his revolver. The man
started out with all haste.
Policeman Dan Gillespie made rush
at the man about ten feet before he got
to the exit ON Broadway, and hit him
on the head with his stick. The man,
shrIeking and crying, striking out right
and left with his fists, was felled to the
ground, and half dozen policemen fell
on top of him. 1t required three min
utes' steady clubbing to subdue the
man, who struggled like a wildcat.
Then enSued another wild rush, ana the
crowd tried to get at the Iran to lynch
him. The policemen had the greatest
difficulty in getting the man through
the crowd to the station house.
From witnesses OF the shooting, the
men who had been working at the
place ali day long, it was learned that
the man had been loating around the
building all day. He had been hiding
behind piles of brick, and saying that
he policemen 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 be-
hind pole. ana, deliberately stepping
up to the superintendent, fired two shots
into his stomach. Then 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 nall police station last night as
a suspicious character. He told story
about the policeman trying to murder
him for $500 he had stolen. Matthews
Is in critical condition, and will prob
ably die before morning.