The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-29
MOBBED, II THEY SAY 50.
,,r p1RKRUESr MEN NAVE NOT
roupJtI,ED 10 TIE Police

,.,.,s.pt Bsrnes Ready TO Protect
Av.,re Thcm the Case May
-rapt. wizhnrt Has a Habit of
-.,ns petestatIon, and Anything WIN
-. m Hoot Around Essex Market.
,,.con,oin" Alexander Wishart. lately OF
,,.rr pittsburgh, and Allegheny GIG. and
",,o o,ber parkhurst detectives. who say
wv. Wv ,,ore mobbod under the eyes OF the police
',,or Having the Essex Market Police Court
.n Friday, do not feel like turning tho other
shooL they may have revenge By proving their
s,nrvto superintendent Byrnes. According to
Eronk Moss, the counsel for the Parkhurst
socioty. the detectives escaped death narrow
10 Int completely. There Is no doubt that
49,. NV vsrs followed, hooted. and threatened BY
NV, nh sbolt tho size that an accident to
a.adlors wagon would collect in that part OF
80 in balfa minute. They are not popular
"'nJ ,be Essex Market Police Court. but
~ Superintendent Byrnes and Capt Devery
that every means will be used to protect
them. ,
,o,,n,ant Yesterday to Capt Devery or at Po-
ucs Headquarters. Superintendent Byrnes
said to SuN reporter:
NV only information about this affair thus
far has come from the newspapers. II these
mon were mobbed as they say. 1t was an out
rae, and I shall slit the story. 1have detailed
dstectiyes to make an investigation. and. after
waiting for DR.. Tarkhufsts agents to come
here and make a complaint to me, have sent
for than. do not propose to have any man
assaulted in the streets with impunity II
and that any police officer had hand in this
attack, or if any police officer who saw 1t failed
TO do his duty. he will be punished"
Frank Moss. the counsel for the society. said
Yesterday that after the court squad had
cleared away the mob in front OF the Court
House the detectives started down Broome
street. He thinks that one man who rushed
Mt them had knife In his hand. He had some-
thing in his hand. and may be 1t was a knife.
At any rate the mob followed and hooted at
them. Captain" Wishart met a policeman
and said: III you do not drive this mob back
there will be murder here" MIR. Moss alleges
that the policeman laughed. and that Wishart
Jaw him do 1t. Mr.. Moss said that he then ap-
pealed to two other policemen on their way
10 the Bowery. and both policemen laughed.
Mr., Moss says that the mob kept shouting that
tbe detectives were Parkhurst men and kept
melting each other to violence. Again. when
they boarded car and the mob surrounded
them. Mr.. Moss said; policeman who wit
fere a nd advised the Parkhurst men to call out
u, II Mr.. Moss's version Is correct four police
Byrnes and Capt Devery say that II this can
as ist they viii be punished. It is perfectly
that Sou nS
be reported at the police station. Capt Devory
":q Crowds ro gather In this part Of town very |
cannot prevent that. but shall do every |
Dr. %.n fkarkhursts S Society from beins moebed OF
assaulted. lust as would protect any other
At the Eldridge street station house the Ser
geant at the desk said that most Of the police
were at the registration booths on Friday. He |
said that there was no policeman on duty in
first policeman laughed.
DR.. Parkhurst said to SUN reporter:
I'VE have made no complaint to the police.
MITE did mot Sass ssinea thar
The details OF the assault were substantially as
The Eldridge street police say that there
was no policeman on duty in Breome street.
detailed to the registration boOths said the
aI Ef j. many police we're watching the
Pr PIrrs M s Oct 2e--capt" Alexander Wis.
,art probably did moro than any. other man
,ver did In Pittsburgh to m axe the blue laws OBJ
,ofious and himself detested. His petty soda
'ery unpopular: His motives were impugned
md bis record was assailed. Since ne pur-
ued his peculiar avocation here no less than
md Order Society. in which he figured SO
prominently; have been sent to the peniten-
iary. and Wishart's successor. Robert NC
md fraud IN, cheating the city out OF flnes
'hcn should nave been turned over to It.