The evening world., 1894-09-25
FOUGHT A BURGLAR.
Ryan Drew a Pistol and Two
Razors on Policeman Dillon.
The Latter 0verpowered and Sub
dued Him with His Club.
Police Confident that Hos the
"Barbcr shop Burglar"

After short but desperate encounter
In which burglar attempted to use a
pistol ana a brace of razors, John Ryan
shoemaker, who says he lives a,
Bowery and Hester street, New York
was captured by Policeman ]. ]. Gillon
or the lower Fulton street station
Brooklyn. at 1890 o'clock this morning
and locked up In a cell.
| In the arrest of Ryan the police be.
lieVe they have made most importan
capture. For several weeks complaints
nave been pouring in at Police Head
quarters from the proprietors of barber
shops whose places had been broken
| INTO and robbed The holiness of the
burglar was illustrated last week. when
| In single night two barber shops-one
ADJOINING and another Immediately back
or the Adams street station-were
broken into.
Ryan was at work trying to enter
another place last night, when he was
surprised and captured by Policeman
Gillon. He had been successful in a
burglary earlier In the evening
Shortly before II o'clock last night
salvatore Massino, a boy, employed by
Joseph Muccio, barber at 81 Fulton
street. and who slept over the store.
was awakened by the noise of someb ,dy
moving about In the store. He crept
downstairs, and just as he was about
70 peer into the store through an open
door man thrust a pistol under his
nose and said: '
ala snui 1,l TX Kan vo,; ySu' If you give an
The boy was SO frightened that he
let out piercing Shrek. The burglar
t,eu' t,a mue ois, who had been awakened
say the man running along Fulton
siSeet, and raised a cry of Stop thief. !"
Inc heeing burglar turned into Willow
street Joseph Cabot, of 40 Fulton
the chase "a
He overlook the burglar at Poplar
street The n ana i reached out to grab him.
CABOT a singing blow in the face.
which sent him Keeling into the gutter,
Ihen ne turned corner and disap-
When they returned to Muccio's shop
| they discovered that the burglar had
stolen IS cents from the till.
ba For hs several nights Policeman Gillor
barber. shops In the Second Precinct
AT 123o o'clock this morning he saw
as man try aps.r to s Spen the door Of phT
street; He asked the man what he
was doing there at that time OF the
| morning,
"Oh. nothing" said the man. The
policeman recognized him as the bur.
glar who had broken into Muccio's shop
he put out his hand to arrest him, but
Ryan was too quick. He lodged, and
| then drawing razor, slashed vciously
| at the policeman. 1t was Gillon's turf
| 70 get out or the way. but as he lodged
| the blow he drew his club and knocked
me weapon from Ryan's hand. Ryar
then brought another razor into play
| Inc blade flashed, and Gillon Jumped
back couple of feet just in time to
| escape blow In the face
| AS Ryan raised the razor above his
mead to renew the attack Gillon struck
him on the hand, sending the razor fly.
| Ing into the street. Before Ryan could
renew the fight Gillon brought his club
Keeling to the ground. Then he slipped
handcuns on his prisoner and took him
| to the station-house, where an ambu.
| lance surgeon was called to dress n
scalp wound that the prisoner had re-
| ceived.
| When asked where he got The razors
| he declared that he had never seen then
prisoner throw a cigarette-holder away
| 1t was taken to the station house late
and identified by Muccio as his property
| The prisoner also had small stcne ir
his pocket, which the police say Is used
| in breaking windows.
At clearinghouse at Bowery and Hes
ter street this morning 1t was said tina
Ryan was not known there.
| In the Adams Street Court this morn
| ing Massino fully identified the prisoner
as the man who had broken into his en-
ployer's shop.
glary.