New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-04
STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN TIE BOUERT
MAN DROPS DEAD. GIRL HAS FIT. An
OTHER ONE PAINTS AND TWO SPECTATORS
or ALI. THIS HAVE FIGHT

A MAN DROPS DEAD GIRi. HAS \ FIT An
OTHER ONE PAINTS AND TWO SPECTATORS
or ALI. THIS HAVE FIGHT.
4 tall slight man. apparently about sixty years
old with a pale face and gray hair walked uptown
on the west side OF the Bowery last evening. He
staggered every few steps. Ak though exhausted
but kept along braveIy until he reached the south
west corner OF Bleecker-st. Tho man stopped
swayed for "A moment and then tumbled In heap
right under the window OF saloon"
Several OF the loafers about the doorway turned
and stared at the PROSTATE man. Policeman lhd-
wig after a while learned that there was drunken
man lying helpless on his post and to inves,l
gate lie turned the man over. and sent around 10
the Mulberry-st station for stretcher. Before
Il came. and while the officer stood mounting guard
over the body. wedressed man. accompanied by
two young women. who were evidently seeing the
Bowery" for the first time passed the saloon
What's the matter with him. asked one Of the
girls.
"Dead-probaby starved" said a bystander.
Before he could add anything more the girl
glanced at the PROSTATE man. gave little scream
and tainted in her escorts arms The other glfl
wavered for a moment. and dropped on the pave
ment IN "A hys,erical ~. The girls were revived
with difficulty and started away from the Bo"ery
the first that came along
In the mean time. six policemen arrived from
the station. house with stretchor Before they
removed the unconscious stranger. however. they
consulted. and then rang an ambulance call After
a time one clattered up from 81. Nincents Hos
pitai After brief examination the ambulance
surgeon pronounced his patient dead.
The policemen about to remove him to the
station-house when scunlc occurred In the out
skirts OF the crowd. Without warning. two men,
who had been standing peaceably there. began To
puinmd each other for all they were worth. Police
man Hahn separated the combatants and asked the
eau - OF the trouble. To his surprise each man ac
Gus, ! the other OF attempting 20 rob him. Both
were taken the station and invited To explain the
matter TO the sergeant In charge. .
The first man said he stood near TO Fighter No.
. and saw a long. lean hand stealing across his
chest toward his watchchain. lie brushed the
hand away and stared hard at the man. but n
moment later he felt the hand there again. Then
ne started In thrash its owner. and found him
self seized by the policeman.
The other protested that he the COM
planant and the theft had been attempted by his
companion IL directed against his diamond
pin The accusations and recrimlnations OF the two
prisoners led the sergeant to examine the articles
10 which the alleged attempts 20 steal had been d-
rccted. After Close scrutiny he unhesitatngly
pronounced the diamond pin To he made Of plain
glass. The other fellow was then Obliged 10 admit
that the elaborate chain ne wore had nothing the
end OF II.
The dead man proved to be Ferdinand Knobanl
or Detz OF E1iZabethport. " j. He appeared to
have died from heart disease, aggravated by hun
ger and exposure.