The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-28
FOUGHT 6 POLICEMEN.
John Otto, a Supposed Luratic,
Cave Them a Hard Tussle.
Finally 0verpowered and Taken 10
Bellevue in an Amhula zoe.
He Had Knocked Down an Unknown
Woman on the street.

Six policemen had pitched battle
this morning with a man, thought to
be a maniac. 1t took place at Fifteenth
street and Second avenue. and lasted
over half an hour.
The man Is a verltable giant in
strength and stature. Before he was
subdued two of the policemen had
their clothes torn from their backs,
one had badly cut lip and all bore
marks of the combat in the shape of
bruised faces and bloody clothes.
The man gives the name of John
Otto, says he is twenty-six years old
and porter
1t was just after 3 o'clock when
Policeman John Magner. of the East
| Twenty-second street station, reached
the southeast corner Of Twenty-second
street and Second avenue. A woman
came suddenly up to him, out of the
darkness, and clutching him by the
| arm said:
Sir, l have been assaulted: Ilan
knocked me down."
Where is he now?'
II don't know; he went away"
Questioned further, the woman said
| she had left her house to go for a
physician, when she met the man, whom
she did not know. and he struck her.
The policeman noticed that she was
understanding. pretty woman. and was
greatly excited.
Suddenly as she talked. she turned
around and uttered a shrek.
There he is now" she cried.
Magner turned, and there alongside of
railing before a bro~nstone house
stood a tall man; his arms were folded,
and he looked intently at the policeman
and the woman. Magner went up to
him.
WHO are you?" he said gruffly.
In another instant the policeman was
was the beginning of the battle. Over
and over the two rolled. but the police
man soSn saw he was no match ;hs for of the
was struck in the face and choked. He
| called loudly for help. but the street was
deserted. and there was no response to
At last the policeman was lying nat
on his back, exhausted. with the man
sitting on top of him, his fingers chok-
Speaking of it afterwards. the police
man said: 'They were fingers OF living
steel. that every second frightened about
my throat"
Magner would undoubtedly have been
strangled had not Policemen Roesch,
Eaton and Wren come running up the
street, Then the battle was renewed;
But the man proved u match for all
| four of the policemen.
They were soon forced to defend them
sa1ves against the attacks OF the ma
him, Three times he was hit in the
head with one of the policemen's short
clubs. but he fought on. the blood
streaming down his face, covering the
kept up continual outcry, but the ma
| MAC did not utter a sound!
All the time the struggle was going on
the young woman stood near by and
Policemen Murphy and Boyle, who
were in the adjoining precinct, further
down Second avenue. heard the cries,
precinct. When the cries continued,
however. they deserted their posts and
ran to the assistance Of their brother
Now there were six against one. 1t
was terrific odds, and the man. weak
from the loss OF blood. was finally over
Then five Of the policemen held him
down. while Magner telephoned for an
| ambulance. 1t was feared the man been
badly hurt, the policemen certainly
were.
The man lay quietly enough until the
ambulance came. Then he was man
acled. He was considered safe enough
about his waist: to which the manaoles
were attached by chains. The surgeon
examined the mans head, and said he
had only scalp &c; t,o WOUNDS, but had lost q
into the ambulance. his eyes were closed
and he seemed unconscious.
| Can you take him aione?" asked a
"oh, he's all right now" answered the
ambulance uttered a cry, and disap-
from n abs his . sfs Ms ,se ma the
ac's terrible fingers about his throat.
The man had broken the chains that
I'm Immediately, the almost exhausted po-
licemen were in the ambulance, holding
the man. His wrists had the steel
bands on them now and he could not
struggle as he did before, but he was
u" It wa Was decided that three policemen
should attend him to Bellevue Hospi:
tai. All the way the man fought, and
at the hospital he was put In straight
The policemen had their injuries looked
after. Magner's hip. was cut and his
face swelled. The others were scratched
| and bruised.
One OF the sleeves had beer. torn from
Eaton's coat The uniforms OF the other
| three men were sad wrecks
| When the man had been taken to the
hospital the woman disappeared. She
had stood silently by until the end, One
OF the policemen thought he had seen
Every effort Was made to hnd her with
out success. II Is believed that she
knows who the man Is. He would say
nothing at the hospital after giving his
Otto was seen in the Prison Ward At
Bellevue Hospital this morning, His
head was swathed In bandages and he
appeared to be dazed
| He admitted to an Evening WORLD
reporter that he had some trouble with
an unknown woman in saloon in Sec
ond avenue. with whom he passed a
"ioke" She struck him, he sad, and
he pushed her down.
| II tried to escape from the pol. e." he
said but DID not knock an { them
down, ! had been drinking"
Otto said that ne hel been up to u
week ago, porter in a saloon at 402 Sixth
avenue. Physically he resembles San
dow He Will not be able to go to court
for several days the doctors think.