The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-28
FOUGHT 6 POLICEMEN.
John Otto, a Supposed Luratic,
Gave Them q Hard Tussle.
Finally 0verpowered and Taken to
Bellevue In an Ambulance.
He Had Knocked Down an Unknown
Woman on the Street.

Six policemen had a pitched battle
this morning with a man, thought to
he q maniac. 1t took place at Fifteenth
street and Second avenue. and lasted
over half an hour.
The man is a veritable giant in
strength and stature. Before he was
subdued two Of the policemen had
their clothes torn. from their backs,
one had q 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 10 twenty-six years old
and q porter.
1t was Just after 8 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 woma n
came suddenly up to him, out Of the
darkness, and clutching him by the
arm said:
"Sk. 1 have been assaulted; a man
knocked me down.
Where is he nowT'
Il 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.
policeman noticed that she was a
,dest-looking. pretty woman, and was
,atly excited.
lddenly as she talked, she turned
Ind and uttered shrek.
here he Is now" she cried.
ignsr turned. and there alongside Of
.ilipg before a brownstone house
aetali man: his arms were folded,
he looked intently at the policeman
tho are you?" he said grufHy.
another instant the policeman was
onlhis back on the pavement and
big man was on top of him. That
the beginning Of the battle. Over
over the two rolled. but the police
Tine and time again the officer
struck in the face and choked. He
ID Loudly for help but the street was
.rted. and there was no response to
t last the policeman was lying fiat
Els back. exhausted. with the man
ing on top Of him, his fingers chok-
akinx a IL afterwards, the police
4 said: They were fingers of living
4, that every second frightened about
asner would undoubtedly have been
lnsled had not Policemen Roesch,
on and Wren come running up the
,et. Then the battle was renewed.
r Of the policemen.
hey were sosn. forced to defend them
'es against the attacks of the ma
Three times he was hit in the
I'd with one Of the policemen's short
Abs. but he, fought on. the blood
ssmen a 40 they Ought The fo ns
t up a continual cutlery, but the ma
did not utter sound.
II the time the struggle was going on
e young woman stood near by and
Policemen Murphy and Boyle, who
ere In the adjoining precinct; further
1t for a time hesitated to leave their
recinct. Whe the cries continued,
, owever, they deserted their posts and
an to the assistance Of their brother
Now there We're six against one. 1t
vas terrific odds and the man, weak
rom 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
The man lay quietly enough until the
ambulance came. Then he was man.
then. for hig leather belt was strapped
about his waist. to which the manacles
were attached by chains. The surgeon
examined the mans head, and said he
great deal of blood. When ne was lifted
into the ambulance. his eyes were closed
and he seemed unconscious.
Can you take him alone?" asked a
"Oh, he's all right now" answered the
surgeon. Just then the driver, Of the
psa9sa from Ss seat eFE a sas ass R:
bottom of the vehicle, with the mani
ac's terrible fingers about his throat.
The, man had broken the chains that
Immediately, the almost exhausted po-
licemen were in the ambulance; holding
the man. His wrists had the steel
struggle as he did before. but he was
not easy to conquer.
It was decided that three POLICEMEN
tai. All the way the man fought, and
at the hospital he was put in straight
jacket.
The policemen had their injuries looked
after. Magner's hip was cut and his
face swelled. The others were scratched
and bruised.
One Of tbs sleeves had been torn from
Eatons coat. The uniforms of the Other
three men were sad wrecks.
When the man had been taken to the
hospital the woman disappeared, She
nsd stood Silently By until the he END END ont
the man before. but he was, not sure
Every effort was made TO find her with
out success. II is believed that sac
knows who the mar Is. He would say
nothing at the hospital after giving his
name.
Otto was seen in the prison ward al
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 a saloon in Sec
ond avenue, with whom he passed a
Joke" She struck him. he said, and
! he pushed her down.
II tried to escape from the police, he
said, but did not knock any of them
down. had been drinking"
Otto said that he had been up to q
week ago porter in saloon a io2 Sixth
avenue. Physically he resembles San.
dow. He win not be able to go to court