The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 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 He's the
"Barber Shop Burglar"

After a short but desperate encounter,
IN which a burglar attempted to use q
mist oil and a brace of razors. John Ryan,
shoemaker, who says he lives at
Royery and hester street. New York,
was captured by Policeman j. ]. Gillon,
of the lower Fulton street station,
Brooklyn, at 1890 O'Clock this morning
and locked up in cell.
In the arrest of Ryan the police be-
,,eve they have made a most important
-apture. For several weeks complaints
ave been pouring in at Police Head
uarters from the proprietors Of barber
hops whose places had been broken
ito and robbed. The boldness of the
urglar was illustrated last week, when
4 a single night two barber shops-one
.djoining and another Immediately back
IF 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, a barber at 81 Fulton
street, and who slept over the store.
was awakened by the noise of somebody
moving about in the store. He crept
downstairs, and just as he was about
10 peer into the store through an open
door a man thrust pistol under his
nose and said:
Shut up, - you! If you give an
The boy was so frightened that he
let out piercing Shrek. The burglar
Il fed. Muccio, who had been awakened
-, hA nod Hny nSt
saw the man running along Fulton
street, and raised cry of stop thief y
The fleeing burglar turned into Willow
street Joseph Cabot, of As Fulton
street saw him running and Joined in
He overlook the burglar at Poplar
street and reached out, to grab him.
CABOT a singing blow in the face,
which sent him Keeling into the gutter
Then he turned corner and disap,
peared. Several poll ,emen searehea
When they returned to Muccio's shop
they discovered that the burglar had
stolen IS cents from the till
has been specially detailed to watch
barber shops in the Second Precinct:
At 1890 o'clock this morning he saw
man trying to open the door OF n Pn,lrp
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, put
Ryan was too quick. He lodged, and
then drawing a razor, slashed Viciously
at the policeman. 1t was Glllons turn
to get out Of the way. but as he lodged
the blow he drew his club and knocked
the weapon from Ryan's hand. Ryan
then brought another razor into play.
The blade flashed, and Gillon jumped
back a couple of feet just in time to
escape a blow in the face.
As Ryan raised the razor above MS
head to renew the attack Gillon struck
him on the hand. sending the razor ny,
ing into the street. Before Ryan could
renew the fight Gillon brought his club
Keeling to the ground. Then he slipped
handouts on his prisoner and took MN
10 the station-house, where an ambu'
lance surgeon was called to dress a
scalp wound that the prisoner had re-
Il. ceived.
4 When asked where he got The razors
he declared that he had never seen then
before During the night Gilion saw .nt
| prisoner throw cigarette-holder away
| 1t was taken to the station-house latel
and identified by Muccio as his property
The prisoner also had small stone II
his pocket, which the police say is uset
4 in breaking windows.
At n clearinghouse at Bowery and Hes
ter street this morning II was SAID ina
Ryan was not known there.
In the Adams Street Court TINS morn
ing Massino fully identified the prisoner
as the man who had broken into his EN-
ployer's shop. S
Ryan was held on a charge OF bur
Blary.