The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-13
MURDERED A POLICEMAN.
HIGHWAYMEN BROKB ITS NECK
 TRYING TO ROB HIM.

| RlEnu--Infee Nlen unueF AEIesLs New York, May 12.-Policeman Fred
 eriok c. Williamson of the Madison
 street station was garroted and mur-
 dered in front of Samuel Bremmers
 stable, at 94 Allen street, about g o'clock
 last night.
 The scene of the murder is only sixty feet distant from Grand street, which was crowded on both sides. Little, if
 any noise was made, and the three
 murderers, none of them over twenty
 five years of age, ran into Grand street
 and made toward East river.
 The story of the murder is told by
 thirteen~year-old simon Pitzner of 1O9
 Norfolk street who saw Williamson
 killed. Repairs are being made to the
 building adjacent to Bremmer's stable,
 and right next to the sidewalk is a pile
 of sand and rubbish about four feet
 high.
 The stable has a frontage of about
 twenty feet. An iron picket fence stands between it and the sidewalk
 The Second avenue railroad structure runs very close to the buildings on either side of the street The street is very dingy in day time, and even more so at night, in spite of the few lamps south of the stable. The glare of the electric lights on Grand avenue scarce ly reaches to the stable
 The boy Pitzner was standing on the heap of sand, because. as he says in tell ing his story, he likes to stand on hills. He was digging his toes in the sand He happened to be looking toward Grand avenue when he saw a man about thirty-five years old, five feet nine inches tall, and of good weight, turn from Grand street and come to- ward the sand pile. The man was Will liamson, who was off duty and not in uniform. An instant later young Pltz- ner saw three men, all about William son's height, come rapidly after the po- liceman,
 Just as Williamson got to the begin ming of the fence in front of the stable, where was the darkest spot on the street, two of the men behind him, who were in advance of the third, sprang at him.
 One threw both arms around the po- lieeman's neck and claaped his hands on the pollceman's throat just at the Adams apple. The other got in front of Williamson, and as the policeman tried to fight off the man on his back the thief punched him in front and at the same time reached for the watch and chain in Wiliiamson's vest pocket
 Williamson was strong enough to drag himself along the twenty feet of fence with the two men clinging to him, but he could not shake them off, nor could he cry for help. The boy Pitzner was too much astonished to shout an l alarm, but kept gazing at the fight.
 Williamson had got to the end of the | iron fence when the third man came to | the help of his fellows,
 Tn front of Bremner's stable is an iron fence. Entrance to the stable is made l through @ sort of alleyway at the side | of the building, which leads down to the | basement of the stable building.
 As guard to this entrance, an iron I post has been erected, between which | and the end of the fence there is a | space of about a foot and half. There Is thus sort of gate or pocket between the post and end of the fence.
 Williamson had just got to this pock- st. All four men were bent over low toward the sidewalk. One of the rob- bers had torn the watch and chain from pocket, and was helping the first man, who was still at the po- iceman's throat.
 The third man got his feet in front 1f Williamson's and ripped him. The men had been trying to work William son into the pocket between theafence md the post.
 He lurched forward into the pocket and his head struck on a big Belgian paving block He did not move. The -obbers wanted him to get up. Perhaps hey feared that they had killed him, Or one of them said:
 Get up stand upp'
 But Williamson made no reply. When le had fallen the boy Pltzner had heard my more, I am deadw
 Before this Pitzner had called to the nen and asked what they were doing, ut they paid no attention to him.
 In spite of Williamson's words, which possibly the murderers did not hear or they still bent over him null second DOy, William GOluIlne, \ mployed in the stable, came out lead ng a horse.
 He saw the men bending over Will lamson. By this time the men had aken alarm and all three ran toward Brand street and off toward the East 1ver
 Then Bremner came out from the sta ' tle and saw Williamson lying with his cad out toward the walk instead of in he pocket where he had fallen. The tone was covered with blood. ll Calls for the police and an ambualnce yere sent at about the same time. The ambulance surgeon found Williamson ! ( cad. Ills skull was fractured. He yas put into @ wagon and taken to the Ildridge street station house. t Deputy Coroner Donlin to-day per 1 ormed an autopsy on the body of !, 'o1iceman Williamson who, it is lought had been murdered by d nree footpads on Allen street last C ight. The autopsy proved that | cath resulted from the rupture of a
 clot of blood which had formed in [ le large passage to the heart. The c eek was not broken and there was no a ,act1Ire of fha skI11I