The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-27

sHB WALKED IN TINE ROADWAY
IN EIG HTH AVENUE

a Large Crowd Followed when Ar
rnigned In y Police Court the EnEiish
wonnn sstd she Took 20 the Street
Because the Sidewalks Were Crowded.
1t 10 go unusual TO see q woman walk in the
roadway on any Of the streets of this city that
. crowd OF men and boys began TO follow a
rtrikin blocking young woman at Eighth ave-
nue. and Twenty-third street, on Wednesday
afternoon. when she stepped from the sidewalk
into the street. The young woman paid no heed
TO the crowd, but kept on her way down town.
She carried several bundles In her arms.
The crowd increased before the woman had
gone more than a block. Several wagons we're
in front and behind the young woman rs she
neared Nineteenth street. Policeman Churchill
Of the West Twentieth street station was on the
corner. and he stepped out In tho roadway to SEQ
what caused the crowd to collect. lie could
only see a tall, fair-haired young woman whom
the crowd was intently gazing at. Churchill
elbowed his way through the crowd and asked
the young woman where abe was going. She
stared at him but did not reply, go tho police
man put his hand on her arm and said to her:
MADAM, you are committing n breach Of the
pceoc In causing this crowd to follow you. What
Is the matter2'
"There is nothing the matter with me, and
you have no business to stop me-" the young
woman replied, with . pronounced English
accent
Churchill told her politely that she was vio-
lating the law in causing the crowd to follow
her. The woman said she was not doing any
thing unusual. and asked the policeman why he
didn't dispense the crowd. Then she began 10
talk. incoherently. and Churchill told her she
would have TO- 20 to the station house.
Sho went along peaceably enough, but she
was very Indignant when she got to the station
and learned she was under arrest. She paced
up anc down the station house floor. and de-
nouncod Churchill and said her arrest was an
outrage. She refused. to give her name or say
that she dropped one Of the bundles she carried
on The station house floor; The bundle broke open,
Is hn no G matron a set sSs " Vest ST f f,rsGti9as' street As ts stse
the West ,fhirtieth street station, where she
was locked up on a charge of disorderly con-
duct. After she had been 10 a cell a short time,
she told the metron that she was Julie Besnard,
ehe was an artists model, and was employed
by Henry Mosler. an artist. who has a studio in
the Carnegie Music Hall building.
She spent the night in, a cell. and yesterday
morning was carried to Jefferson Market Court
bis models arrest, and he came to court to in.
tercede for her. He spoke to MAGISTRATE, Crane
che was arraigned. When she was brought be-
fore the Magistrate. she was still carrying a
e nrs 10 u H. h ern arms nor wh1c6' m from T fhe n aPIpesr-
was. rather. strikingly dressed. She wore a
large one. Her fluffy light hair was in con-
Policeman Churchill explained why he ar
rested her. He said there was a crowd of 500
persons following her at the time.
The young woman. when she began her story,
was very excited and bitter toward the police.
man who arrested her. Several times she called
him "a well-fed beast She said she had been
posing for Artist Mosler. and was on her way
home when arrested. Finding the sidewalk
crowded, she had gone into the road way so that
phe could walk faster. as she was accustomed to
10 in England. She paid no heed to the crowd
and was minding her own business when she
was arrested. She didn't know she was violat-
ing the law in collecting q crowd. After being
advised to walk on the sidewalks in the future.
bhe was discharged.
rhe young woman occupies a room In the
house at 1877 Eighth avenue. She has been
lhcre only q short time, and very little Is known
About her.