The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-16
ANARCHIST RUNS AMUCK.
EBERT SLAsHES FOUR PITTsBURG
POLICEMEN BEFORE HE IS SHOT
Canovas's Assassination set His Tongue Going
and lie was Discharged from work ana
Arrested for Making ThreRts-Ec Attacks
tho Police Right and Left with n Razor.

Canovns,s Assassination set His Tongue GoinE
and Hs WAS Discharged from work and
Arrested for Making Thrents-Ho Attacks
tho Police Right and Left with n Razor.
PITTsBuRG, Aug. ia wild.eycd Anarchist
ran nmuck In the police court this morning. As
a result Of his skill with a razor four policemen
were badly cut, one narrowly escaping n slash
across tho jugular vein. the courtroom was
thrown into a turmoil and the prisoner himself
was shot In the arm. Seven months ago John
Ebert came from Austria to Pittsburg.
He stayed around tho Armstrong Cork
Works looking for work, every day bccom-
ing hungricr and raggcdcr. Tho workmen
took pity on him, bought him n suit
OF clothes. and at last prevailed upon Superin'
tend Evans to give him u job.
Ebert worked quietly along until the assas-
~sination of Canovas, the Spanish Prime Minis
ter. He seemed pleased with the news and dis
cusscd II frequently with his fellow workmen.
but went too far with his eulOgistic comments
on the assassin COLL. His bloodthirsty talk
came to the cars of the superintendent who dis
missed him from the cork works.
Ebert became very angry and disputed the
correctness of the wages in his pay envelope.
His complaint was Investigated and it was found
he had received all the wages due him. He
continued to loaf about the place, making threats.
until Superintendent Evans caused his arrest,
on Thursday morning, as a suspicious character.
He was arrested by Policeman w. W. Williams.
This morning Ebert was called up before jus
tice Mackrell at the Twelfth Ward Police Court.
superintendent Evans was there to testify
against him. The court room was filled with
policemen and spectators.
Ebert was arrsigned and was sent back to his
cell to be examined later. He started back with
Policeman Mcintyre. Turning at tho cell room
door. the prisoner caught sight again OF Evans.
Tearing loose from the policemen Elbert ran at
iiams, who threw him back into tho cell
room. Mcintyre took him upstairs: At
Mcintyre, INJECTING q cut stretching from the
back Of the ear TO his throat. Mcintyre fell
Policeman Cole struck the mar in the face with
a billy. He slashed Cole the full length OF his
right arm. Policeman McAyoy then inter.
BY this time the court room was in turmoil.
licemen drew their revolvers and made for the
prisoner, but the Magistrate shouted:
Don't shoot him!'
Ebert darted back to the cell room up tho
stairs. making q downward slash at Policeman
Cor!iss and cutting his arm to the bone and fol.
Kinney. whose coat sleeve only was cut. Ebert
ran through the matron's room, got out through
and jumped out of a second story into Spring
alley. whence he ran down Twenty-seventh
Corliss.
The street was crowded with people going to
and coming from early mass, and they all made
way for Ebert. Finally. when the man reached
a spot where there were no people Corliss fred at
him with a revolver. The first two bullets
missed. The third struck him in the left arm.
He turned and made a lunge at Corliss, who
felled him with a blow Of his club.
The prisoner was carried back to the police
man Mcintyre was sent to the hospital. The
other wounded policemen went home. Mcintyre
will recover. Police superintendent Leslie is
wondering how Ebert secured the razor. He
had been carefully searched before being locked
in his cell.