New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-12
A FIGHTING WOMAN PRISONER
ARRESTED FOR DANCING IN HANsoM
CAB IN CENTRAL PARK-MADE two
POLICEMEN STIR THEMSELVES.

A tall. goed-Iooking woman. well dressed a,u
wearing a good deal Of jcweiry, was prisoner
last night In the East Thirty-fffh-st ponce s'a.
tion She had been taken there from the East
slxty-seventhst. station. TO DO placed IN cnsse VI
a matron. after having been arrested III Ce"' ~
Park It was $50 o'clock when Policeman Heyer'
of the Central Park squad. heard the sound OF
woman's laughter and loud singing from nan'o,'
cab that was coming with the horse a-waiK 'n'""e"
the Circle entrance into the Park Tne cao "s'
approaching Reyer, and within It Reyer saw the
woman dancing q skirt dance while man, seate'
behind her. held her from falling. She was 'a"s"'
ing and singing gayly as she danced
Reyer stepped In front Of the cab. and the cdoo'
refined up his horse so quickly that the woman came
rear falling over the dashboard The officer warned
the woman that she must sit down and BEHAVE hef
self It Sunday night and she was IN Cehtrai
Park The woman sat down for moment and the
cab drove slowly on again It was now only twenty
minutes till relieving time and the policeman was
congratulatng himself that he was going to get OH
on time when the woman gave yell, and he saw
her kicking higher than she had done before
Reyer after the vehicle and climbed into IT, lie
pushed the woman down to the seat and ordered the
cabman to drive around TO the Arsenal by the way
Of the Circle entrance and Fifty-n!nth-s All went
well until they got as far Fifty-ninh-st. and
Seventh-ave There Reyer relaxed his hold for O.
moment his fair prisoner, and In trice she had
broken away from him and Jumped out OF the cab
with the horse going at trot. He leaped out after
the woman. who ran like streak along the asphalt
promenade OF Central Park South. Reyer dashed
after her. but she would have got away II K had
not been for Park Policeman Kahl, who was in front
OF her and headed her off Kahl caught her. and to-
gether the two officers took her. struggling all the
way, back to the cab and on the Arsenal. on the
way up the steps OF the latter she made desperate
attempt to get away, and when they had dragged
her into the building and up to the rail- in front OF
Sergeant Mulholland's desk she threw herself down
on the floor. The man who had been with her IN
am Cuny He tried his best TO quiet the woman.
but she would not be quoted.
The sergeant and the Two policemen and Cluffy,
by dht Of much coa Mdh eSi 5he ye
years old. OF No POS West Forty-sixth-st She was
led between the two policemen to the East s Sixty
end of Central Park are usually taken Her re.
to the station door In the station she became
hardly got into the station when man in bicycle
suit walked in. and after a military salute to the
F. Eth Regiment Sergeant" said he, II have no
complaint to make against this woman Let her her
ali started out together a for ha drive from Forty
second-st. tonight, This lady and my friend here
Ing he Park fell off my wheel and the CAB ran a;
this woman CO. I've got no charge to make against
The sergeant explained that the girl had done
skirt dancing and was under arrest by the
Park police for disorderly conduct She was to
go 10 the East Thrty-fifhst station in the patrol
wagon.
sergeant, won't you take bail for her? I own
$4,000 worth Of real estate" He was told that he
d he for the M the pe
trying TO persuade the woman to come out and
get into the patrol wagon. She fought the police
men and threw herself the stone sidewalk.
She cried out that she would kill herself on the
way. and in getting her into the wagon the police
nearly tore her clothing from her.