New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-03

Central Park squad. was on duty at the West
Drive near Observation-Disclosures. at 2:4o o'clock
yesterday morning when he was startled TO see
what looked like a man moving on all tours III
the shrubbery He waited at first. thinking
some OF the animals might have escaped from
the menagerie. and in that case he did not In
tend to take any chances. He was greatly re-
lieved when the object stood erect and looked
carefully about. Finding man and not man
eating tiger. speers yelled at the fellow TO halt
Instead of doing he sprang into the bushes
and started TO run. Speers drew his reVoiVer
and went after him. He caught the fugitVe
after a chase OF several minutes. the man was
evidently an Italian wore only snirt anu ~
sers and was barefooted. He would not talK
speers took his prisoner to Roundsman Lasky.
In the park sub station, Mount 81 vincent Lasns
tried to interrogate the man. but coua ser
ing from him. In the absence Of any intormatloh
ne entered the prisoner as John Doe, itahah'
residence unknown captured py rohcei.a e
George speers at 242 a. m re- he oh1 IN Sebt
Neither Lasky nor Speers had any knowieuee
that their prisoner was prison breaker anu
charged with murder. Ihey .nou l1ncated IN
drunken fight in some tenement, ana LasnS
sent him to the East One-hundreo -ano-Io VI
at. police station on the charge Oh Ppantair
II was not until after O'CLOCK tnat CdP.aii
Thomas sent out a general alarm FOR the TWO
men, Among the persons TO see TINS aIarnI anu
note that IL described the 1uBltlNes ds oeiHS ~
bare feet, was Sergeant Wood, In the East one
hundred and -fourth-st. station. He was on tne
desk when Speers called TO take John Doe 10
the Harlem Court ana arralsh MN y" '
charge Of Suspicion
MISSING SHOES BETRAYED HIM.
When the Italian, cowed and shrinking was
led out before the desk. Sergeant Wood glanced
aphim and asked where's that mans shoes!
At the same time he hurriedy looked over MS
NJ he
out In the general alarm. He told Speers not
TO take the prisoner for little while. and then
he telecraphed TO the West Forty-seventh-s ST.
station for Patrolman Convey, the man VINO
originally arrested the Tocc br9t6ers TO
and see IL the man in the West One-hunufe,u
and fourth-st. station was not one vi '0
escaped men. ,.,,a,,,
Identified the man who was caught In the PARK
at 245 o'clock as the who had escaped
from the West Forty-seventh-st station aoou.
& o'clock-the records in the Mount ST. vincent
subs station and West Forty -seVenth-st' s'a''oh
showing this paradoxical situation. ,,o-
The italian then taken to the HarIens
Court where he was arraigned on the charge OF
homicide. instead Of suspicion as Speers In
tended. Speers was naturally eiateu 10 Ilu NE
covering much-frghtened little prisoner .he
desperate man described in the general alarm.
Doorman Sharp insisted positively that there
must be some mistake. He said the man couIu
not have been caught In the park al 40 d. m;
as he had seen both brothers sleeping at V
O'clock Captain Thomas, however, incllnes 10
the belief that Sharp is mistaken. and ne was
unkind enough to remark that maybe some
body else was sleeping, too He VIII prefer
charges against Sharp. 49,,
When arraigned in the Harlem court thH
Magistrate remanded Tocci to the court prison
until this morning when he will be examined
In detail.
KNOWN AS THE TWO TURKEYS
The Toccis were employed by William Brad
lev a contractor, as ordinary laborers. In
stead of being known by number as Is usual
they were called the two turkeys Nlcolo is
married and Savemo single. Their age Is TWEEN
ty-seven With hundreds of others they were
waiting for their pay in front of Bradley's ONCE
No 544 West Forty -eighth-st. on saturday
evening Christopher Herman of NO. oo- west
Forty-seventh-st. was there TOO There are
two accounts of the stabbing. one is that the
Toccis attacked Herman without proVocatloh;
Another is that they had an altercatloh' anu
Herman began to fight with one OF the tWihs.
Herman was getting the better OF him When
the other twin stabbed him in the back
Doorman' Sharp made an addluonaI state
ment later in the night. In conversation WIN
Sergeant Farrell he said he had not stated thaI
ne saw the Tocci brothers in their cell al o:fo
a m What he did say was that ne nad seen
their hats and shoes. and he supposed the HlTn
would be where their hats and shoes We're III
his experience he had never known TINS rule MOI
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