New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-25
SLAIN BY ESCAPING THIEF,
BURGLAR SHOOTS A MAN WHO TRIES
To MAKE HIM HALT.

TO mako HIM HALT.
Murder was committed at the house No. SO
seventh-st early yesterday morning. by a burg
lar who had been discovered breaking into
house IN Sixth-st. and was being hunted and shot
at by policemen and other people. He SUCCEEDED N
his desperate effort 20 escape after he had shot
George Everhardt, a young plumber VINO was
trying TO head him of at fre-escape
F,verhardt died in the forenoon in Bellevue Hos
pital The hunt for the bun glar and the shooting
OF Everhardt caused intense excitement in the
houses in Sixth and Seventh SITS between Second
and Third ayes.
The va-d OF the house No 80 seventh-st adjons
the ward of the house No. 3l3 Sixth-st., occupied
by Mrs Goetz About 430 a. yesterday George
w Frank real-estate agent living al No 3l5
Sixth-st saw the burglar on a rope ladder break
ing into the top story OF the house NO @lS' foc-
merly occupied by Joseph Young, who is now IN 81
Augustine Fla. under treatment for consumption
Mr. Franks first impulse was to get his revolver
and challenge the burglar. He changed his mind.
bowever and hurried 10 the Fifth-st. police
station and told Sergeant Schuum what he had
seen The sergeant sent Roundsmen Kelly and
Hogan and Pauolmen Geisler and Burke back 10
the house with Frank. They went 10 the roof or
Franks house and found that the scuttle OF Mrs.
Goetz's house had been broken open. On the roof
lay a hat and dark lantern.
Meanwhile the burglar had made his way into
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he descended the stairs He could not find his way
out and as Mrs. Goetz inquired "Who Is there?'
he answered Let me out. Let out" The
woman at once began shout loudly for the po-
lice The burglar into the cellar and gained
the rear yard through the grating He was dis
covered by the policemen the roof as he was
scaling the fence that separates Mrs Goetz house
from No. 81 Seventh-st. The policemen fired sew
eral shots at the burglar without hitting him. The
sound Of the revolvers awakened many residents OF
houses in the block who produced revolvers and
fired at the burglar He ran to the windows on the
first floor Of the Seventh-st. house and swung him.
self the window sill Of the rooms of Mrs. Jennie
Morris who had been awakened by the shooting
and saw the burglar peerng into her room
The woman ran to her bureau drawer and got A
small pearl-handled revolver, with which she nred
several shots. The burglar then began 10 climb
the fire escape in the rear Of the house.
George EVerhardt. who lived with his widowed
mother and his brother on the second hoor OF the
house got TO the window opening on the hre-escape
balcony just as the burglar was coming up. He
same moment the burglar shot him in the abdomen
Everhardt fell fatally wounded. and the burglar
went on up 10 the third story. and climbed into a
window. In the room he entered Mrs. Frederick
Enrich encountered him and began to scream for
please let me out" pleaded the burglar, and
Mrs. Ehrlich, in her excitement, opened the door
and the burglar darted into the hallway and down
the stairs He gained the street and to Third
ave, making his escape. although he was seen by
Two hours later the police arrested Charles
Steele, a ledger in Bowery hotel, who answered
somewhat to the description Of the burglar Steele
taken Bellevue Hospital but the wounded
10 q. m. after making brief statement 10 a coro-
ner.