The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-04
CUT PEOPLE AS HE PASSED.
QUEER CASE or sTABBING PUZzLES
MAGISTRATE AND POLICE.


A Girl and n Man slashed within Few
| Minutes by n Man with Bundle, from
which n sharp Knife Protruded-He says
| He Brushed Against Them Accidentally.
Either Ernest +. Lohse, who says he 10 q
ships cook and lives at 1927 Hudson street.
is a miscreant more than ordinarily vicious
or he Is an extremely unfortunate man.
Yesterday he was a prisoner In the Centre
street Police Court before Magistrate Cornell.
| charged with stabbing two persons whom he
never saw in his life before Sunday afternoon
and against whom he SAYS he has no i'll will.
He asserts that the stabbinR was accidental In
both cases, and as there Is an entire absence OF
motive his explanation will have to be ac-
copied or he will have to be put down as
| crank whom it is not safe to leave at liberty.
| Miss Harriet +. Brown. 10 years old. OF 80
| Beaver street. was the principal complainant
against Lohse. She was walking through Mas
| sau street on sunday afternoon with friend
| Miss Sadie Walsh when Lohse. who carried
| bundle under his right arm. passed them
| Lohse brushed rather violently against Miss
| Brown. but mumbed sort OF an apology and
passed on. Neither Of the girls gave the
man another thought until they reached the
! corner Of John street. when a strange man
stepped up to them and said to Miss Brown
| Il beg your pardon. but did you know that
| your arm was bloeding?'
| The young woman thought this a joke at
first but one look at the left sleeve OF her shirt
| waist convinced her that she had been cut In
| some way. Her sleeve was saturated with
| blood. and she felt slight pain In her arm Just
above the elbow.
How do you suppose it harpened2" asked
| Miss Walsh.
TT must have been that man that brushed
against me-" said Miss Brown. I'm going to
| have him arrested"
Lohse was still in sight and walking Mt good
pace. The girls followed him until they met
Policeman Mepnaid of the Ola siip station: to
Stsr o 5hs and .1 rns i'n M'""a ~en'
Gn sqt Rs ss
After delivering himself OF this remark I.ohse
| shifted his bundle from his right to his left
arm As he did 30 McQuaid noticed something
Irotrqdng from the bundle ne took it away
| was the point Of an exceedingly sharp knife.
What kind of a game IS this 7" asked Nc
| Quai ii. angrily. pointing to the knife. .
| ~ I'm n cook and always carry a, knife. said
Iohse. There's other knives and some forks
in that bundle. That one must have slipped
We'll yop can eYrlap al that to some some one
tests. he took him to the Old slip police, sta;
| ton. The Sergeant on duty there WAS inclined
| purely accidental ami came pretty near to let
| ting Iohse go. particularly when Miss Brown
admitted that she had never seen the man be.
| fore, and that she was quite certain that he
| could have no reasonable motive for stabbinG
| her.
The Sergeant figured that he had no right to
| open Iohses bundle. Lohse said that 1t con-
tanned cutlery, wrapped in a mum her Of aprons.
| still wondering what to do about Lohse. the
| Sergeant sent for an ambulance surgeon to
dress Miss Browns cut. he had not yet made
! up his mind about the cook. when the station
| door opened and it man. apparently very much
Il got cut in the arm in a yerymysterious
| about lpur uEO ~ he said land /
to make a complaint about it, .
street, answered the man. 81 was walking
through Nassau street about an hour ago
his arm and brushed against me. 1t was only
a little while ago that discovered that some
and cut open my arm that man was the only
person who came near me and he must have
Would you know the man II you saw him ?"
asked the Sergeant,
who, had been taken into the back room. was
That's he man. said Brownell. I'D know
The The Sergeant va, was more puzzled than ever
Brownell declined to max e complaint because
G"weier the Sergeant decided e to lock the cook sos
but saw that it was turned over to Lohse when
he went to court YESTERDAY morning:
Drowneli and Miss Brown told their stories.
He had heard oil perverslon taking such form.
3 nosS a% IT. o MI The Ts ns
! he did not know that the knife was projecting
from the bundle. or he would have been more
| Cont, was almost. but not quite. convinced
thai the cutting was, accidental;
II don't think | have ever had q, more re-
Cornell II you had cut one person with that
knife | might very readily believe that it was
an accident bnt Tor two people 70 be cut in the
same way. in the same street. within few min
| utcs OF each other as the result OF an ACCIDENT Is
hard to believe. 1t doesn't seem possible that
tally. Ths matter Will bear further inves-
| tgatiun. and in the meantime ] will hold you
II $500 bail for trial on Miss Browns charge
After l.ohse had been taken away Policeman
McQuaid told the Magistrate that, when he
on his way to the Hotel Rlchcicu. at Fifth
avenue and 1l4th street. where he expected to
get lob as a porter. He afterward said that
| he was on his way to the foot OF Cortlandt
Glen Island and still later told third story, to
see a man. The Magistrate thought this made
the case look more mysterious than ever and
concluded that he had made no mistake In
The 4 nde with the knife sticking out has
not yet been opened. 1t is now under Police
man McQuaid,s cot at the Old slip station. The
| wrapping paper, and Is apparently a small
carving knife The point is very sharp. There
McQuaid said last night that he had decided
| not to open the bundle until the case came up
for trial, a. which time the Judge could order
| II opened il he wanted to- lChse told McQuaid
| that beside some knives and forks the bundle
contained only an old coat and some aprons
The Sergeant said last n ght that it contained
| which did the mischief
Orators Entertained at Democratic Club.
Joseph J, WilIett OF Alabama. Asher G. Car