The evening times., 1899-08-26
AN ANGRY MOB AT A FUNERAL.
Excavations of the Crowd Upon n
Murderer and Suicide.

NEW YORK. Aug 26.-Five THOUSAND
people cursed the body OF John LindaueE
while it was being borne TO the grave yes
terday Lindauer was the cigarmaker who
killed himself and fifteen year-old Jose
phine Engle, with whom he had eloped
Twenty policemen had hard work forcing
a way through the crowd for the funeral
Had they not been there the body would
have been dragged from the cofiln and
torn to pieces in the street
The peopIe who beloved their curses al
the inseusate clay in the pretentious coffin
were nearly ali Bohemians. The wife an
children whom the dead man deserted ioF
his neishbor's child heard il all; indeed,
the mob ragged widest when the bowed
figure of the bIack-robed widow crossed
the walk to the carriage The mother,
father. and sisters OF Lindauers victim
also heard it all, as they hung over the
white coffin of the girl on the nItn moor
of the tenement. The Lindauers llVer ID
the rear OF the tenement, No. 1889 FIRST
Avenue. and the Engles lived in the front
on the same floor.
Bohemian cigarmaker, when Ne oies.
| is entitled 10 the most elaborate sort OF
funeral, and Lindauer, though murderer
1 q
the pomp of woe. A guard OF eighty OF
his felIow-cigarmakers marched with the
hearse. and a Bohemian band, discourslng
| strange gypsy airs headed the escort.
| This was not because OF any feeling Ior
the dead. but because IL is customary
The escort was perfectly stolid IN the lace
of the storm of eXecration tnat arose
| when the fower-covered coffin was carried
from the house door to the hearse- lhS
/ flowers and coffin were supplied by an III
isurance company which guaranteed
proper funeral for customers VINO GO no
allow their policies TO iapse>
"Doer' "Brute,- Murderer 'Assas
SIM, shrieked the crowd while the pail
hearers bore the dead across the walk
i"Cowardi'' Thief" Spit on the wretch!
From the window of Josephine Engel
home came the walls or the mourners
there. The dead girls mother appeared a
the window. Her eye took in the trap,
pings and circumstances OF the funeral ant
she shrieked at 1t.
my Godp' she cried. why do the!
give this man such burial. He shoul'
be dragged to the river and thrown in
Dogs should tear him to pieces and hgh
over his sragments!
The crowd responded with even NOR
violent storm of rage and execratlons. In
turmoil drew new thousands to participant
| in the strange scene AT last the cnle
mourners were in their places and the cot
fin was in the plumed hearse, and 1t locke
| for a time as If there would be a serlou
| attempt to snatch the corpse from tn
coffin but the police kept the people bach
! and finally the dead man and the mourner
reached the Ninety-seeond Street terr!
The escort did not go to Linden Hill Gene
| terry with the dead fellow member, ou
faced about and still headed by the inde
) fatigable band, marched to their clubhouse
Then the family of the dead man cam
and gathered about the coffin. The dea
mans father, bent, old, and grey, praye
aloud. and the wife and children cried thei
grief aloud. There were many carriage:
| in accordance with the terms Of the insur
ance contract. and some of the neighboI
ceased shrieking and cursing and climbe
into them. 1t is not every day one gel
a chance to ride in an upholstered hack.