New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-04
CROWD CRIED FOR HIS LIFE.
ITALIAN WHO SHOT AN OFFICER PUR-
SUED BY AN ANGRY MOB.
THE VICTIM IS SERIOUSLY INJURED AND
MAY LOSE HIS LIFE-HATRED OF THE
POLICE CAUSED TIE DEED.

hundred and twenty -sixth-st. station. was snot
/ through the head and lungs yesterday by
Michael Farrelli. an Italian in the latters sa-
loon, at No 234S Second-ave O'Keefo will prob
ably die. and in any case will be totally blind,
as the second shot entered his left temple. sev-
cred the optic nerve and emerged through the
right eye taking that organ with II.
Farrell was placed under arrest after a long
chase ard desperate fight in which he made
further effort 70 Go murder. 4 mob Of several
thousand people gathered after the shooting and
made a most determined effort 10 lynch the
man For an hour or more upper First-ave.
looked like Second ave. in the most turbulent
period Of the late streetcar strike.
The Italian is the proprietor Of a saloon known
the Salerplnitc Saloon. The place has al
ways had bad reputation and has been un-
der constant police surveillance. Whenever the
Harlem police wanted an Italian criminal their
watchwor1 was "Go 10 Farrellrs"
This dld not improve the relations existing
between that individual and the authorities.
Lately business began 20 fan off with the Ital-
ian. and ne laid his IN fortune the door Of the
police. He several times made threats against
their lives. Last Saturday agents of Jacob Rup-
pert who owns the saloon. found Farrell 50
much in arrears FOR the stock given to him that
they ordered man to go to the place and seize
The landlord soon afterward served n dspossess
notice. and the saloon closed Saturday
night
THE police have driven out OF business
Will get revenge" declared the Italian. Yes
terday he invited number Of his c0untrymen.
say the police to have one last good time"
They gathered early In the morning and by
noon were so wrought up by their frequent liba-
tions that their tumult disturbed the neighbor-
hood.
So noisy did they grow that a crowd collected
outside About 80 o'clock Policeman OKeefe
passed by his way back to the station. He
had gone off duty al I O'Clock. and had taken
dinner at his home No. Al East one ne-hundred-
and-nineteenth-st He returning - the
station TO go on reserve.
What's the matterg' asked OKeefe of a
friend I'm the crowd.
"Ah. Farrellrs Gnncs IS ceehratln his hard
luck" he told
Without further inquiry O'Keefe started into
the place. Half dozen citizens were at his
heels The Italians wife met the policeman in
the hallway and tried TO block his way He
showed the woman aside. and she got by him
and ran screaming into the room where her hus-
band and his friends We're
SHOT without PROvOcATIoN.
Farrell jumped up with an oath and seizng
a clasp knife with a sx-inch blade. started for
the door His wife met him he stepped on the
threshold and thrust his revolver into his
hands.
shoot! Shoot, XIII him, They have spoiled
our business" the woman shrieked in perfect
fury.
Farrelli needed no incentive. Mad with liquor,
and believing tho police had caused all his Ills.
he aimed his revolver and fred. -Four shots re-
D. trio
The first two went wide. bu, the third struck
O'Keefe IN the right breast. passed through his
lungs and lodged in the muscles Of the back.
/ The brave fellow staggered. but with mighty
effort kept his feet and tried 20 60 forward. A
fourth shot struck him I'm the left temple. tore
its way through the optic nerve and passed
out of the right eye, taking the eye with It.
The policeman fell headlong i'm the hallway.
his body Just over the threshold Of the door
leading into the room. Seeing the policeman
drop Farreu threw his revolver away and
ran out Of the rear of the house. lie got out
into one -hundred-aud- -twer ertieth-st.. and r-n 70
First-ave Turning into that thoroughfare, ,
ran 10 the tenement a. 80. 223 Frst-ave
and took refuge therein. Tho mob az his
heels but was temporarily bahled by the pring
lock. which he adjusted and snapped in their
faces.
we're unable to find FARRELL. The mob by
this time Increased to several t'.ousand and
the people outside yelled and shouted for the
Italian
Bring the Dago out" one woman shrieked
"I Ivnch him. Lynch him" cried others Punch
him IN the mouth, Hanging is too good for
him" yelled a stalwart lrishman. oblvous Of
the hunor OF his demand
Samuel Lazarus. ono OF the men IN the mob,
finally found the man in q closet on the ground
floor When he opened the door the Italian
made a thrust at Lazarus with his knife, and.
according 10 Lazarus, Just missed MS race. no
one had the courage 10 attack the Italian when
it was heard that he was armed and the crowd
contented itself by surrounding the house 10
keep him until the police arrived.
The sergeant at the East one hundrci-and-
txenty-sixth-st. station had In the mean time
ordered Detectives Buckridge '.ahgr Meehan
and Churchill 10 capture or XIII the Itallan and
ordered the reserves about twenty men-tO
follow In the mean time Or. Bahcock arrived
from the Harlem Hospital I'm answer 20 ciu-
z.n's can for an ambulance and h. removed the
injured and unconscious policeman t. the nsti-
tuition without delay
The four detectives went o. The Flrst-aye.
house where Farrrlli al bay and Detective
Iuckrdge undertook 20 get him out OF the
closet Farrclll jumped from his hiding place
and with his knife drawn. attacked Buckridge.
put the latter was too quick. and parrying the
FIRST blow with the butt of his revolver he
brought the weapon down with crushing force
on the Italians head. and there was no more
fight in the man. Te dropped and did not re-
cOyer for some minutes.
MOB FOLLOWS THE PRISONER
The detectives aid not dare % take their
prisoner ont until the reserves arrived The lat
ter formed into hollow square, and. with the
,r,sonor and the four detectives I'm the centre
marched UP First-ave. 70 the East One-hun-
dred- and -twentv-sixth-st. police station The
distance is fully a third OF "A mile. The mob Of
several thousand wildly excited men. women
and children surged all about the police escort
and followed to the doors OF the station Twice
the policemen had To draw weapons and force
the crowd back Detectives Buckridge ana
churchill were torn and tattered when they
reached the station. after several hand to hand
osnts with citizens who wanted TO get at the
prisoner
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