New-York tribune., 1900-10-25
FIGHT IN A BROADWAY CAR
PASSENGER ATTACKS A MAN HE AC-
CUSES OF SWINDLING HIM AT FARO.

Passengers on southbound Broadway car in
front of the Metropolitan Opera House last night
and some hundreds of other people about to at
tend the opera were treated to free fight be-
tween two well dressed and respectable looking
men, They sat opposite each other in the car
One of the men kept staring at the other, as if
trying to make up his mind that he was Ger
tain person. Just as the car was slackening up
to let some of the passengers out, the first man
Jumped from his seat, and caught the second by
the throat
I've got you at last!" ne shouted Police,
Police! Call policeman The man attacked
fought viciously, and succeeded in throwing his
assailant off. The women in the car, and the
men, too, for that matter. thrown into
great excitement and there was rush for the
door The car stopped and the passengers
scrambled out Women in evening dress fell
over each other and fell on top of them
and more than one gown was the worse for II.
The two men sprang at each other a second
time and they fell to the bottom Of the car ours
ing and swearing and each seemed bent on
gouging the others eyes out A great crowd
gathered about the car, and some newsboys
climbing up on the rear platform urged the
two men to stand up and fight it out
Policeman Hail. of the City Hall station was
near, and with the aid of conductor and motor
-
men said the other John Phillips, who had
swindled him out of S51OO and for whom Act
ing Captain Kear of the West Sixty -eighth-st.
station, had been watching for some weeks.
Han took Phillips to the West Thirtieth-st. sta
ton, where the prisoner said he was thirty-five
years old, and a Mississippi planter. living at
No. IL West Sixty-ffth-st He denied having
ever met his assailant. The latter said he was
Frederick Golbey, living in the Parkview Hotel.
n Eort1r
aves. After registering Phillips the West
Thirtieth-st station sergeant sent him up to
Captain Kear. Detective Saver, of Kears staff
told the story given by Golbey the COM
plainant.
According 20 Mr.. Golbey, he had some money
which he wanted to invest at more profitable
rates than the savings banks offer He adver-
tised this fact in the daily newspapers. He re-
ceived letter, he said. from Phillips and met
him. Phillips proposed the opening of faro
bank. and told Golbey, the latter alleges, that
all he would have to do would be to back it,
and divide the profits He guaranteed Golbey
to double his capital in a few months.
Golbey fell into the scheme he says and rent
ed back parlor in the fashionable boarding
house at No. 210 West Seventy DIST, two
doors from the Colonial Club.
Phillips, Golbey alleges. appeared the next
night with several we'll dressed young men.
They sat down to faro. and about half of Col
bey's S5,100 was taken before the game closed.
It's all right, old man. Phillips is alleged to
have assured him later, that's my game.
They're marks. l let EN- win to draw 'em out.
Tomorrow night We'll have regular killing. 3"
GOlbey was reassured, he said, and the next
night backed the game again. The killing
did not materialize. and he lost all his money.
He says the lights went out strangely, and the
men escaped lie reported his experience TO
Acting Captain kear who sent his men TO ind
the alleged swindler The swindle is alleged
to have been worked last March, but the police
got trace of Phillips or his alleged confed-
crates and all the while Golbey was securing
the Tenderloin and other likely neighborhoods
for his man. He says he met him last night
on the Broadway car, and that the man arrest
ed is the who got his money.
At the boarding house in Seventy-second-st.,
where it is alleged the scheme was played it
was said last night that the room said to have
been rented by the men had been occupied for
several years by the Misses Thomas. the owners
of the house and not rented to any one.
The house in SiXty-fifth-st., where Phillips said
he lived, is a five story fathouse. Beneath the
bell for the fourth floor the names Roman
and Phillips. woman, who answered the bell,
said that a man named Phillips had rented a
room there several weeks ago, but had not oc-
cuped it for several days She knew nothing
more of him.