New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
MAN AND WIFE GARROTED.
popRFRs STRIP JEwELRY AND MONEY
FROM COUPLE.

TWO PRISONERS CAPTURED AFTER CHASE
VICTIM KNOWS ONE OF THEM-LAT-
TER's PECULIAR ANSWER
poucen7an Joseph Herring. of the West Thir-
tv-seventh-st station. while patrolling Eighth
ave at Thirty-second-st-, at l:oO a. m yester-
cav heard a woman shrieking:
.rMurder," ''Policet" Stop them!
The next moment he saw a man running
.cross the avenue at Thirty -frst-st. pursued
b1 the woman who screamed as she ran
The policeman about to run to her assist
once when two husky looking young men turned
corner AT the avenue and Thirty-f1rst-st. from
tho block from which the woman had issued,
and sped toward him. Herring raped his cluo
against the curb for assistance then spread
his arm in the way of the oncoming men and
brought them to halt
There's q man bleeding to death down In
rbirry-frst-st" they said breathlessly.
We'll you come back with me- said Herring.
II may need your assistance" At the same
time he took a firm hold OF their arms. be-
cause while he was parleying he caught sight
of more men running toward him, apparently
much excited. When the newcomers caught
sight Of the policeman they shouted:
Hold them, they're garroters!"
At that the two prisoners wrenched them
selves loose and ran up the avenue the police
man in chase. After a quarter Of a block
sr-tnt Herring caught one. while the other was
CAPTURED by Detective James Kelly. who ran
cut Of Thirty-third-st in response to Herring 5
rap. Meanwhile a crowd had gathered, num-
herring about a hundred men and women.
They assorted the policemen TO No. 32S West
Thirty first-st-, where, resting the stoop of
q house, was Charles L. Downes. theatrical
manager, Of No go West Thirty hrst-st..
moaning with pain and almost unconscious.
Bending over him was his wife Annie. who was
the woman Herzinger pursuing the first
man. She identified the prisoners as men who
had with the assistance of the man she had
chased. garroted her husband. assaulted her.
and robbed them both.
My husband and were coming home after
q dinner with Charles Harris, at Chinese res
taurant at Thi-ty-irst-st and Eighth-ave, she
said. "early in the evening. This man." point
ing TO Herzings prisoner, who said he was
Harry Jeder, q cloth packer. of No. 2T5 West
Twenty-ffth-st.. got a meal and some small
change from my husband. who knew him
slightly. Then he left Just we got at this
point our way home we saw Jeder stand
ing in front of No. 32S with the other man.
Jeder stepped out and asked my husband for a
match My husband did not have one and told
him
The next thing I remember. Jeder put his
arm around my husbands neck and spinning
him around Jeder placed his knee in the middle
Of my husbands back. While this was happen
ing to my husband, one of the men. the one that
got away, was choking that could not
scream Then he pulled into the areaway
and stripped my fingers of several diamond
.fngx-
''The other men. who were going through my
husbands clothes, removed his jewelry and car
rfed # to my captor. Then. after a struggle.
my husband extracted his wallet and flung II
into the areaway. The man that held me
reached for II and then 1 got a chance TO
scream AS soon as 1 did the man let go OF
me and ran and the two men that held my
husband ] after the man who had
everything and kept ahead Of the two men who
me"
Downes, who had sunk limp on the stoop when
the men left him, bleeding from the mouth.
seemed nearly dead. He was taken to his home,
only few doors distant, and physician was
called.
In the West Thrty-seventh-st station Jeders
companion gave his name as William Foster. a
tearster OF No. $50 West One-hundred- and
twenty-fourth-st. Both were arraigned before
Magistrate Meade in the West Side Court later.
Mr.. Downes leaning heavily on cane, and his
wife appeared to make complaint.
In Mr.. Downes's affidavit he alleged that he
had been robbed of two diamond rings valued
at $500 at watch valued at 500 at watch chain
and diamond locket valued at $50. and q wallet
containing $3.50 in cash. His wife's two rings he
The complainant said he was in the theatrical
business. The police say he was connected with
the "Florodora" anagement.
When asked by the clerk what he wished TO
plead Jeder replied:
L don't know if Charlie meaning the COM
plafnant will press the complaint
He however, pleaded not guilty.
DO you wish TO be represented by COUNSEL?
asked the magistrate.
we wish to be remanded until tomorrow.
replied Foster, acting as spokesman They were
held in $1,000 for examination to-day
Mrs. Downes alleged after the prisoners were
taken away. that four men had called at her
home on Thursday night inquiring for the 1T
tie man with the Panama hat" Not recogniz-
ing the description applying to Mr.. Downes.
the landlady. Mrs. DoWnes asserted. sent the
men to the top floor to another lodger's room
Tie lodger was absent The men acted queerly
and attempted enter other rooms. and the
landlady ordered them out of the house MIS-
Downes said she thought the prisoners had oeen
tracking her husband for some time prior 10 the
attack
The police say that Jcder's real name is Jones,
and that Foster. who said he came from Chl-
cago, is known at Police Headquarters as
Rccan. Both men, the police say. are from 81
Louis.