New-York tribune., 1902-02-16

Intense excitement prevailed in front of the
Criterion Theatre. Broadway and Forty-fourth-
st. last night when Hugh McCfarry. a Pinkerton
detective. punched and kicked into uncou-
sCiousness by a crowd of ticket spectators.
After the fight had been waging for some time
i hundred or moro men and boys took hand
in the affray. striking at random and graphing
with men whom they thought ticket specu-
lators
The trouble started when Jacob Marks,
ticket speculator, of No. 920 East One hundred
-fftysXth-st.. approached a man and
woman who alighted from a carriage and asked
them TO purchase tickets for the performance
So troublesome have been the ticket specu-
lators in front of the Criterion Theatre that
Charles Frohman time ago employed
number Of Pinkerton detectives to stop the sale
of tickets on the sidewalk, and also to warn
patrons who were accosted by the spectators
that their tickets would be refused at the door
when presented If bought the street.
McGarry saw Marks approach the couple, and
Immediately he walked up to the man and
woman and told them not buy tickets from
Marks This so angered Marks that he turned
around and struck McGarry a stunning blow
in the face knocking him TO the ground The
detective scrambled to his feet and grappled
with his assaiant, but no sooner had he laid
hold of Marks than a dozen other ticket specu-
lators rushed to the assistance Of their fellow
worker.
The ticket spectators surged around Nc
Garry. kicked and pounded him until he was
thrown to the ground several times. There were
hundreds Of patrons about TO enter the theatre
az that time but the street was blocked with
the crowds that surrounded the struggling men
and and women had to cross to the other
side Of the street 10 escape being crushed. Sew
eral women who were wedged in between the
mob became hysteriCal and called for help.
Many became separated from their escorts in
the excitement that followed when the Pinkerton
detective was attacked.
Men and boys in the crowd seeing the unfair
deal the PinkertOn man was getting at the
hands Of his assailants, soon took a hand in the
fight. They broke into a ring that had been
formed by the dozen spectators around the
form Of MCGarry and struck right and left. Soon
there were twoscore Of men fighting the
sidewalk. and suddenly the tide OF battle
changing. The spectators were fast getting
the worst Of the affray, when Policeman
Walsh came up. The men kept on fighting
until Walsh broke through the crowd and drove
them back with his night stick. He saw Nc
Garry lying on the sidewalk If dead. and so
he gra abbed the who nearest him.
Marks the man. and was afterward identi-
fed by McGarry as the one who had assaulted
him first He was taken to the West Forty
serenth-st. station and locked up, charged with
assault.
McGarry sent to Roosevelt Hospital,
where his injuries were dressed by ambu-
lance surgeon. He sustained severe lacerations
about the head and face.
Detective Armstrong. of the West Forty-6eV-
enth-st. station, while passing the Criterion
Theatre noticed number of ticket spectators
gesticulating wildly. He heard Mimon COriaI,
of No. 241 West Eighty nnth-st., denouncing
the spectators for allowing Marks to be
rested He created such a disturbance that
Armstrong placed him under arrest on a charge
of disorderly conduct and locked him UP. 1t is
said that Coriat is known as the King OF the
Speculators.'