New-York tribune., 1902-10-28
MOB AFTER MAN WITH GUN
TWO PERSONS SHOT IN FIGHT
OVER WOMEN.
Fr-GITIvF CAUSES PANIC BY JUMPING On A
TROLLEY CAR-TWENTY-FINE HUN
DRFD IN CHASE

TROLLEY GAR-IN EN 4 r II r flA.>
DRED IL CHASE
The widest excitement prevailed in Third
ave in the neighborhood Of Fourteenth-st last
night when following a fight in shooting gal
lery a. No % Third-ave., a big crowd chased a
man With . rife through the streets There was
panic in trolley car when the man with the
gun boarded IT, but ne was forced OF by the
conductor and two men. After the capture a
policeman had hard work 70 keep the hands of
the crowd on the prisoner. and had 10 use his
revolver 20 keep il at bay
Two men We're wounded one seriously. in the
aght and David Wemmer twenty-seven years
old the proprietor OF the place. is under ar
rest in the Fifth-st police station The wound
ed men were taken 10 Bellevue Hospital They
are Louis Raflcr. twenty lone years old, pack
er Of No 339 SiKth-st, suffering from gun
shot wound in the right thigh and shook-a
serious wound-and William Saunders. forty-slA
years old a cook OF No. ll2 Bowery. with
gunshot wound in right leg, slight and shock
According 10 the police there has been had
blood between Rafier and Wemmer for some
time. on account Of their wives and that the
shooting was the result of this feud.
Witnesses. whose names are in possession OF
the police. say that they heard shots and angry
cries come from the basement Of the shooting
gallery. and then that wemmer. gun in hand
ana with his clothes torn and with no hat on
his head. rushed up out Of the basement and ran
I'D Third-ave. a crowd had been attracted by
the night and when they saw a man running
with a gun in his hand they followed. The
shooting gallery is near Thirteenth-st, and
Wemmer ran north TO Fourteenth-st
Third-ave and Fourteenth-st. were crowded
and people ran from all directions TO see what
the trouble was There were shouts Of Muir
derer." and Thief and several men tried TO
stop him. Wemmer levelled his gun at the
crowd and some say that he fired, hut he denies
this At any rate, he jumped for a crosstown
car and sprang inside. The filed with
passengers, many Of them women, and there
was a panic in the when Wemmer, wild
eyed his clothes torn and gun in hand. en-
tered the car The conductor and two men
forced the man 10 leave the car. and he again
started to run going west in Fourteenth-st past
Tammany Hall
In the mean time the crowd had collected until
there were fully fifteen hundred people follow
ing wemmer and nearly every OF them
was shouting. The concert halls in abe neigh
borhood were emptied, and this augmented
the crowd The small boys in the crowd. of
whom there many. raised the cry that
Tracy. the Outlaw" had broken loose No
more ideal picture of the real Tracy could have
been presented to young Americans than Wem-
mer made as he fed along the street rife in
hand followed by angry mob turning now
and then as he aid. point the gun at the
crowd in the hope OF holding them in check
Among those attracted TO the scene was De
tective Murray Werzansky. of the Fifth-st sta
ton. The detective followed with the mob un-
Ill ne could break loose from il and then he
began 10 sprint after Wemmer- He neared him
lust beyond Tammany Hail. but according TO
The detective Wemmer turned and aimed the
gun at him. WerZansky dropped on the slde-
walk, fearing, he says that me man w0uLu @
shoot AS wemmer turned and went on Wer-
zansky followed, and finally caught him near
steinway Hall
the crowd by that time had increased 10
nearly twenty-five hundred people, and the de-
tective and his prisoner We're soon surrounded
Many Ignorant men and bows in the crowd hear
ing the Tracy cries, and not knowing or not
remembering that the outlaw had met his doom
some time ago. began 70 clamor and shout for
wemmer was clearly frightened. and wer-
zansky that he had his hands full Fear
ing that some hot headed men in the crowd
might attempt 10 take his prisoner from him,
the detective drew his revolver, and placing
Wemmer in hallway, swept the weapon IN a
circle, threatening 10 shoot any who ap-
preached Several policemen had been at
tracted by the scene. and making their way
through the crowd. went 10 Werzansky's as
sistance.
wemmer who had been placed under arrest
by the detective was led 20 a drug store al
Thirteenth-st. and Thrd-ave. where uncon-
scious man. with a bullet wound in his leg. had
been carried. The man was Saunders. but he
in condition at that time identify
Wemmer. He said later. however that he did
not know who had shot him Wemmer was
then taken 20 the Fifth-st. station and locked
up. Raffier found Tenth-st and Third
ave. by Policeman Steinmeyer. The man was
unconscious when found. He and Saunders
removed Bellevue in the ambu-
lance Raffler said later the police say. ct the
hospital when he had recovered consciousness
that Wemmer and he had had a quarrel, and
that WeTnrner had threatened 10 do" him. That
was all that could be got from him The
only story Of the actual shooting itself the
fight which the police have comes from Wenn-
rner and he denies having fired shot