The sun., 1902-09-07
re WAS A DESPERATE CROOK,
TALE OFA PILFERING NEGRO AND
a WILD PURSUIT.
His Wickedness Increased as the Crowd
Did, and II the Related Policeman
Hadn't Turned Up NobOd, knows
What lie Wouldn't Have Done.

DsfdurF VI u van ~ If'l 'h' u west
Sixty-fourth street into Columbus avenue
about o'clock a hatless negro ran At top
speed He turned mp Broadway knock.
ing down several children in his iighr and
humping into lamppost with enough
momentum TO crack the skull OF an ordinary
person.
One hundred yards behind him followed
a small army Of men, women and children.
their number being augmented 20 rapidly
that passengers on the trolley cars Won
dering what had happened, leaped If
and joined in the pursuit, The men were
without hats. most Of them, ard without
coats. The women, or rather some II
them, carried squalling infants in their
arms. Even the children forgot their
playthings in the sudden panic. All turned
up Broadway, and the shopkeepcrs en
route left their stores and tagged after
The flying negro looked back once He saw
the mob coming with rush and that VAS
enough for him. He ran TO the edge Of the
subway excavation and clambered down.
aided by one Of the steel columns that
support the roof
Hes gone into the tunnel!' was the
cry that went up from the pursuers, and
IN q lnOUlellt lneN lIlnSti lIlt iOit III Nub
middle Of the street and were peerIng into
the blaC ok depths below.
WHATS tre matter2" asked a porty
citizen, who evidently Iaid taxes and Lad
a horror Cf disorder. But there was 10
response The crowd was too busy gazing
blanklv into the hole.
What Is the natter he asked again.
this time tou ching a 10y Of fifteen On The
shoulder.
"Dere's a t'ei down in dere!T answered
the urChin.
What did he stcal''
Il dunno
The portiy cti7on turned away ard ed-
dressed a man in ovcTalls.
can YOU tell me what's the trouble?'
be quer.ed.
K feer tried ter break inter a house
roun the corner an tECy beiCisd Inn at
il an he flew the COOP sad the man IN
overalls
where wae the house?'
Blamed If | know"
A man with long. black hair and shfty
eve approached lust hen. His hands were
trembling az II with palsy and his mouth
Quivered as he said:
Don't let him get away. He has COM
mitted n tragedy and must 60 TO the eiec-
trc chair, They say he killed his WIFE
Lynch him! Let's string him up 10 ono
o them derricks" half dozen men howled.
Lynch tine brute"
who's down in there?" a little man, ac-
companied by a fat woman, wanted 70
know
IT'S colored man." replied a street
urchin "wot tried ter kidnap Kid.
IL, there policeman near here' asked
the portly taxpayer.
Nav" came from dozen bystandcrA
but the stations around the corner.
Pun for an officer"
-Go yerself,"
What's all this crowd for?" demanded
a blnck- clad woman who had big bundle
of washing under each arm.
A man i'll inter the tunnel, explained
cab driver who stood at his horses head.
He fll an he's tilt intorely,'
Poor man." said the woman, the tears
starting to her eyes Was lac married:
He he'd wolfe and nine childer." said
the cabman solemnly.
oh" walled the woman. "Oh. what a
shamer'
Il was Just passin' through Sixty-fourth
street" said young man IN Panama
hat, who looked az if he might be employed
behind the ribbon counter in one of the big
department stores, "and just as ! got IN
the middle Of the block, my Iawd ] seen
black man runnin as fast as ever ms
legs could carry him
Il seq to him, etz !, Here, you! Where
are yer gon'f' He turns ter me. inrL-
dent like and seq, SCI he, Wot,s that te,
vou?' and inst a. | starts to cell Police"
he ups and -laps me in the face!
There" se2 he, take that.
"Of course | runs after him with tie
crowd and if lay hands on him III just
make him the sickest man in the worId'
will"
-Wha, did he do?" asked the porty
| citizen, still in quandary.
-Do?" exclaimed the ribbon counter
young man do? Why he done lie,
didn't he?"
Il see him." girl of twenty exclaimed
He picked up little dorg from young
lady and started TO run. The young lady
hollered out and he drops the pug on h.
head. the brute. Then he rms fer his h'e
He punched an old man plumb on ne
nose, said a short, thick man, who looked
like n bartender. The old man bumped
into him an the coon just landed him ore
on the beak that pitched him into door
way II I'd Lad me apron of I'd have
nailed the niger good. But he got away
A man with pale face and a clay pls
clinched between his teeth rushed up jnSt
then.
Where is he1" he bawled
In the tunnel" was he general reply
Hes hidin' down there
Call the COPS roared the pale-iaced
one Hes frebug He was caught
in the act settin' fire TO pile of shaving;
with pail Of water there'd been hiR
fire and whole lot Of people would a
burned up Call the cops
is II a coon or white man?' asked
tough young fellow, with a square Jaw
and black eye.
A coon." yelled the crowd
Il draw de color line explained 'he
tough one. -odderwise dere'd be nu'iin,
to il br fer me ter go down in dcre ana
knock eighteen kinds Of dun ou'n HIM
See?"
The crowd had grown in size by 'hs
time until tho trolley cars were blocked
and vet no policeman was in sight.
~Stand away from that hole several
tunnel bosses began to shout. There
be cave in"
"Whydon't you go down there and car'us
that negroP" the portly citizen asked.
From all accounts he's desperate rriin-
inal
Not on your lfc! We aint coin' or
get killed"
Here, what's all this row about d"-
manded Policeman No s3i3202, pushing
his way through the crowd ard p,"r's
into the dark hole
He got 80 much information in tire next
minute that he stopped his ears with h,
hands. Then hc industriously chased
the crowd away. Back TO Sixty-t'ur'h
street went the h1tlcs, men, tho women
with infants and the children who 'ti
left their toys and games in their sId''a
hurry
What was he natter they asked 80
another, with the accent on the "wa~
When the last Stragglcr had t"trca''i