The sun., 1903-02-11
MOB CHILDREN CAUGHT HIN.
HOT CHASE FOR 4 NAN VINO HAD
STONED PASSING WOMEN.
Drew q knife on One Of 'ghem school
Childrcn Follow Him for blocks. yelling
rnd Throwing stones lntii Iic IIalts
and Attacks an E!ght.Y car.Old Girl.

More than thousand children joined.
yesterday Afternoon. IN chasing man
who had been throwing stones at women
In The Bronx end finally drove him breath
'ess into the arms Of !. policeman. Before
the man was locked up in the fremont
station he bcca me faint from a dozen cuts
and bruises inflicted by stones thrown by
the boys in the crowd.
The mans actions were first noticed by
Mrs. Mary Malloy of Ii42 Boston road As
she was corning out of her no Use at I O'Clock
a stono whi2zed by her head. She looked
across the street and saw IA small man
with n wiry mustache pulling stone out
Of his pocket. THIS stone he threw at
Mrs. Joseph Farre.Iy, IL music teacher,
who was going 10 her horne al 1885 Boston
roGd. The stone narrowly missed her.
Mrs. Mailoy shouted;
What do you mean' Do YOU want to
kill some one?'
Without ay,ng word the man ran across
the street, puiling knife from his pocket
as he ran. iirs. Malloy ran from him.
shouting 10 number of boys that were play
ing in the street to protect her. The man
then turned away from her and ran W
Boston road toward Crotona Park. The
crowd of children followed him Mrs. Malloy
shouting 10 them Don't lose sight OF him
and III get a policeman.
by the time the man reached Crotona
Park the crowd had increased to several
hundred and the boys III ii kept up a con
tinual shower Of stones at the fleeing man.
one stone struck his nat and sent ii Spinning
ahead OF him. The man picked it up ana
then threw some stones at his pursuers, but
they threw too hard and too iast Tor him
to stand il very long and with his lace
bleeding from several cuts he turned and
ran into the lark.
BY the time he got to the middle of the
park he was out of breath and leai.e against
a Tree 1he crowd closed in on him and
threw a shower of missiles at him. ALgered q
by the attack, the man rushed from the
tree and seized eight-year-old Helen
Schwarz, who lives at Jennings and Bristow
streets
He pulled out his knife again and the
crowd, which had scattered, closed in on
him and fired another volley Of stones.
One big stone struck him on the wrist and
sent his knife spinning away. lie didn 7
stop to pick 1t up, but made dash, ana
getting away in front Of the crowd, ran on
through the park and out into Third
avenue.
At Third avenue the crowd was increased
by several hundred more children and
some men. Mounted Policeman Brown
had ridden up and started after the man
who made for the elevated railroad station
at l74th street. As he was climbing the
stairs some boys in the front rank OF his
pursuers pulled him back and he fell ex-
hausted to the ground. At that moment
the mounted policeman and Policeman
Fitzgerald came up and drove the boys
back.
The policemen had to drag him to the
police station. When he was searched
another dirk-li knife was found on him.
Mrs Maloy said this was not the weapon
which he had pulled on her The man was
held until morning on a charge Of disorderly
conduct He said that he was Louis Wag:
ner Of 342 Elst lO5th street but the police
learned later that no such man was known
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