New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-03
YOUNG RIOTERS CAUGHT
Seventeen Boys arrested on an Ete-
gated Railroad Train.
THREW MISSILES FROM OPEN CAR


The police of the Morrisania station last night
arrested seventeen boys on the Third-ave ele-
waited road at hundred-and- fifty sixth-st.
The arrests followed prolonged riot on an open
car Of a train that came to stop on the down
trip at the point where the police reserves were
waiting for the boys.
For the last two months forty or fifty boys
have made practice of annoying passengers
on trains, people the sidewalk in Third-ave-
and persons living in flats along the route by
throwing green apples, pebbles and burrs. De-
tectives Mcknight. Nevins and Tolwell OF the
Interborough Railway Company, are the COM
planants against the boys.
The prisoners who were over sixteen were
locked UP in the Morrisania station. and those
under sixteen were placed in care of the chill
dren's society," They are Lewis Van Teller four
teen, OF No. A Marion-st.; George Montandrea
fifteen No. POS Elm-st.; William Deckenhem
thirteen No 26 Avenue D; Philip Theisen-
brand twelve, No. % Avenue D; John SOlde ff-
teen, No. POS Elm-st; William Boyle, fourteen,
No 426 West Thirteenth-st.; Samuel HUT sew
enteen No. 213 East e-hundred-and- ninth-st-;
John Robinson, thirteen, No. 1913 Third-ave.;
Israel Nursing, sixteen, No. 167 East One-hun-
dred-and- third-st; Peter Bennett, fourteen, NO.
1891 Third-ave.; John McGurby. fifteen, No.
1856 West Nineteenth-st.: Henry Wynn, four
teen No. 30 West Nineteenth-st; William Gas
ton, seventeen, No. 1923 Third-ave.; George
Sherring, sixteen, No. 80 East Sixth-st.; Sam
uel Spittel eleven, No. $40 East Sixth-st; Julius
Rahes, fourteen. No. $40 East Sixth-st-, and
Morris Sussman twelve. No. $40 East Slxth-st.
Great excitement attended the rush made by
the police the train carrying the fifty youth
full miscreants, and. as evidence, a barrel or
green apples a peck Of pebbles, and a package
of chestnut burrs were taken by the police. The
railroad detectives watched the movement OF
the crowd of boys from noon yesterday when
the boys began to congregate at the Bedford
ave. station, the last on the Third-ave road.
Little groups of boys rode UP and down the line
all the afternoon, and about o'clock the gang
of fifty boarded a train from Bedford-ave. The
railroad detectives were on the same train. The
boys occupied an open car. The train had not
gone far, when green apples began to pass
through the air, into flats, through open win
dows, breaking panes of glass. and persons pass
ing In Third-ave and cross streets were saluted
with apples pebbles and burrs.
The police were warned by telephone, and at
the One-hundred- and fifty-sixth-st station a
dozen bluecoats were on hand. No sooner were
the sliding gates of the car opened than boys
of all sizes and ages dropped off the car 10 the
elevated structure, Drawing the third rail- ana
sCampering down toward One-hundred -and-for-
ty-ninth-st. Some slid down the pillars or the
structure. Passengers who had been moleSted
by the boys Joined in the chase. and finally
seventeen boys We're rounded up. They Will be
arraigned this morning in court.