New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-01
SHOOTS MAN In STREET.
LONG CHASE FOR NEGRO.
He Hounds 4Hother, and EUades
bob for Hours.

Paterson. y. J.. June 30-After killing one
man. seriously woun6ing another and keeping a
thousand pursuers 1t bay for more than seven
hours with fusillade Of bullets. Arthur Lasker
mulatto, Of Newark. was captured here to-
tay and lodged IN the city prison, charged with
murder The dead man was Max WolIenberg,
VINO ran a mems furnishing store at 10. 302
Main-st William J. Kessel a driver of an lea
wagon was shot through the Jaw while trying
10 stop the fugitive
WoLenberg was alone in his store about $50
O'Clock this morning. when the mulatto entered
ana asked TO see some dress suit cases The
man examined some and then left the store say
ing ae would return soon In a little time he
came back and began to talk in an excited man
ner about q Show" he declared he belonged &c
which had busted up" The management
owed him some money, he declared, and an
hounced that ne was going to get it. Then he
suddenly drew q revolver and yelled:
am Tracy, the outlaw. and I want some
money
MI. Wollenberg succeeded in getting to the
street when the mulatto passed him and ran
wildly down the sidewalk shooting the revolver
IN every direction. The storekeeper gave chase
crying Stop thief" whereupon the other turned
and deliberately shot him through the stomach
and then ran on
Meanwhile the fugitive ran down Ward-st to
Aiill-st- and up Mil to Grand. Here Patrolman
Nanderhon tried TO intercept him. and the mu-
latto fired three shots him. The policeman
who weighs go pounds. was outrun. Then
hessel got in the way and shot
BY this time about thousand citizens were
on the trail and with them company Of de-
tectives from Police Headquarters. The hunt
ed man ran through some granite mill yards
back Of water reservoir. and disappeared in
the woods. The woods were Immediately sur
nHad nd IA;
Little Falls. Singac. Montclair Lower Preakness
and other places TO be the lookout for the
man.
While the searchers beating the woods
Arthur w Bishop, agent Of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals drove
through Upper Preakness warning the farTners
One Of these men John Doremus son of
Peter Doremus Before the young man had a
chance to speak to his father. the mulatto came
along and tried TO hire out to Peter Doremus
John Doremus came up while Lasker was talk
ing to his father and tried signal to him to
hire the stranger. but his father needed no
help and let Lasker go. He, however. referred
him to Edward Van Houghton another farmer
down the road.
Young Doremus Immediately telephoned 10
the city and Patrolmen Sautt,S aIs Ryan start
ed out for the Doremus home Meanwhile John
Doremus found that Lasker had been hired by
the ASlSHDoT. ana on ARRIVAL OF the policemen
sent them at once 10 the Van Houghton place
When they arrived Lasker was eating in the
kitchen. Sautter the rear of the house
and on seeing the fugitive called Where IS my
dog?" and began TO whistle.
This was the signal for Ryan who irnme-
diateIy started through the house from the
front Lasker became suspicious at that and
started out the back door. where he ran into
the arms of Sautter. The latter grabbed his op-
ponents pistol pocket and chung 10 him while
Ryan rushed up Lasker tried to dra1r his re
volver from his inside coat pocket, where IL was
attached to his neck by string. Ryan was too
quick for him. however He Ieaped on the mu-
and disarmed him.
The weapon was a 3S-calibre army revolvar
and had four cartridges in it. In the coat
pocket was pinch section Of iron pipe. He
had also about his person a heavy moose, ap-
parently TO be used as garrote bottle Of
chloroform and notebook in which was the
name he gave as his own and letter from the
Great Northern Railroad Company, recommend
ing him a cook.
Lasker was brought in the carriage to the city
line, and there transferred to a patrol wagon
Though 4 great crowd gathered there was no
talk Of lynching this time
On examination at the station house I.asker
said he was twenty years old, and had been in
patterson only one day He denied that he had
done any shooting. He said that he had been
living in the Hotel kensington in Newark II
was learned later that he had been employed at
the hotel as a cook for Two weeks ending June
Fl He was described at the hotel as a quiet
fellow and q good worker. II was said that
when he left the place he had declared he had
& better job up State" Nothing coud be
learned Of his family.