New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-22
EPIDEMIC OF SHOOTING.
CITY LIKE lining CAMP.
Sererer Penalty for Carrying Con-
ceaEed WeapOrs Needed.

e The shooting OF two policemen by oursiaI
| on Sunday morning was followed on SUNDAY
/ night and yesterday morning by three othcr
shooting cases. A policeman shot a hoy VINO
was suspected Of being a burglar and was es-
Gaming from a house IN West Fifty hrst-st-;
one Italian shot another In East One-hundreo-
aud-tNirteenth-st. and woman shot at another
woman N East Fourteenth-st. These cases fol-
lowing so closely on the killing Of Patrolman
Hugh J. Enright and the wounding Of PATROL
man Jacob Bachman at Third-ave. ana FIFTY
rfth-st by the burglar Jacob Huter, may
cause some amendment Of the law against
carrying revolvers without permits
Magistrate Flammer. who held the prisoners
in the Italian shooting case in Harlem. said
New-Y York was getting to be like a Western
mining camp" when he was told that there had
been twelve fatal shooting cases I'm Harlem since
June Of last year. When it was suggested to
him bv a police sergeant that there should be an
amendment to the law to make the carrying of
a revolver without permit felony, Magistrate
Flammer said
No. not a felony. for il the penalty were too
severe the law would not he enforced. The
Board Of Aldermen. however, should cause a
fine Of 500 TO be imposed on persons caught
carrying revolvers. If the guilty ones were
compelled to pay heavy fines for this offence
they soon would give up the practice. The al
q
atty: il IS not necessary to so TO Albany for the
right to 90 it."
Officials At Police Headquarters said that
practically all the shooting lately. except that
done by the police. by persons who had
no permits 10 carry revolvers. There are many
permits out. but as they issued on the rec
ommendation Of police captains. who make in
designations. the people who get permits are
not likely to use weapons except in self-detence.
Mrs EIanore Hanish. Of No III Avenue A.
worked for Mrs Adelaide Jonas. in East Sew
ruty-ninth-s: recently. and gave up her place
before her month had expired. Mrs. Jonas re-
fusing to pay Sc which Mrs. Hanish said was
due her for salary Mrs. Jonas has an ostrich
plunle shop at No. 200 East FourteeEth-st As
she wac about TO enter it yesterday she was met
by Mrs. Hanish who had small revolver con-
cealed I'm her muff Mrs. Hauish raised the
rlufT and there was a pistol shot. but the bullet
failed to hit Mrs. Jonas Two Of Mrs. Jonas
employees seized Mrs. Hsnish and held her until
a policeman arrived
When arraiEned in police court Yesterday
Mrs Hanish was recognized rs having been ar
raigned last fall for firing a shot at a laWyet
named Gallinger ia the Temple Court bulIding-
At that time also. the Snot did not hit us marx
She was discharged on the first charge by Mag
istrate Pool technically. but yesterday
she was held in $1,000 bail for trial.
Huter and Policemtu BaChmau We're recover
ing from their wounds yesterday. and the burg
lar was cursiug his luck because he had not
been able to kill himself The body of patrol
man Euright lay at his home, where his aged
mother and young wife were weeping over II.
His two little children were with them.
Commissioner MCAdoo yesterday sent Inspec-
tor Mclaughlin To- offer aid 20 Mrs. Euright.
This IS "A sad case the Commissioner said,
hut Mrs Eurrht will receive the largest pen
sion Il is possible for the department 10 give. !
have written to the trustees of the Riot Relief
Fund. suggesting that EnriEhts widow should
receive The maximum amount given from the
fund 90 the family ~ q policeman who is killed
in the discharge 81 his duty. That. believe. Is
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