New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-05
STREETCAR Is HELD Up.
PASSENGER SHOT IN EYE.
Conductors and MotOrmen Force
Release OF 14SSaiLant.

As a soUthbound Lexington-ave. streetcar was
rearing One-hundredth-st. late last night a
shabby dressed young man rushed out in tie
street and waved umbrella suriously. John
Farrell, the nlotorman, thought he wanted to
hoard the and stopped it. 1t was an oQen
car. and the young man jumped on the step.
Drawing pistol! he waved H.
Every body hold up their hands" he shouted
Several passengers got nervous. but many %
them took Il 4 Fourth Of july Joke. One OF
1hese was Henry Monahan. Of No lG4 East
Niretieth-st. TIE man with the pistol was
standing oppocite him. and when no hands went
Up Monahan was commanded directly 10 raise
his He smiled and said:
stop your kidding; this isn't the first of
April"
AS Mosahan spoke the man with the pistol
fired. The bullet strucl, Monahan in the left
eye and glanced off. infiicting painful but not
dangerous wound. AIonahan tainted. Women
screamed and men shouted and a panic fol-
lowed It is said that three women tainted.
The man Jumped from the and started
10 run down Lexng1on-ave. John Roach.
salesman. Of No. 50 West Ninetieth-st- who
sat behind Monahan. gave chase. lie caught the
fellow Just below Ninety-nint.,-tst.. and wrested
the pistol from his hand. The young men
struggled, but Roach held on, intending TO wait
for a policeman TO arrive and take the man.
Roach says that while be was holding his
prisoner ten or twelve moto-rnen and conduc-
tors from the Ninety-ninth-st. car harms ran
over and demanded that he release the man.
I'VE know him and you've got 20 lei him 90.
he says one conductor told him.
Roach protested. he asserts. that The man
had committed a felony. lie would hold him.
be declared, until a policeman arrived Several
men IN uniform then jumped on him and he
was roughly treated and forced to release his
hold his prisoner. Roach says there was
mo policeman in sight. and one did not come
for fifteen minutes.
Several passengers carried AIonahan from the
rar TO the drug store OF Benjamin Rubin. az
no. 1857 Lcxngton-ave. Or. Rubin treated
she man and he was then taken in an ambulance
30 tie Harlem Hospital
Detectives Dixon and Dreyfus. when they
heard Roach's story. went TO the car barns and
arrested George f. Foster, a conductor. Of No.
a13 East Observation-Disclosures whom they
charged with aiding prisoner TO escape. Eos
ter was locked up.
Joseph Black the head starter At the Ninety
,linth-st. barns, told the police they say, that
dhe man who did the shooting well known
40 the conductors and motormen who made their
headquarters at the barn. and that he often ran
errands for them. Black declared he would
order an Investigation.
Roach was extremely indignant. He said:
Even the conductor on car. which was
No 964 seemed to know the man who shot
Nonahan. 1 asked him for his name. but he
refused to give IT. l then took his number
Although he reports at the Ninety-nlnth-st
barn he denied knowing several men l pointed
out TO him as those who had assaulted me.
When the police finally arrived only one of the
men ] could identify was present.
The shooting the most braZen thing
ever saw. / think the young fellow must have
been crazy. He didn't demand any money. but
perhaps he thought some passengers would get
scared and hand ii over anyway.
Late last night the police said they expected
TO arrest in few hours The man who did the
shooting