New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-21
BURGLAR KILLS OFFICER.
He WOUNDS INOTHER.
Emptics Pistols from Cellar Bari
cade-.4ttcm pts Suicide.

Policemen Hugh J. Enright was fatally ana
Policeman Jacob Bachman seriously wounded
early yesterday by one Of two burglars who
attempted suicide just before his capture
Henr, Rechn.au. n private watchman Of No
234 East Fifty-dfth-st.. who is hired by the
storekeepers along Third-ave- between fiIE-
fourth and Fifty-seventh SITS. heard a sound OF
glass being broken while patrolling his beat. ana
,.,rr,ro to NJ. g0f Thlrd-ave. saw two men
carving IL case Of eggs from the restaurant ana
bakery Of Paul Scheu. Though Bechman was
,7 -,lain clothes. he carried club and wore the
usual ,.r.vate watcnman's shield. As soon Is
the men caught sight Of the shield they threw
the case OF eggs into "A wagon that was stand
ing IN front of :he place and. one leading the
ho-sa and the other running alongside the
wagon they made for Fifty-hfth-st. The wagon
bo,e the sign "tiuujhors Meat Market No %
Rockaway-ave Brooklyn"
Reehrnar. raped FOR assistance md Enright.
who was Of the East Fifty-drst-st. station.
ioiaad In the chase. AZ Fifty-hfth-st and Third
ave the men abandoned the wagon. and one
ran west ia Fifty-Gfth-st. and disappeared.
,,r,ro the other ran east. EnriEht followed the
ma. who ran east When he was about half
W., between Third aud Second av-s. hc turuel
and fired ~ the policeman. shooting him
through the stomach. Enright fen 20 the side
walk unconscious.
Rachuan. who was on post in Secoud-ave..
heard tho shot and also Joined i'm the chase.
The fugitive continued east I'm Fifty-hfth-st.,
and when hc saw that another policeman had
appc.rsI ] on the scene he turned and fired two
ebots ~ him. one Of which took effect I'm the
stomach AID the othe~ in the hin. Rachmap
also foll unconscious.
Rouncsman Falcoue- and Policemen Fitzser-
ald and Carroll heard tho shots. and Patrick
Tuily. Of No. Pa East Fffty-hfth-st. and Mat
tncv Gurkiu. OF No All East Fifty-second-st..
who were returning from dance in Brooklyn,
Joined them I'm the chase.
A. I'srst-a We. the fugitive was confronted iy
Joseph Bauer. Of No. lOl Eas, Fifty-slxth-st..
and seeing that escape was Impossible he broke
ia TIE basement door Of Wishing's meat mar
KIT at FIst-aye and Fifty-dfth-st.. where he
barIicaCed himself and emptied two revolvers
at the policemen who were shooting at him from
above. Finally the shots from the cellar ceased
and Bauer. followed by the policemen went into
the cellar and captured the man. He had been
shot iu the head and was unconscious
lie regained consciousness later. and. accord
ing to Sergeant Larry" Powers. Of the East
Fifty-arst-st. station. made a confession. in
which he said that ~ had stolen the eggs and
had shot the policemen. Powers said that the
man. who gave his name rs Michael Brush. but
refused HIS address, said that he hoped he had
finished the policemen. and was only sorry that
he had not killed himself
Policeman George We;zell found F.uTiEht AMI
sent a hurry call 20 Flower Hospital FOR an am
aulance He also summoned Father Kelleher.
who administered extreme JUNCTION 20 the police
man.
Enrght died at the hospital late in the after
noon. f}achman was taken 70 Flower Hospital
I'm a cab where he still lies in n dangerous con-
bruet penetrating the kidneys. ard also in the
r,, The bullet extracted from the stomach
W. r,1;rl 20 have eorc entirely through ot
mo brass buttons on BaChman's uniform coat
The rim Of the button was so firmly affixed 70
tbe bullet that it could not he taken of
~aptain Lanean Of the Detective Bureau. says
.bot Brush is known 10 the police Jacob
Hr:te-. ard that he lived for some time at No.
4O1 East Sixtcenth-st. since he left there he has
been patronizing cheap lodging houses. In 1901
he was sentenced 20 two years in the Trenton
y. J. penltentiary for burglary, and in 1894 he
was sor,r to Elmira from Newburg for breaking
omen freight cars and stealing shoes.
lanes +. Brande. secretary 20 the chief clerk
fl, tbe District Attorneys office. recently admit
ted to the bar. caused the arrest Of Joseph
Fe-ce Of No. 4O1 East SiXteenth-st.. the driver
OF the wagon used by Brush The wagon was
owned by- StefanO CasSamassimO. Of No. 80
East Elaventh-st.. from whom Pesce hired 1t at
Erllsh's request. Stefano asked Mr. Braude 10
aid him in recovering the morse ana wagon from
the police
Last night Brush was transferred from Flower
Hosuftal 10 Bellevue. There IL was said that
Eie condition was favorable TO recovery; that
h. v-oe conscious and that more complete eX-
er,i-,at ion had developed that ne had a fracture
OF the skull where the bullet Iiad struck ms
head a SlanCiuE blow.
T-rrignt lived with hic mother al No l'lO
r.exi,Cton-ave. He was appointed to the force
September s. 1902 and ever since had been az
.,crad TO the East Fifty-hrst-st. station
ts.ctr7,an vas appointed September > 1896 and
- Gaan attached 10 the East Fifty-frst-st. sta
go, eirce last March. According TO Captain
f.grtrv of the East Fifty-first-su station. both
haze had excellent records