The evening world., 1904-06-08
Caught Whi,o Tying to Choke
Man He Tried to Rob, James
Murray Is Badly Beaten with
Nightsticks.
TWIGE SNAPS STEEL
FETTERS From WRIST.
Is Pushed, Pulled and Kicked
Downstairs by RatroImen and
Then Carried Bodily to Police
Station.

James Murray, thirty-four years old
six feet and more in height and built
like Hercules, appeared in the Centre
Street Court to-day to answer to a
charge OF burglary. His head was
awathed in bandages, and two police
men and a citizen. who appeared as
. complainant, all showed the effects of
che tough fight he put up in resisting
arrest.
Giuseppe Vitrano, his wife and four
children occupy an apartment on the
top Hcor of the six-stoFy tenement at
No. James street. No. James street
is a fve-story tenement. the roof of
which is on a level with the windows
OF the sixth floor OF No. Z.
A,Greek living on the same floor with
the Vitranos saw a big man stepping
across the airshaft from the roof of
No. 5 TO n window in the Nittano
apartment Mrs. Vitrano. who was
Awakened by the noise of the intruder
stumbling against can in the -Ritchen,
dozed again. but in n second was
awakened again by the stranger kick
ihg over a chair. She saw the man
leaning over the dresser and screamed.
Vitrano, who is a small man. jumped
out of. bed and grappled with the
tstranger. His wife ran to assist him,
and Murray as the burglar afterward
gave his name. shook her off easily
rand began to pound her husband.
: Cries Attract POLICE.
\ The cries of the men and Mrs. Vitrnno
attracted the attention OF the twenty
families in the building. and the floor
was soon crowded with men. women and
children in night attire. Policemen
Clonan and Dukeshlre were across the
street and heard the row. They ran
over and entered the tenement.
In the mean time Murray had beaten
Vitrano to the bed and was choking him
when n man named Joseph Mellow ran
in with a revolver and pointed 1t at
Murray's breast.
stop that and get back against the
wall or III blow your brains out"
said Mellow. Murray retreatel against
the wall Just as the crowd in the hall
shouted, Here come the police!"
Mellow evidently did not wish 70 ex-
plain how he happened to be carrying
a revolver without license. for he ran
away when the police approached. AS
he left the room with hts revolver,
Murray again jumped on Vitrano and
was beating him savagely when Clonnn
and Dukeshire ran into the room.
Police Beat Burglar on Head.
The policemen drew their night
sticks and beat Murray over the head,
Clonan finally knocking him out suffi-
ciently to enable him 10 get the nip
pers" on his wrists. Murray revived in |
a few seconds. however. and snapped
the steel fetters as though they were
made OF twine.
Assisted by two citizens. the policemen |
fought Murray and managed to get an
other pair OF "nippers'' on him. Murray
snapped these as easily as he had the
first.
He was finally pushed. pulled and
Kicked down the street, fighting every
step of the way. Once on the street
more help was summoned and he was
picked UP bodily and dragged to the
Oak street station.
At the station he was searched. and
n small pocketbook containing $2.O5, be-
longing to Mrs. Vitrano. was found on
him. His head was badly cut, and DR..
Sanders was summoned from Hudson
Street Hospital to attend him.