New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-24
TEN SHOTS In STREET.
THREE MEN IN DUEL
None Take Effect. but Miss Marks
Narrozcly.

About ten shots were fred late last night n
duel between two policemen and LYMAN zankin
OF No. $50 Cherry-st- None Of the shots took
effect. but Il seemed at any minute II the
affair would be like that In which Patrosman
Enright lost his life.
LYMAN Rankin. with his brother Louis. cot
into a fight with Lee Thomas. a conductor OF
No. Dds East ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
another man. at East Broadway and Gouver-
neur-st- Detective valerfan J. O'FarreI at
tached to Inspector Corsrights staff. and De-
tective Moran. Of the Delancey-st- station, had
been IN the rooms OF the John +. Ahearn Club
when they came on the fighters. OFarrelI went
to break up the fight and Moran walked on
The man. whose identity has not been learned
told OrFarreH that they would quit, and a.
O'FarreII started to go away the man suddenly
knocked him down Then Hyman Rankin. he
says. jumped on him They struggled on the
ground. and Moran. seeing the fight. ran back
and took hold OF Thomas and the other man.
who were starting to join their former snsuiss
O'Farren says that he got I'D. but was again
knocked down. He was struggling with Zalkin
and getting the better Of him, when zAakia
called to his brother:
Get my gun out. quick"
HANDS WEAPON TO BROTHER
Louis reached down and took his brothers re-
Zankin struck o'Farrell over the head with hts
revolver. ard the detective. drawing his own
weapon. struck each Of the men. Hymsn Ian
kin fen to the ground. but in turning over fred
a shot at O'FarreIl Then he fred another.
O'Farren struck the man with his own weapon
again and then tried to fire it It did not work
and he seemed to be at the mercy Of Zankin
Thomas had broken away from Moran and
rushed toward the detective. OFarreIl yelled to
Moran that his pistol failed to work and to look
out for Zankin. O'Farref wrestied with Thomas
and both men fell to the ground The Zankins
and the other man took advantage OF this and
started to run.
Moran jumped over Thomas and OFarrell and
gave chase after Hyman Zankin.
At East Broadway and Montgomery-st. Hy-
man turned suddenly and fred a bullet by
Moran's ear. The policeman fred twice. but the
man kept running. From East Broadway Fan
kin turned into Division-st. and continued to
Attorney. Moran following closely. A crowd had
started to follow them. but when the shots were
fred they scattered in all directions. At d.
vision and Attorney SITS. Zsnkin turned north
Just as he rounded the corner he turned quickly
and fred point blank at Moran. the bullet miss
ing him only by a few inches. Then. as II to
save his ammunition. he quickly north into
Attorney-st Moran returned the fire at that
point, firing only one shot He feared that
Rankin would get into ambush and he wanted to
save his ammunition.
THE MAN A BETTER SPLINTER
Moran was then about fifty feet back OF Fan
kin. He increased his speed. but felt that the
other was a better Splinter. When Zankn
reached Grand-st. he turned and ran west Peo-
pie seeing him running with the smoking pistol
fed into doorways and up and down the side
streets. As the men neared Rdge-st Moran
called on Rankin to stop.
Instead. the man again fired Moran. TOO.
fired but neither Of these took effect Moran
saw Zankin reaching into his side pocket. and
thought he trying to reload Moran him
self was nearly exhausted. and he called out 70
the two lien TO stop Zankin. telling them his
pistol empty. The men, who said they were
Leo T. Strum. OF 70. SO East Thirteentn-st-.
and A. L. Heyman. OF No. 201 East One-nun-
dred-and- fOurteenth-st.. grabbed Zankin as ne
was about to turn north in Ridge-st- lie was
exhausted and made no resistance.
O'Fcrrell. meanwhile. had succeeded IN sub
DUNG Thomas. He took him TO the station He
was met there by Moran with Hyman Zankin.
The latter had to be taken to Gouverneur Hos
pitaI TO have two scalp wounds dressed There
the detectives found Louis Rankin. who had
gone there for the same purpose. he was az
once arrested.
Detectives are looking for the other man IN
the case and expect to arrest him.