The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-05
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address has been first one Ei-t side lodging
house and thcn another. lie was tpoming
at the Olive Tree Inn ON Fast twenty
third street when he wont ont with his
hatchet "a smash the Rln--
lie was mild enough both in speech and
manner before and after TIA" d~rstrucioh.
A passerby on he opposite side Of twenty
third street saw tho mau the hatchet at
4 O'Clock In the morning standing IN the
main entrance 10 tho Mercantile Building.
He also saw him step along 10 the tailor
shop Of Louis Klein, al 40 East twenty
third At rett he first in he row Of stores be-
tween tho entrance and Fourth avenue,
and with one whack smash "A hole IN the
middle Of the window big enough TO push
O baby carriage through. Then he went to
the Mirror candy shop next door and did
the same thing and No on to the avenue,
not missing IA window, and smashing siN-
teen of them all told. He went about the
Job as IL II was the most legitimate thing
In the world, as if 1t was sonnet hing that he
was paid by the day for doing. He didn't
loaf on he job. but nett her did he hurry nor
act as IL he was afraid of being stopped
and when he had finished the last window
he calmly stuck the Ratchet handle into his
belt and walked leisureIy across the ave-
niue. apparently on his way home to the
Olive Tree Inn.
But by that time the Waterman Of the
building had been alarmed by an outsider
and he ran after Grogan, catching him half
a block away. Patrolman Fiohtel of the
East Twenty-second street station hap
pened along at the same time and placed
tiroRan under arrest. The job had notSDeen
done on Fichtel's post nor in his precinct,
for Fourth avenue is the dividing line be-
tween the Twenty -second street station
jurisdiction and he Tenderloin.
Grogan made no fuss about his arrest and
when a%rraigned later in the Yorkville
police court on a malicious mischief charge
he simply told Magistrate Finn that he
didn't like the looks of the glass. He was
held in 81, 900 for trial.
The whole expense of repairing the crazy
mans damage will fall on the Metropolitan
Plate Glass Insurance Company. Each
pane was worth about 5000. There were
sixteen Of them.
Nothing had been stolen or injured in
any of the exposed. show windows, SO the
only trouble that the shopkeepers were
put to was that of sweeping. up the muss.
That no doubt was more than Offset by
the unforeseen advertising they all got
out of it, for a crowd was in front OF the
wrecked glass all day, asking questions.
Some Of the philosophical storekeepers
helped out the wreckage as a window at
traction by means of posters. Nj. H. Harris,
an optician, put up this sign over the hole
in his window:
This may happen to your own glasses at
any time. If it does bring them here,
The Crawford shoe conc ern had two
windows smashed One hole was patched
with the dressed hide of a kid, and atshoe
was fastened IN the other hole with the
legend;
He put his best foot foremost.
Klein, the tailor, who had the biggest hoe.
labelled 1t:
This is not the entrance.
Under the break in the SarnoT hat
stores window was this sign:
An artist like this should be made to crack
rocks for about FIVE years.
The Millington Company, furnishers,
got tired OF answering questions, so posted
this explanatory bulntin:
The windows In this building. sixteen in
number, were broken by a man of unbalanced
mind at . O'Clock this morning. BY the
efficient work OF the police he was caught
and has been held Tor examination.
Rinaldo, a h~aberdasher, wrote his
Broken at 2.3O O'Clock by a crank with a
Ratchet. His only reason, Don't like glass"
His third offence.
The victims who put up no signs were the
Palette ATJ company anu oHe Vi tHe 'nlleu
Cigar Stores. e.,
Grogan's first attack on this building was
In December, 1904, when he smashed the
windows with a crowbar The building
was then new and none of the stores was
occupied. There was a heap of sand used
by the masons on the sidewalk at the time.
Before breaking the windows Grogan dug
n grave in the sand pile, and then removed
most Of his clothing. After breaking the
glass he jumped into his grave, taking the
crowbar with him. But when a policeman
tried to arrest him he jumped up and swung
the bar so vigorously that he wasn't cap
tured until a cab driver helped the patrol
man out by throwing a horse blanket over
Grogan's head and binding him.
AS the result of that arrest the man was
sent to the insane ward at Bellevue, but he
was soon discharged as sane.
Six months later he got around to Fourth
avenue and Twenty-third street again and
smashed the new windows with chunks of
Ice. For that offence he was sent to Black
wells Island for a year.
When asked yesterday why he always
picked out the same building Grogan said
that he didn't know, and that he didn't
know why he wanted to smash any glass
at all.
But I do want to- he added; sits got to