New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-21
ROPE AROUND HIS NECK.
Shots at Negro in BrO0duay from
automobile Party.

Knocking down policeman early yesterday
morning. Thomas Jefferson, a negro made an
EFFORT to escape. AS he ran he was shot at by
three men, one who was getting of a car, an
other in an automobile and the third who wss
standing on the corner.
Finally a crowd of about one hundred men
stopped him and roughly handled him. rope
was procured, and, the men were tying it
about his neck. with the intention of hanging
him. the reserves of the West 6Sth street sta
ton arrived and rescued him.
While in the so-called San Juan district,
where numerous fights between colored and
white men have taken place. early yester-
day morning Patrolman Thomas Carmody. Of
the West 6Sth street station. heard cries Of
Police! Murder" Running to West 6Oth
street. he saw man and a woman struggling
on the fire escape of No. 241. He ran up three
flights Of stairs and on the fire escape found
Jefferson fighting with two women.
The negro was bleeding from wound on the
shoulder, which, he alleged. he received from
Emma Miller colored who held razor The
woman. however said that jefferson had at
tempted to stab her. and that in the strug-
gle he was cut. Elizabeth Brown, the other
woman, told a different story. Carmody ar
rested all three and started for the police sta
tion.
Arrive there. Jefferson suddenly gave the
policeman a kick, making him slip down the
steps. The negro then, according to the police
man. kicked him in the stomach and started
toward Broadway. Carmody hustled the two
women into the station house and started after
the negro
Carmody raped for assistance, and as the
negro reached Broadway a man and a woman
got off a southbOund The man drew re-
volver and fired twice at the negro who was
able to overtake him.
When the negro was about in the middle Of
the block an automobile containing four men
drove about twenty feet behind him, and one
Of the occupants, standing up. pulled a revolver
and fired twice at the fugitive. The machine
followed him short distance. but did not turn
into 9th street after him.
At 9th street. opposite the Marie Antoinette
Hotel. was a crowd of men, one of whom
started after Jefferson and fired two shots at
him. Carmody did not draw his revolver. but
all the time raped for help. During the pur-
suit through 9th street toward Amsterdam ave-
nue. the negro gained, and when the avenue
was reached a crowd of about one hundred men
returning from picnic tripped Jefferson and
pinned him down They kicked and beat him,
and when Carmody arrived he was unable to
get within twenty feet of where the negro was.
The refused to let the policeman get the
negro saying they would deal with him. At this
point a milkman, attracted by the shots. drove
his team near the crowd and, throwing rope
to the men, shouted. Let's lynch the negro!
A moose was made. and the men were about
to tie II about Jeffersons neck when the re-
serves of the West 6Sth street station arrived.
After considerable difficulty they managed to
rescue the negro and took him to the station
house The crowd followed, but made no fur
ther attempt at the prisoner.
Jefferson received many cuts and bruises. ana
a ambulance was summoned from Roosevelt
Hospital.
When the case was called in the West Side
court MAGISTRATE Cornell sent the two women
10 the island for six months on charges of dis
orderly conduct. Carmody made complaint or
assault against Jefferson, and he was held in
$500 bail FOR trial