The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-17
WORST NEGRO SHOOTS THREE
ONE VICTIM, IF HE LIVES, WILL
BE PARALYZED.
Eli Lucas, Twice Convicted Of Murder In
the South, wounds Two TenderlOin
Policemen and Dance Hall Keeper
r -TerrorIzes Crowd but IL o Caught.

the South OF muTutT anu dSSOuhVcN "
the Tenderloin police the most desperate
character Of any race, color or nationality
. in their precinct, shot last night two police
men and the proprietor OF a Tenderloin
saloon freauented by negroes. He terror
lied a crowd OF thirty men and women,
whom he held at bay. until he made his
escape from the dance hall behind the
saloon where the shooting tool place. He
was captured at midnight after another
fight in which several shots were fired.
One of the wounded policemen. James
Scott, a plain clothes man attached to
the Tenderloin station lies in the New
York Hospital with a bullet in the back
between his shoulders. II he RECEIVERS,
and the surgeons consider it very doubt
full that he will, he will be at least a partial
paralytic.
nthe same hospital ia Roundsman Walsh
with a bullet in the hip. His wound IL
not serious,
John Jones. proprietor OF the saloon
and dance hall in which the shooting &C.
CURED. received a g~lancing wound in the
shoulder. He was able to leave the nos
pital after his wound was dressed.
Liquor procured at Tenderloin saloons
through the evening had aroused all
tDe evil lnHllGClS Ill lIuCdS' dIN ''S
further stimulated by a fist fight with Buck
Rogers, another tough negro character, at
Thirty-ifth street and Seventh avenue.
Rogers breaking away on the approach OF
a policeman. Lucas went to Jones's Crescent
Club, at los West Thirty-second street, ex-
pecting probably to find his antagonist
there.
The Crescent Club ia on the second floor.
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a piano. a dancing floor and tables. The
place was filed, when Lucas entered, with
white and colored women n negroes,
many of whom have records az lenderloin
criminals.
i've come in here to clean out the place,
Lucas shouted as he entered. I'm going
to shoot hell out OF somebody, and don't
care much who it is"
At the same time Lucas drew a revolver
There was a rush of the inmates for places
of shelter, some going behind the piano,
others ducking behind the bar, and some
falling fiat on the floor. Only John Jones,
the proprietor, who ran the Bon Ton at the
time Inspector Schmittberger made his
fam Gus raid there last October, held his
ground.
He appeared after a while to be pacify'ng
his belligerent customer. Lucas put away
the revolver but presently Jones said some
thing that angered him and he threw a
silver water pitcher at him and foliowed
it with a heavy match holder.
William Brown, the colored bartender
had in the meant ime slipped out for police
men AS they neared the place they heard
the sound Of a shot and quickened their
steps. When they entered they found
Lucas in the rear of the room with a re-
volver in each hand. He was shooting up
4 the. place promiscuously. All the Others
were covering down in any place of shelter
they could find.
AS the policemen entered Lucas jumped
behind the piano and, using this as a fort'
shot repeatedly at them. Cries and shouts
from Jones showed that he had been winged
and almost instantly afterward Policeman
Scott fell heavily to the floor. A tnird
bullet at about the same time took enect
In Roundsman Walsh's body and put him
out of the enga cement.
Policeman Raynes, the only one OF the
policemen left uniniured, was unable to see
from what direction the shots came on
account of the dense smoke which by TINS
time filed the place. Taking advanta ge
of this Lucas ran to a rear jumped
from it to a tree, went down to the ground
and thence made his escape through
Sweeny's saloon on Thirty-first street
Detectives Pendergast and Maher, on
duty on Thirty-second street, saw a negro
lump into a cab and drive south rapidly
on Seventh avenue. According to other
reports, Lucas took an elevated train down.
town. The police sent out a general alarm
for him and posted men at all the ferries
and railroad stations 10 intercept him
if lie should endeavor to leave the city.
Lucas was captured at midnight, after a
q fight I~ivalling the first one in exciting lnci-
dents. The police knew he had a wife, a
2 negress, and that he lived with her on
Fitty-third street near Seventh avenue
Detective Sergeants brofman ana Mean
drews were detailed TO watch the house,
and on their way there they saw Lucas and
his wife near Fifty-third street and Broad
way. They walked up behind them and
Brofman said:
We'll, Hi, we want you. Come along
without any fuss.
t"All right, " replied Lucas good naturally.
"rve got nothing against you, I'll go with
you, all right
But almost instantly the negro gave
the lie to his words.
Backing away from the detective, he
pulled a revolver from his overCoat pocket
and fred two shots. The gun caught in
the lining of the pocket and the shots went
to the ground.
Brofman dropped to the walk and fred
from a crouching position, but his shots,
like those of the negro, went wide of the
mark.
McAndrews olinched, and while the men
were struggling the negro fired two more
shots. These went in the air, though 50
close to the detectives head, he says, he
could feel the wind of them.
Lucas then broke away and ran toward
Sixth avenue. He gained rapidly on the
detectives. At the corner OF Sixth avenue
he turned up the street and he was fully a
block ahead when he had reached Fifty
sixth street.
There the detectives jumped into a cab
and they were but a short distance behind
when the negro got to Broadway. At this
corner Lucas ran square into the arms OF
Policeman Lehman Of the West Forty
seventh street station house. He struggled
to get away, but Brofman and McAndrews
were on the spot in a moment and the
negro's struggles subsidized when they got
TO work with the butts Of their revolvers.
The blows cut his skull open in a dozen
places and the policemen dragged him. his
head bleeding freely and his temper very
docile, to the Tenderloin station.
Lucas's wife made her escape at the first
encounter bet ween her huSi and and the