The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-07
RABBLE STIRRED Up EASILY
Tw0 MEN ATTACKED WHO HAD
NOT HARMED GIRLS.

a Girl Points Mer Ftngcr and Crowd heats
Taller VIM Mad Dese Nsthing -Psnce
KNOW individuals. hut No Arrests
Are Msde-Few Req Asssults.
Old Daniel Coiro OF Gil a Fourteenth
street nav Grace Josoo. an eleven-yesr-ola
girl who lives at tho same address. going
along the street early last evening with q
young man who had his arm over her
shoulders. Daniel grabbed Grace away
and struck the man in the mouth Then
he hurried 10 the Josoo home. a few doors
away. TO tell Grace's mother. Mary Josco.
the girls mother. and her brother Joseph
were at home and they didn't lose any time
getting down to the street. By that time
the young man. who wa apparently a
Greek; was surrounded by a crowd Of men
and women who were poking him with their
fsts.
When Mrs. Josco and her grown up son
got there they waded right into the Greek
without asking Grace anything. Their
example was followed by all the others.
some Of whom used dinner pals. clubs and
anything that was handy. A few minutes
Of this and the Greek had a long cut on the
pack Of his head. a mass OF bruises on bis
face. both lips cut. his forehead gashed,
both eyes blackened and one swollen nearly
shut and his tongue pulled up 80 that he
could not make himself understood hen
he tried to protest.
Policeman Michael j. Conroy Of the tranic
squad. who has been at Fourteenth street
and Avenue B for years. jumped into the
crowd and grabbed the victim. The
punchers didn't take kindly TO his inter
ference and he drew his revolver. Calling
most OF the men by anne he advised them
to keep of and let him tax his prisoner 10
the station house. They didn't heed hiu
and he rushed the Greek into the Metropoh-
tan car barns a few yards away and had the
employees shut the doors on the crowd.
Then he sent for the reserves and the patrol
wagon. Seven patrolmen went along with
the wagon. but the crowd had quit.
After the excitement was all over II &C.
CURED to Mrs. Josoo to ask Grace what had
happened to her. The girl said that she
was walking in front of her homo when the
man came along. said something she didn't
understand and put his arm around her
neck.
Paul Sogcrato. q pedler. was the pris-
oner's name a. nearly as the police could
get IL when he had been patched up by a
surgeon. He was taken to the night court.
The policeman said that Sogerato had
walked up to the girl. asked II her father
and mother were living and put his arm
around her. The Greek was in nc condition
to say anything and was held for q hearing
this morning.
Not long after the rescue Of the Greek
CASTOR Kerskel. a Pole who works In a Sweat
shop on the West Side. came along the south
side OF Fourteenth street bound for his
home at e42 East Fourteenth street, where
his wife and two children were awaiting
him for dinner. Kerskel was crossing
Avenue d when q girl ran into the street.
made a motion with her fingers, said
-Shamey!" and cried There goes the man.
In a jiny there was q mob OF screaming
women headed for Kerskel. The Pole
| didn't know what it all meant and kept
| right on for his home. When a man in front
| Of q corner saloon heaved a brick at him he
ran
The cry Of There he goes!" was taken
up and soon the street war jsmmed.
Women grabbed at the fleeing Pole as he
dashed along the street. Everybody took
a punch at him and before he got 20 his
door he was hemmed in by ths crowd.
Kerskel broke through them and was at
his doorway when a brick hit him on the top
OF his head. He fell and men. women and
children kicked and punched him and
almost tore his clothes from him.
Policeman Jack Wagner of the Union
Market station got there about this time.
Wagner used his club freely n made q
lane through the bowling mob. hauling
the tailor. who was unconscious. into the
doorway OF the tenement.
At the doorway Policeman Wagner
stopped and drove the crowd back. Avenue
ID and Fourteenth street heads are hard
and thick. but a lot OF them hurried last
night.
A man in q drug store called up Polics
Headquarters and ar ambulance and re-
serves followed. When the reserves came
the crowd ran to cover. No arrests we're
made.
Kerskel was taken TO Bellevue Hospital.
| He was badly bruised on the body and there
was a deep cut in his hesd The doctors
weren't sure that his skul had not been
fractured.
Edward Pratt Of 52i West Fifty-seventh
street was arrested at Fifty-seventh street
and Tenth avenue yesterday afternoon
charged with enticing little girls into a
deserted beer garden near by. He was
followed to the West Forty-sevsnth street
station by q crowd. but no one touched
him except a woman. who hit him Ia the
face with her dst as he went by. He was
held for q hearing this morning.
An Italian bumped into Emily Bosart.
IS years old, Q nurse girl, while she wss
walking last evening in Stockton street.
Williamsburg. She was with her m
ployer's son, Harry Klein. The Italian
ran and q crowd beat him up. Then the
police rescued him by locking him up.
Esteile Powell, 8 years old, OF 7is East
Eleventh street, told her father last night
that Abe HArber had tried to assault her
in his candy store at 1877 Avenue c. Harder
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