New-York tribune., 1907-08-07

PatroIn7an JONI, Tferlihy. of the West 47th
street station, was badly battered defending ms
prisoner from mob Of men, women and chill
dren who accused the latter of assaultins two
small girls The patrolnlan sat down on his pris-
oner 10 hold him which explains most Of his IN
iuries. As il was. his brass buttons kept the
mob from closing in
Edward Pratt the prisoner. went into the yard
behind STEMS deserted brewery in o'th street
where some little girls We're playing. He ac-
costcd Nellie Healy. years old. and Helen
Farrell the same age. He gave each of them zen
cents and then made indecent proposals TO them
The Farrell girl rdn away. but he caught hold OF
the other child and kept her there.
Mrs Hcaly ted the rush Pratt and maued
and scratched him almost beyond recognition
Herlihy jumped into the fight, but was powerIess
for while His uniform was torn on hut ne
was still fighting when some boys brought
clothesline up and tried to drop the moose over
Pratt's head To save his prisoner Herlihy
knocked him down ana then stood over MN
until beaten down by the attack
Detectives Horrigan and kinsleI, hearing Oh
the fight. came 10 his aid. and after hard fsht
dragged their prisoner to the station house. Al
the station house il was recalled thar s1niai
charges had been made against the Ieii"N
fortnight ago. but had not been hstant1ateu'
NI,cb ,,nrnograt,hic literature was founi in MS
possession
Led by the chids mother. yelling moo y
fully two thousand persons stormed the patiS
of thA Metropolitan company IN tfSt -,
Sorearato. who tried to assault Grace Jos'o'
eleven wears old IF No Gil East f4th street
The Greek seized the girl in 18th street ana
started drag her toward Avenue h luN
mother and all the neighhors from the thl'NN
notrIIsted tenement district fell uron MN \
coil IF line fror1t ? nearby grocery store was
seized ov the mol. and an stteEpt made - ger
it over the Greeks head
The pedler = powerful man. shook II off and
fed to the car barns. HatrclmAu Ml'hae' -
Conroy of the traffic squad heard the CRIES
and after summcning the reserves from the
East I'D street station. the second time Yester-
day they had to answer such summons. held
the prisoner in the harms and the mon AZ
hav for 4 moment until their arrival. They
had to charge the crowd repeatedly with drawn
revnlverz and nightsticks. and ever after they
had their man in the patrol wagon the mob
rnada attempts seize him. The prisoner 9
clothes were nearly All torn from him. and his
body was p mass Of cuts and bruises
After the crowd had remained about the
streets for more than an hour q small boy ran
1p and. pointing \ man. said That's the
mans friend He was there, too.
without waiting learn more. tho crowd
started after CASTOR KerisIell. tventy-eight
years old. VIII" was returning home after work
ing all day. It began To tear off his clothing
He managed Ia free himself. and ran 80 his
doorway. No. 6l2. where he fell unconscious
Patrolmarl Wagner. Of the Union Market sta
ton drew his scvover 20 keep the mob in check
until the reserves arrived. KeriskelI was thon
taken To Bellevue Hospital. The police say tn"
man had no connection with the case.
Sorgerato WAS arraign"d in the night court
and held in 81. .on0 bail for examination in the
YorkTilie court this morning.
II the pluck of trained nurse which
saved her from the clutches Of an Italian early
in the morning at 1With street and Manhattan
avenue No weakling can follow such pro
fnsson. and Miss Adelaide WlIdrcr who lives
NJ 1cf SfT Ia Tpa on
10 he glad her strength.
She was seized by the Italian in 1o6th street
when she returning from a professional
call. He dragged her up stoop and into
hallway. sitting her screams with hand on heT
throat and over her mouth Finally she hit
tirely through his hand. which gave her
chance to use her voice The fellow fought t.
subdue her again. hut she fought back her eyes
blackened and her face cut by his blows. until
the arrival Of Patrolman Wehrenkampf Of the
West Tooth street station.
He and Patrolman kerns chased the man 10
Central Park. and by the time they had pulled
him out of a clump of bushes where he had
hidden. Miss Wilder was there ready to identify
him. He said he Pietro Daurio. pedler
living at No Pts Eighth avenue He denied
having assaulted the nurse, but said that he
had jumped over the park wall because the
shots of the patrolmens revolvers had fright
ened him.
When Daurio was arraigned in me West Side
court he was held short afrEavit by Patrol
man Wehrenkampf in $1,000 bail for examina-
uOQ.
There was another identification of the young
woman found murdered in an areaway in front
of Nc 204 East Goth street a week ago. at the
norgue yesterday morning. Sunday night tne
body was fully identified that Of Ella Miller
Renton but yesterday Mrs. Catherine Sims. who
said she lived at No. "A Third avenue. called at
the morgue where she sent from the Coro
ners Office and asked to the body of the
voung woman. After looking ii over she said
she could positively identify it as that of Ella
Drcnken twenty-one years old and single. Of
No. IL Washington Terrace. She said she had
moi seen the young woman for several weeks.
Four cases growing out of assaults on little
girls were disposed of yesterday morning by
Justices Wyatt. ZelIer and Mexican in Special
Sessions While the opinion is expressed gem
erallv I'm court circles that there ia no great
wave of crime sweeping over the community
Jnstice Mexican said from the bench that II
seemed to him that crimes against chidren'
and especially against little girls were on fhe
increase.
Tho first case disposed Of was that o' Pau J
Schmidt a blacksmith, Of No. 1913 Secoho ave
,,,,e Who got one-year sentence In the peh'-
tentiarv for having attempted To assault little
Ce+beripe Kennedy on July ~. The child 8
o,,s live ar the same address. and Schmidt
tried "a lure the girl into the basement Fail
in, in this il is said he attempted 10 assault
her I'm the hallway, but her cries brought her
aunt and others to her rescue and Schmidt was
arrested
-o; West 36th street, sent to the peniten-
tisrv for six months for an attempted assault
on little KATY Neacles, fifteen years old' OF
,- 52a West Both street. The man had been
arrested Immediately after he had attacked the
child and had been. frightened on
Michael Gargone, an Italian. Of East lloth
.treet. pleaded not guilty TO a charge of at
tempted assault. and his case went over I'LL fur-