The evening world., 1907-07-08
SUBWAY GATEMAN
IS KILLED, NEGRO
SAVED FROM MOB
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Aged Guard Hurled Against
Train and Receives Injuries
Which Cause Death.
CRIES OF GET A ROPE!f'
Neglected to Drop Ticket and
Fought with Collector on
Being Called Back.
CRIES OBJECT A ROPE!

III An infursated crowd of 300 rns'
wanted TO lynch william CURTIS. .
negro. at. the Battery to-day when the,
heard how he had deliberately shoVet
George Me,ringer. sixty-year-ok
xatemcn, in front OF a subway trair
On the seuth Ferry station. Three po
iicemen with their nighHtieks had tc
hew. a path for their trembling prisonel
through the threatening. press OF angry
commuters
At ,hat time II was believed that
Curt.ss victim had not been badly In
jured. Had the truth been known--tha'
Metsinger was senseless and dying
there might have been moro deter
mined attempt to mob the negro
Forgot to Drop Ticket.
\ The old gatonan. who WAS known for
\ his good nature and unfaifnR courtesy.
stood at the ticket chopper on the up
stawn side wnen Curtis a dapper-
EE.lrexsaa athletic nulattn. rRh- down the
exit gate Mc,xinEcr calle1d to him 10
eo back and pay his fare. The negro
laughed at him and kept on. The
amount involved was only s cent?. but
aietxlnger. shekler for doing his duty.
ran after Curtis and caught him by the
coat.
\ Here come back and put ticket fn
I the box" he demanded The anawcr
was curse and blow. Tho two men
cilnched and wrcstled toward the edge
d tho platform. Several men. seeing
that the old white man was no match
6or the young negro. ran TO interfere.
Their aid came TOO late,
Curtis brnke MeiHlnser's grip and
struck him twice In the face. The white
man staggered backward TO the edge OF
the concrete and iell against train
His head and the upper part OF his body
were caught between the floor OF tho
platform and the door of the front car.
Gins. li until Re train stopped and the
nuard drew the door open,
Al cry OF horror went up from the
spectators They thouht the Eatema
%as under the wheels Curtis, seeing
&shnt he had done. turned to Zee; He
dashed uostairs TO the street with q
-ss-rrr- -t,s.ssuArH behind him II the
head OF the steps he ran Into Foiiceman
Hale who seized him.
Cries OF Get q Rope
In an instant the policeman and his
pr r,soner were the csHtrs OF u ring OF
! n srIr.s Who tried 10 kick and strike the
negro. lViEst- -.xeIe o spee1ily relntofrea . y
others. Some came from Underground,
Yghere they had se~n the senseiess gate
man lying on the platform with his
head crushed and his arm broken. 9th.
rTs were staten Islanders who had just
arrived on the ferries.
Hale. realizing the peril. blew his
whistle. poiiceme4i Simon and Mckenna
.sansc 10 him, The thrss poiiremen. . tIad
X 4 hard fgft TO save their man. Cries
8Sl Lynch the ntggrs" and &c. .
ropef' followed them as tney carried
Curtis nj run 10 street car nuns
him aboard. beat on the foremost o.
the crowd and got safely away VIII
aIr,, Ia he-Church street station.
Metxinger, who lived a. No. los Wes'
t,ne Hundred and Fourth street. With
IN family. died aeon after he reached
tttA Huaaaa Street Hospital He neyri
regaineh his senses-
q Curtis. who Is a4 porter In the EN-
NOV of tho New York Central Railroad
+ raia his home was al No; - East On
Hundred and Thir.y-fourth street. II
I Fhe heart ot Little Africa He elaine,
I ne shnpiy ran past Metz.nger.
4 Coroner Shrady held him In U.ooo bal
/. on a homicide charge and remande'
I him To the Tornh-.