The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-08
FEWER STREET ATTACKS
MOI MiNY ACTUAL ASSAULTS on
CHILDREN.

Greek wbo Has Been q Day In the Country
Worried by Crowd Because Ne whtstled
nj ~atrIs-stOry os Giri Doesn't stand
In, cstigatiOn Less Trouble Yesterday.
John Rucek. 81 years old. an Austrian
tailor ~ iOi Fast Seventy-third street.
rae arrested last night on a charge Of at
,empted assault on Louise Sack man,
Years old, ~ l2s Fast Seventieth street.
The complainant was May Kehoe Of las
Lexington avenue. the girls aunt. who had
followed the girl on an errand. The girl
hal told her
At Sixty-seventh street and Avenue A
Rucek dragged the girl into a lot. Miss
kehoe says he attempted to assault her
niece. When Miss Kehoe attacked him he
knocked her down. but she continued the
6ght until Louise broke away s~ndsbrought
Policeman Lehan Of the East Sixty-seventh
street police station. Miss Kehoe's shirt
waist was torn in the struggle. A small
crowd followed Lehan and Rucek. but made
40 demonstration until near the police sta
ton. Rucek was arraigned In the night
court and held for a hearing.
agnes West, 10 years old. who lives at q
New Chambers street. was walking late
Yesterday afternoon with n girl friend when
she noticed a young Greek following them.
The Greek whistled to them n the girls
went home. The young woman told her
mother and her brother about the Greek
and they planned to have him arrested.
after supper the young woman and her
SISTER went for a walk. The Greek followed
them and whistled az before. He did not
attempt to go near them. Finally he went
into the Greek coffee house Of Alexander
the Great in Madison street. He stayed
there for a long time.
Meanwhile the West family with .their
friends in the neighborhood assembled
outside, When the Greek came out two
hundred men and women chased him and
threw bricks and stones. The Greek went
as fast as he could. but he was getting the
worst Of IL when Policeman al Of the
Oak street station came TO his rescue.
Lake had the hardest kind Of a job dragging
hie man to the Oak street station. There
the West girl told her story.
The Greek, IIeonidas Diamond, il 81
years old, and he has been only a day in
Isabelle Eusrer, a seventeen-year-old
,Iewess. who lives with her parents at i2o
East Seventy eighth street, walked into
the German Hospital about q O'Clock last
night and said she had been dragged on
Tuesday into a Mulberry street house by
swo Italians. She said she bad been as
saulted land kept a prisoner until yester
day,
c~orroborate her story and a half dozen
detectives from the Fast Sixty-seventh
and Elizabeth street stations and from
H~cadquarters found hat her story was
inaccurate in many ways.
A crowd Of women attacked william
Brown. % years old, Of 1871 Baltic street.
Brooklyn. who was accused Of attacking
his seven-year-old niece. Katie Garden.
Mrs. Helen Garden, the mother Of the girl,
had left the house To buy some things, and
she locked Katie and another daughter.
Illen. 5 years old. in her rooms
Brown il said to have kicked in the door
81 the apartments and seized Katie. The
child attempted to scream, but he choked
her. Ellen slipped into the hallway and
raised an alarm. In a few minutes the tene-
ment was swarming with excited women
Brown threw his niece in "A corner and
started TO escape. He was cut on on all
sides by women until Capt. Devannoy
and the reserves dragged him TO the station.
When Mrs. Garden identified her brother
IL was all that Capt. Devanney could do
TO keep her from sticking him with a hatpin.
Nine men were in the Flushing police
court yesterday, charged with annoying
women. Two Of the men were accused OF
knowing Mamie and Fannie Steeger. 8
rnd 10 years old, Of 7 Grove street, Win
ield. Queens. The mer said they were
James Hugh, 20 years old, and Thomas
ksrge, SO years old. Of Far Rockaway.
They we're fined IS each.
lima Sugarman. a young woman of
?Si0 Fulton street, Brooklyn, was RESPONSE
bl, for the arrest of four men. She said
they followed her through Highland Park
IN Tuesday evening. One Of the men had
a club. Mounted Policeman Crozier met
her and when she told him her story he
pulled his revolver and arrested he men.
Magistrate Healy held them in 81 500 bail
each.
Mrs. Mary Balstein Of Broad street and
Flushing avenue. Maspeth. appeared
against three men whom she charged with
nvading her house and threatening her.
She said she made her escape through a
back window. They were held in $1,000
Zach.