The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-05
MOB STRIPPED A MAN BARE
THOJ GHT W FIRST THEI MERE
RESTING ONE or THE GAN6.

Then Heard TI,a' Sie Hat ,uacks d q IA,iir
sltI and They PIT ciled On to do nIm
Ip-Nearl> Sid Dip tbe Policeman
T~oe-Thrcc ~ the Crowd Arrested.
Harry Hamburg. who lives on the fifth
floor at 500 East N~inety-hfth street. has two
little girls. seven year-old Annie. and Sadie.
who's 3 and going or Q. For three days
Annie and Sadie rae been telling their
father about q young man who offered them
candy when they went playing in the street.
30 last night they we're not allowed to 20
ont after dark at all. They we're at play
in the hallway outside tho dOor Of their
nat when a man came jumping up the
stairs and put his hand on Sad les arm.
Annie ran into her father. crying:
Here's the man that's been following
Sadie. He's taking her away"
What are you doing here?" demanded
Harry Hamburg. running out. The
stranger mumbled something and Ham,
burg hit him. The stranger hit back n
Ike pair foCsat all the way down four
flights. On the way John Richie. Mary
Clark and Ben Krasner pitched into help
Hamburg. The fight continued on the
sidewalk and all tho way TO Ninety-fourth
street and Second avenue. There PATROL
man Walsh Owed in and grabbed the
stranger.
In hat neighborhood policemen are not
~overpopular. The word got around that
one Of the gang was pinched. The regulars
couldn't make out which one IL was, but
trying TO relieve Walsh OF his prisoner.
The mob swelled until il was 1000 blythe
police estimate. The north and southbound
Second avenue cars that stopped didn't
get going again for half an hour. Presently
the gang learned that the women and Ham
burg had been shrieking out the truth
that the stranger wasn't one Of them at all.
After that they kept right on trying TO tear
him away. but with no idea 81 saving him
now.
Walsh finally dragged hi. mar to The wall
OF Ehret's brewery. There he pulled ont his
gun and cried;
For Gods sake, people, don't lake him
away. The law will do what's right with
him"
At 7 O'Clock word OF the fuss oarne To the
Fast Eighty-eighth street station by way Of
Headquarters. and Detectives Boss and
Fay and three or four policemen went out 10
succor, Walsh. When they got there
Second avenue was jammed for three blocks
and among the folks running to jUin the
crowd were motormen from the Ninety
sixth street car barns, with bars aud con-
~trollers. They telephoned back FOR more
help. An entire platoon. led by Sergt.
Nlctronani nurf1eu out ana spr1nteu up the
avenue with billies waving. They wedged
their way through, lodging bricks and
cobblestones as they moved. until they
reached Walsh. That patrolmsn was
backed against the brewery. still waving
his revolver. pleading with the crowd To
keep % and holding his man tight by the
collar.
When the frotbing attack mostly tue
people were Germans. Hungarisns aud
Bohemian finally fell back the man who
had offered candy to the Hamburg girls
was revealed absolutely nude barring
shoes and socks. OF the rest Of his APP
parel there wasn't enough left to build a
hsndk erchief. He was bleeding about the
head and shoulders and so nearly senseless
that he leaned Imply against the brewery
with his eyes closed and didn't say a word.
He was sent to the Presbyterian Hospital
In an ambulance. a prisoner.
Policeman Walsh's head and body were
also bruised and it's for nothing but soil
venirs that his helmet and coat are worth
keeping. The three men who are alleged
TO have started the scrimmaRe-Joe Con-
nelly, Henry Heidmsn and Charles Sorg.
we're arrested for interfering with an officer
in the performance Of his duty
The other prisoner says he is George
kestner. a Russian bookbinder.