New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-08
INNOCENT MEN M0BBED.
L.igIESSNESS rs. CRIME.
Police Deal BfaUeEy and Successfully
5cifh .SIuH3 fysteriG.

i3NsteTia rather than crime engaged the altehlIch
Of the police yesterday In the courts 1t was me
same for in several cases where the prisoners had
barely esoa ped from excited mobs with their hVes
Il was found that there not a sclntllla OF
evidence against them
The bright spot IA the last few days of min
ing camp lavvlessness has been the action OF the
police. In every they have given SUFFICIENT
" good account Of themselves 20 Offset the Stigma
placed upon the department by the behavior O,
foatroIman Walsh the Warner case Single hand
cd they have held of Infatuated. hysterfa-
crazed mobs. although in great danger themselves
knowing that if a stranger picks Up fallen child
IN any OF the foreign settlements the cry Of
Lynch him. viii be raised. the police are now
alert for the slightest sign OF any disturbance
One Of the worst used victims OF mob violence
and who. the police now think, IS probaby lhho-
cent was Paul Sorgerato Greek pedler, who
was chased into the barns in East 22d street
night before last and badly used Magistrate
Breen held him in only $500 for trial on technical
charge OF assault. Sorgerato charged with
having tried kiss Grace Josco. eleven years olG
IN the street
Scarcely had the Greek been rescued by the po-
lice when the mob. largely foreign in its makeup
gathered again and turned CASTOR Kerskel,
Russian Hebrew who was on his way home when
:; child ran and bumped against him When
three four hundred had gathered the COLLECTIVE
courage Of the lot suficed TO let them make rush
for him Until Patrolman back Wagner and MS
rlightstck arrived the little tailor was beaten ana
punched by women and men INTO Inconsistencies
There was absolutely excuse for the feroclous
attack except the blood lust Of the gans which al
tackled him. and after his numerous wounds had
been dressed at Bellevue the tailor went nome
A boy only fifteen years old was another victim
of mob violence. following charge OF assault
made against him 10y Jennie Delessio- OF No sos
East 18th street. She is twenty-one years ola ana
Of a build sufficiently heavy 20 protect her against
any half grown youth but she ran from her nome
yelling that Tony Delassio had attacked her a
mob 81 upon him and beat him until he was al
most unTecognizable
when the child. who had been rescued by
oF Tho -aS- a
zion appeared In the Chiidrens Court yesterday
morning his head wrapped in handages and
his clothing saturated with blood The woman re-
fused 10 come 10 court and said then that the boy
had not rnolested her in any way Justice Mayo
promptly discharged him
Stil another victim Of Stun hysteria was Charles
IOannaher twelve years old. Mrs Annie David. OF
No 504 Hudson street had the child In the Cnli-
,5ren.s Court on n charge Of indecent assault
against her three daughters. There was absolutely
no evidence against the lad but, when MaGls-
1rate Mayo discharged him. Mrs David ran Tor
ward yelling III xiii yout III Kali you II was
only with difficulty that she was torn from the
bridge and the boy got out Of her clutches
Nine men. charged with annoying women 90, on
easily in the Flushing police court All 81 them
had been arrested within two miles OF the scene
OF the Staffeldt murder. James hughes ana
Thomas Nargo, Of Far Rockaway, were nned -
for following children eight and ten years OLD
-Four Italians held in $500 bail Tor e1anlia
Mon on q charge preferred by Miss Anna Suger-
nan n No $50 Fulton street, Glendale who said
they had followed her through Highland farA
Three men, accused Of threatening Mrs Mary BOZ
peth, were held IN $500 for examination. =,
isabelle Ensler. German girl sixteen years olu.
staggered into the German Hospital last night win
a story Of having been held prisoner ~ ~
italians for more than day In Mulperry slIee'
house. She hysterical from her experience
but her story was sufficiently coherent 10 impress
1he police with its truth.
While passing through Mulberry street searching
work she says. she was seized by TWO itaiIa44S
and dragged into tenement house and then locked
I'd in OF the fats. Late yesterday atpernooh'
she says. she was literally kicked into the street
reach it coliapsing finally at its door
Santo Grocinto. an Italian, living at No 70 East
IOsth street a house which he owns. was sent 10
the Rorkhouse yesterday BY Magistrate Hahie on
the complaint OF Mrs. Julia GARNER. tenant she
alleges that he tried TO kiss her and In other ways
acted objectionablg toward her- JULIUS Levy
Russian Jew was held IN $500 bail for exanina-
ron in Essex Market court by Magistrate Moss
Three men told magistrate that they had seen
ht-a entice little girls into hallway
a at Of hyEteria alarmed the officials at the
House Of Detention and Dora Messner' VINO mas
been held there in connection with the llschler
go US hurried TO st. gincenrs Hospital AT
tho House Of Detention il was thought that she
had poisoned herself, buy at the hospi'sn IL WIS
found that she simply hystericaI-
80 Zalarde Of No. Ii2 Cherry street. has
- IN rhe neiglborhood Of his home 10 unusual
ac,I,irv In a search for his sfx-year-old daughter
I1oo5,ca Who disappeared Tuesday morning and
has not since heard from Because OF the SO,
III crfr,1e wave Rocco Zalarde fears the child
may have been murdered and he visited neaoquar-
tiers Yesterday morning 10 get the police TO help In
the search. -
woman who -4ed him until the arrival OF the po-
lice John Rucek. Austrian, was locked VI! al
the East 9Th street police station last night
charged with attempted assault on a seVeu-yeGr-
old girl The prisoners guilt is clearly proved ac-
cording to Patrolman Leblanc. who made the ar
rest Miss May Kehoe, slightly built young
woman received the paudits OF the police for hef
courage in catching the man.
For several weeks Miss KehOe has been living
with her sister Sacknan. at No 42S East '0tn
street Louise Sackman, seven years DID, ssilo
Tuesday night great big man tried to coax ner
;-to lot at Avenue A and 61th street. The girl S
-1srer+s thought that the child imaginative
f,yt Louise persisted that whenever she left the
house she was followed by the man.
Il will settle this affair. said Miss kehoe last
Night she told the little girl TO take walk
toward Avenue a Sne hVulu Ao4i'"' A'i-0 ui1' nii@
caught Rucek -. ~ 81,
street Brooklyn was saved by the ponce from tlle
barSs of a crowd Of angry neighbors who pursued
~, an fire escape for alleged attack upon
the seyen-year-od daughter OF his sister Mrs Kate
Cs-aen 81 their home yesterday afternoon Mrs
= -;1-1,st at her Brother with her hatpin slightly
,,o,,,des C,aptain Michael Devanney, OF the Anty
80. station who with Patrolman Murphy man
sges 70 get the prisoner TO the station
l-a ATTACK was committed in the absence OF Mrs
Garden who left her two daughters. Helen. seven
,,ears old and Kate. six years oid IN charge or
,regr pncle Upon her return she found the elder
Vsi5 gn a critical condition. Little Kate told a
shocking story Of the uncie's attack. nd :.
Mrs Garden aroused the neighborhood ana IL
as only t,v exercising extreme agility that Brown
escaped with his life
rr Parker an ambulance surgeon from inc
rs-ooll,a FIosrJital. attended the child She was
-ar,cz-as "a the rooms OF the Children's society
md afteruard attended by DR. Hutchinson the
societv's physician. who confirmed DT' rAihei
report Mrs. Garden became hysterlcai
Brown is fuventy-n;ne years old ana mas lieFeto
fore borne a good reputation He was locked UP IN
the Amity street station