The evening world., 1908-12-11

D The gray vhiskercd lunatic's mrs. ap-
pearanCe was in the hotel Of Ed. Walshe
near the ferry landing. He walked In.
waving his revolver, and ordered every
one 10 get out They got out, some OF
them through the windows and some
! through the doors. He then backed
Walshe up against the wall with his
/ hands over his head and KEEP; him there
while he emptled the cash drawer be
hind the clerk desk
Drove Woman Out of Window.
! Leaving Walshe flattened against the
wall the stranger ran back through the
thotel. frightening Mrs Blazzard, the
housekeeper, into Mysteries He made
chamDermaid jump out of rear win
dow.
Meanwhile walshe had escaped by
frnnt door and was alarminS the village,
From the hotel the old man went 10 Jo-
Seph RaVise's tailor shop next door and
lseld Ravise in subsection at the muzZ!e
OF his gun until he had taken all the
small change around the place Ravise
gave no trouble because he tainted
away presently.
Isaac Blaustein, a notions dealer. was
the next man TO be visited by the mad
man. Blaustein, sitting at the rear Of
lis shop. knew nothing of what was
happening until the white-haired man
burst In on him, waving the big gun.
Blaustein lost what money he had and
two years growth.
Plunging out of the notions store. the
ilunatic dashed across the street to
where a wagon of the Palsade supply
-
Jumping upon the seat lie dashed the
horses and shouted at them until they
galloped up aud down the hilly street.
For ten minutes the lunatic swung
about the road, back and forth. on the
seat OF the Keeling wagon.
Shot at His Pursuers.
Then, seeing hastily aroused men
coming from all directions bearing wea-
'pons that they had snatched up. he
wrecked the wagon against post In
front of the little Borough Hall and fled
'afoot along Dempsey avenue, SHOOTING
as he went.
For a quarter of mile the crowd
chased him. Leading the posse were
policeman Robert Mackay and Post
master Tom McGarry, both armed with
pistols.
At a little bridge over a ravine, near
1.-The top of the Palisades. the fleeing man
turned about, dropped on one knee and,
tanning deliberately, began firing at his
lpursuers.
A scattering volley answered him. lie
spun about. rolled. off the bridge and fell
In the creek bed. As the Edgewater men
closed in cautiously, they saw that. al
though bleeding and dazed he was trying
to crawl under the bridge rmbers, re-
loading his pistol as he went Before he
could reach the refuge, several men had
thrown themselves upon him and over
powered him.
He had long cut In his scalp, where
a bullet had ploughed along his skull.
and flesh wound In his cheek
Taken back TO the village jail and
locked up, he rayed incoherently. de-
cIaring once that he was Christ and
calling for water with which To baptize
his captors. Mostly, though. he called
himself John the Baptist.
The man was well-dressed, Papers
in his pockets showed he was probably
Arthur l.. Pomeroy, an escaped inmate
OF DR.. Barnes's sanitarium at STAN
ford Conn. How he reached New Jer-
sey, armed. Is a puzzle.
After two physicians had pronounced
him a hopeless maniac, arrangements
were made for taking the old man to
tile Morris Plains Asylum pending
word from Connecticut,
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