New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-24
TlXICAB DRIVER
AWAY AND STABBED
1-TO Is FOUND BURNED
ON W4TERFRONT.
riozfcur Not Expected to Recocer
from Brutal assault Engaged
to 90 to Hospital.

,.-re,,- Of the New York Taxicab Company
,,~aerd in Fifth avenue at II O'Clock last
-. ons lured to lonely section on the East
- ,-be-e lie was brutally beaten and stabbed.
r-.s taken 10 Bellevue Hospital. where his
.,.s,,, was said 10 be critical and his chances
= l,,-i-r Til morning were slim. The taxicab
= ,..er found burned al Pier Sc North River
,,-,,;sn, kaufman, twenty-one years old, came
. -ris rItv TWO weeks ago. and was at once en-
.o,,s5 as q strike breaker by the company. He
- ,,- know the city well, but was plucky. and
..o-,s5 80 he able 10 take care OF himself.
z-.-f77an was stanGing at Fifth avenue and
o,.h street. ~ II o'clock last night. when three
-, errroached him and asked if he had time
: axe chem 70 the Willard Parker Hospital
~. of the men seemed 10 he iu. Kaufman was
.,e about 10 go home FOR the night. but he
.r-se5 "a take the sick man to the hospital #
,tr wculd show him the way.
-vo y The men assisted the other into the
,sh vl7o appeared scarcely able to move Then
,sA tbiri man. who vas about twenty five years
az and had a blond mustache. mounted the
,.b and told Kaufman to drive through 9th
s-reer At Third avenue ne directed him TO turn
.auth At 18th street his companion directed
sin n rurn 10 the left and told him the hos
rts1 was at the end Of the street
Kaufman had not the slightest suspicion that
snrrhng vas wrong until Avenue c was
reached There the man grabbed him by the
threat and ordered him to stop the machine
TIE chauffeur turned off the power and then
ersppled with his assailant on the box of the
machine.
l.e said he was getting the better Of the fight
wren the two men jumped out OF the cab and
cane to the assistance Of their companion. The
sok man grew suddenly well. At the same
tine. Kaufman SAYS. ten men ran out of Il
saloon al avenue c and 10Th street and helped
rug hipl from the machine.
Kaufman said the thirteen men attacked him
and brutslly heat him. Had he not worn thick
csothing the doctors said. he would have died
at once He rad three stab wounds in the right
s.ds tao On The left side. and was stabbed FIVE
tines in the hack. He was kicked and mauled
and both his eyes biackened by his assailants.
When they grew tired Of beating him. Kauf-
nan says. he was dragged 10 an alleyway near
lr and thrown on the ground He thinks he
must have lost consciousness for q time. When
ne recovered MS senses he blew a whistle that
ha6 been given him by the taxicab company
g. summon aid. The whistle attracted Patrol
nan Hoffman, Of the East 22d street station,
who found the chauffeur lying on his back in
The policeman took the injured man to drug
store al Avenue ard 18th street and then
ca1ei an ambulance from Bellevue. DR.. Lackay
answered the call and, seeing tho condition
kaufman was in. hurried him to Bellevue.
As soon as Police Captain Ivory. in command
q The 22d street station. learned Of the assault,
he szzt or all his men 10 f1d the automobile,
which had disappeared, and 70 catch naUf-
mans assailar.s. The police believe that Kauf-
nan Wos lu-ed 10 the spot and that it was the
i-,e--ion cr Tho Iaeu % throw bob the taXicab
sE1 tie driver into the East River.
Tie neighborhood 10 which the unfortunate
c-autreur was taken has an Unsavory reputa-
ta1. i was formerly the stamping ground Of
gang or young desperadoes known as The
For-r Thieves" and vas also the scene OF the
oFs-a-ions 4 'EIumpty" Jackson and his gang
Q. ;hUgs
ksucman's description OF the men who hired
Il 70 e. u the deserted spot on the East Side
T1sTe be was beaten is 50 rneaEre that the
-3ice tar. little 10 work On but they believe
'n-i arrests VIII soon be made.