The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-05
FRENz|EO NEGRO
ROUSES ORANGE
IN MAD CAREER
Leroy Tries Suicide; Fights
Cops and Doctors and Is
Finally Chl0r0f0rmed.

William J.. Leroy, a Mexican negro,
of Orange, who has the reputation
among his people of being a bad man
got infected with absinthe yesterday
and went on one of his usual
He spread terror among the First ward
negroes until Policeman Timothy
Cronen broke his blackjack across
the mans head and landed him In the
police station. Reviving from the blow
h Infatuated attacked Desk
Sergeant Callahan. Mccarthy and
Cronen again f1oored him in the sta
ton.
Leroy was finally locked up and q
few minutes after the police group
heard a thud In the mans cell. Po-
licemen Graham and Cronen with
Sergeant Mccarthy reopened the door
and found the man had one-half his
s~uspenders fastened in a tight knot
about his neck with the other portion
dangling from a cell bar. Leroy had
tried suicide, but the weight Of his
body broke the slender suspenders
and his life.
Leroy then proceeded to have a At
and the Record ambulance was sum-
moned, DR.. Morris Farkas and Dr. Leon
Harris responding. The man success
fully prevented any effort of the physi-
clans to remove hira, despite the assist
ance of the police, but nature finally
succumbed, when DR.. Fakas chloro-
formed the prisoner and, strapped to a
stretcher, with the police still on guard,
finally got Leroy to the hospital, where
he was held until Judge Bray today got
warrants In shape on several COM
plants.
Leroy, the Judge remarked, may be
insane, and as he has been locked up so
frequently and is now IN object of ter
ror to the peaceful negroes of the city,
1t is likely his liberty will be restrained.
In addition to the lively time the
police had with Leroy, beginning with
his outbreak around 10 o'clock, the
man, either with the intention of seek
ing an awful death or In a drunken
frenzy, dashed into the burning stables
of h Orange Brewery. There, after
long search. Roundsman Thomas Ryan
found him, almost stifled by the fumes
of The burning hay. After being re-
vived, Leroy went on bis way. 1t was
nv AOi6 dIlCl WdIuS IIdL tHS lclSPIlOilt
alarms from residents of South street
caused Cronen to get after the man,
and then followed his remarkable series
of exciting experiences.
Archie Wyatt, of rs South street, got
the first surprise when Leroy forced
in his door and with a knife in his
hand promised to carve Archie If the
latter did not produce his wife. The
farpiIxy ytog ofo rt1ad ~ coa thu Ioifo f."
but Leroy was appeased when told his
wife was across the street at Pop"
Johnson's. There the man kicked In
several doors n finally got out of
the house and started away. He was
with Edward Harris as Policeman
Cronen came up on his bicycle and had
just thrown his companion into the
street and announced his intention to
go home and get his "gun" and clean
up the colony.
Cronen told him to Join him. and the
parade to the station house ended at
Main and Centre streets. where Leroy
Jumped into an alley and there had
a tussle with Cronen until the latter
used his billy. The fight was con-
tinued at the station house, with the
result that Leroy went to the hospital
Formal complaints of assault and bat
terry against Leroy were made todayb by
the negroes, who expressed their fear
of the accused until the court promised
to look after him.
Leroy has frequently been arrested,
and is known as a man who, while
drunk, Is beyond all control. Judge
Bray said that when sober he was quiet
enough.
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