The evening world., 1909-03-24
Beats Them in Store, Again
in Patrol Wagon and at
/, Station Desk.
SORRY HE HAD NO GUN.
Witness of Vicious Attack
Tells Magistrate Brother
Officers Looked On. D

Ro5ert Beck. detective attached %
the Harlem Branch OF the Central
Office. became uproarioIsly drunk this
afternoon. and made an earnes; attempt
to kill four Cinnamon IN n laundry
owned " Jim kee, at No. 2SO3 Eight"
avenue.
BY -" said Beak seyera times -
other policemen. ~ I'D rad ms su
there would nave been couple Il dc-"
ChInks IN that laundry
Eyewl,nesses agree that Beck told IL"
truth. The lack OF II revolver was Al
that KEEP, him from killing ore OF more
~ the cinnamon In the melee In TIE
laundry Beck was struck on tho back
Of the head with a fatron. For This he
preferred charges OF feloniOu. assault,
against all four OF his victims, and thev
were taken from the station-louse TO
Harlem Court
Grand Juror a Witness.
But the police court proceedings were
not as ore sided as the happenings IN
the station house. A business man, who
n a member OF the Grand Jury ana
Witnessed the whole affair, told Magls.
trate House that the conduct OF tho
policeman. who was in plain clothes
and wore his shield concealed, was
brutal In tho extreme. Other witnesses
volunteered information along the same
lines
Jim KEGS laundry IL near one Hun
drpd and Twentyfourth street. II Is
under the management of Louis Ock,
Nf,y-sx years old. Ock has three
Young assistants, Louis Tons. Louis
chow and Fong Ching. \ customer
40, into dispute with Ock. shortly
after noon, and ock ran out TO find a
policeman.
At that time Beck. so drunk that he
vas unsteady on his feet, was standing
At n bar at the southwest corner Of
one Hundred and Twcntv-fourth street
and Eighth avenue. OCk entered and
asked the bartender II he knew whore
a policeman could be round, Beck re-
marked.
What does the - - OF a ChInk
nant with an officer
Knocked Old Man Down.
The wise old Chinaman, seeing Berk's
condition and not knowing he was Il
policeman, ran back to the laundry.
Beck followed. Entering the laundry,
nj. al l,t M,
The other Cinnamon promptly went to
the rescue OF their manager.
Bicycle Policeman O'kcefe ard Sergt.
sculy, attracted By the excitement,
entered the laundry. They were soon
ioIned by two other policemen. These
tour stood inactive while Beck slugged
the Cinnamon at will. The presence OF
The bluecoats rendered the Cinnamon
poyerless and they offered no resist
ance to Beck's attacks
Sergeant Scully went to the corner
and sent In a call for the patrol wagon
and the reserves. Beck got into the
uatrol wagon with the prisoners, and
slupged poor old Ock all the way to the
station mouse, frequently NoNIH6 MS
sincere regret that he was uneqnipped
with a revolver so that he might do
murder,
When the Cinnamon were lined up be-
fore the desk at the station house. they
were a badly battered quartet. Two
of them had black eyes. Ock was
covered with blood. Beck was bleeding
from a scalp wound In the back OF tina
head. When the charge Of felonious
assault had been preferred charg-
ing that the Cinnamon had slugged him
with an iron bar-Lieut. McDermott or
dered that the prisoners be searched
Reck walked up to Louis Ock and
handed him a Jolt on thee Jaw that
knocked him against the railing. The
ia Chinaman cried out In terror and
','ut that out. Beck" commanded
Iiout McDermott Keep Your hands
on these prisoners.
can't. Carson had been advised Of IN.
matter and he summoned Beck into his
priyate room for an interview with In
.pector Thompson, A well.dressed man
,hen stepped up to the desk and said:
Lieutenant, | want 10 protest against
This proceeding The policeman Is the
an, who should he locked up. saw
~. laraal Dau.N