The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-08
THE CHASE OF
 THE SLAYER
Detailed Description of Capture of the Maniac by Officers Brown and
 Hackett.

The CTOWQ WniCn cnaSed Mu0lleF
 through Fairfield avenue was an ex-
 cited one. In less than a few seconds the street was filled with people. Off, ficer Brown was directly on his trail and Detective Haclxett trailed along on the south side of the avenue to heed the maniac off if he ~attempted to go south in Water street. Mueller had lead of about 60 feet and when he reached the foot of the ramp leading
 to the railroad station he started to ascend and then he changed his mind
 and came back and turned toward the Stratford avenue bridge. Again he
 changed his mind and turned back to-
 ward the ramp. Detective Hackett
 came through aperture in the stone
 abuttments supporting the railroad
 tracks and Officer Brown caught up
 with Mueller at about the same min
 ute.
 Both officers took desperate chance.
 Mueller faced them for a second with his revolver. the barrel still warm from
 the passage of the bullets that killed
 Deitz and wounded the barber. Be- fore he could raise the gun they were on him. Hackett had Mueller by the throat and Brown had the revolver out of the maniac's hand instantaneously. Without waiting for a patrol wagon they marched the prisoner up Fairfield avenue. On the way Mueller jabbered 1 necessarily and complained about his 1 left wrist. It was found that one of l Browns bullets had gone through the 1
 ] Officer Musante circ1ed the stone 1 work and came around the end of the
 abuttment in time to have grabbed 1 Mueller had he continued toward l StrAtford avenue.
 l Caught in the pen naeIl rush of the 1 crowd that chased the murderer down
 Fairfield avenue was Miss Suzanne 1 Rocanora, now playing at Polls. She | had just stepped from the door of the l Atlantic Hotel when she heard some 1 thing go shrieking through the air. It l 1 She looked up and a few feet away | from her saw a short young man in a
 brown suit rushing toward her. revol-
 yer in hand She says she will never forget the wild look upon the face of 1 the man who shot Deitz.
 , The man rushed by her followed by | the policemen and he was followed by l g swarm of men and boys who in l to her and forced her into the vortex,
 and then hurried. toward Water street. Trolley car employees left the plat
 forms of their cars and joined the i chase, teamsters left their vehicles. | The first impulse of everyone seemed 1 to give pursuit.
 Until the crowd returned from the station, a mob which covered the side walk and stretched out across the street, no one had apparently noticed | man who leaned against the side of 1 the building occupied by Radford B.
 Smiths store. He was Rocco Leo 1 poId, the wounded barber. Suddenly Someone saw the agonized look on his
 face. that he held his hands clasped to
 his breast and that a pool of blood i trickled about his feet. In the rush to l catch the crazy man no one had no- ticed that someone other than Deitz had been shot. The crowd divided and soon many gathered around the Italian. The ambulance corps was busy with Deitz.
 The news of the shooting spread like wildfire The story struck the tele- | phone office like a whirlwind. In a | few minutes it seemed as though ev-
 erybody in the city was using the
 telephone asking about the shooting. Officer Edward Wheeler tried sev- era1 times to get the use of tele- | phones in the neighborhood to carry | Leopold to the emergency hospital. l Finally Dr. LaFie1d, who was pass | ing in an automobile was hailed and
 Leopold was placed in it and hurried
 to the emergency hospital.
 l Every minute added more people | to the crowd and in a short time | there was at least three thousand people gathered at Fairfield avenue | and Main street. The late arrivals wanted to know the trouble and 1 thought they were being kidded when | told that a policeman had been killed
 on the principal street corner of the | city by a maniac, and that two others | were shot.
 Gustave Mueller, the aged father l of the crazy young man was almost l distracted with grief whenhe heard I of the terrible deed committed by l his son. He visited his attorney, Will i liam L.. Zepp, this afternoon and en- gagged him to look after the welfare