The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-04
POLICEMAN SHOOTS UP A CAR
100 PASSENGERS TAKE TO TINE
RAILS TO ESCAPE BULLETS.


A drunken policeman shot up the rear
car Of . crowded northbound Third ave-
nue. elevated train at the Iosth street
station yesterday afternoon. He wounded
one man and drove nearly a hundred
Passengers from the car. some through
windows and the remainder through the
rear door 20 the tracks. where they were
rescued after reserves from the Nor
risania station had beaten the policeman
into submission.
/ The wounded man is Charles Golden
berg. 20 years old. n halter. Of 10 Avenue A.
He was shot through the left shoulder
and IL now at the Lebanon Hospital
John A. Gallagher of SIs Fast Seventy
seventh street and Patrick O'keefe %
Su Fast Seventy seventh street. both II
whom jumped through windows. were cut
by glass and bruised 10y falling an the
station platform from the moving train
4 bulle' nicked tho left ear IL Herbert
Rauch Ut ~ West Sixteenth street and
narrowly MISSED Bruno Pfeinrr Of Pass.,ic
y. j.. who ~at beside him
The policeman. Thomas = Hearn. at
tachsd 20 the Fast Twenty-second street
station. was locked up IN the Morrisania
station on a charge Il felonious assault.
He il - years old and lives a. roar Wash
inRton avenue. The Bronx
Hsarn went ~ duty at O'Clock yes
tsrday morning Between that time and
.'ss O'clock IN the afternoon he got
enough drink in the huspitabls places
along Third avenue 10 make him hyst"rI
cal. He was in citizens clothes and was
due back AZ the station hons. az = y. NJ.
4 little before = O'Clock he boarded the
train az the l5Si street station The train
consisted ~ seven cars and was packed
TO the platform gates with sunday
crowd bound for Bronx Park
The policeman took his stand ~ the
front gate Of IN" rear car, where he harreSt
access to the island platform According
to the guard. Michael & McGarry. Hearn
Was frothing a. the mouth abusing
passengers and using vile language
Notary spoke to MIN. but Hcarn drew his
gun and SAID .
I'm a cop and IN shoot anybody that
interfsres with me-
AZ that all lho~s on the platform who
could pressed rhsE way into me car
and when the stop was made a. isisr
street some left the train.
After the train started Hearn. who still
had his gun out. began kicking the shins
Of Passengers.
| I'm shoot the first that
gives me any hack talk I'm a COP Of
the Twenty-first precinct he shouted
according 10 McGarry. who saws Hsarn
Was still frothing and yelling incoh-rently
A. the train hegan 10 slow down for the
Isrth street station the policeman showed
the platform Passengers ASIDE and point
ng his gun into the door II IN" rear car
opened tir- Tier. were three shots
One hit Goldeubsrg. who Wa standing
near tn" door. n. dropp"d to the fioor
but got up and IN m" panic forced his
way 10 the rear door. which he oIraned
and jumped 70 the 'rack Nearly al th.
other passengers followed HIM spiling
and tumbling along the tics gy the tram
moved Mct;arrv took IN the situation
IRapiug To the track with a Fag ne pIck,-t
his way among the screaming women and
children stopping to warn them against
the third rail. and tagged IN. tram
that was following
The second shot usi Whizysi past
Gallagher and O'kesfe aud broken TIA.
window behind them Gallagher jumped
through the glass. followed ~ O'k"-fe.
and both were rolled along the platform
by the momentum u the train. The third
shut krasr'i Ranch.
Hearn WAS still working ~ the trigger
his gun pointing AZ Thomas FoN. who u
the hsro Il this story. FoV. "A Strapping
young ironworker living AT 10 last ninth
street. grabbed for the weapon and closed
with the policeman. while other men
stood Ivy. They fought for a minute ur
more before RaIch and Pfeiffer got their
wits and joined the ironworker. Then
~ the train stopped Gallagher and
O'Keefs reentered through the window
and took a hand
Fox had his hand on the pistol and was
about to wrench it from tho policeman
when another man got him by the throat
. and choksd on his wind
-Lst CO. gasped the sronworker.
you've got the wrong mani
Tho newcomer broke Fox's grip on the
gun. took IL himself and ran out the rear
81 the car shouting TO thoss on the tracks
not 70 be frightened. for he had the pistol.
Tho man disappeared In the sxcitement
The motormAn brought Policemen
Damn and Vehstedt by blasts 81 his
whistle. They got handouts on Hsarn
after a further battle and called the re-
serves Of the MorrisaniA station and an
ambulance from the Lebanon Hospital
for Goldenberg
The reserves under Sergt winslow see
about getting the people OF the track.
handing women and babies up TO the
platform and gathering in the lost hats
parAsols. purses and other property
that Uttered the ties Trafic had been
blocked for half an hour
Heam was not spent by any means
He fought in the patrol wagon all the way
60 the station II was thought az first
that he had gone insane. hut Police Sur
gem AnisI J. Donovan said u was PLAIN
intOxication.
Hearn continued 10 shout and pound the
walls after he was locked in a cell In
spectOr Flood preferred chages agsins'
him and took rway his shield Deputy
Commissioner Walsh Suspended HeIrn
Hearn was appointed to the police force