New-York tribune., 1910-09-09
.LUNAT|C TRIES TO KILL
MAGISTRATE O'CONNOR
Latter Wards Off Attack and
Holds ASSaiIant Until Help
Arrives.
HAD SENT HIM TO BELLEVUE
Told Police His Name Was
Gallagher and Said He Was
Going to Shoot Gaynor
and Taft.

After announcing that his name was
Gallagher and that he intended to kill
that little Irish judge" then Gaynor and
Taft. Louis Saron. an escaped lunatic,
attempted to shoot Magistrate Keyran
J. O'Connor. near his home at No 31S
East 10th street. yesterday Saron was
sent to the psycopathic ward at Belle
vue. on July 6. by Magistrate O'Connor.
who at that time was sitting in the Es-
sex Market court. Later he was sent
to the insane asylum at Central Islip.
n Y. but he escaped few days ago.
Saron was arraigned in the Harlem
police court yesterday afternoon before
Magistrate Herman, and while the wit
ne eSses against him We're telling their
story the prisoner quoted freely from
the Talmud and Shakespeare and the
Constitution of the United States. When
called upon to answer in his own behalf
he did not reply directly, but quoted the
remark of Disraeli, who. in the British
House of Commons. when taUnted with
being Jew, said that when his people
were princes in temples the British were
Cannibals.
Louis Saron is twenty-five years of
age and his home is at No a}6 Second
avenue. He was arrested and brought
before Magistrate O'Connor. at Es-
sex Market court on July g. on
charge OF petty larceny. He talked for
more than half an hour" said Magis-
trate O'Connor yesterday, about the
science of law. the commonwealth, the
rights of the people and various other
subjects entirely removed from the
charge against him. l decided that ne
was insane. and ordered him sent TO
Bellevue for Observatio and understood
he had been sent to Central Islip How
he got out 1 do not know
Begins to Loiter Around Court.
On Saturday Saron appeared in the
neighborhood of the Harlem court where
Magistrate O'COnnor sat last week He
offered Sol Hyman, a lawyer, who has
an office in that neighborhoOd $500 to
get his brother out of Central Islip Asy-
lum
Saron appeared again on Wednesday
night in East 116th street. and told John
Pignatoro, a clerk in the office of Henry
Levy. which is in East 10th street that
he would give 5000 to get his brother
out of Central Islip. While in the office
he saw a photograph of Magistrate
O'Connor and said: There is a man l
am going to kill. Here is one bullet,
and | have a pistol loaded with six
others. After I get him 1 am going
after Taft
Magistrate O'Connor had a special case
left over from last week, and he went
over to the Harlem court to close il up
Yesterday. He had disposed of the af-
fair and gone home when Saron APP
reared in the court Pignatoro had
heard that Saron had again threatened
to shoot the magistrate. having told |
James ManensO OF No. $50 East 116th |
street. that he would get either O'Con- |
nor or Taft and adding that his name |
was Gallagher. When Saron entered. |
therefore. Pignatoro pointed him out to |
Marshal Henry Lazarus as a dangerous |
man to allow roaming in the neighbor- |
hood.
Lazarus got into conversation with |
Saron and was informed that he was |
talking to Kid Palmer a champion |
pugiist. Lazarus hum0red the man and |
told him he backed prtzefighters. and |
wanted him to come along with him. |
Communicating with Magistrate O'Con- |
nor Lazarus took Saron from the court |
room In l21st street, down Lexington |
avenue, and in East ll6th street they |
met Magistrate O'Connor. who recog-
nized Saron. and asked:
Hello how did you get out?'
Escaped on Surface Car.
II noticed what l thought to be the |
outline of a pistol in his pocket" said |
Magistrate O'Cornor later. ''and | called |
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