The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-12
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NV mas HIuSFIF roo.
RsArinE Crowd TrApA Bln CLARK In Malt
WAY Ne Fired NJ Wan Who Snatched
IPahArIey FIsI,-r despite Plea Don't
shoot a kId" Coward Escapes.

4 -choulboy. Charley Fisher ~ Sa
Madison avenue. was playing hail with
other bows IN Madison avenue ~ kaSi
Iu3d street al,out the time he hnn" com
ing work.rs were crowd,ng the neighhor-
hood ast nigh, Two mrn stopped AZ the
southeast corner aud began tn fyh,
Onr Of 10. men r,lll-d revolver from his
pocket the other yelled and ran toward
Charley flShs- The frightened man
plck-t mp Charley and held the hoy IA
front of ham H. -h"ld from IN. expected
bullets
Don't l,a a damn foot the fright ened
man cried - ha tried completely To hide
himself bsh,nd Charlev'- shgU' form
Look ont Br don't shoot the Kid
Charley added his wells Of terror TO those
II the mau holding hlm A. the hoy tried
10 struggle away the man With the reV Oliver
fired The hull., entered Charley- head
The man for whom tn. bullet was meant
le' 20 IT Charley aud the hov Cr1Inpled
t. the pavement H.. diet two hours
later ln Harlem Hu-pital
The homeRosr- who had n.sn halted
toward the CORNER where the hoy law
The man who had held him turned aud
ran eastward through IuSd street No
one paid much attention To him just then.
say. in a tenemsnt on tho south side Of
IoSd street half a block from where the
shooting took place
Bin Clark. a priyehghter. ~ the man ~ no
said to he Harry Greenwald. rs years
old The nearest the police have come
to his home address 10 Mckinley Square.
The Bronx He and another man
ran from the crowd some time ago
rented a room together ia the building
IN front 81 which the shooting occurred.
but what they did in the room has not
been learned
The fiRht betw cen the two and the loud
ar gument that preceded il had been
noticed only by Charley Fisher and his
playmAtes. and very few saw the man
who escaped pick up Charley The
crowd thought that Bin Clark had shot
the hoy wAntonly. and 81 they charged
upon Bin savAgely. -
From shops and tenement doors and
from passing cars and the streets running
on in four directions they converged
toward Biz He swung In a quick circle
once or twice with levelled revolver and
held the leaders % the crowd hack for a
moment while there was still an open
ing in the narrowing circle Of faces Bin
broke through and ran south on Madison
and yelling behind him
Once free Of the crowd there was an
open way ahead Of Biz Clark Those
who thought 20 stop he murderer jumped
clear as he pointed his revolver at them.
and he ran on. When he reached iOist
street the fastest sprinters in a mob that
now must have numbered almost / OOO
w-r. gaining upon the fugitive He
turned west into lOIst street with the
gathering and yelling a. his h.sls
The crowd were almost within grab
hing reach when he got 10 Fifth avenue.
At the door ~ i?Os Fifth avenue clark
turned and disappeared IN the dark hall
way ~ the fat house. The leaders could
hear him tramping up the steps but
only Policeman SeArles venturpd 10
follow the man with the revolver. For
"A quarter OF AN hour S-arles searched
IN" house but Clark SEEMED to have got
away
Som- ~ the crowd ran through hall
WAYS To s-ArCh the back ward ~ I2ts.
bat newcomers sWelled the crowd still
ia Fifth avenue until the street was
packed Polio. and crowd then began
to spread out to surround the block
1 lark who evidently had been On the
roof while the policeman was searching
the fat house. must have thought the
street door was clear again. for he sud
s-nly appeared IN tn" doorway OF I2oS
Those who saw his face yelled the
news and back came the --Rrchera With
Searla- IN the Lead they struggled into
The hallway after clark At the far end
~ IN" hallway he STOPPED beneath u dim
Raslight and braced himself against the
wall The crowd was closing on hun
He pressed the revolver against his temple.
Aired twice and dropped dead
FoT hours sfterwsrd the eNcitable resi-
dents 81 the upper Fast side kept the
neiGhborhood in a fermen. 10 great " a.
the crowd in Madison avenue tina, all
traffic was blocked until Police CAPTAIN
CorcoTan and the reserves from the Fast
Ionh street station CIT a passage for th..
trolley cars through the Jam
charley Fisher was hurried a. Harlem
Hospital A. 20 o'clock LAT night ha
died The body ~ Clark or GreenN aid
was first taken to The Fast 10Th stree,
polic~ station and later removed "a the
Nlorgie
While DETECTIVES vcrs making an IN
successful search for the man who had
held Charley Fisher ~ front ~ hiTn some
bows on he cnrne- said they had seen the
men fret begin the quarrel m Cohen's
poolroom m The basement ~ IjOg Madison
~ enuc which - on tho corner VI here the
first shot was fired CLARK and the other
man. the bovsySRy. began 20 argue about
their pool score and the other man put
up his CiIr IN anger and LEFT the place
The bows say that they th"n saw clark
TAX. his receiver FROM he pocket. try
on