The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-01
GANG BATTLE IN i4TH ST.
POLICE CHASE ROWDIES 10 CEL-
Ian. ROOF AND CHU non.
Two Legs Breken. . soda Fountain
sacked. Bearded Wan Beaten.
Pursuers stoned WITH Cobbles 4
Man Killed In an East side Park.

Rowdyism that developed into riot
was rampant in Fourtec.th stree, for
three blocks east Of Third ave-ue yes
tcrday afternoon When IL was over IA"
police had four well grown boys locked up.
a bystAnder was Eeirg careI for IN
Bellevue Hospital and Others were nursing
bruises in their homes. The police put the
trouble up to the Carpenter garg.
The gErgstrrs had Ie"a Annoying
ps.ssersby most of the AfteTr Don. Get,ir q
more and more offensive. About supper
time on OF them reached a hand for the
beard Of Nathan Schwartz. who lives At
$50 Fast Fourtee:th street. and gave 1t
- tweak schwartz yell.l. Ih-I two
or three others set upon him Ia CIV. HIM
a heating
SchwArtz's sor IN law. Charles Holt
ran from 30 last Fourteeath street 10
help the bearded sufferer. When the
rowdi-s saw him they let on beA; H. z
the father law and took after Holtz.
He duckei irto a delicatesser store
grabbei a cheese knife and male to de-
feld himself
4 crowd thai took Hoitz's side chased
the gAngsters 20 SECOND avenue. There
the rowdies threw paving stores. Ore
OF them hit George Hodgion. u laborer
living at 2OS last FifteeAth street. He
went to Bellevue with hLs leg broken IN
two places aud bruises all over his body.
The drug store OF Joseph Dreyfu- APP
paaled TO the rowdie- az a refuge They
ran IA, cleaned the fruit bowls OF the
counter in front OF the soda watar fountain
and hurled the contents and all into the
crowd Two revolver shots came from
somew where and the sound Of them brought
policeman from two precincts
The police had a rough and tumble get
ting their men Harry Badstein of e2a
Fast Sixteenth street ran toward Third
avenue. slipped into the hallway Of a tene-
ment house. jumped a back fence. ran
through another hallway and out upon
Fifteenth street His pur-uer lost him.
hut another policeman who was passing
down Sixteenth street on his way to the
nImpus saw a young man trying 20 get
into a private house in too much Of hurry
| He broke q door to do u
The policeman asked the right ~ search
from the owner 81 the house and after he
and other policemen had been booking
| for fifteen minutes they came upon bad
stein hidden away under an old mattress
IN the cellar.
Louis Gr,Iter 81 40 Fast Fifteenth street
and Lester Murphy OF 5ns Fast Sixteenth
street were chased over the roofs Of three
or four tenement houses They got away
once or twice from their pursuers but were
caught IN the vestibule of the Immaculate
Conception Church on East Fourteenth
street. where they had almost Eioceeded
IN finding sanctuary,
On the way to the police station some
pSv's brother WiIlord and the polio. toos
him along too He and the others were
locked up charged with feionious assault
and melting 20 riot
Louis Schutzer. an Austrian youth who
lives at i27 Broome street. took his sweet
heart TO walk in the little park on Avenu.
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets last night gang ~ young men
sifted down ON them and one ~ them.
according to SchutzeT. ins,ilted the girl
Schutzer resented the speech and the
gang jumped on him. The girl ran The
Austrian youth was terribly beaten His
no~- was broken. both eyes were closed
and his face and neck were c'It in a dozen
PLACES A policemen who ran Ia Schut
zer' = assistance had hard work to get the
half conscious man away from the gang
Only ny drawing his revolver and threat
ening the crowd with his hack to wall
could the policeman stand on the young
toughs.
After he had telephoned To Bellevue
Hospital the policeman noticed knot
| 81 men standing about the figure Of
young man in tn. gutter across the street
| where the attack upon Schutzar had he
gun. When others had arrived Ia help
him keep the crowd away from the
wounded man under his protection the
| policemen went over to the figure on the
pavement and found n young man lying
there half conscious. with blood Sowing
| from a cut in his thigh.
He too was taken "a the hospital where
he died Before he lost conscious ne-.s
through los % blood which was'pumping
| from a severed artery in IN. groin this
man said that his name Was Joseph
| Doherty and that he lived ~ az Past
Sixteenth street
While the hospital attendants were
| patching up Schutzers wounds "A police
man asked him N he had cut Doherty in
the fight NJ the park Schutzer said that
he had struck Doherty. but denied having
used a knife Later q sheath knife with
a bloodstained blade was found at the
gateway Of the hospital through which
the ambulance had passed Schutzer
was put to bed in the prison ward charged
with h omicide