New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
BOY CLUBBED TO DEATH
BY CHERRY STREET GANG
Younq Robbers Commit Murder
Because Victim Had Only One
Cent in His Pocket.
ALL MAKE THEIR ESCAPE
Lad of Fifteen Dragged from
Candy Shop by Three Others
About His Own Age and
Wantonly Slain.

w duIOllIy N1d1u'
Because he had only one cent in his
pocket. Samuel Mandelstand, fifteen
/ years old, was brutally murdered yester-
/ day afternoon in front of d candy shop
( in Market street by three boys, the eldest
Of whom was sixteen and til youngest
/ thirteen. Disappointed and enraged
when they found, after assaulting and
robbing him. the lad had no money, the
three boys rushed to the street, found a
section Of three-inch joist and. dashing
back to the store, dragged young Man
/ delstand to the sidewalk. where one Of
them dubbed the boy to death. Under
i the last blow the boy sank TO the pave
ment, moaning, Mother Mother
Mandelstand lived with his father, sis
; ters and brothers al No. Ia Cherry
street. This murder. following closely
/ upon that of John Male boy Of eleven.
/ in Cherry street. has wrought the neigh
borhood up to a high pitch Of excite
ment Last night detectives were scour-
ing the adjacent streets in search Of the
young slayers.
Max Green. a boy Of twelve, was left
I in charge Of the little candy shop at No.
90 Market street yesterday afternoon
while his big brother, Hyram. went out
on an errand. a little after 3 o'clock
samuel Mandelstand ran into the store
pursued by three larger boys.
Dragged to His Death.
Sam came running in here" Max
said. "and l knew he was in trouble.
Me brother always took up for sam.
and when the boys jumped on him he
would run in here for help. But me
brother was away when he came in to-
dav, and am too little 70 fight. l was
scared. There was three boys. one Of
them was pretty big and the other two
was not much taller than Sam.
They told him TO give them money
and he said he didn't have any. Ihen
they dragged him out Of the store. They
bjrred him on the jaw and over the head
four or five times, and when they got
him outside they went through MS
pockets and found a cent
They called him cheap bum took
the cent. and told him If they ever
caught him out they would hammer the
ufe out OF him. Then they went away
and sam ran back here IN the store.
sam hadn't been back more than
three or four minutes before they came
g had awful DlR
stick They grabbed Sam again and
he was begging and crying and asking
then, 10 let him alone. They dragged
hin, ont and one Of them took the stick
ord bit him an awful lick over the head.
Ne fell down, and l heard him call out
.,tother,' as he fell. Then he didn't say
anything more.
..1 was awful scared. I thought they
r.o,,ld lump on me next l called 20
lice, Police" but there wasn't any
Then some people who saw sam ran
came running up, and one Of the men
chased the boys. They ran down Market
etreet and turned into Cherry, and that
uas the last l saw Of them
Detectives Hunt AsssiIsnts.
The Green boy was so excited at the
tive that he was unable 10 give the po-
lice an adequate description OF young
NtardeIstand's assailants. Detectives
1.arrua Blaha. Sullivan and hall dozen
o+hers started out on the case at once
| h,,t nm 10 late hour had made no ar
rests They believe the boys VIII keep
ouiet for the next few days but they
| eel confident that as soon as they get
,i.,1o holder they will talk Of their ex-
ploit
Mandelstand the father Of the muir
dered boy. said that his son had mad din
,o- at his Nome about 2:3O o'clock and
1,en had gone out TO play. He said that.
90 far as he knew. the boy was not a
member Of any gang. This is an awful
tough neighborhood." he said. and the
bovs around here are rough set Mr..
uandeIstand is a Russian and cane over
n this country some twenty years ago.
uo satd his son went 10 Public School
ard did well in his studies The boy
sold papers after school hours and gave
his earnings 10 his sisters.
Max Green said that this was not the
first time young Mandelstand had been
a,,acked Several weeks ago. he said. |
a bow hit him in the face with rock. !
l,,,ting a deep cash. which was sewed up
BY a surgeon.