New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-12
Sends Two Bullets Into Body OF
Park ProW|er, Who Was
Pursuing Four Men with
Threats to SIay.
WOMEN FLEE IN TERROR
Well Aimed Shots End Career
of Maniac as He Runs Tow
ard Patrolman Anderson
with Carving Knife
in Hand.

FOuT men, neelnS as VI " tncii
lives, dashed by Patrolmal Frank An.
derson, of The Bronx Park station
where he stood on post. just outside
of the park at Fordham Road and
Southern Boulevard, yesterday after
noon. AS he turned around to See
the cause OF their terror, a large rock
whizzed by his head and he saw a
carving knife aimed at him. scarce
an arms length away.
The policeman reached for his re-
volver. A moment later the man who
had held the carving knife was dead
at Anderson's feet. with a bullet
through his heart and another through
his forehead.
Women and Children Chased.
The man had been seen proWlins
around the park during the last te"
days, but had been apparently harm
less. He first drew the attention OF
William Won Grecken. a special police
man, a short distance inside the park
by rushing out from behind a ciumr
of bushes on a group OF women and
children. They scattered with cries OF
fright, and the man turned his atten-
ton TO the four who passed Patrolman
Anderson in heir mad flight.
He started after them, yelling
threats TO kill them. and chased them
toward the entrance OF the park. with
Won Crecken and Captain O'Neill hard
on his heels. The two pursuers wers
about to pounce upon him when nc
went down under Anderson's bullets
The four fugitives left the situation N
the hands OF the policeman and disap'
peared in the crowd
The busy corner at the time was
black with the dense crowd Of a spring
Sunday. ANY one OF the hundreds oi
persons there might have gone down
before the policeman's bullets had ns
missed his target. Captain Ward. ol
the precinct. calling attention TO this
point later. said:
You must be pretty handy with the
gun. Anderson"
Il do practise little" the young
man replied.
Il am delighted with the conduct of
Patrolman Anderson in this emer-
gency," the captain declared publicly
in the station house. This affair
came out the right way. with the Off
Ger on top"
Victim a Demented Tramp.
The dead man was a demente'.
prowler who had been camping in me
park for several days. He was abou,
thirty-five years old. > feet inches In
height. weighed 100 pounds and had
a two weeks growth Of beard on his
face. He wore two pairs of trousers
and under his dark coat was a shirt
which had once been white, with mar
row black stripes. A blue cap covered
his shaggy black hair
His pockets contained an assort-
ment of curious articles. but none
which furnished clew TO his identity
There was a postcard scrawled over
with unintelligible writing. a broken
bottle that had contained whiskey, an
onion. a half loaf Of bread. tobacco
and a thimble. Coroner Shongut tool;
possession of these when Dr. Ahearn
OF the Fordham Hospital. said the man
had died instantly. The body was re-
moved to the Fordham morgue.
When the mans body was undresse,
at the morgue a large wallet was
found suspended from a string around
his waist under both pairs Of trousers
In It were a dozen or more letters and
many newspaper clippings, the major
ity of witch were written in foreign
language, supposed by the police TO be
Greek.
The name Theodore koeft" appears
on many OF the envelopes and the no
lice believe this 10 be the name OF the
dead man. 1t is written on a postcard
dated in 1910, with the address, 10
Front street. Ohio" under il. On en-
velopes bearing a postmark Of late;
date the name appears over the ad-
dress. "443 West 22d street, New York
City"
Among the articles in the wallet
were clippings from Greek newspaper
and some papers printed in English
Many OF tho English clippings were or
the woman suffrage question.
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