New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-22
LongShoreman. Crazed with
Drink, Deals Death Blow
to Aged Parent
with Knife.
BEATEN DOWN WITH POKER
Mrs. John Mann, the Wife and
Mother, Knocks Down Murder
Gus Son as He Is About to
Escape-Fight Starts
at Supper Table.

ESCape-Flght starts
at Supper Table.
| chested young man wrestling In a
death grip with his white haired, feeble
father in the dining room Of their home,
while the aged wife of the old man
caused panic among the tenants in
the four story tenement house at No.
416 West 29th street. last night.
The unequal battle was only ended
when the younger man drew clasp
knife and drove its long blade into his
fathers abdomen. giving death
wound The other son then sprang
on the man with the knife and wrestled
for the mastery. only TO be laid low
with a jagged gasn on the right arm
from the murderous knife.
The man who is locked up charged
with killing his father and feloniously
assaulting his brother. is Harry Mann.
! a 'longshorcman. twenty three years
old John Mann. his father. was sew
enty-two years old. and had not been
working for the lost three years. being
supported by his two sons. Winfield.
the younger brother. is twenty
years old and is a packer by trade.
Mary. the wife and mother. is sixty
eight years old.
| ha hn live IN, a
! tenement house. the Man family have
always been known as quiet. well be-
! haved people. on friendly terms with
all their neighbors. Occasionally it
was whispered about that Harry took
| more liquor than was good for him,
but until last night nothing unusual
had happened as a result of these
| lapses.
About $50 o'clock, while John
Mann. his wife and Winfield were
seated at the supper table in their
ground floor apartment, heavy tread
was heard in the hallway, and Harry
lurched in. His face was flushed with
drink and the muscles in his thick-set
J neth SlOOu Jul plOiiilHtiiAig'
The longshoreman launched into a
torrent of abusive language as soon
as he crossed the threshold Of his
home and stood in the centre Of the
room, an ugly leer on his lips.
Drew Knife on Father.
John Mann finally arose from the
| hla ackad his con n ieQNo r1uch =
ing him gently toward the door as he
| cid so. His fathers action apparent
lily aroused the sleeping demon in
Harry's drink-crazed brain, and with
an oath he drew the longshoreman's
knife from his pocket and snapped
open the blade.
| Feebly the old man tried to prevent
his powerful son from using the knife,
but at length his strength gave out,
and the blade ripped into his body.
John Mann sank TO the floor with a
groan and as Harry turned toward
the door, Winfield picked up a plate
and threw it at his brothers head.
In another moment the brothers were
locked in each others arms, and al
though Winfield is 1.-THE and sinewed
like an athlete he was no match for
the 'longshoreman, who soon overpow-
cred him and gashed him in the right
arm.
When Winfield fell TO the floor Mrs.
Mann picked up a poker and struck
Harry repeatedly on the head with II,
finally knocking him down. Just as he
scrambled TO his feet and made for the
door Patrolman Blanch, of the West
37th street station. accompanied by
Sydney Lush. ran into the fiat and
grabbed the crazed man.
After a desperate fight they succeed
ed in wrestling the knife from him and
throwing him to the floor. DR.. Waters.
Of the New York Hospital, was called
and said John Mann had died shortly
after being stabbed. Winfeld's wound
was bound up and he was taken TO the
station house with his brother, where
he was held as a material witness.
Harry Mann is locked up on charges
of homicide and felonious assault.