Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-02-07
WANTED TO KILL WILSON

fixed post in the Bowery at Stanton
street this morning at 3 O'Clock Pa
trolman Frank Stegman was sudden
ly attacked from behind by man
who leaped on his back and bore him
heavily to the ground. Stegman's
night stick was seized by his assail-
ant, and the policeman was struck on
the head with such force that his scalp
vas laid open.
As Stegman struggled to regain his
feet he was again felled with the night
stick. the blow dislocating his right
am. Lying helplessly in the street
the policeman tried to reach for his
revolver and his whistle, when Ma
than Mera, BOZ Bowery, who was at
tracted by the disturbance, fastened
to the spot.
Mera, although little man, COM
pared to either the patrolmau or his
assailant, proceeded to get the officers
revolver when requested by the pros
trate man to do so, and was still
fambling for the patrolman's weapon
when the thug, apparently taking
fright, dashed off to the south on the
Bowery.
Mera gave chase, while Stegmar
dragged himself to his feet and blew
his whistle. The fugitive was inter.
cepted three blocks away by William
Kaltenbach, Waterman. He hi.
Kaltenbach, with the policeman's
night stick and shattered several
bones in the watchman's right hand
He then ran down the Boxery as
Charles Houston, an actor, ard his
wife drove up in their automobile.
Houston turned his machine into
the curb, jumped out, and started in
pursuit. He overlook the man half q
block away. AS Houston laid hold
of the assailant the latter swung the
night stick at the actor's head. Hous-
ton lodged. but in SO doing had to
let go his hold, whereapon the f..
gttive turned and rap back up the
Bowery. Houston followed, and the
man darted behind the auto.
AS Houston circled around the ma
chine after the man the stranger leaped
upon The running board, grasped the
scoring wheel with one hand and
tried to start the engine with the other,
While he was in a STOPPING position
Mrs. Houston, who was still in the
auto, kicked him in the head with all
the force she could put iu fine blow
and stunned him, causing him to opple
and drop the nightstick.
Before he could recover Houston
struck with the nightstick and had him
well in hand when Patrolmen Attfeld
and Stanford. of the Mulberry Street
Station, who had been attracted BY
Stegman's whistle. came up.
At the Mulberry Street Staff On the
prisoner said he was Theodore Nun.
shell. rs years old, painter, living
ut 102 North Third street, BROOKLYN.
While the police we're taking MUIR
shells record he again became violent
and brushed aside four policemen who
attempted to subdue him. He was
finally overcome with the assistance
of four more patrolmen and dragged
to . cell.
According to L!eutenont Grady, a
the prisoner was thrust behind the
door he said:
I'D be willing to 60 10 the electric
chair If could kill Wilson, but i'll
can't kill Wilson I'm going 10 kill
cops"
Pairolman Stegmsn was assisted 10
The station house, together with
Kai tenbach, the Waterman, where II
as found that the former had sus.
,ained Q dislocated right arm, lacera-
ions of the scalp and abrasions of
he head and body. Kaltenbach, who h
rave his address as 238 Green avenue,
Brooklyn, was removed to Bellevue.
Murshell was later arraigned before
agistrate Appleton in the Tombs '
'olice Court and held without BALL
Or trial. Is