New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
DEATH ENDS Thief
CHASE IN SUBWAY
Man Accused as Pickpocket
Leaps from Train and Is
Crushed by Pillar.
CROWD IN UPROAR
AT RACE IN CARS
Victim Dies in Hospital-ldenti.
fed by Library Card and
His Finger Prints.

Ills TlHScI FIlHto.
After having been pointed out as a
pickpocket, Solomon Furst. OF No. ~
Avenue b, Manhattan, tried TO escape
arrest by jumping from a subway train
between the Hoyt street and the Nevins
street stations. in Brooklyn. soon aftcr
3 O'Clock Yesterday afternoon. The
train was brought to a standstill al
most Immediately after the man
jumped. and his body was found
wedged between car and a steel ;"!-
umn.
He was taken TO TIE Holy Family
Hospital with his skull fractured. his
chest crushed and both Of his legs
broken He died two hours later
Just after the train had left Hoyt
street on its way 10 the Long Island
Railroad station Jacob Tevey. OF 30.
1851 Park Place. called across the
aisle 10 warn John Martinelli, Of NJ.
90 West 45tn street. lanhattan, that
a man had just picked his pocket. The
man had been sitting beside Mr. Mar
tinell reading book entitled Heart
Of the Doctor"
He closed his book at once and,
jumping from his scat. ran out of the
car Mr.. Martinelli found that purse
which contained 500 was gone and hc
followed Furst. The chase threw the
passengers into panic. Several men
tried 10 join in the pursuit. but the
crowd in the aislcs blocked the way.
The fugitive running on ahead. slipped
between the passengers before they
were warned and finally reached the
platforms between the sixth and soy-
erth cars.
Patrolman samuel Dribbcn. of thc
Fourth avenue police station. who was
in the seventh car. heard the uproar
and left his seat lie was in uniform.
and the fugitive saw him coming tow
ard him. He climbed on the chains
connecting the ears ana sprang into tuc
subway.
James Hatterson. the motorman ot
the train had ALREADY shut of the cur
rent, as he was about 10 stop 81 the
Nevins street station Some one gave
him the signal so stop at once. and he
brought the train up with a jerk. j. J.
Mullin. the conductor, and several Of
the guards found Furst with the book
he had been reading beside him. The
book was the property OF the New
York Public Library. The library card
bore the name Of Solomon Furst. No.
81 Avenue u. Manhattan.
Through an error Ambulance sur
eeon Dillemuth was directed to tho
Hoyt street station. Tn" delay In the
arrival Of the ambulance added to the
excitement Of the crowds. Furst was
hurried to the hospital and placed upon
the operating tabl" but he dicd before
his wounds had been dressed.
Mrs Avol Elbaum, Of No. - East
10Th street. Manhattan. told the police
that Furst left her husbands employ
ment two weeks ago. Elbaum con
ducts a restaurant Furst came 10
America from Austria a year and a
half ago. and had no relatives in this
country. At the hospital Mrs. Elbaum
was Informed that the man pas dead
and she left without looking Al the
body. she said that her husband had
employed Furst as a waiter Tor eleven
weeks.
The police searched the train and the
roadbed of the subway, but failed 10
find the missing purse. They believe
that the man had an accomplicc on the
train and passed IL 10 him as he ran
through the cars.
Detective Pucciano Of the Brooklyn
Police Headquarters made prints Of
the dead mans fingers and took them TO
the Rogues' Gallery, in Manhattan. He
found them to he the same as those Of
Solomon Turst. . clerk, eighteen years
old, who was arrested for picking
rockets in Manhattan on January .
4 month later Judge Rosalsky, OF the
Court OF General Sessions, sent him to
the New York City Reformatory.