New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-11
Police Alertness Prevents
Third Crime in Child
Murder District.
SCARES IN NEWARK
AND OTHER CITIES
City Being Cleared OF Depen.
crates as Result Of Many
Arrests on Suspicion.

From Paterson and several o.h.,
towns in New Jersey 10 the ives. =,
New York down through Williamsburg
and even out as far as Long Isl.ps
City on the east, the Jack the Rippsrs
panic spread yesterday among chnd,es
and their parents. Like an epideni,
breaking out in all directions in n,
metropolitan centre, this sudden re,ur,
Of the fear Of the ripper" key, II.
police Of several cities buster than a,
an time since the murder OF Charlis
Murray a week ago
More than a dozen suspects v.,.
picked up in various places, children
ran screaming TO their homes in t..,
at sight Of some ba!eful looking strsns.
err, and mothers stood outs de the pub.
lie schools at closing time to pro.ee,
their children on the way home.
A climax came last night that sen,
the cry Of third "ri22er" murds,
through the East Side and brought The
reserves from three police stations On
the run. 1t was a stabbing sure
enough, but not OF the ripper" type.
he facts of the case were that fifteen.
year-old Harry Katz, OF 232 Division
Street, was stabbed IN the stomach with
a pocket knife during fight with some
of his fellows.
Ripper Threat Baked.
The centre of ponce activity IN
New York City yesterday afternoon
and last night on the ripper situation
was in the area bounded BY Fifth and
Eleventh Avenues and Fiftieth 70 Fifty.
fourth Streets. In this region one Of
the letters signed Jack the Ripper"
and sent 70 Mrs. Murray boasted that
a third murder would be committed
yesterday by the slayer Of Leonors
Cohn and Charlie Murray.
When the platoons of police from
the West Forty-seventh and East Fif.
ty-irst Street stations, which cover
this district, were turned out yester-
day and last night, the supposed ripper
letter was read TO them. They kept
on the alert. In addition 70 uniformed
men, patrolmen from other precincts
in plainclOthes and detectives By
scores were detailed 10 the threatened
area, which was sown so thicky with
watchful armed men in and cut VI uni.
form, invisibility would have been the
ripper's only chance to commit an.
other Of his CHASTITY crimes in that
district. The grim precautions OF the
police put the section into a state Of
tension.
The police drsgnet is the largest tina,
has ever swept the city. Every patrol.
man and detective, no matter whs,
other work he is engaged on, has been
instructed especially TO keep his eyes
and ears open for possible ripper clews
or suspects.
The result was an unusual number OF
arrests of men for annoying children.
They were sifted through the question.
ing process by Inspector Faurot, ard
when he was satisfied they had nothing
to do with the ripper case they were
taken 10 court. and most Of them sen,
away for sixty days. The city has
protted at least that much; the ripper
dragnet is clearing the streets Of de-
generates.
As an example of the rough and
ready treatment awaiting suspected
men on the East Side, David Golden.
berg. clerk, Of l59 East l05th Street.
narrowly escaped beating By a mob.
All he was seen doing was tossing pen.
MES TO children.
Suspects Fare Hard.
Many men were taken 10 station
houses by policemen 10 protect the men
rather than because they had any seri.
Gus suspicious against them in connee'
ton with the ripper case.
Frank Farrell, of 262 Twentieth
Street, Brooklyn. was followed by
crowd in Williamsburg calling him
ripper" and finally arrested He had
asked little girl TO carry paper into
a cellar. In Newark Thomas Gary 50
frightened children Of the Seventh Ave-
nue. public school that il had TO be
closed for the day. He appeared st the
gate at nOontime with a black mask,
and his trousers had spots which looked
like blood. His description tailed with
that given OF the slayer Of the Murray
boy.
News Of the incident spread to other
Newark schools 10 the effect that New
Yorks Jack the Ripper was at large IN
the city, with the result that throngss
of mothers went to the schools TO gel
their c. ildren.
A crowd of frantic men and women
besieged School SO, in Vernon Avenue,
Long Island City. when the rumof
spread that the ripper had killed two
of the children attending the schooL
Il was necessary TO barrlcade the doors
I keep them out.
Walter Recordan. OF 94l Roesswsy
Avenue, was beaten in East New iols
yesterday by mob who took hin i''
tn mysterious ripper.
Several cases of supposed attacks oy
the ripper were reported by hysteTle"
East New York girls during the day