New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-26
MOB CKASES Man
ACCUSED BY GIRLS
Police Rescue Him After
800 Men and Women
Storm Refuge.

While more than 300 persons chased
him down East Seventeen street,
Frank Dcunick. laborer whom two
girls accuse Of having enticcd them
into an empty fat with offers Of money
and candy. was saved from the mob
last night by rushing into the arms Of
Detective Thomas j. Cherry. Cherry
spirited the man into Reception Hos
pital, and as the crowd stormed its
doors and broke windows with stones
the detective summoned a patrol wagon,
had il come 20 the rear Of the hospital,
and, unknown to the men and women
in the front, Deunick was hurried away
to the East SiXty-seyenth Street sta
ton.
Tho chase and siege Of the little
wooden hospital building at SiXticth
Street and the East River followed
Deunick's actions in an empty fiat on
Avenue A. According TO the police.
there have been numerous charges re
Gently made by little girls Of the
ncichhorhood against Deunick, who is
laborcr and lives at 1893 First Ave
hue.
Marie Fehcr, ten years old. OF 40S
East Fiftv-fourth Street, was standing
with her eleyen-year-old companion,
Helen koskay, IN front of the latter's
home. at 1896 Avenue A. at G o'clock
last night. According TO the stories
told by the girls. Deunik approached
them and INQUIRED the whereabouts Of
q man who had moved from the build
ing some time ago. They told him that
the person no longer lived there. but
lie insisted that If the girls would ac-
company him upstairs he would show
them that he was still in the build
ing
Marie and Helen, eager TO convince
the stranger that they were right, went
with him upstairs When they reached
the fourth floor. where there was an
empty fiat, he pushed them inside and
then locked the door, they said. Then
he prom.sed TO give them some candy
and % cents each, and succeeded in
getting Helen into rear room. She
fought with the man. and the screams
She made caused her friend 20 rush
downstairs and tell the girls parents,
Mr.. and Mrs Albert Koshay.
Mother and father rushed upstairs
to their daughters rescue, but Deunick
passed them on their way. The par
cnts then hurried from the house and
after the man, down Seventeen Street.
Neighbors were attracted by their
shouts, and soon there were 300 in the
chase.
just as Deunick approached Recep-
tion Hospital he ran into the arms Of
Cherry. The detective saw that he had
no chance of saving the stranger from
the crowd and quickly ran with him
into the hospital The mob outside.
however. did not want the man ar
rested. but rather wanted an oppor-
tunity TO get al him.
They continued TO bang at the doors,
and some ran bit up the street and
found rocks, which they proceeded to
Lurl at the windows. breaking several
Of them Cherry, inside, where there
were no patients and only a doctor and
nurses, then used the telephone to get
q wagon.
At night court Deunick was charged
with disorderly conduct and held in
- 600 bail for forty-eight hours. to
give the authorities time to look into
complaints made against him by other
girls who he is alleged to have lured
into empty apartments. His case will
be heard tomorrow morning in the
West Side court.