The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-11
STREET CAR SAVES
RIPPER" FROM MOB
Policeman Has Hard Fight to
Protect Suspect-Browns-
vile Excited.
PANICs IN TWO SCHOOLS

A street car was comma ndeered by
Policeman Gross yesterday In order 10
save his prisoner, David Goldberg. rs.
a clerk Of 15s East 1o5th street. a rip
per suspect, from a mob. The West
Side has been greatly alarmed over
rumors OF ripper murder threatened In
mat section, and when Goldberg was
arrested in front Of Public School SO. at
$40 West Forty fourth street, crowd
gathered quickly.
Gross ran his man toward Ninth ave-
nue., trailed by the shouting crowd. A
car happened to BE- passing. and pushing
his prisoner aboard the officer stood on
the running board and fought the crowd
back.
Goldberg was arraigned before Magic
trate Corrisan Of the Yves, side police
court later in the afternoon. ana 10 being
held under $1,000 bail for trial In
Special Sessions. Tho complaining wit
ness was Patrick Lannon OF SOC West
Forty-axth street
Hysteria stirred up by tho ripper"
scare kept tho police busy in Browns
Vile yesterday afternoon. In one in
stance Walter Recorban, 20. Of e41
Rockaway avenue. was mohbed by a
crowd OF excited men. women and chill
dren while no was walking along Ala
bama avenue near Suffer avenue A
boy started tho cry of ripper" behind
him and he was overtaken by the crowd
and badly beaten UP before Policemen
Peto and Craft OF the Liberty avenue
station rescued him. They had TO drive
off the mob FOR a quarter OF a mile, and
then fearing TO turn the man loose
locked him up on a technical charge OF
disorderly conduct.
Several hundred frantic mon and
women besieged Public School So. To-
Gated in Vernon avenue between Pierce
and Graham avenues. In tho Ravens
wood section OF Long Island City. yes
terday morning when some one spread q
rumor that Jack the Ripper had killed
two OF the children attending that In
stitution.
The school Ia located near the italian
quarter and has an attendance OF about
| 800 children. From all sections Ital.
ians hurried 10 the school. while n bis
! Italian tobacco factory about two block,
away was abandoned hy the workers
| They damned into the school yard and
| we're met by Principal Thomas VI. Dono.
| hue. Assistant Principal Elizabeth L
Kelly and Janitor william Thessan. who
with the teachers. barricadcd the door,
| and prevented a raid on the school.
When he found out the cause OF thu
commotion Principal Donohue sounded
| the school fire drill and tho children
marched out OF the building into ths
! yard. where they were seized by thei,
parents II was noon before quiet wa,
restored.
NEWARK. ". j. Nay ia man who
said after his arrest that ne was Thorn as
ieary. ~ years of age. no home. fright.
ened number OF children attending tho
seventh avenue public school. tn the
Italian quarter, 30 badly This afternoon
| and caused so much excitement that the
| institution had TO he closed for the day
Geary was arrested in the vicinity OF ST
Joseph's Parochial school
Gearv appeared AT the Seventh ave.
| nue. school when the classes were dis
missed for the noon period. He wore a
black mask. according 20 some OF the
children. The scare spread when y
number OF the italian mothers appearet
at the school 20 pick out their children
! having been told thA: Jack the Ripper
| WAS lurking near -. The situation be-
/ come so tense that Il was decided &c
abandon the afternoon session.
Nohs on The lower East side man,
banded two men with dark mustache.
whom they suspected OF being rippe,
murderers Giovanni Sarrone. l2t
Cherry street. was rescued from n mot
/ In front OF % PIT street. He had beer
held up and robbed OF 800, he said. and
then the robbers started cry OF "Jack
the Ripper" and disappeared
william stokes a waiter OF es74 we-'
Fifteenth street. Corey Island. was
watching children play IN Delaney
street VIXEN some one started tho Pip
per" cry. pointing AZ him. Two young
men turned him over 20 a policeman
lie was examined a. Headquarters and
later released