The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-16
POLICE HELD AT BAY
BY A DENTISTS GUN
Three Hour Siege IN N1ingdOn
square Ends After Bullet
Holes Fiji Room.
HE IMAGINED CONSPIRACY

The aulet old ~ne!giborhood OF Abing.
don Square. in the centre Of Greenwich
Village. was kept In a furry Of excite
ment for three hours last night while
william ". Daniels, a dentist. who mas
an office and bachelor quarters at !
Abingdon Square, shot holes in every
thing In his office and puncuiated his
parleys with a small army OF policemen
by shooting holes through h door.
The trouble started about 8 O'Clock.
when Lieut.. Hornbostle Of the first
branch detective bureau received a mes
sage over the telephone from the doc
ton.
"Ive been poisoned" be said. "and
so has n woman who has been visiting
me. Her body has been shipped away
by cDnspirators. Send up a detective at
once"
Detective John J. Morrissey Was sent
TO the dentists office. Bang oame n
shot through the door. and az M1rrissey
lodged the bu1et just missed hts arm.
Detective Is Frightened.
Hey. there 80 he yelled. carefully
keeping out of range, I'm from Police
Headquarters. Didn't you send for me-"
Yes came the calm reply from In
side. ard bang went another shot.
Morrissey. puzzled. t~elephoH,d Police
Headquarters for n storming party. De-
tectives Frank Campbell aud Noonan
went up. and SO did eight uniformed
policemen. The latter stood around In
the street and warned the crowd that
was gath' ring that bullets might ny at
any momt mt.
Finally Morrissey smashed the window
Of the dentists Office n when Daniels
came to the window, gun IN hand. and
g1owered out. Morrissey said again.:
"I'm from Police Headquarters. You
sent for us"
sure, so I did," said Daniels. and
then turning away from the window he
sen, another shot Into something that
tinkled TO the floor. Morrissey waited
a while. trying to plan a way to take tho
Office by assault. while the dentist RAM
PACED up and down inside. talking to
himself and occasionally taking shots
at the furniture.
As the siege continued most OF the
persons who 1.-Two In the rpuse-a roon-
ing house-wcn in trough another
doorway. but finally "A woman came
along who declined Indignantly the de-
tective's warning and walked up tile
steps and ram the bell. A shot whizzed
near her and she tainted. She WAS car
ried away. and the siege went on.
Negro Is Driven Out.
Next. Danielss negro helper came
down the steps fOu at a time. He said
that Daniels had gone up to him and
said
You're not afraid to die. are you?"
Dec | is. boss he 1uaveringly told
the dentist. and when a lull came In the
airing he edged over to the door and
jumped out,
The negro said that a woman had been
there In the afternoon and that after she
left the dentist had become upset and
talked to himself about a conspiracy un-
I'll he began to shoot.
About Q o'clock Daniels poked out a
hammer to MorrissGy and told him to
smash the lock because the conspirators
had fastened it and he couldn't get out.
After a preliminary rap which did not
bring a shot the door was smashed In.
Daniels WINS found crouching behind
a p~ortiere levelling an automatic pistol
at the door. but the detectives finally
manage TO get close enough to him to
wrest the pistol from him. He was
taken to Police headquarters on n charge
OF fclonious assault and then was sent
to Bellevue for observation.