New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-30
KILLED
BY STRIKEC
Green MOtOrman Cap
tured in Chase, Res
cued by Police.

Pauline Cohen, four years old, was
ground to death last night beneath
slowly moving st. AIMS Avenue car,
from which the ex-convict who was act
ing as motorman had leaped as he bore
down upon the child. Panicstricken, he
did not even attempt to apply the
brake Policemen led by Deputy Com
missioner Lord formed the unaccus-
toned riot square and marched the
strike breaker to the Alexander Ave-
rue police station through a mob that
shrieked Lynch him!" at every step.
Saturday night was gala night for
Pauline. On that night her father.
Isaac, got home from the tailor shop
at 6 o'clock. Ever since she could tot
ter about alone, Pauline had gone to
meet her father when he came home
Saturday. Yesterday afternoon she
was playing in St. Mary's Park, which
is across the street from her home, at
443 st. AIMS Avenue. The shadows
began to lengthen and the breezes
grew cool. Pauline stopped short IN
her play.
What time is it, mister" she asked
of a man who was passing.
ats just o'clock" he answered.
Green Motorman Deserts Post.
without needing the opportunities
of her playmates, Pauline started 10
cross the street. A car was approach
ing from the south. There is no grade
there. but the car was running slowly
The few persons whose attention was
caught by the little girl dancing across
the pavement thought later that the
car might have been as close as nifty
feet. II was so far away that ths
thought of danger never entered the'r
heads. even when Pauline fell na'
across the track.
The car rumbled slowly forward.
Pauline began to scramble TO her feet.
When the car loomed above her at
distance of fifteen or twenty feet there
was a shout of warning from man
sitting on q park bench. II was taken
nm on all sides. Pauline turned her
head and for the first time seemed 70
see her danger.
As she looked toward him the motor
man jumped and ran toward the PARK;
He was followed by the conductor and
two or three men whom the passengers
had taken for strike guards.
Passenger Stops Car.
The car went on. 1t was stopped by
a passenger who jumped 10 the brake,
hut not until Pauline's body was
wedged under the rear wheels.
on account of the limping car SER
vice. more than the usual Saturday
afternoon crowd was in St. Mary's
Park. Fully one hundred saw Pauline
run down and the motorman's flight.
The motorman did not run TO the l43d
Street entrance TO the park where the
people clustered thickest, but made of
at an angle. II was as if ne were run
ming away from them, and the crowd
accepted the challenge.
With shouts that doubled their num-
Der in less than a minute they pur-
sued the fleeing man. Men fourlshing
clubs appeared from nowhere IN par
ticular and joined the chase.
Lynch him! String him up! they
yelled, and women Joined in the cry.
Patrolman Joseph Freud was pas
senger in the car on the way 70 the
Morrisania station. Immersed IN his
paper, he was too late to try to stop
the car, but he outpaced the mob and
caught the fugitive by the collar. He
blew his whistle Justify and brought
Patrolman James O'Neill, Of the
Alexander Avenue station.
Lynch Him." Mob's Demand.
The mob was ugly, and the medley
of shouts had grown TO verltable
chant, Lynch him. Lynch him!"
With every beat of the refrain they
surged closer TO the two patrolmen,
who with their prisoner had backed
up against the park wall.
There was not the slightest doubt
in the minds of spectators that II the
two patrolmen had not been there the
motorman would have swung from one
of the park trees. Indeed, the report
reached Deputy Commissioner Lord
at 149 Street and Third Avenue that
lynching was In progress.
Communicating an automobile and
filing his own car with members of the
strong arm squad and such recruits
as he could pick up at street corners
the Deputy Commissioner led the res
cue party With a chorus Of police
whistles shrieking warning, the cars
ploughed through the crowd that
hemmed in Freud and O'Neill and their
prisoner.
In a jiffy a score or more policemen,
some in uniform and others in "cits,"
had formed riot square. and the mo-
torman was in the centre. They took
steady march toward the Alexan-
der Avenue station through a swirling
mob that filled the street from curb