New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-24
Eleventh Ave. Mob
Attacks Policeman
To Avenge Shooting
Patrolman Farrell, Dazed
From Blows, Clings to 3
Prisoners Till Aid Comes;
Street Ont to Get a Cop"

Eleventh Avenue, which has been
waiting for a good opportunity to
"jump cop" ever since Charles Tucker
was shot accidentally by patrol
man July 5, decided that its chance
had come late yesterday afternoon
when Patrolman John j. Farrell start
ed down that thoroughfare from Fiji
tieth Street with three prisoners.
They were Michael Reilly, Of $40
West Forty-ninth Street; Joseph Nc
Cabe. of 60 Eleventh Avenue. and
Thomas Foley, of $40 West Forty ninth
Street. Foley apparently was intoxi-
Gated on the sidewalk, the patrolman
said, and the other two began to re-
vile Farrell when he asked what
was up.
Quite aware of the peril that lurked
in the busy street, Farrell took Foley
BY the wrist with one hand, Kelly
with the other and ordered McCabe
to walk ahead. Before they had gone
dozen PAGES they were the center Oh
q group whose rearmost members be-
gan to jeer the patrolman, several
Shouting: That's the cop that got
Tucker"
At Fortv-ninth Street a pair of
br.wny arms seized the patrolman
from behind and tore him away from
his prisoners. In a moment he was
the center OF a shouting, list brand
ishing mob, which, led. Farrell asserts,
by ms prisoners, began to pummel
and kick him. He drew his revolver,
using It alternately as a billy and to
cover the three men whom he had
arrested.
Some one gave him crack with
club that made his head spin and at
the same instant the man who had
precipitated the attack snatched Far
rell's revolver. The patrolman was
staggering from the blows ralned
upon him, when a member of the
police reserves who had pressed close
to nina during the struggle, though
without offering to take sides against
his neighbors, thrust an automatic
pistol into Farrel's hand
With this he forced Foley and Nc
Cabe ahead of him into the tenement
into which Reilly had lodged the in
slant that the patrolman faltered.
Having seen the pistol in Farrell's
hand. the crowd hesitated to follow
him into the basement house, and
without interference Farrell and his
prisoners conducted the search for
Reilly.
They found him crouching on fire
escape, whence Farrell drew him none
too gently and lined him up beside
his companions against the wall of a
hallway. He kept them there under
the muzzle of his pistol. The tenement
hallway was the safest place and the
easiest to defend that he had seen
since leaving Fiftieth Street, and he
resolved to wait there until word Of
his plight got to the police.
1t was only few minutes before the
reserves from the West Forty -seventh
Street police station, has had two men
through the mob at the entrance to
the tenement. leaving broken heads in
their wake. Farrell and his three pris-
oners were escorted to the police sta
ton.
Although dazed from the blow on the
head and otherwise battered, Farrell
remained on duty. The man who
seized him from behind and snatched
his revolver got away in the confu-
sion. Until few days ago Captain
McCauley, of the West Forty seventh
Street police station has had two men
assigned to the post Farrell had yes
terday because of the threats that had
been made that "some cop would get
his" for the shooting of Tucker