New-York tribune., 1920-05-08
park Madnlan
Kills l. Slabs 3
With Scissors
c..,ed Tailor, Driven to
Frenzy by Boys Franks,
Rages Through Seward
Park, Staying First Victim
Slashes Man in Auto
r.,o More Wounded Before
pursui. Ends; Maniac
SINNERS at Pocket Mirror

,,a;n Cooper, apparently lunatie
:, .s deadly a mania as that which
W. ',-.a I'M a few weeks ago in Thomas
~ S;mnkin in st. Georges Church
". lid Yesterday in Seward Park
Isa nair of shears, killing one man
WY" nonnding three others. He was
ana ma from a mob by the police and
iss.'s ~ Bellevue Hospital under arrest
ssI. 9, tilled Morris Minkofsky, of 1914
o.Isss; Street, Brooklyn, who was
Ia.ss .ss;nc through the park on his way
ps .ss Forward Building, OF which he
y "ss "sssnnerintendent. Those injured are
ysuis Katz, S44 Rodney Street, brook,
i'm. Morris Lubinsky, 244 East Third
S.res @ and Samuel Lipman, IA Jefferson
Street. They were taken to Gouver-
nsur Hospital.
Maniac Lurked in Park
cooper is an unemployed tailor. !iv-
;,s At 2055 Prospect Avenue, The
psony He told the police he was
.s;,.v.siy y wears old. For several days
he shabby figure, unkempt beard and
CARING eyes had been noted by soys
slsying in the little park uc East
broadway, Canal and Rutgers Street
Yesterday the boys decided that this
muttering, gesticulating atcerdemalion
who huddled all day on q b-ach in the
sunshine, was fit butt for their
ranks. They would steal upon him
rom the rear, give lusty whoop and
scurrv away. The more venturesome
tweaked at his ragged garments.
The bearded man sat quiet. He drew
something from an inside pocket and
waited tensely for the next assault
neither muttering nor gesticulating
now. At slight sound behind him
he Ieaped to his feet with a yell
brandishing q huge pair of tailor's
shears.
The boys who had been stalking him
were rot in sight. For q moment he
danced in futile rage while women
who had been sitting near him gath
cred their babies in their arms and
sped away. Pedestrians at a greater
distance halted to eye the furious man
Victim Stabbed, Slayer Flees
He hesitated only for a moment.
Then he started through the park at
run, peering here and there among
the shrubbery. Brushing against Min
kofsky, the tailor plunged the shears
into his chest, wrenched them loose as
bis victim fell and ran on.
In his wake a swarm Of pursuers
gathered with shouts. Reaching East
Broadway just as Katz was driving west
through that thoroughfare, the mad
man jumped to the running board of
bis automobile shouting, Faster!
Faster." and fourishing the cleaning
shears.
Behind, echoed shouts of murder!
kill him" Katz ducked and his mad
passenger stabbed him in the thigh and
IN the arm. AS the car stopped he
Jumped off and resumed his flight
afoot. Lubinsky met him at the curb
and tried to seize him. Cooper buried
the shears in his would-be captor's leg
2nd ran on.
A big man in overalls, who carried
hle about two feet long, was leading
the hue and cry. His long strides over
cane tha lead of the erratic fugitive
and ne brought the fle down sharply
on Coo9er's head at Essex and Division
streets, telling him. In an instant the
crowd was upon the PROSTATE man,
@ some striving to hold him down and
some to kick him.
Lipman was one of those holding the
fugitive. Cooper stabbed Lipman and
Ssnk ms teeth in his arm. Patrolman
,onn 1onn Hopkins fought his way through
me crowd and took charge of the
prisoner While Hopkins stood off the
crowd, waiting for the reserves, Cooper
arew mirror from his pocket and
contemplated without remark the
bruises that disfgured his face.