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SUBWAYAngry at Being Jostled in Strap-Hanging Crowd, He AttacksGirl and Her Defender.IWOUNDED MAN LEADS CHASEFugitive Dashes Into Seventy-secondStreet Residence and Is FoundHidden in Kitchen Pantry:[iagement.e -negro stood at the side-door, and nearby were McGowan, who works arestaurant, and Miss McAuley. As thesway of the car would cause first one erson and then another to lurch against e negro, ho seemed to take it as a personal affront, a possible scorn of his race. They were_ nearing _ Seventy-secondA ** “Street when Miss McAuley was thrown against the negro, and the remark hemade to her was so offensive that McGowan ordered him to hold his tongue.d ‘ 'Several other men added warnings, and the negro burst into a torrent of abuse.When the train pulled up at the Ninety-sixth Street station, Miss McAuley, who wanted to change to a local, had to pass the negro. She saw him take a knife from his pocket, half concealing it under his coat-sleeve. She turned to McGowanmicl cried:“Look out! He has a knife In hishand.”This seemed to infuriate the negro.Miss McAuley says that he struck at her » face, but she bent backwards out of reach, hnd as he struck again, caught theblow on her hand. She staggered a little and then fainted, her body falling through the doorway to the station platform. Others hearing the cries, pressed toward the rear and front entrances ofthe car in panic.The negro leaped to the platform. Mc-. Gowan .after him. The white manfs at-* tempts to grapple were met with blowsfrom the small knife, and his neck and hands were badly cut. The front of his coat bears the jnark of more than one futile slash.* Though weakened by his injuries, McGowan led the chase down Seventy-second Street. He was joined byPoliceman Munhy of the West Sixty-eighth Street Station, by many ot the passengers from the subway and by others from the street.The fugitive had a good lead, and took advantage of the open grill-work door in the basement of 271 West Seventy-second Street, the home of Spencer Aldrich.McGowan was the first to dive in after him, with the policeman and another close at his heels. A frightened servant.who had retreated to the corner of the kitchen, pointed to a locked pantry door. They broke it down and found their quarry, back to the wall and still showing fight. Murphy closed upon him and the chase was over.McGowan and Miss McAuley were driven to the station house, where the ambulance surgeon attended their wounds. They and others who saw what had happened were at a loss to account fully for the assault. The negro did not seem to have been drinking, and his vlcious-ne66 appeared quite unprovoked.iIII1In the morning crowd traveling downtown from the Bronx in a eubway express yesterday there was a young negro, who resented the jostling to which all the straphangers were subjected. He finally drew a knife, and before be fought hie way to the open at Seventy-second street, had slashed two of his fellow passengers, a girl and a man. A furious crowd gave t chase, and the man was caught In the basemenl of a house at the corner of West End Avenue. He said he was Vernon Graham, a clerk, of 178 West 135th Street. Magistrate Krotel held him in $2,000 bail for examination this morning on a charge of felonious assault.The two who were cut were patched up by an ambulance surgeon from Flower Hospital, and appeared as complainants in the West Side Court. The girl was Mary McAuley, of 456 East 186th Street,I a stenographer employed by the Speedometer Company. Four stitches sufficed for the wound in her hapdt out for theman, Daniel McGowan of 165 West 96th Street, the surgeon was obliged to take seven stitches in the neck and eight in the hand.The negro boarded the express at 135th Street about eight o’clock. Like many others, he had no seat, and as the car made its way downtown he expressed-j freely his opinions of the subway xpan-
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Fri, Jan 20, 1911
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