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query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9904E2D7133FE633A... MAN IS SHOT DEAD IN CHASE FOR STEER; Frenzied Animal Tears Down Fifth Avenue, Police Shooting from Taxicabs. SEVEN OTHERS SCATTER Wild Bullet Slays a Watchman ;- Waiter Is Wounded ;- All the Beeves Caught or Killed. November 4, 1913, Tuesday A policeman's wild bullet killed a watchman early yesterday morning in a wild cattle chase, which spread consternation in the heart of the city. One lumbering steer seeking to escape pursuit turned into Fifth Avenue at Fifty-ninth Street and, dodging bullets which were fired at it by pursuing policemen, caused such uproar that Fifth Avenue thought that either a gangsters' battle was in progress or a Wild West show had lost its bearings.

Those were the days, eh?

Thanks for the link, TVL 1970. We'll add the date from the article to the record the next time we update it.

Along similar lines - Lions in Leipzig:

probably the strikebreaker in this story: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E4D81439E333A...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)

STRIKE MOB PELTS WORKMAN AND POLICE; 3,000 Join in Attacking a Factory Employe Who Wouldn't Quit and His Escort. May 10, 1911, Wednesday A mob of 3,000 persons, among them many women, hooted and jeered early yesterday evening as eight mounted policemen, eight men on foot, and two bicycle policemen escorted Harry Gorrie to his home at 511 Fifty-third Street, Brooklyn, from the E.W. Bliss Projectile Works, at Fifty-third Street and First Avenue. -NY Times archives you can use the link posted above to get to the full story.

That was really sweet of them - to give out the man's full address.