LYNCH LAW IN NEW YORK.

SEQUEL TO ATTACKS ON CHILDREN. The self-confessed impotence of the police to suppress the terrible epidemic cf crimes against little children has at last resulted in the appearance of Judge Lynch in tho streets of Greater New Vurk. No fewer than four distinct mobs, armed with ropes in the approved South-L-rn fashion, assembled in various parts ;f the city, and attempted to execute summary justice on men suspected of attacking little girls. One innocent man is dying. A suspect suffered mortal injuries, and a second supposed criminal is in hospital. The excesses began in 120th street, n-here a woman, seeing a youth seize her fourteen-year-old sister and try to force hr-r down an alley, rushed into a crowd of excursionists who had just landed from a steamer. Gesticulating wildly, she shrieked: "Save, my sister; lynch that man." Everybody started to run, and soon cries of "Lynch him" ran through the entire neighborhood. A young man at Lhe head of tho crowd, Louis Concanula, who wa3 participating in the pursuit, was taken for the assailant. He was knocked down, kicked, and mortally injured before the mob discovered that the real assailant of the little girl was i fifteen -year-old boy named Tony Dolesio. In East 29th street a still more dangerous outbreak occurred. George 1 KeStner, a Swede of immensely powerful build, who, according to the police, is a naniac and degenerate of the worst charicter, seized two littlo girls, aged eight md seven, and tried to dr'atf thorn to a :ellar. One of the children e'scTiped .creaming. A minute later the street was swarming with men and women running from ill sides, and crying, "Kill the fiend." I'he women aimed stones at the Swede, ivho in a moment was stripped of almost •very rag of clothing. Bleeding from a loze'n wounds, ho wa« thrown in front if an electric tramway cAf, which was stopped only just in time. Thwarted in their vengeance, the mob ie.\t dragged the Swede to a lamp-post, jver which a rope was flung. Kestner ,vas sa^ed at the last moment by ten irmed policemen, after a prolonged and lesperate fight, About the same hour an Indian palmst named Hylo Salacia was talking to ,wo children in 34th street. Snlada has in unsavoury reputation among Ills leighbours, one of whom, attempting to nterfero, he struck with a.knife. Again he ominous cry, "Lyncli him !" refunded in the .street, a nioli piil'Sliing ho Indian to his home, where, after a : rantic resistance, he was saved by the wlice, who arrested him. In Brooklyn ind the outlying districts many similar iccuriences marked a record of crime. At Williamsburg, late in the evening. Miss Sadie Hasenflug, a tall and atraetive girl of 19, niece of Senator iJasenflug, was walking in a lonely itreet with her fiance, Mr Michael 3ann, wjieri the couple were assailed by wo Italians. The girl pluckily drew a latpin and stabbed her assailant so vigimously that ho shrieked with pain. Che Italians fled, and after a hot chase vere captured by Policeman Drum, with he aid of a big crowd. But when 3rum was about to lead the prisoners 0 the police station the mob, led by Mr August Goebel, a wealthy butcher, nterferred, demanding the instant execution of the men on tho nearest lampDost. Not until Drum levelled his revolver was he allowed to escort his captives to the station. From the police records it appears ;hat altogether thirteen women and .■hildren were yesterday attacked in the streets of Greater New York. Indignaion at the apparent supineness of the luthorities is everywhere at white heat. Tho detectives are now making a louse to house visit in many districts, wrsonally admonishing parents of the Jangcr of allowing their children to itinv out of sight. Five mysterious murders were commiied recently in Chicago. Seven more outrages of assault on foung girls and women were reported shortly af terwards, showing that there is 10 diminution in the epidemic of crime n New York. Ono of the victims was a mires re:urning from a sick-bed early in the Horning. She was nearly strangled by in Italian, and after a harrowing experience, escaped by the vigorous use of 1 hatpin. Her assailant has been capiured. Mob violence threatens to be chronic. S r ear the Chinese quarter a sight-seeing notor car, which killed a boy, was instantly surrounded by 5000 Italians, who itoned the passengers and attempted to ;et firo to tho car. Tho Central Federated Labor Uuion ins appointed a special committee to rail upon tho mayor instantly to adopt itringent measures, and in tho event of iis refusal, to appeal to the Governor jf tho State to order the swearing-in of LO.OOO special constables. The authorities have decided to deail 1000 plain clothes detectives to the exclusive task of watching for crimes igainst littlo children. Mob violence, the result of cumu:itive reports of assaults on little chilhen, is now the cause of graver con•ern to the police than the great wava )f midsummer crime which is horrifying N'ew York. The most trivial incident s sufficient to produce a fresh outbreak if public hysteria. Within the last 24 hours frenzied :rowds, headed by vengeance seeking mothers, have hounded almost to death i dozen citizens, some of whom were undoubtedly innocent, but all of whom ivere suspected of wrong-doing, Only prompt action by the police prevented the streets of New York being disgraced by wholesale lynching. The newspapers are full of accounts i\o fewer than 13 men have been arrested and detained for examination by magistrates in connection with these various crimes. The police hold firmly to the view that the majority of the charges are the fruit of alarmed imaginations.