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Show JUDGE PARKER HAS A MM ESCAPE NEW YORK. June 29 Judce Alton B. Parker's friends learned last night of his narrow escape from the bullet of an infuriated nero, who was battling bat-tling with an angry mob on Madison avenue. Judge Parker had been a passenger on a car following close behind be-hind one on which the negro had quarreled quar-reled with the conductor, starting a small riot. The former presidential candidate had stepped off his car and was watching the excitement when there was a pistol shot and a bullet whizzed by. Platr) J Jerrey, a hotel proprietor at a bach resort. Is the negTO whom the police charge with firing the shot. He was aiming, they say, at the crowd of men und loys who pursued him for his assault on the conductor. The conductor had declined to accept the. transfer offered him by Jerrey on the ground that It was old, whereupon the negro started to argno, and a fight ensued en-sued Only one shot was fired before Jerrey was overpowered by the police po-lice and taken to a nearby station. Judge Parker would not enter a complaint against Jerrey, snylng he had not been hit and did not see the mau fire the shot. |