Thursday afternoon Agent Stocking arrested William Wynkoop, of No. 339 West Twenty-sixth-street, and Thomas Barry, of West Nineteenth-street, two boys who have made much trouble by pilfering from stores and otherwise misconducting themselves. The boys went with the officer for a few steps and then threw themselves on the sidewalk and gave a peculiar cry, which was recognized by the gang to which they belonged. From the low groggeries and tenement houses in the neighborhood of Nineteenth-street and seventh-avenue a crowd of young loafers and "hoodlums" swarmed out and made a combined attack upon the officer. He dragged the two lads into a sawmill and there took refuge with his prisoners, but the proprietor of the mill begged him to leave, as he was afraid the "gang" would set fire to the mill. Stocking was therefore compelled to face the mob, and their attack upon him was so violent that the officer was compelled to release Barry and draw his revolver. At the sight of the weapon the mob dispersed, and Wynkoop was taken to the Sixteenth Precinct Police Station House. Yesterday Justice Patterson sent him to the Catholic Protectory. The police are looking for Barry.

Source:

Unknown, "Hoodlums Attack an Officer," The New York Times, New York, Saturday, 16 October 1886, p. 8.