The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1903, Page 9

BOY'S SHOOTING ae S ACCIDENTAL oung Russell Smith Dying in Hoapital as Result of Bullet Fired Into Stomach During Romp with Cousin. BOTH BOYS WANTED TO SUPPRESS THE DETAILS, tm Children’s Court Young Rog- ers Tells How Accident Hap- pened, and Story Is Verified —Wanted to Be Soldier. Dying in the Norwegian Hospital in Brooklyn, Russell Smith, a boy or thir- teen, who was shot by his cousin, James Rogers, a boy of fifteen, refused © tell why Rogers shot him, and where the weapon !s that gave him his death wound. Smith, who lives at Keyport, N. J., has been on a visit to his cousin, at the home of the latter's parents, No. 2% Fifty-third street, Brooklyn, The boya have been thought to be the best of friends, and when they were heard scuffling about in their room early this morning it was thought that they were romping, Suddenly there was the sound of @ pistol shot. Ids His Cousin. Rogers's parents ran to the room and there lay Smith with a great wound in 4s stomach. He was not unconscious. “Who shot you?” was asked, “I won't tell," replied the injured and dylng boy. “I was shot, and that {3 all Prere is to tt." Smith was taken to the Norwegian Hospital, and there he was questioned further, It was seen that he was fatally injured and that death was a matter of a few hours. “You are going to die,” sald the phy- “You had better tell who shot ol yeu.” WII Not Admit Fight. “I will not tell anything,” the boy answered. Detective Marks, of the Fourth street bolmice station, was sent to investigate the shooting. He found that immed!- accly after ihe shot was heard Rogers disappeared. He was found by the detective in another part of the house. “Did you shoot your cousin?” aske the detective? won't teil you any ve replied tne boy.“ won't tell eavthiig { will gu to jail, but x me J that won't mak ogers was asked where the weapo Wis that had been used. Agal Was reticent, Rene AtnE te “IT won't tell you anything about it. c roe even admit that there was a pistol.” Both boys bvar excellent reputations, They have been the best of friends ver young Smith has been visiting an hey have slept together been constant SOM pantons. . According to the tle information &leaned by the police the two boys arore at about 7 o'clock this morning engaged In nd the usual romp. the: ry morning after aris It could not be t ted or wheth was accidental, t Is not known where the pistol cam from that was Used, the Rogers. boy's Rarents not knowing that he even had a pasol. 1a is $ald at the hospitul that the pul- let entered Smith's pay at the pit of the stomach. Tt passed netrly througn his body and cannot be probed for. Seared in Children's Gour Not unth he was taken to the Chil- dren's Court would young Rogers eon- sent to talk. He then showed that he was badly frightene “The whole thing was an accident,” he sald. "I want to be a soldier and have collected a lot of pistols and Knives and swords. I kept these In my Teom and did not let my people Know how many I had. This morning my cousin and I were romping about the room after we had got out of bed and I began showing him say pistols and swords. ‘Then we began laying soldier. I handed him one of my ettlest pistols and in some way it Went off, shooting him. “I was so frightened that I ran to Another part of the house. When my father came in and found Russel! lying there shot In the stomach he began throwing the pistots and swords and things out of the window. They were found there by persons passing on tho street and carried away. ‘That is the Reason they could not be found." Boy's Story Verified, ‘The boy's story was borne out by @ statement from the dying boy. “Every word of is true," said ‘ young Smith. “I didn't tell at first be- Gauge T thought tt might get Jimmie in fouble, He didn't, mean to shoot me. le Is my partner.” Rogers Te His Story. Young Rogers, when arraigned betore Magistrate Wilkin, In the Children’s zourt to-day. told’ the following story 6f the shooting: -"Yeaterday my cousin Russell and his mother came to visit us. They were lng to spend the evening with other jatives, but father persuaded Mrs. nith tO let Russell stay, so that we would be together to-day. 2 \When 1 caine home at night I round Russell in my bed and woke him up. We talked for several hours about my Joln- if the cadet corps and how fine it was me to meet soldiers who had been through the war, ; Had Fencing Boat, “AVhen we got up at 7 o'clock this morning we began to fence. After we Wad fenced awhile, I showed Russell a number of my guns and pistols, One was @ big bulldog revolver, which had been given to me by a soldier who had fougnt the Philipp! . Russell was sitting on one aide of the and I was sitting on the other. 1 this revolver in my hand, when all I don’t think, pulled the trigger, and I don't see how tt went off." mere boy was held for a further hear- ——— +RUPPERT ROBBED OF $500. Whe , Frederick Ruppert, of No. 40 Ravihe treet, Jersey City Heights, reported to. jay to the Hoboken and local police that he had been if $500 by a courteous and ripsiettelaat aM stranger. “Hello Schmitz," the stranger to Fluppert in “Schmitz of Frank- nicht var?" tor! “Nein; T Ruppert von Berlin,” reed a) ale “Oh, I know your father,” paid the Se nen then several drinks, and when ie) er tee ES ‘arene embraced he. Bow pocket 2s ERE BOY DYING FROM BULLET WOUND AND HIS COUSIN WHO ACCIDENTALLY FIRED THE SHOT. DEXTER ASSASSIN IS STILL AT LARGE Sheriffs Posses, Pinkertons, In- dians and Bloodhounds Have Thus Far Failed to Track Him Through Adirondack Forests. SANTA CLARA, N. Y., Sept. %— Sheriff Steenburge and Attorneys James H. Cantwell and John P. Badger are going over to-day the reports recelved during the night from twenty men, rep- resenting as many posses which have been scouring the forest hereabouts for the murderer of Orrando P. Dexter. “If the people will only be patient little while I think we will be able te make good our promise to bring Mr Texter's assassin to justice,” sai Sheriff Steenburge after the reports 9 the stalkers had been analyzed. “It one thing to suspect a man of murde and another thing to prove him gullty We will not make any false moves When we act it will not be upon pre sumption." The confidence of the authorities tha Dexter's slayer will be discovered is no shared by dwellers In these parts, It 1 noticeable that the townspeople spea with utter indifference of Mr. Dexter’ fate, even while admitting that his Kili ing was cowardly. One of the business men of this piace sald to-day that the wonder was not that Mr. Dexter had been shot, but that he escaped as long as he did, o sidering the general feeling that ex- {sted against him, The merchant added: “It is more tty of Dexter's slayer Is known to many people in these parts, but no re- ward will tempt them to reveal it, and in case the man 1s hard pressed he will not lack ‘help throughout the re- gion to evade his pursuers.” 0, 8 lawrence, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of St. Lawrence County, has notified Sheriff Steenburge that if he thinks it advisable he will call the Supervisors together to offer a reward !n addition to the $5,000 already put up by Mr. Dexter's father, ‘The story circulated that some one had fired a shot at the game warden's lod on William G. Rookefeller's preserve is sald to be entirely without foundation. Henry Dexter has been granted letters of administration on the estate of his son, Orrando P. Dexter, and qualified in $1,100,000 bond before Surrogate Fituger- ald. The value of the personal estate Is placed at $566,000, DOCTORS COUNSEL QVER MRS, DAVIS BUFFAIA, Sept. %.—A consultation of physicians has been called by Dr. Charles G. Stockton, who is attending Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the President of the Southern Confederacy, who Js seriously 111 here. Mrs, Davis arrived here last Monday, and soon after the services of a ph: clan became necessary. Mrs, Davis is staying at Castle Inn, once the home of President Fillmore, and while her all- ment 18 due to some affection of the stomach no announcement has yet been made by the physicians as to its exact character, Her condition is such that Dr. Stock- ton, who is a speciatet, after having called another physician in consultation, sald: “Mra, Davis is very 1l!—so ill, in fact, that I will not assure her rocovery, than Ikely that the {den- | BOY GIANTS FIST SCARS POLICEMAN Sixteen-Year-Old Lad Attacks One of Capt. Brennan’s Ward Men and Frescoes His Face with Fretwork of Bruises. Policeman Wouls Shindler, who fs Capt. Brennan's wardman at the Mac- dougal street station, appeared as com- plainant against Frederick Selbel, aged sixteen, of No. 1063 Forrest avenuo, the Bronx, in the Morrisanta Police Court to-day, who he charged with beating him. ‘The policeman's appearance was elo- quent in corroboration of bis state- ment. One eye was framed with a bright blue ridge, three lumps as big ne hen's eggs surmounted his forehead and the entire area of his face was a kaleidoscopic fretwork of scratches and bruises, Shindler, according to his story, was about to get off a One Hundred and Thirty-clehth street crosstown car last night, when the boy blocked his way He tried to push the boy aside, but the lad would not budge. Finally he flashed his shield. ‘This had no terrors for the youth, who remarked quietly: “Why, I can like a police captain,’ and with that reached out and struck Shindler over the eye with a fist lke a cobblestone. The boy !s a young giant and in the fracas that followed he literally brushed up a wide area of the street with the wardman until three policemen inter- fered and sayed their compatriot. The boy did net haye a mark on him, Magistrate Baker fined Seibel $8. ‘ Ax) jhe pald the fine the boy remarked: “It was worth a fiver to do up a wardman," —[——__ BAD FALL FROM UPPER BERTH. Charles L. Cooke, thirty-six years old, of No. 187 Woodlawn avenue, Saratoga, N. ¥., a passenger on the steamer Adi- rondack, of the People’s Evening line, fell out of an upper berth while the steamer was on her way to Pler 32, North River, this morning, and dislo- cated his right shoulder, When the steamer reached her dock Cooke was at- tended by an ambulance surgeon from the Hudson Street Hospital and left for a hotel. 144 BOWERY, “Bowery Savings Bank Block.”” Bet. Grand and Broome Sts., north of Grand St. Station, west side of street. Money Sa “TIN Gentleman's Belcher Ring. | Pure white dia- mond; DIAMOND Gentleman's solid That te am far as I care to go at pres- ent" oe ELEVATOR FELL ON THEM. Cae SEES Three Men Badly Injared While Working in an Excavation, PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 2%,—Threo men are in St. Joseph's Hospital suf- fering from injuries received by the fall of an elevator in @ quarry at Boonton. ‘They are Anette Pomponio, twenty- tro hes ag old, compound fracture of 8 ; Vincent Angelloci, forty-five ypars old, crunhed hand und Iuoerated jen were dlewing im an excava- the rope of the elevat: r usod dirt penned and the lift D at the men had ‘to esca: and were ENGAGEMENT, 4-karat Gold gem, partectiy cut, ting; mpectal, $25 RING. —_|Watch,genuine Wal- full of fre, %—I-82worth $40; ‘WEDDING RINGS atte, ®¢tham movement; we tmaay at $25 our price, scan HORSES MOVE T0 WESTCHESTERTRACK So Little Was Done in the Way of Early Morning Work at the Gravesend Racetrack To-Day. SHEDPSHDAD BAY, Sept, 25—The pleasant weather and good track that prevailed at the Bay this morning of- fered but little temynation to the train- ers for fast work. 1 The movement to Morris Park hed begun, and during the day many racers filed ont of the track bound for the Westchester coursa. Among the num- ber were the J. BE. Widener, J. A Drake. J. W. Colt, J. Re Hitchcock, Mr. Chamblet and other strings. A part of the W. C, Whitney lot seft also, and the others will remain until the Brighton Beach meeting is over, R. W. Walden’s The Southerner and Invincible, going together, covered six furlongs in 1.17, ‘frainer Joyner al lowed Waterboy a mile at a jogginx pace, and the great racer showed to much advantage THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENTING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1903. CONVENTION ON A STEAMER. } Shaw, Ridgely ond Roberts Abonra as Guests of Nankers, WASHINGTON, Sept. 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