The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-24
HAD BEEN DEAD THREE DAYS.
Said to Have Been Virtually
Hounded to Death by .
Girls Brother.
RECENTLY SHOT FROM AMBUSH
Since that Incident DeroqatoFy
Paragraphs Have Added 70
His Persecution.
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The body Of Willie Day. the famous
amateur champion distance-runner, was
found hanging from a tree in the woods
back of the New eJrsey Athletic Club
boat-house, at Bergen Point. this MORN
Ing. S
He had doubtless committed suicide.
and from Indications had been dead two
or three days before his body was dis
covered.
Day was arrested last week on q
charge Of embezzling $50 from N. A.
Storer. manager Of the Manhattan
Laundry In Jersey City. by whom he
was employed as acolector. The case
was to have been heard on Tuesday be-
fore Justice Potts in Jersey City.
On that day the prisoner failed to sp-
pear. and his counsel. Lawyer Benneys
Of Bayonne, urged postponement He
was unable to say where his client vaA
but promised to produce him In ccfirt
on Monday. Justice Potts argued 70 De-
fer the case until that day. and Lawyer
Benney deposited bond Of 800 for his
appearance.
Day was entered to run in the Labor
Day Olympiad of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club. and none Of his clubmatss
could account for his non-appearance -
The trial. as all thought him guiltiess.
willie Days most intimate associates
claim that he was practically bounded
to death. and that his act Of ss.i-destruc-
ton cannot be attributed In any manner
to the financial troubles which cuimi-
mated In his recent arrest. -
About ten days ago Day was shot ut
from ambush. He was returning home
at night, and heard the report Of q re-
volver from behind tree. At the same
time NE experienced singing sensation
in his lef. foot, ahd on reaching his
home, but a short distance away. found
the bullet had just grazed his foot. II
had brokenthe skin, and caused the blood
to flow. His friends In the New Jersey
Athletic Club were anxious for him to
apprehend the person who shot at him.
but he refused.
1t then became known that . woman
was at the bottom of the trouble. y
demand was made that he should marry
the girl, but he refused, and the thrsae
was made that unless he did 20 -
would be killed. A few days later -
was arrested on the charges of embee-
element mentioned.
A well-known gentleman, residing 81
Bergen Point, who is an intimate ssso-
ciate of the dead athlete. stated 70 A
Evening World" reporter that Days
financial troubles could have had notA-
ing to do with his suicide.
1.-THE boy was bounded to DEATH" hs
said. Shortly after he got Tito the
woman scrape he began drinking. Some
thing he never did beforee. The criminal
90
could not hold. There were simply
grounds for a civil action.
"In addition to that. Wiilie's brothsr
stood ready to make good the amount
He ran away to Rockaway after being
shot at. and wrote to me from there that
he would return and face the matter.
meaning the girl trouble. The other
matter never bothered him at all.
What worried him were the contempti-
bic paragraphs that have appeared In
one OF the daily papers. instigated by
the brother OF the woman in the case.
"Willie's father Is eighty-four years Of
age, and his mother over seventy years
old. His suicide means death to the old
folks. Prior to his departure for Rock
away he was feeling very badly over his
difficulty, and 1t was feared then by some
OF his associates that he might do some
thing rash, but when he wrote and said
he would come back and face the trou-
BILE we all felt that he would atone for
any thoughtless wrong he had committed.
and that would end the matter.
His brother knew OF his trouble. but I.
his parents did not. Willie was reared
In New Orleans, and has always been I
popular in Bergen Point, notwithstand-
ing the persistent notices that have ap-
peared to the effect that he was losing
cast socially and all that sort OF rub
bish.
Willie Days death is directly due 10 ;
the bounding OF one man, and he 10
generally known,to the members Of the
athletic club" $500