New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-31
A BOY BURGLAR SHOT DEAD
xuJED BY A POLICEMAN WHO HAD
REEN A FRIEND TO HIM.

.r,, SHOT FIRED IN THE DISCHARGE oF
or.,,,crps p1,rY-rHE LAD HAD BEEN
c.,o,,r Rrp-HANpEp IN A BURGLARY
AND RAN TO ESCAPE ARREsr-ihH
po1JcEMAN OVERCOME WITH
GRIEr-PARoLED IN HIS
CAPTAINS CUSTODY.
A little after o'clock yesteroa! ''io'""'e' 49,.
all New-York was asleep save 'ha' Pc"
It,. ,h,cn never sleeps, Frank Wolweoe'' al
GU! VIM. IA how who lived in Oak-st. was
uwad nv Policeman Meyers In the us
80. or his duty Young Wollweoer was
49,, ,oLen red-handed and the PROOF OF ms gum
-. .o,,rd unon his body. Yet Policeman Me!e's
80, n,bep ne found who 1t was tha' lie ""N
,moa Cor q was the son Of man ne mao h"o""
....s t,a barber Of the Oak-st ponce s'a'io'''
po,cornan Movers had known the deao poS
80, n child and often of a summer hisn' '"0
lad had walked with him upon MS peat nc
ar. the reasons why Policeman Meyers "a' ~
overcome when just as 1t was sro"' =,
..,. hard chase. he looked upon the lace Vi
.ha hov he had shot and saw that the 'h'e' ""0
Frank Wollweber. ,,.o..,v
,r,o a.od how lived at No 10h Oak-st.. direc'iy
across from the police station, and al o'oo
when Sergeant McNally went to the door u ee'
breath of air. ne saw him come out oi INC NV.
md hailed him as he passed Young "o',".o@
harev answered him, and hurried along on,s
Cow, ,,;ru,es afterward the sergeant sent Pohce-
man Meyers down to Peck ehp' "ne".e ~
come -umors Of the usual morning fight Inc
policeman found that another pa'roifna" '""
made the arrest and started back TO MS OWN
post again
4 GANG AT WORK IN THE PRECINCT.
Now. since last Christmas. gang OF 'hie'es
has been at work almost at the ooors vi '"e
Oak-st station. and the officers IN cha'se nav
neon much mystifed by the petty crimes that
have been committed. Only last Monoay h'sh'
somebody broke into the saloon of Dennis DUNN
which stands on the corner Of Oak-st. next door
,ut ono to the police station, and robbed the
cash drawer. Policeman Meyers was thinking
,f this az he turned into 'Oak-st. and at that
,nonent he saw three figures drok from the very
window that had been entered MONDAY nish''
The instant they struck the ground the boys
saw the policeman. and the three thieves ran as
fast they could
The no,iceman has been on the force hfteen
wears and his wind Is not as good as IL was
once. so the fleeing rascals gained on MIN.
Through the short and narrow Chestnut-st.
they ran turned into Pearl-st.. and dasheo
toward Franklin Square. When the policeman
,ur,sd the corner one Of the trio was still in
eight hut he was lust disappearing across the
street toward Double Alley.
CALLED TO THE THIEF TO STOP
Tho officer drew his pistol and called to the
Thief to stop. But there are some Things 'na'
make a man run harder than fear, and one Oh
,hosa things is shame. So the tnle1 was
,.naa IN stop-ashamed to face man VINO
h.d heen kind to him. and whom he had tried TO
disoredit by committing robbery on MS post.
So the thief sped on. but buliet from i MS
pursuers revolver spec lasteF' anu "e IVA " ~
face without cry. . .. ~..ch
the fallen bow. He stopped ana turned ms ou o.
n-er At that monent Policeman Meyers ran
nm nantins for breath. AS the gray ight OF the
dawn fell on the white face he saw that MS VIZ
tim was the boy he knew SO Wen st.. hest 70 dis.
credit a man who had been kind to MIN bus
Etill Policeman Meyers wept, Tor ne hao "e'e'
before been called on to shoot man: 49,
AZ amhulance took the wounded lad to the
Hudson street Hospital. but before the ga,es
bsd been again locked he died. The ouiiet hao
entered his brain. ,,ad Glow
" hack TO the station house, opposite the nous
where the dead boy had lived. He put ms plsto
and his shield the desk before tne ssree CO..
and told that officer all about the Tragedy Say
ing that he did not mean to SHOOT the %! "a, anu
that ne aimed high, intending only 70 .vsnen
T1hen he went up TO the dormitory under suspen pen
&c 1rbfe some one went across the street and
told the parents Of the boys death
PARoLED IN CAPTAIN VREDENBUHGHe
CUSTODY.
Later IN the day the policeman was taken De-
fore Coroner Dobbs and paroled in the custody OF
Captain vredenburgh. of the Oak-st station uh-
I'll the inquest is held.
Policeman Michael Calvin. Of Acting Inspector
rhonnpson's staff explained why young VOL
weber did not stop running when ordered 10 90
40 He Says that the boy used often 70 speno
hours With Meyers on his beat. and that the D'g
policeman had often given MN money 40, q
iodoinp after he had quarreled with his parents
and left the house. Calvin says II was mean
thing for young Wollweber to commit roooe cry
on Mevers's post after all Meyers had done LOT
Fin And Meyers himself is inclined. after ALL 10
agree with him on that same point ",
Late in the afternoon detectives arrested .. W.
cnlIivan on suspicion of being one OF Wonwep-
er's companions in the robbery but no ih1oriia-
ton could be gained from him -,..
The proceeds OF young Woilwepers pu! : iai
amounted to 50 10. which was 1ound Ill HIS
pockets.