New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-28
MANY SEE THIEF SHOT.
BOY HIT NEdR HIS HEART.
,5Desectire Fires Thrice in 4T-FiUe
Hundred Persons Watch Pursuit.

Hundreds ~ persons saw Detective Edward
McEyoy of the Vest One-hundred-and- tw e'1ty-
frth-st. station. sh0o; "a tliief, William DAILY,
eighteen years old q no. $50 Eighth-ave.. in
hIadred-and- ;E"e:lt xth-st.. between Sew
en,h ana Eishf a~es. yesterday afternoon
Dsiy wss trying to escape from Detectives Nc
ESoy. Horton and Blscz VINO we're escorting him
TO tie station 20 question him to how he had
come ~ 2 bundle ~. sho: IN the LETT
size fast under the heaCL At me J. Hood
Wright Hosptal ias, night his condition was
seia 20 be critical
TIE detectives saw Daily enter pawnshop at
One hundred . nd ihritieth-st. and Eighth-ave
Cnder HE tight arm he carried a big bundle.
As ne passed the detectives. they say. he seemed
TO recognize Them. He said 10 the clerk,
7 soaked an overcoat around here some
where and I lost the ticket"
He then gave a description Of an overcoat
TIE clerk said he couldn't give him anything un-
less ne presented the ticket and DAILY started
90 20 away
As the youth passing through the door-
way McEvoy stopped him and asked;
What have you got IN that bundleF
Wei, il belongs 10 me- Daily is said to have
replied.
McEvoy said ne would like to see the inside of
the bundle and took the youth 10 doorway
nearby. DAILY protested loudly. and a crowd
gathered. The detectives then questioned him.
and started TO open the bundle, but decided the
place was too public. and said they would take
him 70 the station.
AT ST Nicholas-ave and observation-disclosures
1wenty-sixth-st. DAILY suddenly hurled the bun
die az McEvoy's feet and darted toward Eighth
ave. Black picked UP the burrse. while Nc
Evoy and Horton gave chase.
stop, there. or I'll shoot commanded Nc
Evoy, but the youth kept on running he was
soon fifty feet in advance of his pursuers.
McEvoy drew his revolver. Daily darted
across Eighth-ave.. and the crowd in pursuit
now numbered fully five hundred. McEovy
again commanded DAILY 10 stop. but the fugitive
i.ept on McEvoy then fired two shots in the
air but DAILY only increased his speed. and was
by that time seventy-five feet IN advance Of Nc
JSyoy.
For the third time McEvoy commanded DAILY
20 halt. No attention paid 10 the com
suand and McEvoy fired again in the air Still
she youth ran. His fast pace telling on
his pursuers. and he felt that he was drawing
away from them. for he turned about half way
around TO Judge the distance. AS he turned Nc
I5voy fred the fourth shot and DAILY fell to the
street.
McEvoy soon up with the fallen man.
Although weak DAILY was conscious. and he
Cooked up scornfully in the pocemans face.
Why didn't you shoot me in the leg?" he
asked. I'm done for with this wound and
you've put me out of business for good"
Il meant TO hit you in the leg" said McEvoy.
The detective then summoned an ambulance.
81 guess he's done for" said the ambulance sur
geon.
McEvoy says that DAILY admitted to him that
stolen goods were in the bundle. DAILY then
arrested such a charge On the way TO the
hospital, the detectives say. Daily admitted that
he had been robbing hathouses for three months.
The goods in the bundle he had taken from
fat In East One-hundred and forty third st
between Willis and Alexander ayes. The bundle
contained white blankets. green curtains and
Woman's silk skirt.
Detective Horton saw the youths mother al
her home. She said that he had been in trouble
before, hut never had been convicted. He had
been constant worry to her. She and her
husband had separated and she had no money
me boy had obtained d place as a driver he
had told her
defective McEvoy declared last night:
DIDN'T mean TO shoot him IN a vital spot but
was one Of those chances that a man takes
Nheh ne runs away. Ii looked TO me when /
sHeo lnat shot as if he preparing to dive
shto some hallway or basement That would
nave meant a lively chase over roofs and nlaybe
We would have lost him