New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-09
POLICE BULLET In BACK.
MYSTERY IN SHOOTING.
PatroImGn Suspended and Locked
"U'hte7cashing" Stories.

Robert Brennan 2 young bartender who lived
with his mother and sister at No. IA Forsyth
St left the house at . a. m. yesterday. saying
he was going 20 get a morning paper. An hour
later he was shot in the back by Patrolman
Arthur ]. MalOn, who is attached to the West
Sixty-eighth-st. station. and lives at No 233
Sixth-st. The shooting occurred in the Bow
cry, near Bayard-st. How Mallon came TO be
there and happened to shoot Brennan may be
known when a court investigation punctures
the mass OF police prevarication which sur
rounded the case yesterday.
Brennan was taken 10 the Gouvernuer Hos
pital insensible. He recovered consciousness
later in the day. after the surgeons had per-
formed operation. but there said TO be
small hope for his recovery. Malon. who had
been arrested taken TO the hospital but
the detectives who accompanied him there de-
clared that Brennan failed to identify the pris-
oner. The detectives also declared that Bren-
nan made the following statement TO them:
was walking along Division-st.. when felt
pain in my back. and then fell to the sidewalk; 1
then found had been shot was with d three
have any trouble with anybody.
There was apparently no reason for making
Brennan say that he was shot in Division-st..
because Aiallon had admitted that he shot the
in the Bowery The report on the case.
which sent by telegraph from the Eldrfdge-
st. station TO Police Headquarters. said:
r, Robert Brennan twenty-one years old OF No IA
tOrSyth-St., while resisting arrest, shot IN the
back by Patrolman Arthur Mallon. Of the Twenty
sixth Precinct. at No. 10 Bowery. Brennan was
taken 10 Gouverneur Hospital, and Mallon was ar
rested.
Mallon taken to the Essex Market court
early in the day and was remanded to the sta
ton IN Eldridge-st. He suspended by order
Of Deputy Commissioner McAvoy. At the police
court he would only say "Self-defence" when
asked to tell about the shooting.
Inspector Schmittberger and Captain Flood
talked with Mallon and later told contradictory
stories OF the shooting. Schmittberger said
Mallon awakened at his home early in the
morning by his stepbrother Robert Jones. who
said he had been robbed in the Bowery, and the
two went down the Bowery looking for the rob
bers Near No Mallon was struck I'm the
back Of the neck wi . a blackjack by one OF five
men who We're following him. Mallon pulled his
revolver. and 1T went on" The man who was
shot dropped a blackjack, the inspector said,
and Mallon kept IL evidence.
Captain Floods story was that Mallon went
down the Bowery in search of his stepbrother
overnight. and that when he found him at a
place which had been the scene Of more than one
police raid, there was scuffie. in which NAL
Ions revolver went of" Flood had heard
nothing about a robbery blackjack.
Schmittberger said Mallon telephoned for the
ambulance before he arrested. Patroman
Doogan who heard the shot in the Bowery and
lance, sent the call cor the ambulance. He also
arrested Mallon, who was arguing with half
drunken sailor and still held the revolver IN his
hand Mallon was not in uniform.