The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-28
YOUNG SMITHTURES UPDAZED
ADMITS SHOOTING ALICE OIL
son, but FORGETS DETAILS.

Wandered About tiie COuntTJ for Hour
AfterH ard and Then welt 20 Cousins
fIOuse-PathrF ToOk Him 60 Court
Mas Deeply In Love with the Girl.
When william Smith, the seventeen-year-
old 10y Nno shot Gnd dangerously wounded
his leiRnDor and playmate, Alice Gibson,
10 years old, at Corona, L. l., last Saturday
night VB aTralgned before Magstrate
Connorton In the Flushing police court yes
terday he admitted that be had fired the shot
bit insisted that Il vas done accidentally.
He declared that he could remember no
details Of the affair and that he wandered
for many hours about the country In a daz7d
condition.
Smith turned up at the house Of his
cousin. Miss Sarah Turner who lives In
WOodside. about fifteen minutes walk from
the boys home, At O'Clock Sunday after
noon lie -Gid at fret tlat be had been for
q long wulk. but finally told u the shooting
MissTurner sent word to his father Martin
J. Smith. The boy remained in the house
until yesterday morning when he was
taken 20 court by his father
The boy seemed dazed IN court and did
not appear 10 understand when asked
whether he would plead guilty or not guilty.
A lawyer who was present offered to repre-
sent the prisoner temporarily and entered
q plea Of not guilty. Much to the surprise
Of those present Magistrate Connorton
paroled him in charge Of his father until
Wednesday.
After leaving the court the boy said
that he bought cheap 80 calibre revolver
few days before the shooting. and took
three cartridre5 from his fathers pistol
20 load il with. The revolver was not In
the boys possession when he was taken 10
court and he Says that he lost II while nun
mir away after the shooting.
II was a little after O'Clock on Saturday
night when smith shot Alice Gibson He
had returned from a walk With the girl and
her mother, and was talking With Alice
IN the storm ye-tibule when be fired the
shot, wOunding the girl in the right breast.
Mis- Ohi5on. who had mover lost conscious
nee. said yesterday that she did not see
the pistol IN Smiths hand and that the shot
came without warning.
The smiths and Ohlsons are neighbors.
The younger children have been In the habit
on visiting back and forth and the families
had teen very friendly. Mis- Ohlson's
sister says, however, that the Smith boys
attentions 10 4lice had always been dis
coura ged and that her sister had never
shown any liking for him.
MIS-. bDltus on lnB contrary ma Hldlnb
that her son had been encouraged % visit
At the Ohisons' home and declares that the
boy had been driven desperate by a cool
ness that had Of late been apparent in tho
girls manner. The one thing certain Is that
Smith was deeply in love with his girl
friend and pressed his attentions on her
whether she liked them or not
When he returned 10 his home yesterday
young Smith met Alice's sister and tried
20 express his sorroE for bis act. After
talking with his parents young Smith was
sent TO the home Of a ma rried sister IN New
York 20 stay until the day Of his exhmina-
ton IN court.
The Rev. K. F. Gibson. Miss AHce's
father, ia psstor OF the Swedish Bethesda
1888 East Fiftieth street He was in New
HAmpshire at the time Of the shooting
but was expected home last night. No
news Of the shooting has been sent 10 him
and the family await his opinion before
deciding whether 10 press the charge
against young Smith. Much will doubt
less depend upon the report Of tho doctors
on Miss Ohlson's condition.
She II at present at the Post Graduate
Hospital, where Il was said yesterday that
she was resting easily and had a good
chance Of recovery in spite Of the fact that
all efforts TO find the bullet have proved
fruitleSs.