The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-19
FOUND SHOT IN YACHT CABIN.
BOAT BUILDER KING CONSCIOUS,
BUT COULDN'T TELL STORY.
Bullet In Head Had Paraiyzcd Hin His
GrOans Brought Oarsnan TO His Ala
Signs OF struggle Captain OF Craft
with Whom He (luarrcied IL Missing.

with Whom He <luarrcieti Is Missing.
William j. ling, a wandering boat builder
and jack OF all trades, was found yesterday
morning lying badly wounded and nearly
Unconscious in the cabin Of a small sloop
anchored OF the foot of Bay Twenty-second
street, Bath Beach.
DR.. Bernard Shea Of 1852 Summit avenue,
Brooklyn, a young dentist. who Is staying
at the beach. heard groans coming from
the sloop Aglaie as he passed her In a row.
boat about half past II. He climbed on
board and looked down the BOBBY hatch
Of the cabin, which was open, although the
cabin door was shut and locked with a
paddock on the outside. As his eyes be-
came accustomed to the dim light within
Shea discovered King lying in pool Of
blood on bench on the starboard side Of
the boat. t.,
Receiving only groans in answer to his
frightened call, the doctor climbed through
the hatchway and bent over the wounded
man. He found that King had been shot
over the left eye and through the right
shoulder Near by lay two empty car
fridge shells OF .as caliber, and on the port
side Of the cabin another pool OF blood
showed where King had first fallen. All
was disorder in the little cabin, where a
strong man had either battled for his life
or else thrashed about in mortal agony.
Dr. Shea succeeded in arousing King to
semi-consioousness, but received only
strange mutterings in reply to his questions.
DR.. Shea suspected that the man was
paralyzed, and tearing a leaf out of his
notebook wrote in large letters who
shot your and held the writing before the
captains eyes. King could apparently
read, but he only shook his head, Then
the doctor remembered gossip of the beach,
that King Of the soop Aglaie had quarreled
with the captain of the sloop Olga about
their moorings being too near together.
With this in mind he wrote: Did the
captain of the Olga shoot your"
When this was shown to King, the doctor
say. she nodded his head and motioned with
his left hand toward where the Olga lay.
Meanwhile, an ambulance had been sum-
moned and King was taken to the Norwe-
gian Hospital. At the hospital the doctors
found that Kings right side had been
paralyzed by the wound and that the MUS
cles in his face had contracted 80 as to
make speech impossible. King Is thought
to be dying, and great Efforts were made
to have him write out statement OF the
assault, but he could not write with his
left hand and soon sank SO low that the
effort was abandoned.
Detective Sergeant Gomeringer of the
Brooklyn Headquarters staff. who was
Of the yacht Olga had left the beach early
in the morning after turning his boat over
to a man named BranovitZ a waiter in
nearby hotel. Branoyitz did not know
the captains name. He said that he met
the captain in the hotel and the latter, say
ing that he had been discharged, asked
that Branovitz care for the boat until the
owner came down. Branovitz did not
even know the owners name.
Later the detectives learned that the
a theatrical manager with offices in New
York. They communicated with Mr.. Com
stock and he said that his missing captain
was John Wellington, who. as far as he
knew had no residence but the yacht. Mr..
Comstock said that he had not discharged
stranger was in charge OF his beat. A
general alarm was at once sent out for
Wellington, but late last night he was still
at large
found rusty 80 calibre revolver lying
under the bench on the port side OF the
cabin. It's condition showed that it had not
been fired in years and the police believe
that King used it in an attempt to scare of
the man who shot him. The chambers Of
the pistol we're empty and the shells lying
near belonged to a larger gun.
The contents Of the cabin were I'M
touched and IS and a watch found on the
wounded man did away with the idea that
robbery was the motive for the deed. The
police were at first inclined to believe that
King shot himself, but search Of the cabin
revealed no weapon with which the shots
could have been fired.
Capt Shepheard Of the yacht Dawn, a
friend of Kings, said that he formerly
lived alone at West 2l4th street and Emer-
son avenue. He said that King was very
eccentric man and that he had few close
friends He remarked that when he saw
the police he thought they had come in
search OF King, as he was wanted for ma
licious mischief for destroying rowboat
in the Harlem River and had sailed away
IRON that neighborhood on July to avoid
trouble.
Wellington, the missing captain of the
Olga, was an old friend vi Kings. accord
ing to the beach loungers. they worked
and drank together and as often quarreled,
usually over the question of the moorings
OF the two boats. 1t was said along the
beach that wellington was ashore drink
ing until quite late Monday night. He
rowed ashore early yesterday morning,
anc after turning his duties over to Brano-
vitz disappeared.
Late last night Capt. King had not re-
gained his speech and the doctors said
that there was small chance of his recovery.