New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-25
WEARS SON PAR0LED.
LITTLE HOPE FOR CHUM.
.Stuarfs Back Broken-Mother an
iSa1aatorium.

Starving NJ Stuart son of Mrs Ruth Nc
Emery stuart the short story writer. is in the
Flushing Hospital. with a fractured and dis
located spine His chance for recovery is sllgh1
His friend and chunl. Garrow T. Geer son OK
the Rev w. Montague Geer. vicar of St Paufs
Chapel. Broadway and Vesey~st-. Manhattan
Is under parole TO respond If the police want
him.
Young Stuart was injured early yesterday
morning. and Geer was arrested Immediately
afterward Captain wolfarth and his detectives
later decided that the story told by Geer was
practically correct, and consented to his being
rraroled in custody Of q friend of his father.
Cseer has been a teacher in the Sunday school
of ST. Paurs Chapel and now, with his two
brothers, acts in that capacity at times
Mrs. Stuart lives at No. Locust-st-. Flush
ing She is at present at sanatorium at Dam
VILE according TO friends The house was In
charge Of z caretaker. Her son, who is in the
employ of the Long Island Express Company, at
Long Island City, had been boarding in the ao-
sence of his mother at No. % Union-st,, Flush
ing with Miss GourIey. Sterling Stuart is
trenty-eight years old. Geer lived with his
father at No. 227 Amity-st.. Flushing. He is
seventeen years old.
Thursday night they attended Tth Regiment
dinner in Manhattan. They reached Flushing
at 1929 O'Clock and went to a restaurant IN
Flushing where they sat talking and drinking
for about an hour and a half. They decided to
go TO the Stuart house and rouse the caretaker.
Stuart had no keys
They failed to awaken the caretaker and 1t
was decided that one OF them must climb the
front porch pillars, reach the roof of the porch
and enter a window. They matched coins to
see which should do the climbing. It fell 10
Stuart.
He Skinned up the pillar. over the edge, and
climbed to tho roof He tried windows over the
porch and found them locked. He then tried TO
pass around a corner Of the building to where
some six feet away and facing the west, there
IS a window. This he thought would be I'M
fastened. He had TO pass around the corner
and along a projection which seems hardly wide
enough 10 have afforded a foothold. He did.
however, and found the window fastened. He
broke q pane of glass. supposedly with his head
He then called for help. Geer climbed a pill
lar reached the porch kicked in one Of the
front windows and ran through the rooms TO
the one outside which Stuart hanging He
had just succeeded in kicking out the window
sash when Stuart let go and dropped
Geer ran hack to the front, out on the porch
and slid down pillar. His course was plainly
marked by the flow of blood from his lacerated~
hands. Stuart was unconscious and moaning
Blood was flowing from cash on the left side
OF the head three inches long and just above
the ear.
Geer ran to the home Of John L Bogart near
by and asked that ambulance be telephoned
for. In a few minutes the police and DR.. Benoit
with an ambulance reached the scene. Detec-
tives Bowe and Bolton took charge. DR.. Benoit
fearing the young mans spine injured, ex-
ercised great care in moving him, and succeeded
IN getting him on an air cot in the hospital with
out haTming him further. There it found
that there q fracture and dislocation Of
the spinal column. An operation may be per-
formed this morning If it is possible DR.. Teas,
of the hospital staff. last night seemed inclined
TO think IT would be useless
Later Geer arraigned before Magistrate
Connorton a charge OF intoxication and as a
suspicious character. He admitted the intoxica-
ton, and sentence was suspended.
Miss McEnery. sister Of Mrs. Stuart, reached
the hospital yesterday and remained constantly
near her nephew,