The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-08
MGLONEY ADMITS HV SHOT BOY
POLICEMAN SAYS BIGGER LADS
WE'RE STONING HIM.
Nine-YeaF-OId Johnny Smith Was Playing
Cop win other BOyp-sayu maloney
Thought They were JeeFihg Hlm-hls
Wound Not seFi0us--CharGea Framed

Nine-YeaF-OId Johnny Smith Was Playing
Cop Win other BOyp-AayS Maloney
Thought They were Jeering Him-hli
Wound Not seFt0us--CharGea Framed
Nine-year-old Johnny Smith, who was
shot By Policeman Thomas J. Maloney OF
the West sixty-eighth street station while
plaving on the tracks Of the New York
Central at West End avenue and SIXTEEN
street Saturday evening Ia lying In the
crowded living room OF his home At $40
Wet sixtietb street. He was shot through
the right thigh. The wound Ia not neces-
sariiy dangerous and with good care the
boy will recover.
The shooting occurred about o'clock
Saturday evening, but no report was made
on Il At the station house at the time and
every effort was made by the police TO keep
the matter quiet. When the shot was fred
Johnny did not fall at once. He ran across
the tracks TO the east side Of the avenue,
where Hugh Mcdonald Of 1877 West End
avenue picked him up and carried him to
Roosevelt Hospital.
After taking the wounded lad 10 the hos
pltaI Mcdonald called up Police Head
quarters and told Of the shooting. Head
ouarters officials replied that they would
notify the West Sixty-eighth street station
house, and there the matter seemed to end.
At q o'clock roll call Maloney made no
report OF the shooting and Detectives Mich
aels and Donnelly, who had been assigned
20 the case, had not called at the wounded
lads home or made any report az to the
identity Of the man who fired the shot
Reporters who inquired at the station house
were told by Sergt. Thomson, who had the
desk, that there was no report Of the shoot
ing
At $50 a report was laid on the desk
which read John Smith, years old. OF
$40 West Sixtieth street, found in the Roose-
welt Hospital. shot in the right leg above
the knee at West End avenue and SiKtieth
street by an unknown policeman.
The report was unsigned, but the sergeant
said that It had been made by the two de-
tectives. Maloney was seen at 1880 o'clock
in the morning by the reporters. He then
denied the shooting, saying that at the
time II occurred he was not carrying re-
volver.
Yesterday Maloney admitted the shoot
ing and made report TO Capt. Cooney OF
the -SiKty-eighth street station. His story
Of the affair is that a crowd OF larger boys
were lettering in the railroad yards near
the place where Smith and his little friends
were playing. The big boys, according
TO Maloney, began TO throw stones at him
and oall out insulting names. Al last their
attack became so determined that Maloney
says he drew his revolver and fired in the
air TO call for assistance. He denied that
he fired at the Smith boy or knew that he
had wounded him.
The little boys story Is that he was play
ing policeman with several OF his COM
panions and that they had broken away
from the lad who had been chosen as cop.
The latter boy had been named Crooked
neck a nickname given to Maloney by
escaped capture they yelled deTisiyely,
. YAH yahl crooked-neck.
At that moment, Maloney, the wounded
hoy says, came around the end OF car
and supposing that the lads were moclIing
him, drew his revolver and fired a shot.
Not one Of the youngsters was over 10
years old. George Hills Of ISL West Sixtieth
street, and Augustus Mcintyre, Of 247 West
Sixtieth street, who were with the Smith
boy, both agree with him as to the main
facts Of the shooting.
Charles Parent OF 50 West End avenue
an elRhteen-year-old lad, who was near the
place where the shooting took place, said
yesterday that he heard the shot and saw
the smoke OF the gun, and that at the time
there was no crowd Of large boys playing
about the yards and no one was near the
little fellows except the policeman. After
the shooting Maloney walked along the
avenue and made no inquiries as TO the ex-
tent q the injury which he had inflicted.
Capt. Coonsy said yesterday that he had
prepared complaint which would be
sent to Commissioner McAdoo. Meanwhile,
has not been placed under arrest
He was stlll on duty yesterday, although
Il was said at the station house that he
might not be sent back to his old post for
the present,