The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-08
SHOOTS EX.BUCKET SHOP KING.
CR0WD IN BROADWAY SEE WILL
TAM n. HENNIG FALL.
Attacked 40 lie Was Entering = Restaurant
by Former EmpIoyee-went Home
From Hospital and wouldn't Appear
AGAINST AssaiIant stormy Career.

William r. Hennig, a former Chicago
bucket shop king, was shot down at Broad
rav and Exchange place yesterday noon
nv Tom o. Conner, a telegraph operator, who
worked for Hennig in the palmy days and
who has been associated with him in
Enterprises launched in recent years. h
shooting is supposed to ave been o'Con-
nor's way Of settling what he regarded as
ireachery on the part OF Big Bill in their
business relations.
Lower Broadway was alive with people
when the two men stopped in front OF 8. NJ.
Robbins A. Co.'S restaurant in the Pinke
ten Building. They had come from the
east side Of the street and were talking
earnestly together. Hennig is a great big
man with clean cut features and a short
blond beard. His companion was Of medium
stature, well dressed and about IS years old.
Hennax had just started down the steps
.aading into the restaurant when the tele-
graph operator stopped short, pulled
out a revolver and blazed away. The
revolver wasn't more than three feet from
HennlR . 0ddu Wuch ~ oApAcNVN' NV
puller pierced his derby hat. grazed his
scalp and went through a plate glass win
dow into the crowded restaurant, where
- finally lodged in the wall. Hennig started
20 run down the steps, but a second shot
brought him down. and he rolled against
me restaurant door. The second bullet
mad hit him on the hip and came out the
front of the leg.
ri A ShEAun into an nm
roar. Several of the diners quickly picked
ND the wounded man and carried him inside.
His assailant in the meantime stood calmly
on the sidewalk with the revolver in his
hand He made no effort to resist arrest
when Policeman Foley. who had Witnessed
fhe shooting from the other side Of the
street. broke through the crowd. The
poicenan hurried the prisoner down into
me Hennig was sitting in a
corner, slightly pale, but as cool as a cake
~ ice.
Well. W. R. said the prisoner, I'm
torrv ! shot you"
The hell you are" replied Hennig, and
Then he tore a piece out OF his shirt and tied
u around the wounded limb. Several of
The diners in the restaurant helped him TO
stop the flow OF blood.
me TWO URN n VA WI 10y w
each other. although there was a wait OF
several minutes before the ambulance ar
rived from the Hudson street hospital.
Hennig refused at first to give the police
any name. He said he didn't see why he
shouh give them that information. as it
you'd only worry his wife and children.
When they insisted, he said; "Dr. Napoleon
Judson, 1891 Broadway"
r. whN did tha shnOtin0 Was willing
enough to give up his full pedigree. He
said that he lived at 200 wadsworth avenue,
The Bronx. But when any question was
put to him about the victim Of his attack he
closed I'D tight. IL was evident that he.
ike most gamblers, believed in settling his
own differences and letting the police take
Sare of themselves.
Did YOU know this MANI asked the
tergesnt.
prisoner.
D, Won Know his name?- asked the
Iohcc oc.cer again.
! have nothing to say, ' was the answer.
OConnor Lad hardly been looked in a
IN az the Church street police station
hen Patrolman Dickey came in with the
Vows that the wounded man had left the
llspital. The police hadn't issued any
,tders that he should he detained, but they
expected him TO appear as the complainant
against the prisoner. Hennig after his
wound had been dressed had called a cab
and started for his home, at 273l Broadway.
The doctors urged him not to go, but that
didn't make any difference. There was a
olg hole in his leg, but he dragged the
NIB along until be had got seated In the
cab and rode all the way up town alone. A
crowd Of reporters met him there, but he
refused 20 say anything. He was very
pale and faint when he entered the apart
ment house. He lives there under the
lame Of William Judson Henning.
The police. when they heard OF Hennig s
~ appearance from the hospital, began 10
&C some hustling. for II was just about that
-lme that reports began to come in dis
closing his true character A man was
9ent I'D to his home with orders to detain
him il he attempted 20 leave.
In the Tombs police court O'Connor was
,vo more communicative than he had been
tarier in the day. The policeman who
had seen the shooting appeared against
Dim and he was held on a charge Of f~eloniour
assault in s5 900. He was unable TO raise
the security and was locked Up. A young
woman, who was almost as cagy as O'Con'
100000
nor in answering questions about Hennig''
business activities, appeared in the court
room and conversed with the prisoner
later in the Tombs. Later in the day sh'
sailed at Hennig's apartment. She was q
vtenographer in the Office where HenniI
Hud O'Connor have been holding forth ia
lover Broadway recently.
To his counsel, Emil Fuchs, OConno
animated that he had been done" b,
iHennig, and two or three Of the prisoner
friends who drifted into court said tn
zane thing. These friends declared tina
tHennig would not dare to press a charg
against O'Connor. OConnOT. they said
knew altogether too much about him TO
ithat. The police. nevertheless, will pusI
the case and will probably take some actioj
10 compel Hennig to appear in court If b
~1efuses. -@~
Big Bill Hennig has the reputation o
.te41g one OF the cleverest bucket sho
linen in the United States. He was ar
rested in Chicago in the middle Dos on
barge Of using the United States mail
for fraudulent purposes and was sentence