The Washington times., 1906-12-07

| Manned for llfe gaunt and wasted
| with look of sorrow and suffering IN
/ MS eyes. Daniel j. Boyle. a cIear-cut
| intellectual looking youth on the thresh-
old of manhood. hotbled to the witness
stand at the Police Trial Board hearinp 10
yesterday and recited a pitifuI story M
| alleged wanton shooting and III trent
| ment at the hands OF Mounted Police
man Lipscomb, of the Seventh precinct
on the afternoon OF Sunday. July Do
last.
Ihe youths version Of the affair vya @
Iouchihg and pathetic in the extreme
ana the hearts OF the most disintereste5
persons IN the musty old gymnasium
OF the First police precinct station. were
touched as his face flushed and his ewes
grew misty when reference was made IN
his Injured leg
counsel for the accused ,,oIf..,,.,,
.oid boyle that Lipscomb would give
illin 500 to pay his hospital ana doc
'oi Dill The youth gazed at his right
reg "hlch he Is unable to bend. and re-
pHed IN faint voice: Il don't want
money want the use of my leg"
Young BOyle's Testimony.
After considerable discussion bv A.
torneys Darlington and Maclzev 49,
sentlng the defense and prosecutions re
spectvely. Boyle was allowed ~ testIe,.
lie was assisted 10 the stand bv his
father. MS
Ihe young mans story follows. II
went driving in a buggy with tu,o
friends. Hillary and Callahan. ON IN,
sunday. We Went up the Conduit road
visited several places and were near
the District line on our way home when
Hilliary's hat blew of and fell "a rba
road. l got out and went hack for Tho
nat. Mr.. LipscOmb asked me where 7
was going. ! told him I intended get
ting the hat. He said IN get the hat
and you too 1 started running across
the field. He pursued me on horseback
The horse was going as fast as il could
After running me for some distance he
shouted stop or I'll shoot YOU
stopped in my tracks and faced him
lie took a dead aim right on me and
shot me IN the knee. / fell 10 the
ground in agony. Then ne came over n
me, distance Of twenty feet. and asked
@ ald l shoot your / replied. you know
you did He said he was sorry ana
oldnt mean 10 hit me- He was as
Whhe as a ghost and big beads of per-
splrasiOn streamed down hts face. He
was scared.
In Hospital Four Months.
He and another man assisted me 10 a
ear coming TO Georgetown. When the
ear reached Thirty-sixth street and
Prospect avenue, blgck and half
from the Georgetown hospital. he jerl1ed
ne OF the platform, dragging nv
wounded leg behind me NV friends
gathered around the patrol box and
begged him 20 let them carry me to the
hospital, which they could have done {n |
4 rev minutes. He refused and Kept me
waiting for the patrol wagon for fif-
Teen minutes ] was carried two blocks
N Ihe patrol wagon and placed in The /
lospltai, where / remained for almost /
.our months. There has been no end 10 ]
my suffering. / came near dying sew
7ral times.
Declares His Innocence.
4 don't know why he shot me. 1 was /
not drunk nor disorderly. I merely |
went back to get the hat. ran because /
was arrested once for nothing and re-
leased after being kept in cell for |
twenty-five hours. To keep out of a /
second affair OF that kind 1 ran. Il |
Nas not because OF any feeling Of guilt /
'n my part, because / had committed
10 crime or broken any laws"
On cross-eNaminatiOn by Mr.. Caring