The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-27
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RECOVER
Philadelphia Shot BY His
Companion DECLARED to Be
Practically Cut Of Danger
ALMA YOsT GOES HOME
FEMININE MEMBER OF THE
SIGHTSEEING TRIO GIVEN IN
TO THE CUSTODY OF HER
PARENTs-MILLER's STORY OF
THE SHOOTING


side by one of his companions on the
Turnpike road on Monday night and was
taken to the City Hospital, is reported
to-day to be in a fair way to recover.
His father came on from Philadelphia
yesterday and visited him in the hospital.
The father and mother of Alma Yost,
the sixteen-year-old girl who came on
from Philadelphia to see the sights and
visit Coney Island Sunday with young
Worces and Leo Miller. rhe sixteen-year-
old boy who Shot young Worcess arrived
here late last night The girl who had
been detained as a witness. had been
sent up to the Door of Hope, in Belmont
avenue. for the night, and Chief of Po-
lice Murphy was not willing to have the
girls rest disturbed on account of the
severe mental strain to which she had
been subjected after the strenuous sight
seeing trip, being obliged to start back to
Philadelphia after Miller announced that
he had spent all his money ard lost the
return tickets to Philadelphia. the shoot
ing and her arrest as a witness of the
shooting. The parents of the girl went
up to the Door of Hope this morning.
When confronted by her parents she
lowered her head, buried her face in her
hands and burst out crying. The par
ents attempted to console her. They had
already heard the story of the lark as
told by all three to Chief Murphy. The
girl was closeted with her parents for
nearly an hour. Later on she was re-
leased from police custody by Police JUS
tice Manning and left for home with her
parents.
Miller is locked up under heavy BAIL
None of his relatives have as yet come
on to see him. He claims the shooting
was accidental. that becoming frightened
at what he thought was man about to
attack the trio on the lonely road. he
drew revolver from his hip pocket and
in his excitement he dropped it and it
went off, hitting Worces in the side.
His theory is that it struck on the butt.
Although he is corroborated by the girl
the police are not altogether satisfied
with the explanation. While Chief Muir
ply is inclined to believe that the girl
suffered no harm beyond the scare she
that his money had run out and that he
had lost the return tickets, he is not fa-
vorably impressed with young Miller's
record. Miller, it is said, was but re-
Gently discharged from a Catholic pro-
tectory.
From what can be learned he was
plentifully supplied with money when he
met young Worces on Vine street Sun
day in company with Miss Yost. The
parents of Miss Yost admit that they
had consented TO allow their daughter
to go to Fairmount Park and listen to
the band concert. When young Worces,
accompanied by Miss Yost. met Miller
and the latter, according to one version
of the story, flashed roll of bills and
proposed trip to Coney Island. He
figured it out that they could go and get
back at a reasonable hour at night
that it would be a great lark and no
one would be any the wiser except them
selves. He offered to pay all the ex-
penses. But it takes big roll of mo-
ney to do Coney Island and Aillers soon
wilted When the trio arrived in New
York it was very late, but they succeeded
in finding a boarding house in West
Twenty-third street, New York. where,
by the story that they told to the effect
that they were two brothers and sis
ter who had lost the last train for Phil
adelphia, they secured a ROOM They
continued their sightseeing trip next
morning and started late in the after
noon to hoof it to Philadelphia.
After the shooting Miller fred several
shots in an effort to get an inbound troll
ley car to stop. The motorman, the
conductor and the passengers thought it
was hold up" as the locality is in
tested with hoboes. A panic ensued
among the passengers, and one. New
York lady, tainted. But Miller's object,
as he says, was to get his wounded COM
panion to the nearest hospital. All
three boarded the car and were taken
in charge by Patrolman Mcclure.