The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-29
POLICE WITNESS SHOT DOWN.
LEFTY BOILE. VINO PEiCHED TO
JEROME, UlING IN HOSPiTi ~.

James Boyle. known also a. lefty, is not
likely to tan Nor, tales about Tenderloin
crooks, r t6br.ng to the District Attorneys
Office more, stories of robberies by eS-
policemen. &'hen AIeck De Veau, a Tender
lqin pick pocket. shot Boyle in front OF 100
West Twenty-sixth street shortly after |
O'Clock Yesterday morning he sent II bullet
into Lsfty's spinal column. Boyle IL para
lived from his vast down on u cot in the
New YORK Hospital and will probably die.
Ds Vean is a fugitive. but the Central ONCE
man say that they will get him within Il
few hours, x
An ostensible motive for the shooting
exist. in the fac' that De Veau picked a
quarrel with Boyle in Eighth avenue on
Saturday night all Boyle BACKED DE
Veau's eye. But behind that IL the fact
that the trial ofa former precinct detective,
Joseph Lang, AID Detective Sergeant Cor
nelius Sullivan forthe robbery in the Tender
DIN station house Of John G Pritchard OF
Camden, Ala, on June II. 1904, of 81, 800 was
10 take place in a few days at Police Head
quarters. Boyle was the only man whose
testimony could convict Lang.
On Saturday last Boyle went to the Dis
trict Attorneys Office and told Carl Miner,
one Of the a 'sistarts, that he would be on
hand to testify, Pritcharl has disappeared,
and it is common talk in the Tenderioin that
De veau was called in when it was necessary
10 explain to Pr,tchari that he had better
get out of town for good.
The police are lolth to admit any relation
between the shooting of Boyle and the trial
of Lang. They say that DE Veau had a
grudge against Poyle for the beating he
got on Saturday night and thPt the quarrel
started because De Veau susT ected that
Boyle was going to betray him to the Dis
trict Attorney as n receiver of stolen goods.
Another story was that Boyle was to have
De Ve,u arrested for rerSonatiag n police
man. Those who see in the shooting some
of the deeper ways OF the Tenderloin say
that De Veau picked the quarrel with Boyle
30 as to have n pretext for shooting him
before the Lang trial came up.
In the Tenderloin Boyle was known a. a
stool pigeon for Jerome. He had never
figured openly in that capacity. but ii ia
known that he had made certain state
ments to the District Attorneys office and
that these statements had bec~ncorroborated
The District Attorneys Office became con-
WINGED thnt Boyle was leading an honest
life, and Jon two occasions got him Jobs out
Of flown From Time to time he came back :
to hang around he Tendcrloin, much to the
alarm of the crooks with whom he had once
been friendly.
There is some suspicion that from time
to time he resumed his former method OF
making a livelihood by picking pockets.
On Saturday night last he told an ac-
quaintance that he had been working a
rather He explained that this meant
that he was picking pockets on the cross
town horse cars.
Boyle was standing in Tenwty-ei ghth
street near Sixth avenue shortly after i
o'clock yesterday morning talking with a
crook named Will Harris. who had been
a former sweetheart Of Boyle's wife,
De Veau who evidently knew where to
find him, stole up behind and shot him in
the back. AS Boyle fell he turned and saw
DE Veau fleeing into the hallway of l6o.
Harris ran too.
De veau worked his way up through the
building to the roof and escaped to Twenty
the shot and found Boyle on the sidewalk.
He said that De Veau had hot him. DR..
Goeble Of the New York Hospital came
with the ambula nee and ~tookBoyle to tho
he had been shot, down in cold blood and
without warning. Then he became un-
conscious.
Capt. Hodgins. of the Tenderloin station
found where De Veau lived with a negro
woman on Seventh avenue near Thirtieth
street and had the woman, Emma Woods,
arrested. He also got Harris. Both denied
any part in the shooting. but sufficient in
formation was gathered from the Woods
woman to give the police a clue to where
De Veau had gone.
Boyle was q pickpocket and a profess
sional baseball player in the minor leagues
out in Ohio and Indiana. He was a left
handed pitcher, hence hs sobriquet.
Il ..-1l 81 M nl~tt An n Nrr nrI -
penses for pitching. In the summers he
usually was straight, but in the winter ne
lived by picking pockets and standing in
with the old Tenderloin police.
One Of Boyle's hangouts was Tommy
Todd's saloon at Seventh avenue and
Twenty ninth street. There, early on the
morning OF June II. 1904, came Pritchard,
with Dutch Sadie" and Dora Ravens. He
had come to New York to speculate in
stocks and had lost heavily. All the money
he had left was in his socks. One con-
tanned 81 800 and the other $500.
Boyle also had been in Todd's, but had
left there to go TO bed in the Hotel Regent.
His story Of what happened was that De-
of Pritchard's money and came tc the
Regent to wake up Boyle with a PROPOSE
ton that they trim the. old man
Boyle charged that Lang struck one Of
the women, raised a row and arrested
Pritchard, Boyle was to get him after he
was discharged and get the money. Pritch-
ard was held. The sergeant at the desk
gave Pritchard u receipt for 81 900. When
he was taken from his cell to be arTaigned
at jefferson Market he demanded all his
money and raised n row. Subsequently
the trial became 80 hot that one day the
s. 800 was found in a cigar box in the Ten
derloin station. The mysterious way in
which Detective Sergeant Sullivan found
H. caused him to be put under charges.
Boyle alleged under oath that Lang told
him that the robbery plan had failed and