The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-07
DETECTIVE SHOT
BY A POLICEMAN
VICTIM OF FEUD?
Ose Adjourned in Court After
Promise That Bingham
Will Investigate.
SPY SYSTEM BLAMED.
injured Man, Accused of AS
sault, Failts in Court-ls
Sent to Hospital.
SPY SYSTEM BLAMED.

4 bitter feud in the Police Depart
nsut, growing out OF a spy system in
anSurated by Commissioner Bingham.
4, nsely to b. disclosed in an investigo~
ton of the shooting of Detective Michael
I MoGrath, Of Deputy Commissions
Rnxhers soafr. by PatTolman Max
Qrsenbaum In Third avenue near Forty
third street. last night. McGrath, so
weak he could not stand on his feet, was
carried into Yorkville Police Court to-
day, and arralgned on a charge of
teloniuos assault, preferred by Green
baum. who did not bear a mark.
McGrath tainted dead away on the
bridge, Just az Greenbaum. smiling and
confident, presented his complaint. The
clothing OF the injured policeman was
covered with blood, his right arm was In
4 sling and his head covered with band
ages Magistrate Breen was puzzled.
who Is the complainant in this
csse?" he asked
It am replied Greenbaun.
You charge this unconscious man
hsrs with assaulting you?' Queried tho
count
Bingham 20 Investigate.
He hit lie on the face with black
Jack. right here dec AIRED GreenbauIu.
pointing TO an unmarked right cheek.
He'd have shot me If ! hadn't got him
first
At this point Policeman Harmon, Of
the Headquarters legal staff, stepped up
and asked for An adjournment. He
said that the case WAS so muddled that
Commissioner Bingham wanted to go
into 1t personally. An adjournment was
taken until Oct. Is, and McGrath. who
had tainted twice during the proceed
ings, WAS hurried to Bellevue.
The established facts Of the occurrence
are that AIoGrath disguised as tramp,
pas asleep in the doorway Of a pawn
shop al No. 665 Third avenue AT lib
o'clock last night. He says he was
waiting for four other plain clothes
policemen Of Deputy Commissioner
Bughers STAFF. and that they We're
about to make a raid in the East Fifty
arst street precinct. The story he tells
10 corroborated by Lielt. Becker. under
whose direction he was working as
detective.
Greenbaum saw McGrath in the door
way and tackled him. striking him over
the head with his club and shooting him
in the right shoulder. McGr IN fel! un-
conscious and apparently dying. Two
passing priests administered the last
rites Of the church.
There are discrepancies In the stories
told by the two policemen about what
IN sd al na1 rad
McGrath IN the doorway. Here Is Nc
Graths version
McGrath's Story.
me before. He knew l WAS a police
man.
II mad been working for thirty-six
hours without sleep. and fell into d
doze while waiting for my brother Of
r"ers. who were to meet me Mt the
pawnshnp door. Cireenbaum came
along. plnched my leg and punched me
IT. the stomach with his club, knocking
the wind out OF me,
II got up and said ! was police
man, and reached for my slllel, which
lad in my pocket Greenbaum heard
me say ! was policeman, but he
struck me behind the left ear with his
club ,shot me and hit me again with
the club"
C;reenhaum save tina 10 ma not know
NrGratn was a policeman: thar Me-
Grath did not say he was a policeman.
and tina McCrath'- first move was 10
~ him with a hlackiac ok. The other
policemen who we've drawn into the
arfair after the Nght will not say
whetler McGrath's blackjack was in
his pocket or not when they picked
rim mp.
Placed Under Arrest.
Although McGrath was supposed tn
he dying, Greenhaum placed him under
arrest, and then went TO the station
house preferred a charge of fclonious
assault against him. He claimed that
McGrath was intoxicated hut Police
Surgeon Vosburyh. who examined the
injured man at Flower Hospital an
hour after the shooting, says he had
not been drinking
The affair will he threshed out at
Headquarters before II gets into the
police court again. Policemen say that
Deputy Commissioner Bugher has re-
vived the ''shoO-fy" system, and that
The shooting Of MoGrath was the out
come OF an attempt on the part II
Headquarters TO cast some discredit on
the men Of the East Fifty-first street
precinct,