The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-12-26
SUSPECT BLACK
HAND IN PLOT
INTRUDER WHO SHOT SHELDON
SAID lie WAS AFTER HELEN
GOULD.
DETECTIVES ENGAGED



New York, Dec 2J,-What Is BE-.
ilieyed to have been a black hand plet
10 extort money from Miss Helen
/ Miller Gould resulted in the death
Of one Of Miss Geuld's student-prate
I ges, Van Dwight Sheldon, at New
/ York University Of bullet wound hi
! his abdomen. AS young Sheldon Law
dying he used hts last moments af
consciousness to give a description IL
the intruder to the home of Dean
Charles II. Snow Of the College III
| Applied Sciences.
! Miss Gould Ii a cousin Of Mrs. Snow
and frequently spc4t the night In lhe
Snow home ca her way 20 and from
Iryingt II.
| Sae called at the Snow home Tues.
day Dean Snow today refused ID
say whether or not she spent the
night beneath his roof Her habit Of
doing so was comparatively we'll
known When Miss Gould learned OF
| the assault upon young Sheldon. she
Ihurriedly engaged private detectives
and semb them TO the scene Of tt.
shooting IN her own automobile. Dean
Snow offered d reward Of $500 for fta
apprehension OF sheldons slayer
The shooting occurred about guar
ter past this morning Sheldon
who was twenty.fuur years old and i
junior In the civil engineering depart
ment III the New York University
had gone downstairs 20 take a iceh
at the furnace before going to d quiz
conducted by Dean Snow on the
Properties of Materials" He hal
studied for the examination the night
before and Dean Snow was surprised
that he did not appear at the quiz"
The first known OF the shooting was
the sound Of means coming from ,ha
cellar Anna Taplo. Swedish cook
heard the means and Went to the cei
lar, In the semi darkness she saw
sQuirmlng mass at her feet, she said
This frightened her and she ran up
stairs. screaming.
Miss Taplo's screams brought Mary
Larkin. the goyerness OF the three
Snow children, from the second iloor
Miss Larkin hurried into the cellar
and found young Sheldon on the floor
bound hand and foot with stout cord
TO Mrs Snow young Sheldon told
how he had gone to the cellar TO sec
that everything was all right before
going TO the classes He said
strange man had jumped on him and
said:
Where's Miss Gould?"
To this Sheldon made no reply The
fellow then grappled with him AMI
said:
I'm after bigger people than you
this IS Miss Gould's house. and You
must tell me where she is"
Sheldon and his assailant strug.
gled and sheldon who was short and
weighed little more than Toe pounds
was speedily overcome. He succeed.
ei, however, in ripping off the mans
collar The man, Sheldon said whip
ped cords out of bis pocket and bounl
him tightly. Sheldon said he scream.
-l and screamed for help But the
deadened floors of the house prevent.
cd him from being heard
The intruder looked around for
something with which 10 gag young
sheldon. aud not finding II. whipped
out revolver ana said.
This viii muzzle you
With that BE- dred holding the r..
y0lser close against his victims
body The powder burned a greas
patch on Young shellons clothing
Then. frightened at the noise Of the
discharge la The empty cellar. the
man fed out tbe basement door
silss Taplo. tbe cook. said she heard
fte shot above ihe murled door. bu,
Thought t- was merely creaking
haa-fs
The delay iH Miss Tarlo's respond
ing .o Young Shellon's groans ami
tho DELAY lecr-I8rsI by her fright q.
rauaf tbe ttraa-r ample opportunity
.a make Dis escape and the only tfacs
sIzeat a=s5 af BIN vas footprints ia
tfs. .r.H ShelIIa said the man
uls about 20 wears old. short AMI
dad. aHf apparently an Italian xvi
raaaaz ~ the struggle ware fQnnl
i- tta cellar vllah : = lutrp9er bal
entered lE tf3AiHg re bolt - ths
a.- TIE only clews the man left
.-l.rf we're the pistol which he drop.
BED aNer shooting youug sheldon.
stefeHts at the university spent ths
rhoIe Iay searching for the assai.aa-.
but ciew after ciew Eas run dowa
sl-h0ut result
sheldon died Iu the For9ham hos
-l.-l q - - .F.a- th. shnntlnr