The sun., 1909-06-16
HIS FEET HER UNDOING
HUNTED NEGRO IN WIDOWS
WEEDS SPOTTED BY A cor.

walter Owens, Who Shot . Conductor In
woodbury.. N. j.. Last Friday, Cap.
tured In Woman's Clothes on Broad.
way After Punching . Policeman.
The next time Walter Owens, a Wood
bury. N. j.. negro. dresses up as a
young widow In deep mourning fS will
try to disguise his feet. or at least he won't
hold his skirt 80 high in crossing Broad
way. 1t is likely, however, that Walter
will have no use for skirts and very little
for his feet for some time 10 come. He
is wanted in Woodbury. for shooting and
seriously wounding trolley car oon-
ductor last Friday night. That he is now
looked up In the Ton.bs awaiting extrad-
ton is due to Patrolman Cornelius F.
o 'Brien's knowledge Of feet, both genders.
The patrolman. who is attached to the
Fulton street station. was standing In a
doorway on Broadway near Fulton street
about dawn yesterday morning when he
noticed an inhabited skirt OF generous
dimensions approaching. The skirt was
black. and the woman wore also black
cape and black widows bonnet. Her
face was hidden under heavy black veil
Broadway at that hour in the morning.
Policeman O'Brien's glance followed this
one as she started to cross Broadway.
She lifted her skirt clumsily with both
hands and disclosed a pair Of feet that
would have been o credit TO policeman
himself. O'Brien moved up for closer
inspection and decided at once that the
feet also were abnortnally fiat. lie ap-
"a In
how about the feet II mumbled u reply.
The policeman said: Lift your veil"
Tho mouth behind the veil refused. and
O'Brien grabbed without further ado.
or came veil. bonnet and a wig, dis
tSH q yeunE nsse8 ~n%se
The negro's right fist sh OF out and landed
on the policeman's stomach. That
doubled O'Brien up for a second or two.
but as soon as he had got his wind he
started up Broadway in pursuit Of the
negro; Who was going ss under n;. fpIl n.s steam
The policeman overlook the man after
block g sprint and then the two rolled
over the sidewalk. The negro finally
became entangled in his skirts and the
policeman handcuffed him and started
him for .;s tie s station h9yse Ws1;.r ov.r.
in from Philadelphia. He admitted that
he had got into trouble in that city and
had escaped on late train in the disguise |
he was wearing. A suit of clothes was
in the valise he was carrying
At Police Headquarters the prisoner
I'm the man you want said he. 'but
IL l had known my business and kept |
away from Broadway at that hour OF
the morning you never would have got
me-
He said that he lived at Mantua Hill,
I'm at ErA t0h
he was in Woodbury. with his girl. Ida
Wilson, and they. got on a street car to
60 to Mantua Hill.
we found he said. that the car
was going to Camden and We wanted
the co o1ductor to stop and let US Oh. He
dragged about half a block. When I
saw her dragging I yelled to the con-
ductor to stop. but he paid no attention.
had been drinking. and this made me
mad. had no intention Of shooting
the man. but somehow or other l lost
my HT !. head; head pulled my gun and fired just
Owens illustrated by stretching out
his right arm and crooking the trigger
finger.
0wens said that he and his girl fed
into the woods. but the police got the girl
by oolored friends in Camden, where
he got his disguise. He crossed on the
ferryboat to Philadelphia. walked to
suburb and took a train to New York.
He had been in this city only an hour
or 20 when he was nabbed.
Clarence Kline, the conductor who
was shot. is in the Camden hospital and
will probably recover. The shooting
caused a great stir in Woodbury.. Posses
from that city and Camden spent Satur-
day and Sunday searching the woods,
while automobiles patrolled roadways
where it was thought the negro might
appear.