New-York tribune., 1909-11-01
STABBED By JOCKEY
y + THOM1S FOUND
lying IN STALL.
poUce Catch Shilling, Who
Fled after Fight scith
Horse Oscner.

Tossing on a rude canvas cot surrounded
nv a silent group made UP Of Jockeys,
training boys trainers and doctors r. l..
Thomas, forty-iva years old. a lumber
merchant and horse owner of Paris, ny.
lies at the point of death in Stable NO
at the Sheepshead Bay racetrack a.,
was stabbed In the left breast nea, nc
heart by Harold Shilling. one 80.
Jockeys. after a heated argument ... IN
afternoon. After leaving his -, ,b.
conscious and bleeding on the nv. .,,s,,r-
stable Shilling ran from ,,,.-- 80
He was arrested early thIs d.,
the elevated station at eh
and admitted the stabpihs' ','e
According TO the ponce 'i.e '"e.l
.re,,i,s- about the signing OF contract
,.v II seems that Thomas
- churng 10 sign a years contract
1T tbe youngster refused 10 do this.
INC that he wished TO go back to his
,,,e in Texas. Angry words followed.
THOMAS is alleged to have struck the
fockey, who retaliated by drawing a knife
on his employer
The stabbing occurred about o'clock
yesterday afternoon. while the two were
alone in the stable. Thomas leases the
stable in which the argument started
and had a string of horses there lie
called Shilling in consultation, and re-
ouested that his jockey affix his signature
10 a contract which he had drawn up.
Shilling would not consent to this. and
both grew angry. Suddenly Thomas's
fist shot out according TO stable be. at
the track, and Shilling measured his ,~rsth
on the floor. He arose white with rage.
Although Shilling is a small boy. weighing
scarcely more than a hundred pounds. he
advanced on Thomas without hesitation,
his hand al his hip pocket.
Thomas. thinking the boy mad a revolver
on his person. rushed at his antagonist
and clinchod with him. Back and forth
in the small. dimly lighted stall the man
and the boy struggled for the mastery
Shilling was being overpowered by the su-
peTior weight and strength of Thomas
when he finally succeeded in drawing from
his pocket a long, keen claspknife AS
Thomas made one final desperate effort
10 throw Shilling to the floor the wiry
little jockey succeeded in freeing his hand
and plunged the knife blade TO the hilt
In Thomas's breast, just above the heart
Thomas lay the floor of the stable for
more than two hours. where he was found
by Harry Mcdaniel, his trainer Mcdaniel
almost stumbled on the PROSTATE figure as
he entered the stall and struck a match
and bent over the body. After trying TO
revive him ne rushed from the building
found DR. Frank F. Lyme. of No. 1910 Voor-
hees avenue. Sheepshead Bay, and hurried
back with the physician to the stable.
Dr. Lyme applied restoratives without
avail. and. seeing that the condition of the
horseman was serious. ordered Mcdaniel
TO bring a cot Upon this Thomas. still un-
conscious. was placed. while the physician
continued to work over him. DR.. Lyme
then called Thomass wife. who is stopping
al the Hotel Imperial. Manhattan on the
telephone. Within half hour the wife ar
rived at the stable. with her daughter, DR..
Joseph A Blake. a specialist from Man
haitian. and two trained nurses. It
decided that the wounded mans condition
was too critical TO permit of his removal
10 a hospital and the stall was turned into
a temporary sickroorn. Both wife and
daughter refused TO leave the bedside of the
sick man, saying that they would remain
there throughout the night.