The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-06
SAYS HI KILLED HORSE Thief
WOI NTED COP SHOT Wan VINO
FLED ar SIGHT.
Jamaica Policeman sure Pole WhS Dled
IN Bellevue Vas the Wan IN Ihe BuEES
whom He WsuRtled on the Highway
and Nhs Trlrd 20 sheet Hlm Tee.

IN Bellevue Vas the Wan IN tine BuEES
whom Ne Wounded on the Highway
and Nhs Trlrd 70 sheet IIlm Tee.
A big Polish laborsr went into the once
Of Dr. n Frank a, ~ Fast Twenty third
street on Saturday morning and showed
bullet wound in bis right side which
h. wanted dressed DR. Frank excused
himself for a moment and lelephoned the
police Detective Cleary came over and
had the Pols. who said he was Joseph
Valtena. Of SIt Fast SiXty-frst street.
taken 20 Bellevue a prisoner
The Pole died there last night still in
sis;ing that he was wounded on First
avenUe between Forty.fourth and Forty
nth streets 10y the accidental discharge
II a revolver a friend was handling
Soon after his death Mounted Policeman
william II Green 81 the Jamaica station
hurried into Bellevue. took look a. the
dead man and said that he vas prac-
tically psotivs that Val,enas was a man
whom h. had shot FRIDAY afternoon on
the Rocky Hill road. outside Jamaica
The policeman told this story
! was mounted and patrolling INV beat
along the Rocky Hill road on Friday
afternoon when ! caught sight u buggy
r long way III with a man in H. The man
se,med - catch sight Of the at the same
Instant Tie la~hsd his horse into a gal
lop figured something must ha wrong
aud went galloping after I yelled 70
thu man to stop. IT, yelled back Cursss
and whipped his hoFs. the harder
i chased the buggy about a mile and
yelled Stop or III shoot The man
right on. ! fired several shots over the
top ~ he buggy bat he never slackened
speed was gaining on him pretty fSs,
As tot near he pointed a revolver At
me but II seemed TO miss fire | WASH
going to take any chances brought my
horse close 10 the buggy and reaching my
hand in fred
He yelled I'm shot You you've
got me without slowing his horse he
jumped out Of the buggy and scrambled
into the woods, which arr thick at that
poin, il was just above Lincoln avenue
got one good look At him a. he jumped
for cover He was a big man
II didn't take long 20 get his horse.
and in the buggy found a stack Of blan-
kets and some harness and other stuff
that looked as II Il had been stolen from
a store On the floor Of the buggy lay a
revolver II was a rim fire
Then learned why he hadn't got me
Ne had all Eve chambers of the. revolver
loaded He had tired 70 FIRE three times
and the thrss cartridges that had missed
had been csntrs 6re cartridges Tho
two other chambers had rim fire car
tridges Tie next shot he'd have had me
Eent back and spent an hour beating
the wood, where M had disappeared but
| couldnt find a trace II him On the
wav hack not,red he tracks Il another
horse and buggy 4 watohman said hat
a man m The other buggy had followed
mo uIl ! shot the big man Then this
other fellow had turned and whipped up
hrs horss 90 ct away
Z he mounted policeman said that the
blankets and other things IN the buggy
had been found 10 belong 10 stable IN
Norwood !. The buggy itself and the
morse bad been taken from the stable u
John Weeks in lynbrook, l.
Detective Anderson WAS sent No from
Police Headquarters 90 take a thumb.
print. measurements and a picture of tue
dead Pole IN hopes q more firmly idanti-
Tying him
IN" dead man wife Annie Valtsnas
vent 20 d." morgue last night with her
two months old hahy She identified her
husband and said he was a cement worker.
She said she was destitute now She
could only tell the police that her husband
was not AT home on Friday night lie
CAM IN early saturday morning and
told her he Nas sick and must sees a doc
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